This French scheme of work video introduces teachers to the skills needed to help Key stage 2 pupils express simple opinions about their own and their family members.
year: Year 5
Teacher video: What are they like?
This French scheme of work video introduces teachers to the skills needed to help Key stage 2 pupils build sentences and develop confidence in describing people.
Teacher video: Brothers and sisters
This French scheme of work video introduces teachers to the topic of family, supporting Key stage 2 pupils in learning to describe siblings using simple sentence structures.
Unit overview: Why are some places in the world significant?
The Religions and worldviews video gives an overview to support the delivery of the unit ‘Why are some places in the world significant?’, exploring the concepts of sacred, holy, pilgrimage, and significance.
Vocabulary display – D&T Y5: Electrical systems: Wobble bots
This unit vocabulary display includes keywords from the unit Design and technology, Year 5, Electrical systems: Wobble bots and additional unit-specific words that may be helpful in a display.
Key vocabulary is clearly labelled on the display, highlighting essential words that the pupils are expected to retain and reuse in future units. Understanding these words enhances comprehension of the subject and supports the development of design thinking, practical skills and knowledge of key processes and materials.
See the full Design and technology: Key vocabulary.
Knowledge organiser – D&T Y5: Electrical systems: Wobble bots
A Knowledge organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit Design and technology, Year 5, Electrical systems: Wobble bots.
This resource is designed to support the children as they explore and create motorised products. It introduces key vocabulary and concepts, such as circuits, motors, annotated diagrams and how the product called a Kapow Doodler works. The resource includes an example of an annotated diagram of a product that uses an off-centre counterweight attached to a motor to create a wobbling movement. It is perfect for consolidating essential knowledge and fostering practical skills.
Teacher video: Heading off
This French video introduces teachers to the first unit of Year 5, which brings together language skills developed across the previous three years. The lesson begins with compass points, helping children practise both recognition and pronunciation.
Teacher video: Alien worlds
This French video introduces teachers to a final lesson in the topic that focuses on paired speaking activities. The key aim is for children to practise asking and answering closed questions in French to extract factual information. The lesson highlights that, just as in English, a statement can become a question simply by raising the intonation at the end.
Teacher video: Galaxy guide
This French video introduces teachers to a lesson where pupils revisit descriptive and comparative structures but apply them in listening and reading contexts rather than speaking. The focus is on consolidating knowledge of plus que (more than) and introducing moins que (less than), alongside the new connective parce que (because).
