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All Saints Church of England Primary School

"Guiding all our flock to flourish"

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)
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