New City Primary School Curriculum Overview Year 5 

Spring 1 2017/2018 

Foundation Curriculum 

Subject Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Assessment Week

Week 5

History Ancient Greece

To create a timeline of Ancient Greece.

To investigate the key features of Ancient

Greece.

To research Ancient Greek Philosophers.

To investigate the Trojan War.

To analyse the impact of Greece on the modern day.

Art

To Draw from observation

From Ancient Greek Art

To design an Ancient Greek Vase

To investigate media and Materials

Working towards making an Ancient

Greek Vase

To investigate media and Materials

Working towards making an Ancient Greek Vase

To Evaluate

DT To investigate, dissemble and evaluate a range of musical

instrument to find out how they work.

To identify a range of materials for a making a musical instrument.

To join and combine a range of materials in

order to make a musical instrument.

To identify the purpose for the musical

instrument.

To design the final product.

To construct the musical instruments for the musical

instrument.

To evaluate and improve the final product.

RE How do Christians try

and follow Jesus

To consider who has had an impact on my life

To apply teachings from a Bible story to

To compare a number of Bible teachings in

To consider the example set by Jesus to follow

To consider the right way to live free from anger, hatred or

example? modern day life giving revenge

PHSCE In the Media – What’s

the News.

To research, discuss and debate topical issues.

To distinguish between fact and opinion.

To use enquiry questions when

investigating topical issues.

To evaluate the impact of current stories in the

media

To recognise that different sources of new select their

information to suit their audience.

PE Gymnastics: Vault

Strike and Field: Rounders

Developing shapes and balances

Catching skills

Flight

Bowling

Developing flight further

Batting

Apparatus work

Fielding

Sequence development

Rounders

Music

Visiting guitar teachers from the Newham Academy of Music.

Visiting guitar teachers from the Newham Academy of Music.

Visiting guitar teachers from the Newham Academy of Music.

Visiting guitar teachers from the Newham Academy of Music.

Visiting guitar teachers from the Newham Academy of Music.

Mandarin Drinks Phonetic symbols Chinese Radicals

Fruits Phonetic symbols Chinese Radicals

Meals Phonetic symbols Chinese Radicals

Meals Phonetic symbols Chinese Radicals

Chinese Culture Phonetic symbols Chinese Radicals