Year 5

The following information is to provide you with an overview of the year. It is difficult to outline every area in detail and, if there are areas you wish to explore further, please contact your child's teacher.

History

Where the Vikings raiders, traders or something else?

What was life like in Tudor England?

What is the legacy of the Ancient Greeks?

Geography

What is life like in the alps?

Why do Oceans matter?

Would you like to live in the desert?

Science

Materials: mixtures and separation

Earth and Space

Materials: properties and changes

Life cycles and reproduction

Unbalanced forces

Animals – human timeline

Making connections - asteroids

Art

Drawing – I need space

Painting and mixed media - portraits

Sculpture and 3d – interactive instillation

DT

Mechanisms – Gears and Pulleys

Structures - bridges

Cooking and nutrition – developing a recipe

Computing

Online safety

Programming

Lightbot Jr

Digital content and the internet

Understanding application of ICT

English -

Texts

Highwayman

Heidi – Life in the Alps

Viking boy

The Last Viking – Terry D

My Friend Walter – Michael Morpurgo

Ocean – non-fiction texts

Greek myths

Across the desert

Genres

News reports

Narrative poetry

Viking poetry – Kennings

Instructions

Explanation

Short stories

Persuasive writing

Myths / Legends

Narrative – linked to text

Computing

Online Safety

Programming

Digital Content and the Internet

Physical Education

Invasion Games

Net and Wall


Striking and Fielding

Athletics


Gymnastics

Religious Education

Creation  

 

Incarnation 

Kingdom of God

 

Salvation

 

People of God

 

What does it mean for Muslims to follow God?