Year 5 and Year 6

SUBJECT

AUTUMN  1

AUTUMN 2

SPRING 1

SPRING 2

SUMMER 1

SUMMER 2

Theme

Dragons:

Dragonology

Vikings:
Raider, Traders and Invaders

Where did they travel and why?

Roaming in the Rainforest
Why should we save the awesome Amazon?

Empires:

What happened to the Mayan Empire and civilisation?

Space:
We are Astronauts!

Looking to the Future:

Our World
Our Future

English

How to catch and care for a dragon.
Instruction and information text.

How to Train your Dragon film review.

JORVIK recount.

Viking Saga: Ragnarok

Viking non-chronological report

Powerful performance poetry

Amazon narrative/setting description

Diary of a cacao nib

Fair trade letters to present an argument

Moon landing newspaper reports

Planetary travel brochures

Narratives about the future

MORERAPS Poetry: hopes and dreams

Reading

How to Train your Dragon (Cressida Cowell)

Dragonology (Dr Ernest Drake)

Odd and the Frost Giants (Neil Gaiman)

Norse Myths (Kevin Crossley-Holland)

DK Find Out: Vikings (Philip Steele)

The Explorer (Katherine Rundell)

Wild World (Angela McAllister)

Rain Player (David Wisniewski)

Middleworld (J and P Voelkel)

Jamie Drake Equation (Christopher Edge)

Hidden Figures (Margot Lee Shetterly)

No one is too small to make a difference (Greta Thunberg)

Rain Before Rainbows (Smriti Halls and David Litchfield)

Maths

Place Value
Addition

Subtraction

Multiplication
Division

Fractions

Decimals
Percentages

Measure
Statistics

Shape

Science

Electricity
Plan different types of scientific enquiries

Animals including Humans
Use test results to make predictions

Earth and Space
Gathering and recording data

Evolution and Inheritance

Identify and evaluate scientific evidence

History

Vikings:

Would the Vikings do anything for money?

The Mayan Civilisation:

Why should we remember the Mayans?

The Anglo Saxons:

Who were the Anglo-Saxons?

Was the Anglo-Saxon period really a Dark Age?

Geography

Protecting the environment:

Are we damaging our world?

The Amazon:

What is life like in the Amazon?

Our World in the Future:

How will our world look in the future?

Computing

Interland: E-Safety

Web page creation
 

Introduction to spreadsheets

Creating media: 3D modelling
 

Programming – sensing movement

Art

Clay rune carving

Dragon’s eyes (clay, Urnes Style)

Rainforest: responding to Art and still life.
 

Mayan art (Efrain Recinos murals)

Ink drip planets

Art inspired by Holst’s The Planets

Digital art (David Hockney)

Italian Futurism – Giacomo Balla / Gino Severini

Design Technology

Viking Shield

Sewing Viking coin purse

Design, making and evaluate a waterproof and sun shading hat for a rainforest explorer. 

Space food: astronaut meals

Music

Charanga

Living on a Prayer

Classroom Jazz 1

Charanga

Make you Feel my Love

Fresh Prince

Charanga

Dancing in the Street

The Planets

P.E.

OAA - teambuilding

Invasion games (Tchoukball/
Netballl)

Gymnastics

Dance

Net and racquet games - Badminton

Cricket / rounders

R.E.

.

What is the best way for a Muslim to show commitment to God?

How significant is it that Mary was Jesus’ mother?

Is anything ever eternal?

Is Christianity still a strong religion 2000 years after Jesus was on Earth?

Does belief Does belief in Akhirah (life after death) help Muslims lead good lives? 

PSHCE

Being Me in my World

Celebrating Difference

Dreams and Goals

Healthy Me

Relationships

Changing Me

Stunning start – discovery!

Visit from a tree logger.

Can we persuade him that the Amazon Rainforest is beautiful and shouldn’t be chopped down?

We Are Authors!
 

Powerful performance poetry

Amazon narrative/setting description

We Are Mathematicians!

Fractions, Decimals, Percentages

We Are Scientists!

Animals including Humans
 

Working Scientifically:
Use test result to make predictions to set up further comparative and fair tests.

We Are Geographers!

Geography: What is life like in the Amazon?

Roaming in the Rainforest

Why should we save the awesome Amazon?
Spring 1

We Are Musicians! (Charanga)

Fresh Prince of Bel Air

Special activities/visitors this term:

Harrogate Theatre

We Are Digital Leaders!

Website Design
Amazon Animation – Seesaw

We Celebrate Different Faiths And Languages Of Our Community And Beyond!

RE: 
Is anything ever eternal? Christianity.

French:
Clothes, Colours and Fashion

We Are Athletes!

Gymnastics

We Are Designers!
We Are Artists!

Design, make and evaluate a waterproof and sun shading hat for a rainforest explorer.

Rainforest: responding to Art and still life.

We Are Safe & Respectful Citizens/PSHE!

Dreams and Goals

Fabulous Finish!

Performing Poetry

Stunning start – discovery!

Letter from council

We Are Authors!

Persuasive letters

Emotive narratives

Blackout poetry

We Are Mathematicians!

Place value

Arithmetic: Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division

We Are Scientists!

Properties of materials

Changes of state

We Are Historians / Geographers!

The impact of war on our local community

Changes to the local / national environment

World War 2: The Impact of War

Autumn 2021

We Are Musicians!

Happy

Classroom Jazz 2

Special visits this term:

Stonefall Cemetry

Special visitors this term:

CWGC (Commonwealth War Graves Commission)

We Are Digital Leaders!

E-Safety

Digital presentations

We Are Designers!

DT: wartime recipes (Merguerite Patten)

We Are Artists!

D Day art (Albert Richards)

German war posters (Fritz Erler)

We Are Sports Stars!

Army boot camp circuit training

WWII soldier fitness tests

We Celebrate Different Faiths And Languages Of Our Community And Beyond!

Focus on Islam / Muslim worship

We Are Safe & Respectful Citizens/PSHE!

Me and my relationships

Fabulous Finish!

Stonefall war memorial visit with the CWGC