Prep School Curriculum Guide 2024

Prep School Curriculum Guide

From September 2024

Introduction

At Cokethorpe Prep School, we follow our own bespoke, creative curriculum, sometimes referred to as National Curriculum Plus. We are able to extend the breadth and depth through an individualised approach, offer more subjects such as Modern Foreign Languages and Latin, and respond to the interests of our learners to ensure our curriculum is relevant, engaging and motivating for each child.

Example Timetable

Each class group has its own timetable which might change during the year. Here’s an example of what the week might look like.

4

5 Geography

Lesson 6 Languages

Pick up at the end of the day is either at 4.00pm or 4.45pm. On Fridays, pupils can be picked up at 3.30pm if going

If staying until 4.45pm, pupils will have an activity until the end of the day. There are also members of staff on duty to help with pupils who travel on the School buses.

What Parents Can Do at Home to Support Learning

The guide below outlines the areas of learning for each subject. You can support you child at home by offering lots of encouragement to read daily and learn the weekly spellings. Please do engage with your child’s homework, even if they complete it in School at Homework Club, as it is an excellent window into their learning and good way to start a conversation about School too. We live in an area full of museums and places of interest, so take every opportunity to further your child’s learning with visits and outings linked to their learning and fuel their curiosity.

Reception

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

Pages 4-7

Pages 8-13

Pages 14-18

Pages 19-24

Pages 25-29

Pages 30-34

Pages 35-39

Starting Our Reading Journey

Reception Michaelmas Term

Our

Continuing

Lent Term

Technology

Creating

Cooking

Programming

How

Increasing

Summer Term

To Year 1

Reception Curriculum - Michaelmas Term

Communication and Language

• Listen and join in with familiar rhymes and stories

Retell familiar stories

Respond to simple instructions

Converse with adults in School

• Talk about family routines and special occasions

• Talk about passions, goals and dreams

• Show an interest in the lives of other people

Take part in discussions

Ask and answer questions

Participate in role play.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

• Getting to know each other: class charter and mood meter

• Understanding the class rules

Getting to know the School routine

Talk about similarities and differences

• Name special people in their lives

• Describe different feelings

• Identify who can help if they are sad, worried or scared

Identify ways to help others or themselves if feeling sad or worried

Be sensitive towards others and celebrate what makes each person unique

• Recognise that we can have things in common with others

• Know the importance of showing care and kindness towards others

Demonstrate skills in building friendships and cooperation.

Physical Development

Change for PE, swimming, and outdoor activities independently

• Fine motor skills such as drawing lines and circles, cutting with scissors, threading and weaving

• Hold a pencil and cutlery effectively

Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS)

ƒ Exploring movement

ƒ Body awareness games

ƒ Balance beam basics

ƒ Coordination activities

ƒ Following instructions with movement.

Literacy

Listen to a range of daily stories for enjoyment, including those from other cultures

• Through daily phonics lessons, link letters and sounds for reading and spelling: set one sounds m, a, s, d, t, i, n, p, g, o, c, k, u, b, f, e, l, h, r, j, v, w, x, y, z, sh, th, ch, qu, ng, nk

Blend and segment letters in cvc words

Recognise and write their own name

• Write recognisable letters, forming them correctly

• Begin to write words and sentences and tell us what they mean.

• Read simple phonics-based reading books and share ‘real books’.

Maths

Sorting, matching, exploring patterns

• Comparing amounts

• Comparing size, mass and capacity

• Identify and name 2D shapes

• Count, manipulate and represent numbers to ten, including zero

Find one more and one less than numbers to ten

Use language of less than, more than

• Combine two groups.

Understanding the World

• Talk about ourselves, likes and dislikes

• Talk about family, home and the local area

Explore senses – what they are and what they do

Recognise the different occupations of people who can help us

Identify woodland animals and their habitats

• Know that Christians believe God is the creator of the universe

• Understand that Christians believe God made our wonderful world and so we should look after it

Learn about significant events such as Bonfire Night, Remembrance and religious celebrations such as Diwali and Christmas

• Identify technology in the classroom

• Use a computer to make pictures.

Drama

• Bringing stories to life

• Developing facial expressions

Developing emotion and feeling

Movement and voice

Maintaining focus on stage

• Imaginary play.

