Our Class 5 Curriculum 2020-21

In September 2020, we moved to mixed-age classes across school so our curriculum this year reflects this change. Some topics appear in more than one class this year.

Our Topics

Autumn Term:

Spring Term:

Summer Term:

Dazzling in Durham

Crime and Punishment

Rivers and Mountains

Art

Autumn Term
Spring Term

Summer Term

Sculpture

Collage

Painting and Drawing

DT

Autumn Term
Spring Term

Summer Term

Construction and materials

Textiles

Food

Science

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

Earth and Space (scientist – Stephen Hawking)

Properties and changes of materials

Living things and their habitats

Computing

Autumn Term
Spring Term

Summer Term

Digital Literacy and Fix the Factory

Digital Literacy, iMovie - Movie and coding (code.org)

Digital Literacy, Microbit and PowerPoint

Geography

Autumn Term
Spring Term

Summer Term

The geography of our local area

The geographical features of Rivers and Mountains

History

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

Significant people – local saints, famous people from Durham

The history of crime - Sir Robert Peel and the Police

Significant people – David Attenborough and his research

Music

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

Modest Mussorgsky - A Night on the Bare Mountain

Anna Meredith - Connect It

Carl Orff - Carmina Burana – ‘O fortuna’

Make You Feel My Love

The Fresh Prince of Bel Air

Dancing in the Street

Ukulele

PSHCE

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

Health and Wellbeing – taking risks, becoming more independent, emergency first aid

Relationships – anti bullying - childline sessions, discrimination, prejudices, getting help

Living in the Wider World – jobs in our community, financial awareness, resources around the world

PE

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

Invasion Games

Gymnastics (Acrobatics)

Dance (What’s so Funny?)
Invasion Games

Athletics (Distance Challenge)

Striking and Fielding

We also have opportunities to work with sports coaches as part of our involvement in the Durham School Sports Partnership.

We take part in events and competitions throughout the year.

MFL (French)

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

Ca pousse! Christmas around the world

Les quatre amis

On y va!

RE

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

Multi-faith Unit Why is pilgrimage important to some believers? 

Christianity What kind of King is Jesus? (Kingdom of God)

Christianity How can following God bring freedom and justice? (People of God)

Christianity What differences does the resurrection make for Christians? (Salvation)

Christianity Creation and science: conflicting or complimentary? (Creation/Fall)

Multi-faith Unit How do religions help people live through good times and bad times?