1. Curriculum Overview Year 5 – Autumn Term. Mathematics Art & Design To create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas. To investigate the techniques of the artist Hans Holbein and identify features of his paintings of Henry VIII. To sketch and shade faces and portraits. To use the work of an artist to influence your own work. Design & Technology To research and experiment with different instruments to identify how sound is created. To design and make a musical instrument. Evaluate a finished product and compare it with original ideas and designs. To learn numbers from 0 – 80. To learn to say dates and ask the time. To make French Christmas cards. To identify the difference between rules and responsibilities and understand the need for rules in society. Modern Languages PSHE Geography To identify mountain ranges on an atlas. To learn about how mountains are formed and the different types of mountains. To investigate the Alps and mountain climates. To investigate glaciers and the River Rhone. To learn about the rest of France. History British Monarchs To explain the chronological order of British monarchs and put them on a timeline. To understand how some historical evidence is more reliable than others. To consider the impact of significant kings and queens on Britain. To explore cyclic patterns. To experiment with percussion instruments and how they produce sounds. To learn and play particular patterns and investigate how they fit together. To invent and perform simple rhythmic patterns. Music Physical Education To play competitive games (football, rugby and netball) and apply basic principals suitable for attacking and defending. To link gymnastic movements and balances into sequences and perform them to an audience. To improve confidence on a range of apparatus. To use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]. To use Microsoft Word to manipulate and combine objects and shapes to create pictures. To use Clipart to create collages. To import pictures from the Internet and rotate, resize and reposition them. To understand how religion impacts society. To investigate the importance of Mohammad to Muslims. To identify features of the Muslim religion, including religious book, prayer and beliefs. Computing Religious Education Science English To record their ideas, reflections and predictions about a book, e.g. through a reading log To evaluate and edit by assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing. To infer writers’ perspectives from what is written and from what is implied. To identify how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning and discuss how author’s use of language impacts on the reader. To vary pace and develop viewpoint through use of direct and indirect speech, portrayal of action. To recognise features in instructional texts and compare and evaluate a range of instructional texts. To consider how authors have developed characters and settings in what pupils have seen performed. To infer characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justify inferences with evidence from a text. To improve understanding of and apply a range of spelling rules. To explore homophones and use accurately in sentences. To understand and use different tenses in writing. To use punctuation in longer, complex sentences. To identify and use imperative verbs. To revise multiplication tables. To read Roman numerals to 1000 (M) and recognise years written in Roman numerals. To read, write, order and compare numbers to at least 1 000 000 and count forwards or backward in steps of powers of 10 for any given number up to 1 000 000. To use methods of short division and interpret remainders appropriately. To distinguish between regular and irregular polygons based on reasoning about equal sides and angles. To add and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods. To complete, read and interpret information in tables and solve comparisons, sum and difference problems using information presented in a line graph. To convert between different units of measure and use all four operations to solve problems involving measure (Length). To identify, describe and represent the position of a shape following a reflection or translation, using appropriate language, and know that a shape has not changed. To add and subtract numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers and solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts. To identify multiples and factors, including finding factor pairs of a number, and common factors of two numbers. To identify, name and write equivalent fractions of a given fraction. To compare and order fractions whose denominators are all multiples of the same number. To recognise mixed numbers and improper fractions and convert from one form to the other. To compare and group materials based on their properties. To carry out a fair test and begin to draw conclusions. To investigate how much water needs to be added to sand to make the ‘best’ sandcastle. To understand uses of materials based on their properties. To examine reversible changes. To make predictions and plan and carry out a fair test. To know uses of materials based on their properties. To use knowledge of properties of materials to separate a mixture. To know that some materials dissolve and how to recover this. To know how to separate mixtures of solids and liquids by filtering. To establish the difference between melting and dissolving and define the two processes. To understand irreversible changes