Art

• Experiment with various art materials such as paint, clay, and collage

• Identify and use primary colours in artwork

Experiment with colour mixing

Identify and use basic shapes in art projects

Explore different textures using various tools and materials

• Develop fine motor skills through activities like cutting, gluing, and drawing

• Express ideas and feelings through different art media

Learn and use basic art terms such as line, colour, shape, and texture

Observe and discuss details in their own and others’ artwork.

Music

Exploring high sounds and low sounds using voices and glockenspiels

• Listening and responding to different styles of music

• Learning to sing or sing along with nursery rhymes and action songs

Find the pulse

Exploring voices

• Co-ordination games

• Rhymes

• Echo-singing

Exploring hand percussion

Learning and performing songs for Harvest and Nativity.

French C’est moi

• Greetings and introductions

Parts of body and action songs

Autumn

• Shapes

• Colours

• Numbers Seasonal fruit and vegetables, and sorting skills

Family

• Winter and Christmas

• Responding to questions: Comment t’appelles-tu?

Où habites tu? Quel âge as-tu?

Reception Curriculum - Lent Term

Communication and Language

• Listen to and retell stories using own words

Describe seasons using adjectives

Ask questions about the wider world

Participate in discussions about alternative endings to stories

• Talk to the class about own experiences

• Learn rhymes.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Talk about how to keep their bodies healthy and safe

Name ways to stay safe around medicines

• Know how to stay safe in their home, classroom, outside and online

• Name adults in their lives and those in their community who keep them safe

Understand that they can make a difference

Identify how they can care for their home, school and special people

• Talk about how they can make an impact on the natural world

• Talk about similarities and differences between themselves

Demonstrate building relationships with friends.

Physical Development

Build stamina for fine motor skills, writing words and sentences

• Multi-Skills

ƒ Exploration and creativity

ƒ Object control and movement combination

ƒ Following instructions

ƒ Spatial awareness

ƒ Collaboration.

Literacy

• Through daily phonics lessons, learn set two sounds: ay, ee, igh, ow, oo, oo, ar, or, air, ir, ou, oy

To be exposed to some common exception words: put, the, I, no, of, my, for, he, your, said, you, be, are

• Describe how characters feel using adjectives

• Write for a range of purposes, including labels and captions, reporting news

Write sentences with capital letters and full stops

Sequence and retell stories

Create alternative endings to known stories

• Answer simple retrieval comprehension questions about what has been read

• Make predictions about stories.

Mathematics

Find, compare and represent numbers to 20 (and beyond)

Verbal counting patterns

• Subitise to ten

• Learn number bonds to ten

• Doubling to ten (and 20)

Explore even and odd numbers

Add and take away

• Sharing

• Recognise, find, name and make patterns with 3D shapes.

Understanding the World

Seasons – comparing features of Winter and Spring

Hibernation

Water - changing state

• Making porridge

• Map reading and drawing

• Recognise, name and compare dinosaurs

The life of Mary Anning

Understand the meaning of excavation and how it helps us find out about the past

Know what a volcano is and what they do

• Learn about festivals such as Easter, Eid al-Fitr, and Chinese New Year

• Understand how technology helps learning

Use an iPad and laptop for learning games.

Drama

• Storytelling through movement

• Moving with the story

• Sound and movement

• Character creation

Independent role play.

Art

• Create art projects related to different seasons

• Create self-portraits using various materials

• Use natural materials to create art

Illustrate stories or scenes from favourite books

Create collages using different materials and textures

Experiment with three-dimensional art using clay or other sculpting materials

• Collaborate on group art projects, sharing ideas and materials

• Understand that art can be used to express different emotions.

Music

Listening and responding to different styles of music

• Embedding foundations of the interrelated dimensions of music

• Learning to sing or sing along with nursery rhymes and action songs

• Explore high pitch and low pitch in the context of the songs

Improvising leading to playing classroom instruments Singing and learning to play instruments within a song

• Exploring Peter and the Wolf.

French

Moi et Le Printemps

• New Year’s celebrations and La Fête des Rois

• Describing people

• Naming parts of the face and body Talking about where I live and my home

La Chandeleur, pancake day and le Carnaval

• Listening to French fairy tales

• Looking at different places and environments

• Talking about changes in the garden Spring Easter celebrations

Responding to questions: Comment t’appelles-tu?

Où habites tu? Quel âge as-tu ? Qu’est ce que c’est?

