Year 5
Curriculum Summary for Parents
Term 1 • 2025/26
This information represents a summary of plans for the term. Please understand that all plans are flexible; there is always the possibility that fewer (or more) topics will be covered than those stated.
Subject Topics
• Narrative: Modern Classic Fiction Kensuke's Kingdom to inform story and creative writing
• Non-narrative: Persuasive Writing
English
Science
French
• Non-narrative: Balanced Arguments
• Spelling, Grammar and Vocabulary: spelling patterns and statutory spellings in tandem with dictation tests for punctuation accuracy.
• Place Value - numbers up to 1 million; comparing large numbers; rounding numbers to various place values; multiplying and dividing by powers of 10; Roman numerals
• Arithmetic - adding and subtracting large numbers
• Integers - multiples and common multiples; factors and common factors; prime numbers; square numbers
• Fractions - equivalence; converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions; adding and subtracting fractions
Lab Safety & Equipment
• Dangers in the lab
• Hazard symbols
• Using equipment safely
• Living Things & Their Habitats
• Grouping plants and animals
• Adaptations to environments
• Food chain
• Revision: greetings, name, age, siblings, pets
• Physical and personality description using je suis,
• Where I live, places in town
• Describe the weather
• Countries and nationalities
• Christmas in France
Focus is the city
1. Visiting the mall
2. Going to the park
3. In the museum
4. The game park
5. At the restaurant
6. At the stadium
7. In the Cinema hall
• Eating Out
• Express likes/dislikes about food.
• Use me gustaría to order food politely.
• Describe meals of the day in Spanish.
• Compare foods using más/menos que.
• Perform a restaurant roleplay in Spanish.
Maths
Kiswahili
Spanish (SFC)
Humanities
Religious Studies
Art
• The First Explorers- The Portuguese, Burton & Speke (The Nile), Livingstone & Stanley (The Zambezi)
• Factors influencing exploration (population, natural resources, religious demographic, compass navigation).
• Geography: Major Kenyan & African Rivers
• Kenyan History: The Kenya – Uganda Railway including geography of Kenya, vegetation and tourism.
World Religions: May include visit to a place of worship/ visit from a Holy Believer
• Introduction to Hindu beliefs, practices, artefacts and festivals
• Introduction to Christian beliefs, practices, artefacts and festivals
• Research issues in the environment today
• Introduction to artivism (art and activism) - understand its role in driving social change and raising awareness
• Develop observational drawing skills - use contour lines, tone, shape and shading for accurate nature representations
• Develop fine motor skills – Collage techniques explored through the work of Charlie Harper
• Develop chalk and oil pastel techniques (blending, sgraffito, scumbling, stippling, colour mixing) to create enriched artworks
• Be inspired by Robert Rauschenberg - experiment with image transfer, collage and digital manipulation techniques to a create personal response
• The process of Design (Design Briefs, Identifying needs, Contexts)
• Drawing a specification
• Generating design proposals/ideas – Rally car toys/ Prosthetics
• Mood boards
Design Engineering
Computing
• Exploration with different materials/Cutting and wasting wood
• Modelling and presentation
• Using machines and tools – Sander, Junior hacksaw, Quick fix clamps, Mallets and Drills)
• Evaluation and testing improvements
• How software and hardware function, including peripherals.
• Kodu - Design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals; Solve problems by decomposing them into smaller parts; Create games with 3D lifelike environments and landscapes with a variety of terrain; Program sprites to move around the landscapes, interacting with other objects and the terrain itself