Curriculum Overview Year 5 – Summer Term. Mathematics Art & Design To create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas. To improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing and painting 3D objects. To learn about art through the history topic of Ancient Egypt. Use examples of artefacts to produce Egyptian death masks, hieroglyphics and Egyptian gods. Design & Technology To use research and design criteria to design battery powered buggies. To generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches and diagrams. To select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to build a moving buggy [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing], accurately. To evaluate work and suggest changes for future projects. To speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity. To know the vocabulary associated with ordering food and drink. To understand French currency. To be able to express opinions in French. To develop understanding of the changes that occur during puberty. To understand the wider issues relating to money and budgets. To learn how to budget money and save for future spending. Modern Languages PSHE Geography To locate Egypt and the River Nile on a map of the World. To use a variety of sources to compare Egypt today with the UK (including temperatures, climate and rainfall). To discover what changes resulted from the building of the Aswan Dam To find out how plants and animals adapt to desert biomes. History Ancient Egypt To locate Egypt on a map and understand the importance of the Nile. To identify events and periods that happened during the Ancient Egyptian period. To understand the hierarchical structure of Ancient Egyptian society. To investigate the importance and role of the Egyptian Gods. To understand how the Egyptians dealt with death and the mummification process. To understand how hieroglyphics were used in Ancient Egyptian times. To investigate the importance of the pyramids. To listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory. To use and understand musical notations. Music Physical Education To develop skills used in athletics events such as running, sprinting, long jump and throwing. To develop the skills needed to play tennis as well as an understanding of the game’s rules. To improve the batting and fielding skills needed to play rounders. To swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres. To use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]. Computing To know the elements of a spreadsheet and be able to enter a simple formulae. To use spreadsheets to perform quick and complex calculations and solve a range of mathematical problems. To represent information in charts, tables and graphs. To demonstrate a responsible, competent, confident and creative use of information and communication technology. To identify Moses as a key religious person and understand the stories associated with him in the bible. To understand the importance of Passover and how it is celebrated. To learn the 10 commandments and how they relate to laws and rules in society. Religious Education Science English To increase familiarity with different types of poetry and perform their own creations using appropriate intonation, volume and movement. To participate in discussions about books that are read to them and those that they can read themselves, building on their own and others’ ideas and challenging views courteously. To consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contribution of others and provide reasons for their views. To note and develop initial ideas, drawing on research and reading where necessary and record predictions, questions, reflections while reading. To write from another character’s point of view e.g. retelling an incident in letter form/newspaper report. To make comparisons within and across books and investigate and discuss themes in and across a wide range of writing. To recommend books they have read to their peers, giving reasons for their choices. To use and understand grammatical terminology accurately and appropriately in discussing writing and reading. To investigate a range of spelling patterns. To solve number problems and practical problems and use the vocabulary of prime numbers, prime factors and composite (nonprime) numbers. To solve problems involving multiplication and division including using their knowledge of factors and multiples, squares and cubes. To solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and a combination of these, including understanding the meaning of the equals sign. To multiply proper fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers, supported by materials and diagrams. To recognise and use thousandths and relate them to tenths, hundredths and decimal equivalents and solve problems involving number up to three decimal places. To recognise the per cent symbol (%) and write percentages as a fraction with denominator 100, and as a decimal. To solve problems which require knowing percentage and decimal equivalents, and those fractions with a denominator of a multiple of 10 or 25. To measure and calculate the perimeter of composite rectilinear shapes in centimetres and metres. To calculate and compare the area of rectangles (including squares), and including using standard units, square centimetres (cm2 ) and square metres (m2 ) and estimate the area of irregular shapes. To estimate volume and capacity and identify 3-D shapes, including cubes and other cuboids, from 2-D representations. To use the properties of rectangles to deduce related facts and find missing lengths and angles. To describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals. To be able to describe the changes of state in the water cycle and how they occur. To be able to describe different seed dispersal methods. To understand about endangered species and conservation measures. To report and present findings, including conclusions, and explain results in oral and written forms. To record data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams, tables and bar and line graphs.