Reception Curriculum - Summer Term

Communication and Language

• Articulate ideas and thoughts in well-formed sentences

Connect one idea or action to another using a range of connectives

Describe events in some detail

Use talking to help work out problems and organise thinking and activities, and to explain how things work and why they might happen

• Listen to and talk about selected non-fiction to develop a deep familiarity with new knowledge and vocabulary.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

• Feel resilient and confident in their learning

• Name and discuss different types of feelings and emotions

• Learn and use strategies or skills in approaching challenges

• Understand that they can make healthy choices

Name and recognise how healthy choices can keep us well

Understand that there are changes in nature and humans

• Name the different stages in childhood and growing up

• Understand that babies are made by a man and a woman

• Use the correct vocabulary when naming the different parts of the body.

Physical Development

Build dexterity through fine motor activities and handwriting practice

• Athletics

ƒ Running

ƒ Jumping for fun

ƒ Throwing with exploration

ƒ Catching with confidence

ƒ Athletics games

• Tennis

ƒ Grip and movement

ƒ Ball exploration and throwing

Literacy

• Consolidate set 1 and 2 sounds

• Build speed reading

• Recall simple definitions for given vocabulary Participate in discussion about their reading Write simple stories using whole sentences

Mathematics

Count on and back within 50, and beyond Recognise, represent and manipulate numbers to 50

• Read and write numbers to ten in numerals and words

• Write simple number sentences

• Add and subtract using a number line

Recognise, find and name a half as one of two equal parts of a quantity

Create and explore pattern rules

• Visualise and describe position

• Manipulate, rotate, compose and decompose shapes

• Create own maps with models and pictures.

Understanding the World

Know the lifecycles of frogs and butterflies, observing changes in real life

• Observe metamorphosis of caterpillars

• Explore habitats of minibeasts

• Name and recognise farmyard animals and their young, and understand how they provide food for us.

Compare seasons and recognise features of Summer, including growth in plants

• Identify and name sea creatures

• Programme floor robots with simple instructions

• Use technology to record voice and pictures.

Drama

• Building a scene

Rhythm and sound

Silent storytelling

Movement and dance

• Production and performance.

Art

• Experiment with different types of lines (straight, curved, zigzag) in artwork

Explore basic printmaking techniques

• Create art using recycled materials

• Use light and dark colours to create contrast in artwork

• Create art projects that explore scientific concepts (like the life cycle of a butterfly)

Display artwork in a classroom gallery or school exhibition.

Music

• Listening and appraising Funk music through ‘Big Bear Funk’ song

• Embedding foundations of the interrelated dimensions of music using voices and instruments

Copy-clap three or four word phrases from the song

Enjoy playing patterns using a combination of any of the three notes C, D and E

• Learning to sing Big Bear Funk and revisiting other nursery rhymes and action songs

• Playing instruments within the song

Improvisation using voices and instruments

Riff-based composition

Learning and Performing songs for our Prize Giving performance.

French

L’été et les traditions culturelles

• Talking about the garden Summertime

Naming insects and animals in the garden

• Talking about holidays and the beach

• Naming sea animals

• Naming places we play and learn in Regular revision of introductions

Numbers

Colours and other adjectives

• Responding to questions.

The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark

History of the Scouts

Year 1 Michaelmas Term

Toys and Communication

George’s Marvellous Medicine

Where do Owls Live?

Classifying Animals and Offspring

Habitats and Food Chains

Roald Dahl

Local Land Use Study

Map of George’s Farm and the School

Moving a Robot Grouping Data

How We Have Changed Senses

Technology Around Us

Coasts

Weather

Hotel Flamingo

History of the Seaside

Plant Needs and Lifecycle

Seasonal Changes

Animal Needs

Digital

Freezing

Melting

Materials

Building a Home

Digital Writing

Programming Animations

To Year 2

Year 1 Curriculum - Michaelmas Term

English

• The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson

Consolidate phonics set three sounds

Sound and blend unfamiliar printed words and recognise and read common exception words

• Read a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books to develop a love of reading and broaden vocabulary

• Retell familiar stories using full sentences

Write own stories with a beginning, middle and end

Read and write rhymes and poetry with predictable and repetitive patterns

• Write signs, labels, captions, lists, instructions and information

• Leave spaces between words; join words and clause using ‘and’, ‘so’, ‘but’; punctuate using a capital letter, full stop, question mark or exclamation mark

Identify nouns, verbs and adjectives

• Use capital letter for names of people, places, days of the week and personal pronoun ‘I’

• Develop and strengthen correct pencil grip

• Develop cursive handwriting using ‘Letter-join’ formation

Spell words containing taught phonemes plus common exception words and days of the week

• Name letters of the alphabet

• Add prefixes and suffixes

• Apply simple spelling rules

• Write from memory simple sentences in dictated format.

