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Curriculum Plan for Year 5

Autumn Term 2024

The children have enjoyed all aspects of this terms topic, The Space Race. Both classes have studied the history and development of the journeys to space, as well as learning about famous astronauts and scientists who helped launched us into the stratosphere. Over the course of the term, children have created a Blog of a fictional planet, written a Biography of Neil Armstrong as well as detailing their journey to the fictional planet of Pandora. We have created our own planets in D.T, listened to Gustav Holst's collection of pieces "The Planet's" , and enjoyed a fantastic trip to The Space Centre. 

Spring Term 2025

This terms Geography focus is on the fragility of Earth. We debate if Earth is a safe place to live. We use our knowledge of Mountains, Volcanoes and Natural Disasters to explore this topic. The children identify and understand the role of tectonic plates in relation to Earthquakes and Volcanoes. They will link this knowledge to a regional study in the Peak District that identifies the impact of a Landslide in Castleton (Hope Valley) in 1977. 

Summer Term 2024

This term our main focus will be on Stereotypes. We are looking at Gender stereotypes this term, in particular The Suffragette movement.This will be followed bu a focus on school and work environments. The second half of term will be focusing on disabilities, look a focus on how schools support with varing abilities as well as the Paralympics.

Art/D.T

Summer Term , we will be focusing on the works of Keith Haring, a famous artist from America.  The children will  develop their printing skills in a fun and creative way. For our Summer Art showcase we developed life size versions of our Keith Haring inspired prints.  This will be followed by creating perspective drawings that will give us inspiration when creating wooden church models. 

Music

Year 5 have been continuing our M.L.C learning by learning how to be a Foley artist, creating sound effects both digitally and analogue to create sounds for a short animation. For our final Challenging stereotypes project we will create a jingle for a informative podcast about changing gender stereotypes over the last 50 years. 

Class Read

Summer Term  year 5 will unpick the book Wonder by R.J Palacio. We will relate the certain themes in the book to our Challenging stereotypes topic. 

Trips

Year 5 deepened their knowledge and curiosity at the Space Centre in Leicester in Autumn term. Spring term they braved the wilderness venturing out for an expedition up Mam Tor and seeing the effects of a natural disaster. In Spring term, Year 5 visited Stone Bridge Farm to learn about their inclusive work challenging stereotypes in the community.