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Curriculum Overview

 

Autumn 1

(7 weeks)

Autumn 2

(7.8 weeks)

Spring 1

(5 weeks)

Spring 2

(5.8 weeks)

Summer 1

(6 weeks)

Summer 2

(7.6 weeks)

English 1

Describe

Description

Hairy Maclary

Entertain: Narrative

Contemporary Fiction

Egg Box Dragon

Recount:

Direct recount Writing from own experiences

Entertain: Narrative

Traditional Tales

Tales from around the world

Entertain: Narrative:

Classic Literature

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

(Shakespeare)

Entertain: Narrative

Contemporary Fiction

 

English 2

Entertain: Narrative

Contemporary Fiction

Lost and Found

The Lion Inside

Billy and the Beast

Socialise:

Letter writing

The Jolly Postman

Entertain: Narrative

Contemporary Fiction

Visual literacy

Here Comes Frankie

Entertain:

Poetry

Big Green Crocodile

 

Describe:

Non chronological Geographical report

Link with Geography unit

Recount: Indirect

Biography

History link (significant people)

Maths

Number: counting within 100

 

Number: comparison, wholes and parts

Number: place value (0 to 5)

Geometry: shape

Geometry: shape

Number: place value (0 to 10)

Number: addition

Number: addition

Number: addition and subtraction facts within 10

Number: place value (0 to 20)

Number: multiplication (unitising and coin recognition)

Number: multiplication (unitising and coin recognition)

Geometry: position and direction

Measurement: time

Science

Animals

 

Seasonal changes -Autumn

 

Scientist focus:

Anders Celsius

Everyday Materials

 

 

 

Scientist focus:

Charles Mackintosh

Animals, including humans

My Body

Seasonal changes -Winter

Scientist focus:

Steve Backshall

STEM Project

 

Seasonal changes -Spring

 

Scientist focus:

Linda Brown Buck

 

Seasonal Changes

Plants

 

 

 

Scientist focus:

Beatrix Potter

 

History

 

How did these people make a change in the world?

Rosa Parks (BHM)

Millicent Fawcett

Malala Yousafzai (BHM)

 

 

How are our toys similar or different to toys and games in the past?

 

Similarity and Difference

 

 

Why are the journeys of Mansa Musa and Ibn Battuta remembered?

 

Significance enquiry

Geography

Mapping our Area- Local Area study

 

The UK – countries, capitals, seas, seasons, weather, settlements

 

Comparative Study- London & Nairobi

 

Computing

Computing and Networks

Technology around us

Creating Media

Digital Painting

 

 

Programming A

Moving a Robot

 

Data and Information

Grouping Data

Creating Media

Digital Writing

Programming B

Programming animations

Design and Technology

Mechanisms

Sliders and Levers

 

Project: Moving Picture

Mechanisms

Sliders and Levers

 

Project: Moving Christmas card

Food

Preparing fruit and vegetables

Project: Fruit salad

Food

Preparing fruit and vegetables

Project: Fruit smoothies

Structures

Freestanding structures

Project: structure (prop) from story book

Structures

Freestanding structures

Project: Bridges

Music

My Musical Heartbeat 

How can we make friends when we sing together? 

 

Dance, Sing and Play

How does music tell stories about the past?

 

Exploring Sounds

How Does Music Make the world a Better Place?

Learning to Listen

How does Music Help us to Understand our Neighbours?

Having fun with Improvisation

What Songs Can We Sing to Get Us Through the Day?

Learning to play the glockenspiel 1. Understanding pulse, rhythm and pitch and starting to read musical notation. (Act 1&2)

Art

Drawing

Mark making with range of materials - Howard Hodgkin

Make own tools

Create and use different surface

Make controlled drawing

Use imagination to draw

Patrick Caulfield

Painting

Use of thick/thin paint

Brush strokes - Joan Mitchell

Respond to stories using colour

Responding to artists work - Jasper Johns

 

 

Printmaking

Direct printmaking

Negative stencils

Combine techniques –layered printed image

Clay slab relief

Collagraph block

Primary colours - Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh, Piet Mondrian

Collage

Tear, overlap, stick

Identify hot/cold colours

Contrasting materials

 Patrick Heron

Andy Goldsworthy

 Richard Long

Textiles

Investigate weaving

Embellish fabric

Fabric resist technique

Wrapping and knotting technique

Julia Bland

3-D/Sculpture

Pattern and line

Working with clay

Use a story as starting point

Clay balls and coils

Plaster cast mould

Andy Goldsworthy

Richard Long

PSHE/ safeguarding

 

Physical & Mental Health

Keeping Safe

Relationships: Friends & Family

Respectful & safe Relationships

Living in the Wider World: Financial Literacy

Health & Wellbeing: Ourselves- Growing & Changing

RE

What does it mean to belong to a faith community?

 Who is a Christian and what do they believe? (part 1)

Who is a Muslim and what do they believe? (part 1)

How and why do we celebrate special and sacred times? (Part 1)

What makes some places sacred?

 

What makes some places sacred?

 

PE

Introduction to Invasion Games

Introduction to Invasion Games

Gymnastics

Athletics

Cricket

Tennis

 

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