Welcome to Year 5

At KS1 and KS2 we follow a two year sequence:

2024/2025 and 2026/2027

Autumn 1 – Textiles – batik

Autumn 2 – Painting

Spring 1 – Mechanical Systems: Pneumatics

Spring 2 – Collage

Summer 1 – Portraits, including mixed media

Summer 2 – Food Technology

2025/2026

Autumn 1 – Printing

Autumn 2 – 3D: Metal

Spring 1 – Electrical Systems

Spring 2 – Mechanica | Systems (axles and wheels)

Summer 1 – Portraits, including mixed media

Summer 2 – Structures

Each year through KS1-2 we cycle through the following units at increasing depth:

1. Productivity
2. Programming
3. Computational Thinking
4. Creativity
5. Networks
6. Communication/collaboration

Reading to Learn

Once children have been carefully assessed as having met the requirements of the phonics program, they should be able to decode any age appropriate text. At this point, children move onto our ‘Paradigm Literacy and Language’ program.

The program allocates 3 weeks to ‘fiction writing’ such as: stories, poetry, one week to ‘journalistic writing’ such as biographies and non chronological reports and two weeks to a ‘non fiction writing’ program in which specialist teachers across the Trust have worked together to create and provide high quality texts in The Humanities and The Sciences.

The following topics are repeated on a 2 year cycle in KS1, LKS2 and UKS2:

Unit 1: Dynamic Earth

Weather and climate across the world

Changes to our climate and the role of humans in this

Extreme weather events

Tectonic Hazards: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions

Unit 2: UK Geography

What is the UK and where do I live?

Using mapping skills to explore features in the UK

River and coastal landscapes in the UK

Urban environments in the UK

Unit 3: Environment, Climate and Us

The climate crisis and what we can do about it

Understanding life in tropical rainforests and the threats to them and what we can do.

Understanding life in desert environments and the threats to them and what we can do.

Understanding cold environments and the threats to them and what we can do.

Unit 4: Jobs and Wealth

Types of jobs, industry and places of work

Global trade and supply chains – where does my food come from?

What is life like in the world’s poorest countries?

What is life like in the world’s richest countries?

We cover two topics a year for History in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. In Year 5 we take an in-depth study on the Significance of the Tudors, then Compare and Contrast Islamic World and Medieval Christendom.

Our school uses Maths Mastery to teach the subject.

In Year 5 we cover:

• Reasoning with large whole integers
• Integer addition and subtraction
• Line graphs and times tables
• Multiplication and division
• Perimeter and area

We study Spanish in Upper Key Stage 2, through a system called Early Start Spanish Programme.

Autumn 1 – Rock

Autumn 2 – Big Band / Swing

Spring 1 – Piano Music

Spring 2 – Opera

Summer 1 – Indian Raga

Summer 2 – Reflect, Rewind and Replay

• Striking / fielding (e.g. rounders, cricket)
• Gymnastics
• Invasion Games (e.g. hockey, netball, football)
• Athletics
• Swimming
• Dance

We follow a three-year cycle (see below) covering the major world religions as well as  worldviews.

The programme is designed so that each previously taught religion is reviewed and comparisons are drawn between the content. Over six years, each child will have studied each identified religion/non-religion twice, studying in greater depth and making connections between religions.

Pupils are taught key substantive knowledge for each religion and worldview and each lesson is broken down into one of 3 disciplines: Theology, philosophy and Human/Social Science.

2024-2025: Christianity and Islam
2025-2026: Judaism and Humanism
2026-2027: Hinduism and Sikhism

Parents/carers have the right to withdraw their child from all or part of RE – please contact the principal if you wish to explore this as an option.

The Paradigm primary schools follow the Jigsaw programme.

From September 2019 we have allocated 45 minutes per week to PSHE at KS1 and KS2.

• Being Me in My World
• Celebrating Difference
• Dreams and Goals
• Healthy Me
• Relationships
• Changing Me