Here is an overview of what the children will be learning this year
Curriculum Overview 2023-24 Year 5
Please send an email to admin@gaytonj.derby.sch.uk if you require any further information or click here to view the Primary National Curriculum.
National Curriculum Expectations for Reading, Writing and Maths can be found here. Links to other curriculum subjects can be found at the bottom of the page.
Reading
* Read books that are structured in different ways and read for a range of purposes.
* Ask questions to improve their understanding.
* Draw inferences and justify them with evidence from the text.
* Summarise the main ideas from more than one paragraph and identify the key details that support these ideas.
* Discuss and evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader.
* Know the difference between statements of fact and opinion.
* Retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction.
* Participate in discussions about books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves.
* Provide reasoned justifications for their views.
* Make comparisons within and between books .
Writing
* Use relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, why, whose and that.
* Show degrees of possibility using adverbs (e.g. perhaps, surely) or modal verbs (e.g. might, should, will, must).
* Choose words to show a sequence of events within a paragraph (e.g. then, after that, firstly).
* Make links between ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time (e.g. later, before), place (e.g. nearby, below) and number (e.g. secondly).
* Use brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis (extra detail).
* In narratives, describe settings, characters and atmosphere and include dialogue to show what the character is like and move the action on.
* Ensure the consistent and correct use of tense throughout a piece of writing.
* Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed.
Maths—Number only
* Read, write, order and compare numbers up to at least 1 000 000.
* Round any number up to 1 000 000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10 000 and 100 000.
* Read Roman numerals to 1000 (M).
* Add and subtract numbers with more than 4 digits using the formal written method.
* Identify multiples & factors; find factor pairs of a number & common factors of 2 numbers.
* Multiply numbers up to 4 digits by a one or two-digit number using a formal written method.
* Divide numbers up to 4 digits by a one-digit number using the formal written method of short division.
* Multiply and divide numbers mentally drawing upon known times tables facts .
* Add & subtract fractions with the same denominator & denominators that are multiples of the same number.
* Multiply proper fractions & mixed numbers by whole numbers.
* Read, write, order and compare numbers with up to three decimal places .
* Solve number problems and practical problems that involve all of the above.
