Year 5 Spring Term
Science Term 3
Year 5 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Out of this World | To describe the movement of the Earth and other planets relative to the Sun in the Solar System. | To describe the Sun, Earth and Moon as approximately spherical bodies. | To explain day and night using the Earth’s rotation and the apparent movement of the Sun across the sky. | To describe the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth. | To investigate moon craters | To describe the movement of the Earth and other planets relative to the Sun in the Solar System. |
Science Term 4
Year 5 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Let's Get Moving | LI: To scientifically explain the force of gravity and how it acts between the Earth and the falling object. | To identify the effects of air resistance | To identify the effects of friction | To identify the effects of water resistance | To recognise that levers, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect. | To recognise that pulleys, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect. |
History Term 3
Year 5 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: The Vikings | To understand why there are differing accounts of what happened during the raid on Lindisfarne. | To understand the Vikings way of life in Scandinvia | to know when, where and why the Vikings settled in Britain | To present a valid argument to decide whether King Alfred deserved the title of 'Great'. | To know the quality of the evidence about Vikings | To create a viking saga |
Geography Term 3
Year 5 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Geography: Europe – A Study of the Alpine Region | To be able to use physical and political maps to identify a region in Europe. | To understand how fold mountain ranges are formed | To understand how homes are designed to suit their physical location | To understand the importance of the tourist industry to Alpine communities | To understand how avalanches have influenced the Alpine landscape | To create a resource to inform tourists about the Alpine region
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Art Term 3
Year 5 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: | To know about great architects throughout time. | To learn about different architectural designs | To learn interior design architecture | LI: To join materials using appropriate methods and media. | LI: To design a structure | To build a structure
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DT Term 4
Year 5 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: CAMs | LI: To learn what cams mechanisms are and how they work. | LI: To learn how different cams produce different movements. | LI:To know how to create a plan for mechanical CAM toy | LI: To create our own group CAM toy, with knowledge of the structure. | LI: to create our own cam toy | LI: To evaluate our own cam toy. |
Music Term 3
Year 5 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Pop Ballads | To explore the pop ballad genre | To compare modern covers to classical songs | To begin to practice the verses of the song | To practice a combination of verses and the chorus | To perform with increasing confidence | To perform songs |
Music Term 4
Year 5 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Hip Hop | To recognise the features of old school hip hop music | To recognise the style indicators of old school hip hop | To learn and understand the vocabulary behind the song | To apply our knowledge of the song to our own performances | To perform with increasing confidence | To perform the song |
PE Term 3
Year 5 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Gymnastics | To know how to link skills and actions to make a sequence | To continue to apply and develop a broader range of skills | To collaborate with others | To know how to use our skills in different ways to make a sequence | To know how to make longer sequences with fluidity and clarity | To perform movements accurately with a sense of rhythm |
PE Term 4
Year 5 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Swimming/ Football | To explore skills and tactics needed to introduce football | To increase our accuracy and effectiveness of passing | To move, change direction and improve our speed of dribbling | To use a variety of tactics to keep possession of the ball | To defend by covering, marking and tracking opponents in football | To watch, participate and evaluate our currently known skills. |
RE Term 3
Year 5 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Islam | To identify the key Islamic beliefs are | To know how pillars of Islam link to a harmonious view | To know how the pillars relate to belief | To know why Muslims fast | To understand the importance of pilgrimage | To recap knowledge of the oneness of God and harmony |
RE Term 4
Year 5 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Hinduism | To learn about the trimurti and other Hindu deities | To learn about Hindu beliefs and prayer | To learn about Dharma and Diwali | To explore how ahimsa relates to dharma, samsara and moksha | To explore the idea of whether we are better together | To compare depictions of hindu practices and beliefs |
RSE/PSHE Term 3
Year 5 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Keeping myself safe | To recognise that there are positive and negative risks | To demonstrate strategies and skills for supporting others who are bullied | To suggest ways of standing up to someone who gives a dare | To recognise which situations are risky | Consider what information is safe/unsafe to share offline and online, and reflect on the consequences of not keeping personal information private | To know that all medicines are drugs but not all drugs are medicines |
RSE/PSHE Term 4
Year 5 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Rights and Responsibilities | To Identify, write and discuss issues currently in the media concerning health and wellbeing | To understand the difference between a fact and an opinion | To define the differences between responsibilities, rights and duties | To explain what we mean by the terms voluntary, community and pressure (action) group | To suggest questions a consumer should ask before buying a product | To define the terms loan, credit, debt and interest |
Computing Term 3
Year 5 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: iDraw | To understand that vector images are constructed of layers -iDraw | To design, create and evaluate vector images - iDraw | To understand that messages can be sent and received safetly -iCrypto | To understand that signalling is a form of communication -iCrypto | To encode and decode morse code -iCrypto | To understand the history of encryption, decryption and using a simple cipher - iCrypto |
Computing Term 4
Year 5 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Icrypt | To understand the history of encryption, decryption and using a simple cipher - iCrypto | To use frequency analysis to decipher encrypted text -iCrypto | To understand how the Enigma Machine operates -icrypto | To know that the world wide web consists of many websites and web pages that can be accessed using the internet - iWeb | To know that websites are written in HTML - iWeb | To change a picture on a webpage -iWeb |
French Term 3
Year 5 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Greetings | To speak and understand French greetings | To speak and understand French greetings including day and night | To say and understand 'How are you?' | To perform a simple rhyme in French | To speak and understand French colours | To speak and understand French shapes and sizes. |
French Term 4
Year 5 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Basic Phrases | To use shapes like the French artist Matisse | To follow a set of instructions in French to create a piece of art | To count 1-6 in French | To count 7-12 in French | To speak and understand 'How old are you?' | To read French numbers. |