Maths

Understand number to 50 as made of tens and ones and partition using concrete materials and the part-whole and ten frame pictorial models

• Estimate on a number line to 50

• Consolidate number bonds to ten

Add by counting on within 20

Add ones using number bonds

Find and make number bonds to 20

• Doubles and near doubles

• Subtract ones using number bonds, counting back and finding the difference

Identify related facts

Solve missing number problems

• Measure and compare lengths using objects and cm

• Recognise name and sort 2D and 3D shapes.

Science

• Animals including humans, classifying, offspring, habitats and food chains

Name and use our five senses

Identify parts of the body and face, explain why we need them

• Identify mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. Name each one, describe key features of each and classify an example animal for each group

Identify and give examples of herbivore, carnivore and omnivore

Explore range of habitats and consider why certain animals live there

• Match animals with their offspring, understand why they need to reproduce, identify similarities and differences between animals and their offspring. Compare how animals give birth – eggs, live animals, protect their eggs, leave them straight away

Create a simple food chain, identify herbivore, omnivore or carnivore for each animal in the food chain

• Identify key features of different habitats and give example of animal that might live there.

History

Use artefacts and pictures to make observations about toys from the past

Identify similarities and differences in toys from the past and toys today

Use sources to find out about characteristics and features of toys and communication in the past

• Sequence a set of artefacts from different periods of time

• Use artefacts and pictures to sort old forms of communication

Identify electrical items, which toys and communication devices need electricity – comparing then and now

How the scouts began and why

• Use artefacts and images to identify medals worn by the scouts. Discuss features of medals, why they would be presented and how you would feel if you received a medal.

Geography

Where do Owls live? Comparing UK habitats with South America

Explore different types of owls around the world and how they are adapted to live in different places

• Observe and identify how different owls have adapted to live in different environments. Identify similarities and differences

Name and locate seven continents and oceans on world map

Map of South America, main cities - compare with UK – size, location

• Climate and physical features of South America

• Physical landmarks of South America – Amazon Rainforest, The Andes

Name and locate countries where owls live.

Computing

Identify technology, including a computer and its main parts

• Use a mouse in different ways

• Use a keyboard to type on a computer and edit text

• Create rules for using technology responsibly

• Describe what different freehand tools do

Use the shape tool and the line tools

Make careful choices when painting a digital picture

• Use a computer independently to paint a picture

• Compare painting a picture on a computer and on paper.

Drama

• Creating drama through stories

Developing emotion and feeling

Imagination and character

Developing concentration and focus on stage.

Music

• Explore hip hop and rapping

• Listen and clap back, then listen and clap your own answer (rhythms of words)

Rhythm reading: ta/titi/sh/ta-aa

Accuracy of singing voice

• Learning notes So Mi Do plus hand symbols

• Hand Percussion

• Playing rhythms

Compose using five notes: C, D, E, F and G.

Art

Experiment with a variety of art materials such as paint, clay, and collage

• Identify and use primary and secondary colours in artwork

• Create and identify different textures using various tools and materials

Recognise and create patterns in artwork

Develop fine motor skills through activities like cutting, gluing, and drawing

• Express ideas and feelings through different art media

• Learn and use basic art terms such as line, colour, shape, and texture

Observe and discuss details in their own and others’ artwork

Explore art from different cultures and discuss similarities and differences.

French

C’est moi et les saisons

• Greetings and introductions

• Parts of the body and action songs

• Autumn and animals of the forest

Shapes

Colours and adjectives

• Numbers and dates

• Favourite toys and games

• Family Winter and Christmas

Responding to questions: Comment t’appelles-tu?

Où habites tu? Quel âge as-tu ?

PE

• Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS)

ƒ Agility drills

ƒ Balance challenges

ƒ Catching with confidence

ƒ Fms games

ƒ Movement exploration with equipment.

