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Year 5 Curriculum Map
Welcome to Summer One!
English - Stories from other cultures
In this unit, children will write a story that includes an effective setting description, complex sentences with -ed and -ing sentence openers and a clear structure – opening, build up, problem, resolution, ending.
Maths No Problem - Geometry
In Spring Term Y5 Tigers will be looking at position and movement. Geometry is an important part of mathematics and in this big unit we will be looking in great depth to position, movement, measurements, area and perimeter.
R.E - Exploring the lives of significant women.
In this unit, we will be exploring the lives of significant women in the Old Testament,
Spanish - Olympics
Y5 Tigers will be learning about the Olympics in Summer One! By the end of this unit, children will be Spanish Olympic enthusiasts and be able to understand the key facts of the ancient and modern Olympics recounted in Spanish.
Learn 10 nouns and articles for common Olympic sports.
History - Behind the Tudor
In Summer One we will be travelling back in time to the Tudors. We will look at different monarchs, crimes and punishments, the difference between poor and wealthy, the Spanish Armada, the Battle of Bosworth and uncover some of the reasons that Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn.
Science – Materials and their properties
In this Science topic, we will be looking at the properties of materials, experimenting with thermodynamics to find the best materials to keep your drink cool, experiment with electricity, finding the best materials to make the brightest bulb, looking at which materials dissolve and which melt, how to separate mixtures and if all changes are reversible.
Computing - Binary Messages
This term, Y5 Tigers will be introduced to binary code. By the end of the unit, children will be able to explain what binary code is and how it is used. Not only will children be introduced to spreadsheets and basic formulas, children will create their own binary conversion machine.
Welcome to Spring Two!
English – Inventors and Inventions
In this unit, children will look at inventions and inventors as a theme.
By the end of this unit, children will have been exposed to a range of writing opportunities such as a diary entry, letter, internal monologue, summery and prediction. The children will also write a short story for a chapter for a novel about an invention which includes an action scene. The second part of this term allows children to create a page for their own magazine, which includes a range of text types and information from their own research.
In Spring Term 2 Y5 Tigers will be looking at decimals and percentages. Children will learn how decimals, fractions and percentages can share a common theme.
R.E- Why do Christians believe that Easter is a celebration of Victory?
Children will explore the Easter story from the perspective of it being the story of Christ’s triumph and victory over death.
Spanish
In Spring 2, Y5 Tigers will be learning about the clothes we wear. By the end of this unit, children will be expert fashion designers and will be able to give full, accurate descriptions of what they, he or she wears.
Computing
As the world changes, it's good to change with it. In this topic we will be looking in depth about what it takes to be a ‘Youtuber.’ By the end of this unit children will have created content by recording and editing their Vlogs and more importantly, know how to do this safely.
History – Guts, Glyphs and Hieroglyphs
I am very excited to teach History this term and have been looking forward to this since the beginning of my journey here at Bishop Martin. This term Y5 Tigers will become archaeologists and historians in their History Topic. Take a look at our topic cover below! To support us with this incredible topic. Bishop Martin have made a special order of artifacts from The Lancashire Museums Loans Service!
PHSE
How can friends communicate safely? In this topic we will be looking at communication. Is advice always good advice? How do we compromise? What is personal information and what information should we not share with others? What coping strategies could we use? How can I approach a delicate situation? How can I communicate my thoughts, feelings and motives? How can I communicate to someone and explain to them that I am concerned about their thoughts, feelings and motives?
Welcome to Spring One!
Here is what we will be learning about this term!
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English - Earthlings - Sci Fi.
In this unit, children will write a science fiction story that includes: appropriate use of adverbials for time and place, characters presented through action, dialogue and description, and effective setting descriptions.
Maths No Problem - Fractions
In Spring Term Y5 Tigers will be looking at Fractions. Fractions are an important part of mathematics and in this big unit we will be looking in great depth to the following:
R.E - Jesus the teacher
In this unit, we will be looking at the work of Jesus and the parables told in the bible.
Geography - Locational Knowledge, Human and Physical Features
In this unit we will be looking globally at weather. We will learn important information about climate change all around the world and what impact this will have on our planet.
Spanish
Y5 Tigers will be learning about the weather in Spring 1! By the end of this unit, children will be Spanish Weather Presenters and be able to talk about the weather - How British! Who knew, it is not always sunny in Spain!?
Science - Living things and their habitats
In this Unit, Y5 will be looking at Living things and their habitats! We will be looking closely at life cycles and the impact the changes to the environment has on living things.
Welcome to Autumn Term!
English – Myths and Legends
To begin our new school year, the Tigers looked at Beowulf, written by Michael Morpurgo as part of our ‘Myths and Legends’ theme and as a stimulus in our English lessons. The children used this novel as a theme to begin autumn one and used features from our chosen text, using this as inspiration for their own ‘Heroic Legend’ story.
In this unit, we learned:
- identify the audience and purpose
- predict what might happen from information stated and implied.
- comment on the author’s use of language and explain its effect upon the reader.
- children will be able to make predictions based on clues, making associations with previous reading and wider knowledge of the world.
- explore characters’ thoughts, feelings and motives using a range of creative comprehension techniques, e.g. think, say, feel activities, freeze framing, hot seating, conscience alley, feelings map.
- make inferences about characters thoughts, feelings and motives.
- support their ideas using evidence from the text and further elaboration (point:evidence:explanation).
