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  • Year 5/6 Curriculum

    Autumn 2023

    Spring 2024

    Summer 2024

    CUSP Reading 

    • Roof toppers (& The Listeners – Walter de la Mare) Blocks 1,2,3
    • Pig Heart Boy Blocks 4,5
    • How to live forever Block 6
    • All Aboard the Empire Windrush Blocks 7 8
    • The Island Block 9

    Skellig (+Flanders poem) Blocks 10, 11 and 12

    • Intro to Dickens – Oliver Twist
      Blocks 13, 14,15
    • Dare to be You (KS2 – KS3 transition) Blocks 16, 17, 18

    CUSP Writing
     

    • Autobiography A
    • Discursive writing and speeches A
    • Poems that create images and explore vocabulary (War poetry) A
    • First person stories with a moral A
    • Shakespeare (Sonnets) A
    • Explanatory text A
    • Extended third person narrative A
    • Explanatory texts B
    • Newspaper report A
    • Autobiography B
    • First person stories with a moral B
    • Extended third person narrative (adventure stories) B
    • Newspaper report B
    • Discursive writing and speeches B
    • Poems that create images and explore vocabulary B (Enrichment)
    • Shakespeare (Sonnets) B (Enrichment)

    Maths

       

    CUSP Science

    • Electricity
    • Animals, including humans

     

    • Light
    • Living things and their habitats

     

    • Living things and their habitats continued
    • Evolution and inheritance

    CUSP Art and Design

    • Drawing Block A
    • Painting and collage Block B

     

    • Printmaking and textiles Block C
    • 3D Block D

     

    • Painting Block E
    • Creative Response Block F

    Computing – National Centre for Computing Education 

    • Internet Communication
    • Webpage creation
    • Variables in games
    • Introduction to spreadsheets
    • 3D modelling
    • Sensing

    CUSP Design and Technology 

    • Food and Nutrition Block A
      Writing – Discursive writing and speeches
    • Mechanisms Block B
    • Food and Nutrition Block C 
    • Structures Block D
    • Electrical systems Block E
      Science – Electricity 
    • Textiles Block F

    CUSP Geography

    • Physical processes: Earthquakes, mountains and volcanoes 

     

    • Settlements
    • Comparison study – UK, Europe and North America

     

    • Comparison study – UK, Europe and North America
    • Maps and orienteering

    CUSP History

    • Beyond 1066
      • Local History Study - how did conflict change our locality in World War 2?

     

    • Windrush generation

     

    • 5  significant monarchs Or Battle of Britain

    CUSP Music - mastering the keyboard

    Singing 

    • Singing focus: Musical stories 2 Block A
    • Cultural and social – lyrics Block A

    Untuned percussion 

    • Untuned focus: Music technology 2 Block B
    • Alter tempo and rhythm to create effects Block B

    Music

    Singing 

    • Singing focus: Introducing structure 2 Block C
    • Identify cyclic patterns inc. verse/chorus, coda Block C

    Keyboard

    • Tuned focus: Musical notation 4 Block D
    • Create simple notation Block D

    Music

    Keyboard

    • Tuned focus: Composition 4 Block E
    • Improvise using melodic phrases Block E

    Range of instruments studied

    • Performance focus: Improvisation 2 Block F
    • Perform including an element of improvisation Block F

    CUSP French

    • Where I live (Homes)
    • Emotions and numbers – beyond 100

    CUSP French

    • Items from daily life (Money and personal effects)
    • Learning together

    CUSP French

    • The natural world (The environment)
    • Visiting France (Directions and transport)