English Year Five Planning Term Two
Discover some schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in English for Year Five in Key Stage Two covering a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry topics and themes
Theme One
Ancient Greeks
Investigate the structure and content of myths and legends by adapting a Greek myth, compose speeches for debates about Ancient Greece, write poems using figurative language describing Olympic sports, explore the spellings of words with prefixes and common letter strings and punctuate sentences using commas

(A) Theseus and the Minotaur
Explore the text features and characteristic structures of myths and legends, match words roots with the verb prefixes dis and mis and practise embedding relative clauses into sentences
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Shape Locations
Explain and model how to record and change the co-ordinate positions of some different geometric shapes using translation and reflection movements in the first quadrant.
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Shape Symmetry
Explore, record and compare the matching lines of symmetry that can be found in a range of different geometric shapes as part of their individual properties
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School Classrooms
Explain and record how to link pairs of sentence clauses about things that might happen in a school classroom using a range of matching conjunctions
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Animal Encyclopaedia
Design and produce a class encyclopaedia including entries and information about different classes of animals found in the world