Cycle B Hooray for Harvest! The world around us Local community Food Stories and Celebrations Christmas Diwali Stories Here, There and Everywhere Where are we in the world? Travelling – transport and our own movements Computing – Google Earth Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes Our body Families Keeping healthy All Creatures Great and Small Animals People Living things around us On the Move Olympics Keeping fit Transport Key 1 Year A Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2 To consider Harvest Christmas play Bonfire night Chinese new year SATs Phonics screening Healthy Living and sports week Topic Farms Emergency! Around the World Houses and Homes Wizards Mini Beasts Curriculum Focus Geography History & Art Geography Geography & DT Science Science
Maths Objectives taught through topic Y1: (role-play); sorting Y2: Statistics Y1: Position and direction Y2: Position and direction Y1: Volume and capacity (potions) Y2: Y1: Money (role-play); sorting Y2: Statistics English genres Stories Poetry Recount Letters Story Instruction Description Poetry Instruction Recount Poetry Science skills Y1: Seasonal Changes (Autumn and Winter) Living things and their habitats (Y2 only) Materials Plants Animals including humans Art skills Use a range of materials to design and make. (Christmas and props) Artists around the World. Range of artists craftsmen and designers. Develop techniques of colour, pattern and texture. Differences and similarities between practices and disciplines. Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share ideas, imagination. (Wizard creatures) Use a range of materials to design and make (Wizard hats and cloaks). DT skills Design and make and evaluate a car – build on technical knowledge. Moving parts. Cooking and nutrition. Preparing and making a healthy meal. Where food comes from. RE skills Yr1 How do Christians talk God? Yr2 What can Christians about God from stories in the Bible? Yr1 How do Christians talk to/about God? Yr2 What can we about Jesus through the Christmas story? Yr1 What can Christians learn about God from stories. Yr2 What does it mean to be a Christian today? Yr1 What can Christians learn about God from stories? Yr2 Why is the cross an important symbol for Christians ? Yr1 What can Jewish people learn about God from stories? Yr2 What does it mean to be a Jew today? Yr1 What happens at Pesach and why is important to Jews? Yr2 What does it mean to be a Sikh today?
Computing skills Understand what algorithms are, how programs execute by following instructions. Create and debug simple programs. Use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs. Use technology safely and respectfully. Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school. Use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content. Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school. Use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content. History skills Understand ways in we find out about the past. Events beyond living memory (Gunpowder Plot, Great Fire of London). Lives of significant individuals (Florence Nightingale) Awareness of the past. Similarities and differences. Widen vocab. Chronological timeline. Geography skills Develop knowledge of the world. Place knowledge (Beetley and non-European country). Introduction to geographical skills and fieldwork. Locational knowledge. Name and locate the 7 continents and 5 Oceans. Music
Maths Objectives taught through topic Y1: 3D shapes Y2: 3D shapes Y1: Position and direction Y2: Position and direction Y1: Y2: Position and direction (pattern) Y1: Position and direction Y2: Position and direction Y2: Statistics English genres Science skills Materials Plants Living things and their habitats (Y2 only) Animals including humans Art skills Use a range of materials to design and make. (Christmas and props) Learn about the work of artists. Differences and similarities between practices and disciplines. Develop techniques of colour, pattern and texture. Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share ideas, imagination. Use a range of materials to design and make . Music DT skills Design and make and evaluate a castle – build on technical knowledge. Moving parts. Cooking and nutrition. Preparing and making a healthy meal. Where food comes from.