PSHE

Cokethorpe Characters

• Contribute to the Class Charter

English

Understand how to deal with some of the ‘not so good’ feelings and how to help others to do this

• Know the signs of needing help and can identify a range of adults to turn to, when needed

Know the classroom rules and explain why we have them

Give examples of differences that are something to be valued and celebrated

• Explain why sometimes things seem unfair to other people.

RE

• To understand the Christian Creation Story and know that Christians believe:

• God created the universe

The Earth and everything in it are important to God

God has a unique relationship with human beings as their Creator and Sustainer

• Humans should care for the world because it belongs to God

• Give a clear, simple account of the story of Jesus’ birth and why Jesus is important for Christians

Recognise that stories of Jesus’ life come from the Gospels

Give examples of ways in which Christians use the story of the nativity to guide their beliefs and actions at Christmas

• Decide what they personally have to be thankful for at Christmas time.

Year 1 Curriculum - Lent Term

• George’s Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl

Consolidate phonics sounds, blending and reading multisyllabic words

• Describe characters and places using adjectives and similes

• Write stories using the past tense

• Write poems, non-chronological reports, recounts of observations with purpose

Leave spaces between words; use a range of connectives to join clauses; punctuate using a capital letter, full stop, question mark or exclamation mark

• Use grammatical terms when discussing own writing

• Use cursive handwriting ‘Letter-join’ formation

Form capital letters correctly

Spell words containing taught phonemes plus common exception words and days of the week

• Add prefixes and suffixes

• Apply simple spelling rules

• Write from memory simple sentences in dictated format.

Maths

• Count in twos, fives and tens

Recognise and add equal groups

Make arrays and doubles

Divide by grouping and sharing

• Recognise, find and name a half and a quarter of a shape, object or quantity

• Describe turns, position and direction

Understand ordinal numbers

Count from 50 to 100 and beyond

Partition into tens and ones

• Compare two-digit and three-digit numbers

• Recognise coins and notes

• Count money using coins

Know days of the week and months of the year

Read and write the time to the hour and half hour.

Science Materials

Identify, name, describe, compare and sort a variety of materials

• Identify materials used for different jobs

• Discuss properties of metals and why some stick to magnets

• Explore building materials

• Design a new house for Grandma, choosing building material according to properties

Investigate materials suitable to repair an umbrella

Perform simple test to identify best material to fix torn umbrella

• Identify water as a material and record observations as ice changes to water

• Consider, predict and explore how we can slow down and speed up the melting process of ice.

History

• Famous people from the past, timeline of events

Explore life and work of Alexander Fleming, William Caxton, Roald Dahl

• Discuss the time period that GMM is set (early 1980s) and aspects of daily life during that era. What were people’s daily lives, technology, healthcare?

Compare how George made medicine and how it would be made today

Use artefacts to compare how people used to write books and how they do now – looking at ink pens, different computers and writing tools

• Sequence events in Roald Dahl’s life

Create a whole class timeline, ordering events covered and present as a class.

Geography

Local land use study

Find School on an aerial photograph and large scale map

• Compare maps

• Use a key

• Investigate the area around our School – climbing frame, woods, classrooms – draw simple map of area

Investigate local area by visiting Witney, compare to our School Draw simple map of Leys park and compare to School grounds

• Collect information of how children in the School travel to School

• Draw simple map of journey to School, showing buildings and places passed on the route.

Computing

• Explain what a given command will do

Combine forwards and backwards commands to make a sequence

Combine four direction commands to make sequences

Plan a simple program

• Find more than one solution to a problem

• Identify that objects can be counted

• Describe objects in different ways

Count objects with the same properties

Compare and answer questions about groups of objects.

Drama

Fairytale adaptations

Voice and diction

• Exploring emotions

• Drama through poetry

Music

• Listening to and recognising different styles of music: Blues, Baroque, Latin, Bhangra, Folk, Funk and Bossa Nova

Recognise pulse, like a heartbeat through songs

Create rhythms from words

Sing together and in time, as part of a performance

• March to and keep the pulse

• Improvise using glockenspiels and untuned percussion

• Play a tuned instrumental part with a song they perform

Know and recognise the sound and names of some of the instruments they use

Compose a simple melody

• Enjoy moving to music by dancing, marching, being animals or pop stars.

