Year 5 Book Map

Term 1- Street Child

This text has been chosen to support our historical enquiry as it is set in Victorian times and it links with our historical substantive strand 'poverty'.

Jim Jarvis, his mother and his sisters live in a single room in a house in the poorest part of London.  All alone in the world, Jim finds himself working for the evil ‘Grimy Nick’ on a coal barge.  Forced to work all day for no pay and little food, Jim decides to escape once more living on the streets of London in terrible conditions until he is ‘rescued’ by a benevolent gentleman – Dr. Banardo.

If you enjoy listening to this story in class, or you enjoy historical texts, here is a book list of other texts linked with Victorian Britain.

Check the book corner for "Gaslight" by Eloise Williams and "Another Twist in the Tale" by Catherine Bruton. 

Term 2 -

The Jamie Drake Equation 

We will be reading this text this term to link with our scientific enquiry based on the theme of space. Have a look at the blurb to see what you think!

If you enjoy books and stories about space, check out this book list for other great stories to read. 

Term 3 - Kensuke's Kingdom

This term, to link with our English text Survivors, we will be reading "Kensuke's Kingdom" by Michael Morpurgo. The story tells of the adventure of Michael, a young boy who sets off with his family on a sailing trip of a lifetime. Unfortunately, excitement turns to terror when there is a violent storm and Michael and his dog are swept overboard. When they wash up on a remote island, how will they survive?

If you enjoy stories by Michael Morpurgo, you should check out books for topics which give 'branching out' ideas for other texts which you might enjoy.

Term 1 - What the dickens? 

This term, our writing is centred on Charles Dickens and his book of Oliver Twist. We will be using extracts, as well as our history lessons, to learn about life in a Victorian workhouse. In English, we will be focusing on Oliver's life in the workhouse and how he escaped and met a new friend, Jack Dawkins, or the Artful Dodger as he is better known.

Using our new knowledge, we will be writing a diary entry from the perspective of a Victorian child who is living in the workhouse as well as writing a setting description. Next, we will role playing a conversation between Oliver Twist and the Artful Dodger; this will help us to write a narrative, including speech, based on Oliver Twist meeting the Artful Dodger.

Our next outcome will be to learn more about Charles Dickens himself. Through research, we will be writing a biography based on his life.

Term 2 - Pandora

In Term 2, we will be using a film clip based on a fictional planet called Pandora. We will be imagining that we are the first ever children to visit the planet and using this to create a VLOG, write a newspaper article, about our experience, and writing a non-chronological report about a creature from Pandora. 

Within our writing, we will be focusing on using a variety of sentence openers and structures, to help build cohesion, and we will be adding additional details using parenthesis. Within our newspaper articles, we will also be looking at direct and indirect speech and how to punctuate this correctly. 

term 3 - Survivors

In Term 3, we will be using different texts from the book "Survivors" to inspire our written work. 

We will start the term by using the story of "The friends who crossed the border by balloon"  to inspire us to create a Tanka poem.

We will then be using "The Girl Who Fell From the Sky", to re-write the story from a different perspective. To help us do this, we will be focusing on our descriptive writing so that the setting creates the mood. We will also be using this text to create a non-fiction leaflet which will provide survival advice. For this text, we will need to develop our use of an introduction and conclusion as well as conjunctions to link ideas. We will also consider how we can involve and engage the reader. 

At the end of the term, we will use "The miners who spent two weeks underground", to write a list poem.

Throughout the term, we will be developing our understanding of different sentence structures. We will particularly focus on complex sentences and using subordinate and relative clauses to create these. 

Year 5 Maths Long Term Plan

Term 1

Place Value, Addition & Subtraction

Term 1 starts with the children learning place value of numbers up to one million. By the end of the Term, they will be able to read, write, order and compare numbers to at least a million and determine the value of each digit. Also included in this unit, we will be rounding any whole number up to 1 million to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10000 and 100000.

As the term continues, we will be moving onto addition and subtraction. In this unit, the children will be retrieving their knowledge of formal written methods of addition and subtraction, and combining this with their understanding of place value. They will be continuing to refine the skill of adding and subtracting mentally, using rounding to check answers and focusing on multi-step problems.

Our final unit for term one will be multiplying. In this unit, the children will be revisiting their Year 4 learning of short multiplication to recap multiplying numbers up to 4 digits by a 1 digit number using formal written methods.

Term 2- Multiplication, Fractions and Geometry

In Term two, we will start learning about multiples, all factor pairs and common factors of two numbers. We then move onto prime numbers, where we will establish if a number up to 100 is a prime number.

Our next area of learning will be multiplying and dividing whole numbers and decimals by 10, 100 and 1000.

As we approach the middle of the term, we move onto fractions. In this unit, we will be learning to identify, name and write equivalent fractions and then recognising mixed numbers and improper fractions and converting them. To finish this unit, we will be comparing and ordering fractions.

To finish the term, we will be learning about Geometry. We start the unit by comparing and classifying triangles and quadrilaterals and then move on to identifying, describing and representing shapes following reflection and translation.

term 3 - negative numbers, multiplication & Division and Fractions

At the start of the term, we will be learning about negative numbers and then applying this knowledge to solving problems. 

Following this, we will return to our work on multiplication and division. We will start the term by revisiting multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000, and we will use this knowledge to enable us to solve related problems. We will then use this knowledge to learn long multiplication which is when we multiply a number by a 2 digit number. This unit of work will be completed by revisiting work on short division.

Our final maths unit this term will be focusing on fractions. We will need to retrieve our knowledge on equivalent fractions and we will use this understanding to help us add and subtract fractions with different denominators. We will also be learning how to multiply a fraction by a whole number. 

Enquiry 1 - Forces

During Term 1, and into Term 2, we will be answering the two big questions, 

What is a force?   How do they help us?

To help us answer these questions, we will need to build on our knowledge from Year 3, when we learnt about forces (Friction) and magnets. 

enquiry 2 - Earth and Space

At the end of Term 2, we will begin our 2nd Scientific enquiry which will also link with our Geography learning. We will be answering two big questions:

The Earth, Sun or Moon – which is the odd one out?
How do we get day and night, the seasons and climates?

Term 1 - Victorians

In Term 1, and into Term 2, Year 5 will be studying a Historical enquiry, asking the Big Question

Was the Victorian Era a dark age or golden age?

This unit of learning, focussed on The Victorians, will extend across the term and into the beginning of Term 2, encompassing topics including Monarchy, the British Empire, poverty and wealth, the Industrial Revolution, workhouses and much more!

This term will also include an exciting class trip, linked to our historical learning!

term 3 - Rainforests

During Term 3 and Term 4, Year 5 will be completing a geographical enquiry where they will be studying rainforests. Throughout the enquiry, we will be gathering knowledge to enable us to answer the big question:

South America: why does the Amazon matter?

We will start the enquiry by retrieving knowledge from Year 4 where we learnt about North America. We will build on this knowledge to enable us to make comparisons between North and South America. We will then be developing our understanding of the importance of the Amazon rainforest by learning about the physical and human features.