Year Five

Subject Term One Term Two Term Three
English

Novels, stories and poems by significant children’s writers

Playscripts

Concrete poetry

Recounts of events, activities, visit: observational records, news reports

Instructional texts: rules, recipes, directions, showing how things are done

Ongoing work on grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling and handwriting

 

Traditional stories, myths, legends, fables from a range of cultures

Longer classic poetry, including narrative poetry

Non-chronological re[ports

Explanations – using content from other subjects ( science, maths)

Ongoing work on grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling and handwriting

 

Novels, stories and poems from a variety of cultures and traditions

Choral and performance poetry

Persuasive writing to put or argue a point of view: letters, commentaries, leaflets to persuade, criticise, protest, support, object, complain

Dictionaries, thesauruses, including I.T. sources

Ongoing work on grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling and handwriting

 

Maths

Place value, ordering, rounding

Using a calculator, Fractions, decimals and percentages

Ratio and proportion

Mental calculation strategies and Pencil and paper procedures (+ and -)

Understanding,  mental calculation strategies and Pencil and paper procedures using (x and symbol 184 \f "Symbol" \s 8∏)

Money and ‘real life’ problems

Making decisions and checking results including using a calculator

Handling data, Using a calculator

Measures, including problems

Shape and space, Reasoning about shapes

Properties of numbers, Reasoning about numbers

 

Place value, ordering, rounding, Using a calculator,

Mental calculation strategies and pencil and paper procedures (+ and -)

Understanding, Mental calculation strategies and Pencil and paper procedures using (x andsymbol 184 \f "Symbol" \s 8∏)

Money and ‘real life’ problems

Making decisions and checking results including using a calculator

Fractions, decimals and percentages

Using a calculator

Shape and space, reasoning about shapes

Measures including problems

Handling data,

Properties of numbers,  reasoning about numbers

 

Place value, ordering, rounding, using a calculator,

Mental calculation strategies and pencil and paper procedures (+ and -)

Understanding, mental calculation strategies and pencil and paper procedures (x and symbol 184 \f "Symbol" \s 8∏)

Money and ‘real life’ problems, making decisions and checking results including using a calculator

Fractions, decimals and percentages, Ratio and proportion

Handling data, using a calculator

Shape and space, reasoning about shapes

Measures including problems

Properties of numbers, reasoning about numbers

 

Science

Keeing Healthy

Life cycles

Earth, Sun. Moon

Gases around u

Changing stat

Changing sound

History

Second World War – children’ lives

 

Ancient Greece

 

Use of Ancient Greek ideas, today

 

Geography

Making a meal of it

Water

Investigating rivers

 

Art

Picasso / Objects and meaning

Containers

 

Talking textiles

 

DT Bread

 

Biscuits Musical instruments