1. For Autumn Year 5 EXCALIBUR!
Literacy/History
Curriculum Map
For Autumn Year 5 EXCALIBUR!
Art/DT
Poetry – Beowulf, Lady of Shallot
Books – Arthur, High King of Britain ( Morpurgo) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ( Morpurgo)
Legends – King Arthur, Holy Grail
Illuminated Manuscripts
Origins of words
Days of week
Instructional writing
Build a village
Anglo Saxon Chronicle
Sutton Hoo – pondering the mystery
Saxon jewellery & clothing
Weaving (Lady of Shallot) and making fabric/felting
Make tools
Saxon trades and crafts – woodwork
Repeating pattern – The Strickland Brooch
Botticelli – draw a face (Learn Pad)
Cooking – Anglo Saxon style
Geography
Place names – origins
Where did settlers come from and move to? Why?
Land use and change
Locate UK counties/ cities
Homework- research on counties
Music
Science
Forces – levers, pulleys, gears
Gravity
Water/air resistance – boats
Friction
Changes of State
What a Knight – singing
Composition based on Beowulf
Fantasia – The Sorcerer's apprentice (Paul Dukas) link with dance
Cyclic patterns (African drumming)
Computing
Create map for saxon settlement using graphics
Virtual dig
Research/evidence finding – linked to Ashmolean Museum
Create a digital collage
Computing skills