Autumn 1
English
TOPIC/Text
Were did the Anglo- Saxons really smashing?
Were the Vikings always victorious and vicious?
Battle Bunny – Scieska Sword in the stone The legend of King Arthur - Percy (classic story) King Arthur – Williams (graphic novel)
Fiction: How to train your dragon – Cowell Harry Potter – Goblet of Fire – Rowling Description of Smaug – Lord of the rings – Tolkein The Saga of Eric the Viking (to read to them)
Non-Fiction: How to be an AngloSaxon in 13 easy stages – Anderson Anglo-Saxon & Viking Britain Anglo-saxon – Project History
Song/film link
Merlin/Arthur/Sword in the Stone/Justin and the Knights of Valor
Writing Opportunities
Grammar
Maths
St Anne’s R.C. Primary School Year 5 Long Term Plan September 2017 – July 2018 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1
Edited version of Battle Bunny Battle Plan Character Profiles Write in the role of the sword
Non-fiction: Incomplete guide to dragons – Cowell Dare to care – Pet Dragon – Robertson Dragonology
Harry Potter – Goblet of Fire – Rowling Description of Smaug – Lord of the rings – Tolkein Setting descriptions Dragon descriptionscreate their own Information texts Newspaper article
Who were the Mayans and what have we learnt from them? Fiction: Holes – Sacher The Chocolate Tree: A Mayan Folktale (On My Own Folklore) – Lowery The Hero Twins – animation of the Maya legend Dwarf-Wizard of Uxmal -Shetterly & Shetterly To the Stars by Canoe: A Mayan parable for children – Haswell Time Riders: The Mayan Prophecy - Scarrow Barnaby Grimes (book 2) – Steward & Riddell (A Mayan-like sacrifice in the opening chapter)
Instructional Writing Survival Guide Map work Letters Write in the style of Louis Sachar Alternative endings
Vocabulary choices, modal verbs, adjectives, pronouns, subordinating and coordinating conjunctions, bullet points
Parenthesis, apostrophes, Expanded noun phrases,
Sentence types, adverbials, relative clauses and pronouns
Number/Place Value
Statistics
Multiplication/Division
Why is Brazil in the news again? Why should the rainforest be important to us all? (human & physical – distribution of natural resources, carbon footprint ) Fiction: Nina Bonita -Machado The Explorer- Katherine Rundell Non-fiction: My Country: Brazil Savery My Holiday In: Brazil Paperback – 13 Mar 2014 - Bingham
Is Britain great? (British identity)
Fiction: The Vanishing Rainforest The Great Kapok Tree – Cherry The Shaman’s apprentice – Cherry
Poems: Macbeth- Shakespeare
Non-fiction: Rainforest at risk – Bug Club Life in … a giant tree in the rainforest Survival handbook – jungle – Could you get out alive? – Kelly The Rainforest Grew All Around Mitchell
Non-Fiction: Information texts
Letters Diary entry Setting and character descriptions Non-chronological reports Speech writing Persuasive writing Business plan Newspaper article Commas, direct and Perfect form of verbs indirect speech, colons and semi-colons
Fractions
Summer 2
Decimals
The Highwayman Famous British authors
Poetry Information texts playscripts
Revision of Year 5 grammar objectives
Geometry-Position and