Area of the Curriculum Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 ENGLISH English Writing Writing Setting, character and plot Writing focus: Dialogue & atmosphere, level of formality, impersonal writing Narrative: Write your own fairy story, an Egyptian adventure Non Narrative: Reports: trolls, Ancient Egypt, Salford Recount: A stone age diary, letters to a teacher. Instructions: a museum timetable, how to make a mummy Narrative: adventure stories fantasy stories Play scripts: conventions & layout Non-Narrative: Reports: myths Recounts: newspapers & magazines, diaries Persuasion: advert, persuasive techniques Narrative: Science Fiction Mystery Plays: play scripts-moving on using speech Non-Narrative: Report: Out of this World Recount: formal police mystery, Macbeth diary entry Instructions: “how to use”: warnings and advice Explanations: forces persuasive writing: holiday in space brochure, Lady Macbeth letter, ‘whodunnit’ speech, Shakespeare (Macbeth) read with justifications provide reasoned for their views. Narrative: stories with non linear chronology e.g .flashbacks Points of view The basic plots Non Narrative: Recount: autobiography, newspaper report MYST: a game theme; Report: Formal/impersonal reports: police report, the Squee Recount: Biography, diary Persuasion: estate agent’s advert, letter to the Head Explanation: The Glop Machine Discussion: Using computer games Instructions: how to make a flying machine Poetry: The Mad Professor’s Daughter (focus for writing) English Reading Retell stories. Identify main ideas from more than one paragraph & summarise. Retrieve and record information. Use simple inference and predict. Discuss simple imagery. Retell stories accurately. Identify main ideas from more than one paragraph & summarise. Retrieve and record information concisely. Distinguish between fact & opinion Explain & discuss what they have read. Identify main ideas and key details. Distinguish between fact & opinion and recognise viewpoint. Explain & discuss what they have read with reasoned arguments. Identify main ideas and key details.
Geography The Settlement and land use Urban and rural areas weather Map & Atlas skills Tourism & famous places Industry and economics Map & Atlas Skills Climate & Weather, Rivers & the water cycle World issues – climate & poverty Map & Atlas Skills Weather, data & aerial photographs & IT Agriculture Landscape & biomes Map & Atlas Skills Geography week Fieldwork: The local area: Eccles & Pendlebury Fieldwork: The local area: Fieldwork: Wider local area: Fieldwork: local area: Greater THE ARTS: ART, DESIGN TECHNOLOGY, MUSIC Art Children will cover all of the following skills in each year group. Techniques are built on year-by-year to ensure progression. Art work will be connected to another curriculum area, or to an artist being studied: Drawing 3D work(modelling, sculpture) Painting textiles Printing Use of a sketch book Collage Use of IT Art Themes Portraits; Picasso & Da Vinci Colour Wheels & using colour in different ways. Cave Art Stone age clay pot Self portraits Greek masks Gaudi & Collage Roman mosaics Roman textiles Pencil skills William Morris Hundertwasser Malevich & Eric People in Action Janet Bolton Self portraits VanGogh – mixed media Christmas Stockings Venetian Masks Perspective drawing Andy Warhol (Computing) DT Little boxes fruity fruity Teddy Bear’s Picnic Pop up Bright Lights, Loud noises NOT jam butties Food – cooking at Moorside Shelter from the At the Fairground Bag it! Alarming Electricity Bake Music Three Little Birds: Reggae Glockenspiel Stage 2 Pentatonic Scale Benjamin Britten – was a Monkey Let Your Spirit Fly – Soul & R’n’B Reflect, Rewind and Replay: Classical Wider Opportunities: MAPAS - learning an instrument Mamma Mia - Pop Lean On Me - Gospel Glockenspiel Stage 3 Don’t Stop Believin’ - Rock Classroom Jazz 1 Benjamin Britten – A Tragic Story - Blues Stop! - Latin, Bhangra Reflect, Rewind and Replay: Classical music Livin’ on a prayer: Rock Classroom Jazz 2 Pentatonic Scale Fresh Prince of Bell Air: Hip Hop Make You Feel My Love - pop Reflect, Rewind and Replay: Classical Arts week A whole school topic using the arts to develop learning FOREIGN LANGUAGE - SPANISH