The Key Stage Two curriculum offers children new and exciting challenges that enable them to demonstrate their ability. Our topics foster both academic growth and personal development, helping each child unlock their own potential in a supportive setting. The children in Year 5 take on the responsibility of being some of the oldest pupils in school and building resilience, mastering new skills along the way, whether it be academically, artistically or socially.
We are excited to be continuing with our ‘Maths - No Problem!’ scheme, which adopts a spiral design aiming to carefully build up children’s understanding of mathematical concepts outlined in the National Curriculum. This scheme places fluency and problem solving at the heart of lessons, enabling pupils to grasp new concepts through a concrete, pictorial and abstract approach. Our units allow pupils to develop a deep understanding of number and place value, as well as geometry, measurement, area and perimeter and lots more!
In English, children have daily reading lessons, through which they will advance their fluency and expression when reading out loud, and develop secure comprehension of what they are reading. The children always love reading our action-packed novels and are engrossed in the high-quality literature explored in class. Our first novel is from the 1950s called ‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’, which enables pupils to let their imagination grow by exploring the magical garden that appears to a young boy stuck inside during a quarantine. Some other exciting novels we explore in Year 5 include: ‘The Nowhere Emporium’, ‘Percy Jackson’ and ‘Clockwork’. These brilliant novels offer us the opportunity to explore figurative language and symbolism, learn new vocabulary and use comparative adjective and adverbs to describe, helping us to become creative authors ourselves. Our writing sessions also include a focus on grammar, punctuation, and spelling to help pupils polish and perfect their everyday writing skills.
At Browney Academy, our local history and personal differences are greatly celebrated through our creative curriculum. Our exciting range of topics in Year 5 include a local area study, looking at brilliant biomes and how food is grown and flown across the world. In history, we look at Ancient Greeks and the Tudors. These topics will spark the children’s imagination and, paired with exciting memorable experiences, provide meaningful learning that can last a lifetime.