Year 5&6 WHOLE SCHOOL TOPIC

2-18TH SEPTAUTUMN 1 AUTUMN 2 SPRING 1 SPRING 2 SUMMER 1 SUMMER 2

CORE TOPIC Roald Dahl Roald Dahl Ancient Greece This morning I met a whale

The blue umbrella

Day of the Dead (DOTD)

Ancient city of Benin

WOW!VISIT/VISITORS

RUSKIN – Spanish

Library – Roald Dahl

Salvation ArmyY6 Residential

RUSKIN – DanceEnvironment –

litter pickPantomime

ENGLISH Sentence level

Narrative/Description

(building tension)

Character description

Non-chronological

report (Ancient Greece)

Narrative myth

Persuasive letter

Newspaper report (ICT link)

Recount (trip)Film narrative

(Umbrella)

DOTD -Setting

descriptionDiary

Instructions (link to DT)

Core Texts Fantastic Mr Fox Fantastic Mr Fox Myths/legends This morning I

met a whaleThe Blue

Umbrella(Silent video)

DOTD video Stories from other cultures

MATHS Place value

Place value,Addition and Subtraction(Multi- step

word problems)

Division and Multiplication

Fractions

Fractions, decimals and percentages

Shape and Measure

Statistics (ICT link) and Revision

Revision

SCIENCEProperties and

changes of materials

Earth and space Evolution and inheritance

Animals including humans

Plants

COMPUTING Scratch

Networks, communication

s and the internet (emails)

Digital media – create a film

documentary – video cameras, transferring on

to the computer, editing etc.

(English link)

Handling Data – use

databases to collect and interrogate information.

Create a database and

use excel spread

Digital Citizenship

D AND T

Food Tech – design and make a healthy snack (flapjacks)

ScratchApply

understanding of computing to programme, monitor and

control products.

Textiles(Waterproof

clothing) CC/GS