New beginnings Getting on and falling out Friendship week Good to be me Going for goals Relationships Changes Key Stage 2 - Lower KS2 Year B Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2 To consider Harvest Y4 residential Bonfire Chinese new year Production Healthy Living and sports week Topic The Stone Age Simply magic! The Romans Anglo-Saxons & Vikings Funnybones! Curriculum Focus History Science History English History Science/PHSE - Geometry numerals Time – time Measures Measures Statistics English genres Adventure stories Animal stories (Stone Age Boy) Instructions and explanations Stories about imaginary worlds Myths and legends Recounts Plays and dialogues Performance poems Poetry – kennings Non-chronological reports Persuasive writing Stories by the same author. Science skills - taught throughout topics: Ask relevant questions and use enquiry to answer them Setting up simple enquires, comparative and fair tests Making careful and systematic observations Rocks: Compare and group rocks based on properties Describe how fossils are formed Recognise soils are made from rocks and organic matter. Y3: Light Light needed in order to see. Light is reflected from surfaces. Danger from the light of the sun and sun protection. Shadows: formation and change of size. Y4: States of Matter Compare and group materials (solids liquids gases). Y3: Forces and magnets: How things move on different surfaces. Magnetism. Attraction/repel. Poles Magnetic materials. Y4: Electricity Identify common appliances that run on electricity. Y4: Identify how sounds are made, associating them with something vibrating. Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear. Find patterns between pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it. Find patterns between volume of a sound and the Y3: Plants; Functions of different parts of flowering plants The requirements of plants for life and growth How water is transported within plants. The life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal. Y3: Animals, including humans. Animals, including humans, nutrition. Skeletons and muscles. Y4: Animals, including humans: Describe the simple functions of the parts of the digestive system in humans.
Key Stage 2 - Upper KS2 Year A Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2 To consider Harvest Y6 Residential Bonfire Chinese new year SATs Healthy Living and sports week Production & Y6 transition Topic Trials of the Demigods! The Impressionists WW2 ‘Blitz and Pieces’ The World of Pandora Deadly Earth Pirates of the Caribbean Curriculum Ancient Greece Art War Two Science: Plants and Living Things Physical Geography Charles Dickens - Literacy Maths Objectives taught through topic Y5/6: Area and perimeter and volume of Greek temple, Nets of 3D shapes to make the temple Y6: Graphing of properties of materials Y5/6: Timelines Y6: Ratio - paint mixing Y5/6: Costing of resources during the war Y5/6: Perimeter and area of war camps/bomb zones Y6: Graphing of properties of materials Y5/6: Conversion of money/weights Y5/6: Display and analyse data from a of statistical representations Y5/6: Temperature readings and graphing work. Y5/6: Reading scales for weight and capacity English genres * Narrative * Instructions * Non-chronological reports * Instructions * Biographies * Recount - letters and diaries * Poetry - Highwayman * Narrative * Newspaper Reports * Persuasive * Non-chronological reports * Narrative * Explanations * Arguments * Slam poetry * Play scripts * Narrative - classic fiction
New Beginnings: * Belonging * Self- awareness * Sharing my feelings * Managing my feelings * Understanding the feelings of others * Understanding rights and responsibilities. Getting on and falling out: * Friendship * Seeing things from another’s point of view * Working together * Managing feelings * Resolving conflict Friendship Week (say no to bullying): Going for Goals * Knowing myself * Setting a realistic goal * Planning to reach a goal * Persistence * Making choices Good to be me: * Understand feelings * Manage feelings * Standing up for myself * Making choices Relationships: * Social skills * Making choices SRE: * Following the Channel 4 Growing and Living programme Changes: * Knowing myself * Understanding my reaction to change * Understanding how others respond to change * Planning to reach a goal. Key Stage 2 - Upper KS2 Year B Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2 To consider Harvest Y6 Residential Bonfire night Chinese new year SATs Healthy Living and sports week Production & Y6 transition The Dark World Shang Dynasty The Hobbit The Da Vinci Code Mayan Shakespeare Curriculum Human and Physical Geography Ancient China Human Geo - land use Art - famous artists and used Ancient Civilisation English Maths Objectives taught through topic * Handling Data - climate data and trends * Problem solving relating to time (x ago) * Population trends from Ancient to modern * Handling data - graphs on different land use * Conversion of measurements - metric to imperial * Geometry - graphical drawing and area and perimeter. * Scaling items * Problem solving relating to time (x ago) * Measurements relating to cooking chocolate and * Problems relating to money - takings at the theatre * Capacity of filling the theatre - problem solving activities (inc %) English genres and Legends (Norse) * Narrative * Newspaper reports * Diary/recount Firework Makers Daughter * Persuasive writing * Explanations * Recount * Non-chronological reports * Explanation * Poetry * Newspaper reports * Instructions * Biography * Narrative writing * Non-chronological reports * Explanation * Narrative * Play-scripts * Recount