- plan and write a legend of their own based on a model.
- create a planning document / plot my story
- draw on their reading, children will be able to plan a story based on a model.
- create a class checklist of features for use during the writing phase.
- explore, collect and use modal verbs to indicate degrees of possibility e.g. might, could, shall, will, must.
- compare texts in relation to a theme.
- use short writing opportunities to further develop understanding of character and events, e.g. diary entries (before and after key events), letters, first person recount written in role
- explore meaning of words in context.
Mathematics - No Problem!
To begin our new school year, the children focused on Number and Place Value. They used skills learned in the previous year to support them when understanding larger numbers up to 10,000,000. The children learned how to read, write, order and compare numbers up to at least 1,000,000 and are able to determine the value of each digit, they explored how to round any number up to 1,000,000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000 and solved practical problems that involve these. The children also began work on the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) where they used mixed operations to solve calculations.
In our penultimate topic for this half term, we explored addition and subtraction of numbers to 1 000 000. We began by using simple strategies to add and subtract, such as counting on and back. This progressed further by learning to use multiple key methods such as the column method and using knowledge of number bonds to add and subtract.
Our final unit of work focused on multiplying and diving 3 and 4 digit numbers by single and double digit numbers. In this unit we found and defined multiples and factors, including common factors. We worked with prime numbers and determined what makes a prime or composite number. After this, we worked with square and cube numbers before moving on to multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. We learned a variety of methods for multiplying and dividing including the column methods, grid method and long and short division methods.
RE - Life as a Journey and Pilgrimage
Our RE unit for Autumn one Was: The Bible. The aim of this unit was to, give children an opportunity to think deeply about the word of god and the many different variations of the word of god. If the word of god is truth, why do we have different variations? We began to understand the many different reasons why we read the bible. By the end of the unit the
- children know that:
- There are several different genres of writing in the Bible.
- The Bible is used to help answer questions about creation, truth, suffering and death, values for life and ethical issues
- People of other faiths have holy books that teach, guide and impact on their daily lives.
- The Bible is the inspired word of God.
- The Bible gives guidance for Christian living and this impacts on believers lives and communities.
Spanish – La Clase!
In Spanish, we predominantly learned ‘I have’ Phrases and ‘I do not have’ Phrases, hybridised with items in the classroom. This was a very practical unit as it contains the most relevant and desirable language for classroom teachers. All the key vocabulary required in the classroom from classroom equipment to possessives to 'I have...' and 'I do not have...' was presented in colourful and engaging PowerPoints and activities. This was an essential unit for classroom Spanish
By the end of this unit, children
- Leaned 6 common items of classroom equipmentz all classroom equipment items learnt in previous two lessons to integrate the concept of 'tengo…'
- Leaned to say what they have in their pencil case
- Learned the different versions of the word 'my' in Spanish and will use it alongside the classroom equipment vocabulary they have learned.
- Used all classroom equipment items learned in previous lessons to integrate the concept of no tengo... to say what they do not have in their pencil case..
Theme – To Infinity and Beyond!
- Our main theme for the first half-term was: ‘To Infinity and Beyond!’ Along with space and creating our own Space Art, we studied different Legends. We wore our writing hats and constructed our own Legend!
By the end of this unit, children;
- Described the movement of the Earth, and other planers, relative to the Sun in the Solar System
- Described the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth
- Described the Sun, Earth and Moon as approximately spherical bodies
- Used the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky.
Geography – Location, location, location!
As part of our theme the children looked at our Earth and how our time varies due to our position and location. We looked at the equator, latitude and longitude, north and south hemisphere and looked at the significance of the tropics.
By the end of this unit, children:
- Identified the position and significance of latitude and longitude.
- Identified the Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere north pole and south pole
- Identified the position and significance of the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the plough
- Explained why we have different time zones? Prime/Greenwich Meridian and time zones (including day and night)
Class novel
Beowulf - Michael Morpurgo
The children have loved our heroic battle legend; Beowulf.
About the Author
Sir Michael Morpurgo is one of the greatest storytellers for children writing today and has written more than one hundred books, the most famous of which, War Horse, has been adapted for stage and screen to internatonal acclaim. He has won numerous major literary awards, including the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize and the Whitbread Children’s Book Award, and was Children’s Laureate 2003–2005. In 2006 he was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in recognition of his services to literature, and in 2018 he was made a Knight Bachelor. Michael now lives on a farm in Devon, and describes himself as “oldish, married with three children, and a grandfather six times over.”
One of the most outstanding creators of children’s picture books today, Michael Foreman has won the Kate Greenaway award three times and two Nestle Smarties prizes.
|Thoughts about the book
Beowulf is a fantastic book with EYE-POPPING features. This make-belief book is set in the deadly depths of Denmark around 400 AD, an especially troubling era. The main character is as brave as brass (Beowulf he was called) because on countless attempts he saved King Hrothgar and his city Heorot from at first a blood thirsty monster and next the monster's sea-hag of a mother and later Beowulf's own people.
For one thing, I find this book is filled with wonder and excitement. This book makes me feel like I'm there. Beowulf is only one of Sir Michel Morpurgo best selling novels because it has lots of suspense making me want to carry on reading to see if the hero has met his match.
My favourite quote is 'A formidable breeze brought them over the shallows' because it really describes the scene and it paints a picture in your head and only GREAT books do that!