Curriculum Overview – Year 5 and 6
| Autumn Term | Spring Term | Summer Term | |
| Cycle A 2014/2015 |
History British history – Anglo Saxons – Vikings |
Geography Name locate counties, towns, regions, cities and features of the UK – Football teams – top 5 – analyse |
History 1st half History study – Greeks 2nd half Non-European – Aztecs |
| Art and Design Design/sketch and sculpture dragons |
Art and Design Design/ create football kit/training kit/flag team |
Art and Design 1st half Design/sketch and sculpture Greek urns 2nd half Design/create turquoise jewellery – mosaics |
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| Design and Technology Design/ analyse Viking long ship – mechanical |
Design and Technology Design/ analyse from above and create shirt |
Design and Technology 1st half Design/ analyse Greek food – tasting/cooking 2nd half Design/ analyse chocolate wrapper/ graphics ICT |
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| RE Sikhism Christianity |
RE Judaism Christianity |
RE 1st half Islam – 5 pillars 2nd half Islam – Ka’bah + the Hajj |
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| Music Feeling the beat Singing |
Music Traditional chants |
Music 1st half Listening and Appraising 2nd half Composing |
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| PE Street dance Football Tag rugby Multi skills |
PE Gymnastics Volleyball Basketball |
PE Rounders Athletics Cricket |
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| PSHE Crucial crew – Keeping myself safe Health for life, Fundraising |
PSHE Me and my relationships Keeping healthy Fundraising |
PSHE 1st half Fundraising 2nd half Growing up |
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| Science Forces – Yr5 Electricity yr6 Magnetism – Yr 5 |
Science Properties of materials Changes of materials |
Science 1st half Plants – Yr 5 2nd half Evolution and heritance – Yr 6 |
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| Literacy Instructions, Older fiction, Myths and Legends |
Literacy Persuasion, Debate/Arguments, Short stories |
Literacy 1st half Biography, Reports, Verse 2nd half Research a poet, Explanation |
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| French LCP – Year 1 |
French LCP – Year 1 |
French LCP – Year 1 |
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| Computing Internet safety Combine text with graphics Computing |
Computing Coding |
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| Visit Portals to the past – Viking day |
Visit Visit from Mexicalaw group – Aztecs |
| Autumn Term | Spring Term | Summer Term | |
| Cycle B 2015/2015 |
History An extended period in time that impacted and changed Britain – The Tudors |
Geography Latitude, longitude, hemispheres, tropics, polar circles, and time zones. Compare/study Brazil and France (Region Europe compared to Americas) |
Geography Use 4 and 6 figure grid references on OS maps – fieldwork/recording and researching – coastal erosion |
| Art and Design Design/sketch/ copy – Hans Holbein |
Art and Design Design/paint shades of green rainforest |
Art and Design Design/sketch areas of coastline + wildlife |
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| Design and Technology Design/ analyse/ cook – savoury Tudor dishes |
Design and Technology Design/create willow animals/birds/flowers from rainforest |
Design and Technology Design/ create sea defence |
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| RE Hinduism – creation/sacred places |
RE Humanism, Christianity |
RE Judaism Buddhism |
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| Music Linked with Tudor dancing Singing |
Music African drumming |
Music Listening and Appraising |
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| PSHE Keeping healthy Me and my relationships |
PSHE Keeping myself safe |
PSHE Growing up |
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| Science Earth and space – Yr 5 Light – Yr 6 |
Science All living things – Y5 and Yr 6 |
Science Animals Yr 5 and Yr 6 |
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| Literacy Recount, Narrative, Poetry |
Literacy Suspense/mystery, one book, poetry rap |
Literacy Fiction from heritage, Free verse |
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| French LCP – Year 2 |
French LCP – Year 2 |
French LCP – Year 2 |
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| Computing Combine text with graphics Computing |
Computing Combine text with graphics Computing |
Computing Combine text with graphics Computing |
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| Visit Kentwell Hall |
Visit Walton cliffs |
