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Year Five Autumn Term Curriculum Overview

This document outlines the staff, curriculum, and topics for Year 5 students for the autumn term. It includes details about the literacy and numeracy units as well as topics on Princes, Peasants and Pestilence and Time Traveller. Staff include Mrs Kate Wyatt, Mr Matthew Smyth, and Mrs Gail Jones who teach classes 5W, 5S, and 5J respectively. Literacy units focus on grammar, spelling, guided reading, and homework. Numeracy units cover number, operations, measurement, and geometry. The topic on Princes, Peasants and Pestilence will engage students with a medieval workshop and timeline on the Black Death plague. The Time Traveller topic

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Year Five Autumn Term Curriculum Overview

This document outlines the staff, curriculum, and topics for Year 5 students for the autumn term. It includes details about the literacy and numeracy units as well as topics on Princes, Peasants and Pestilence and Time Traveller. Staff include Mrs Kate Wyatt, Mr Matthew Smyth, and Mrs Gail Jones who teach classes 5W, 5S, and 5J respectively. Literacy units focus on grammar, spelling, guided reading, and homework. Numeracy units cover number, operations, measurement, and geometry. The topic on Princes, Peasants and Pestilence will engage students with a medieval workshop and timeline on the Black Death plague. The Time Traveller topic

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Staff

Mrs Kate Wyatt 5W


Mr Matthew Smyth 5S
Mrs Gail Jones 5J
Mrs Sam Colloby TA
Mrs jess Unitt TA
PPA Mrs Jo Sheridan, Miss
Lisa Milnthorpe
Literacy (Including Homework)
Grammar punctuation, grammar, sentences structure, descriptive
writing

Spelling 3 sessions a week


Guided reading sessions 3 sessions a week

Princes, Peasants and Pestilence

Narrative using personication

Journals

Poetry

Persuasive speech

Time Traveller

Character study

Narrative adventure

Leaets

Free verse poetry

Literacy homework set every week on a Friday, alternating between


Numeracy (Including Homework)

Unit 1

Number and place value

Addition and subtraction mental and written


methods

Properties of shape

Unit 2

Multiplication and division

Fractions

Position and direction

Unit 3

Addition and subtraction

Decimals

Measurement (mass)

Unit 4

Multiplication and division

Measurement (time)

Homework expectations:
Set on a Thursday linked to the weeks work. Back in on
Tuesday.
P.E. & Forest School
P.E. Medieval Dancing
- Gymnastics
Games - Cricket

Forest school Outdoor skills,


problem solving, links to class
learning

5W P.E. Friday
Forest school Tuesday
5S P.E. Wednesday
Cricket - Friday
Forest school Monday
5J P.E. Monday
Forest school - Thursday
Topic Peasants, Princes and Pestilence
ENGAGE
Visit from Discover History running Medieval workshop
Make a medieval letter for the initial of their name
Create a pictorial timeline of the Plague from infection to
death
Explore the decay of fruit
Start medieval dances
Find out where the black death originated from
Look at poems about the Black Death
DEVELOP
Study a range of herbs and discuss their properties
Look at the lifecycle of rodents, eas and bacteria. Discuss
how the black death spread so quickly
Find out about the Flagellants
Create block print lettering
What caused the rapid spread of the disease?
Look at social class
Look at the role of Knights
Look at the Kings of that period
Recreate a peasants revolt
INNOVATE
Use a stimulus to investigate a potential case about the
Black Plague in modern times. Work as a group to produce
an outcome.
EXPRESS
Look at other instances of Black Death throughout history
Summarise events from the 14
th
century
Create a fact le about modern day rats why do they get
such a bad press?
How did people try to cure the Black Death?
Topic Time Traveller
ENGAGE
Use digital software to take close up photos of faces and
adjust using apps
Create a timeline of their live using pictures
Create an Andy Warhol style picture of themselves
Watch time lapse videos of people aging.
Look at changes that have happened in the local
community over time
DEVELOP
How has life changed over the past 200 years
Use Salvador Dali and look at clock imagery in art work.
Play games involving time
Look at portraits at people with different ages
Look at the gestation of different animals and how they
develop in the womb
Investigate reaction times of different ages of people
Create a digital image of themselves when they are older
INNOVATE
Design a time machine to travel into the future or past and
Year Five
Autumn Term

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