At Stanton Road Primary School, our Years 5 and 6 curriculum is designed to inspire, challenge, and support every child as they prepare for their eventual transition to secondary school. We maintain the highest expectations for all our learners, providing an ambitious curriculum, while ensuring that teaching moves at the right pace so that every child can master new skills with confidence. Our careful curriculum planning ensures that knowledge is built step-by-step, and our teachers make suitable adjustments so that everyone can learn well and achieve their full potential.
Here is a summary of the vibrant learning experiences your child will receive in Reading, Writing, and Maths during our Cycle B curriculum:
📚 Reading: Immersed in Rich Literature
In Years 5 and 6, reading is at the heart of our learning. We expose children to a diverse, challenging, and engaging range of high-quality texts designed to spark their imagination and build a rich vocabulary. Throughout the year, children will explore powerful stories, historical contexts, and magical realms through books such as:
- Windrush Child by Benjamin Zephaniah
- The Day I Fell Into a Fairy Tale by Ben Miller and Fearless Fairy Tales by Konnie Huq
- Modern classics like Holes by Louis Sachar and The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
- Thought-provoking picture books like The Island by Armin Greder and classic poetry such as The Lion and Albert by Marriott Edgar
✍️ Writing: Crafting for Purpose and Audience
Our writing curriculum is closely linked to the incredible books we read, giving children meaningful, inspiring contexts to find their voice as authors. With structured support, we guide pupils to write effectively across a wide variety of genres, teaching them to adapt their grammar, punctuation, and tone for different purposes:
- To Inform: Writing non-chronological reports (for example, linked to their science work on habitats), diaries, biographies, and newspaper reports.
- To Entertain: Crafting imaginative narrative endings, dual narratives, and vivid setting descriptions.
- To Persuade and Discuss: Constructing formal letters, formal and informal reviews, and balanced arguments where they learn to articulate different viewpoints clearly.
Leaders and teachers continually refine the Key Stage 2 curriculum to ensure that pupils are supported to catch up if they have gaps, while also pushing more pupils to achieve the higher standards in their writing.
🧮 Maths: Building Deep Understanding and Fluency
Our Maths curriculum is carefully sequenced to develop both quick fluency and deep problem-solving skills. We break complex concepts into manageable steps to ensure that children learn at a pace that firmly embeds their understanding:
- Number and Calculation: Children will master place value, working confidently with numbers up to 1,000,000 and 10,000,000, and explore negative numbers. They will secure their formal methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
- Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages: We dedicate significant time to helping children understand the relationship between fractions, decimals, and percentages, moving on to tackle ratio and proportion.
- Measurement and Geometry: Learning covers perimeter, area, volume, and converting units of measure. Children will also study the properties of shapes, position, and direction.
- Statistics: Children will learn how to read, interpret, and present data using graphs and tables.
By combining high aspirations with targeted, inclusive support, we ensure that every child in Years 5 and 6 is equipped with the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to succeed.