Scroll to content
Millfield Primary School Walsall home page

Millfield Primary School

Imagine Immerse Inspire

Contact Us
Content Scroll

Summer Y5

Year 5 Curriculum – Summer Term 

At Millfield, our curriculum is based around

 ‘Repeat, Revisit, Remember’

 

Instead of doing a set topic for each half term, our curriculum is designed so that we repeat topics every few weeks. 

 

Below are some of the specific things we are doing this term in each subject

 

Literacy (writing)

  • TBC
  • SPaG focus – Year 5 spellings and grammar

 

Shared Reading

Comprehension skills 

  • Robot on Thin Ice (news article)
  • Not Your Sidekick (Fiction)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (classic fiction)
  • 8 Questions for Ainissa Ramirez (non-fiction)
  • The Highwayman (classic poetry)
  • Meet Khadijah Mellah (non-fiction)

 

Maths

Weekly cycle of maths curriculum coverage(number, addition & subtraction, multiplication & division, fractions/ decimals/ percentages, geometry, statistics, money, time, length, mass, volume/capacity) including each week:

  • Arithmetic
  • Times tables
  • Varied fluency and representations
  • Reasoning and problem-solving
  • Practical maths

​​​​​​​

Science

Science is covered in a rolling schedule of eleven strands of science (space, forces, light, sound, electricity, materials 1, materials 2, living things, plants, animals, evolution).

 

Topic – Geography

Washington D.C.

  • Investigate places
  • Investigate patterns and connections
  • Geographical communication -presentation

​​​​​​​

Topic - History

English Civil War

  • Chronological understanding
  • Making connections in world history – civil conflict, causes and effects of conflict
  • Investigating and interpreting evidence
  • Historical communication -presentation

 

Music

  • TBC

​​​​​​​

Art

  • Illustrator study – Matt Groening
  • Industrial Design 

​​​​​​​

Computing

  • Digital Literacy – selecting and using software
  • Computer Science - Programming

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

PSHE

  • Rights and Responsibilities – democracy and discrimination
  • Money - enterprise
  • Feelings and Friendship - secrets
  • Health – healthy choices (physical and mental health)
  • Safety and Risk – online safety
  • Identity - community
  • RSE - puberty

 

P.E.

  • Athletics
  • Striking and fielding games 

​​​​​​​

Design and Technology

  • Food - Cooking and seasonality