Year 5

We have two classes in Year 5:

Maple Class taught by Mrs Sandiford

mapleclass@cirrustrust.onmicrosoft.com

Cedar Class taught by Mrs Duffin

cedarclass@cirrustrust.onmicrosoft.com

Year 5 Curriculum

Please find below, our curriculum map and half termly theme overviews.  These show the knowledge and skills that the children learn while in Year 5. 

If you visit the Learning and Curriculum page, you will find more detailed information about each curriculum subject, including long term planners which show knowledge and skills for those subjects and where and how the National Curriculum objectives are covered across the school. Please do visit these pages.

Autumn-1-year-5-mystical-maya.pdf

Autumn-2-year-5-material-madness.pdf

Spring-1-year-5-lost-in-space.pdf

Spring-2-year-5-european-explorers.pdf

Summer-1-year-5-terrible-tudors.pdf

Summer-2-year-5-circle-of-life.pdf

Knowledge Organisers

Knowledge Organisers have been devised as a multi-purpose tool to assist teachers in their planning and assessments, Subject Leaders in their evaluations of standards in their subjects and parents to have a fuller understanding of knowledge their child will cover each term and how they can support them to remember this. 

At Rushy Meadow, we emphasise the importance of children needing to regularly revisit their prior knowledge to make links in their learning and to help them not to forget.   This is referred to as ‘sticky knowledge’ which is important in two ways:

1. Firstly, the more a child knows, the more their knowledge can stick to their existing knowledge (building schemas). 

2. Secondly, we want their knowledge to stick!  To ensure that this is the case, children must keep retrieving existing knowledge from their long-term memories in order to interrupt forgetting.  

Therefore, the children will use the knowledge organisers in class to help them remember key facts. We encourage parents to spend some time looking at them with their child(ren) at home too.

These Knowledge Organisers exist for the core area of science and most foundation areas, with the exception of PE, PSHE and French.

Click on the tabs to view the knowledge organisers for each half term. 

Knowledge Organisers - Autumn 1

Knowledge Organisers - Autumn 2

Knowledge Organisers - Spring 1

Knowledge Organisers - Spring 2

Knowledge Organisers - Summer 1

Knowledge Organisers - Summer 2