Art

• Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products

• Apply colour with different tools – brushes, rollers, fingers etc

Use a variety of drawing tools – crayon, chalk, pencil, felt tips, poster paint

Draw light and dark lines (tone)

• Create rubbings (texture)

• Observe and draw shapes and patterns

• Create fabrics by weaving; use man made and natural materials

Explore the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers.

French

La Fête, Le Printemps et vêtements aujourd’hui et du passé

• New Year’s celebrations and La Fête des Rois.

• Preparing for celebrations, naming and choosing food for a party

Learning about the tradition of La Chandeleur

Selecting appropriate clothing for Winter

• Giving opinions

• The senses

• Changes in the garden from Winter to Spring. Easter celebrations.

Review introductions, numbers, colours, days and months

Responding to questions: Comment t’appelles-tu?

Où habites tu? Quel âge as-tu ? Qu’est ce que c’est?

PE

• Multi-Skills

ƒ Refining skills and combining

ƒ Challenge courses

ƒ Following multi-step instructions

ƒ Adapting to different environments

ƒ Teamwork.

PSHE

• Recognise signs of feelings in other people (friends or family) and can suggest ways to help

Know how to stay safe at home, school and online

Understand how and why different things are important to keeping healthy

• Know some basic first aid and what to do if injured

• Explain why medicines need to be kept out of reach and sight of children

Give a variety of examples of something they have helped to look after at school or at home and how they felt about this

• Explain the importance of keeping money safe and places to keep it

• Understand the concept of ‘saving money’.

RE

• Understand that Christians believe Jesus brings good news for all people, including being loved by God, and being forgiven for bad things

Christians believe Jesus is a friend to the poor and friendless

• Christians believe Jesus’ teachings make people think hard about how to live and show them the right way

• Tell stories from the Bible and recognise a link with a concept: for example, the idea of ‘good news’ links to the practice of being thankful

• Give clear, simple accounts of what the texts mean to Christians: for example, that people can trust God, and that they should say thank you to God for his good gifts

• Describe how Christians show their beliefs: for example, thanking God in prayer.

Year 1 Curriculum - Summer Term

English

• Hotel Flamingo by Alex Milway

Consolidate phonics sounds, blending and reading multisyllabic words

Describe characters and places using adjectives and similes

Write stories using the past tense with a beginning, middle and end structure

• Write speech bubbles, reports, postcards and letters

• Use a range of interesting sentence openers

Use cursive handwriting ‘Letter-join’ formation

Spell words containing different graphemes for the same sound plus common exception words

• Apply simple spelling rules

• Write from memory simple sentences in dictated format.

Maths

• Use a place value chart

• Write numbers to 100 in words

Count in tens and ones on a number line

Estimate numbers on a number line

Count in twos, fives, tens

• Know bonds to 10o in tens

• Add to and across the next ten

• Subtract from and across a ten

Identify ten more and ten less than a given number

Add and subtract two two-digit numbers

• Add three one-digit numbers

• Compare number sentences

• Compare, describe and solve practical problems for capacity and volume

Measure and record capacity and volume

Count faces, edges and vertices on 3D shapes.

Science

Plant needs and life cycles, seasonal changes in the weather

Know how to plant a bean and what it needs to grow

• Explore plants in the wild, their environments and why it is important to have wild plants. Look at wild areas around School grounds

Identify and know the features and difference between deciduous and evergreen trees

• Identify parts of trees and flowers, label and discuss their function

• Observe changes of a tomato plant, looking at stages of germination

• Observe and record changes of the bean plant

Observe current weather. Identify four seasons and key characteristics of each

• Know how to dress for each season

• Design a rainfall gauge and carry out investigation, predicting what will happen

Observe rainfall gauge and record results.

History

• History of the seaside Sort seaside pictures from the past and now, identify similarities and differences

• Recognize and compare objects from Victorian seaside holidays

• Write a postcard from the seaside from the Victorian time

• Compare how people travel to the seaside. Look at range of transport

Compare games from then and now – walking, donkey rides, punch and judy shows

• Sort and order objects – cameras, swim suits, transport, postcards. Discuss reasoning for sequencing

• Grace Darling – what she did, how her bravery saved others RNLI – what they do, why we need them

Personal seaside safety – protection from the sun, where we swim, how far out, who we are with, what we wear

What would you take to the seaside? Pack bag for suitcase in the Victorian times and now and compare.

Geography

• Coasts, weather, comparison of British beach and non European country beach

• Locate four countries of the UK and surrounding seas and popular seaside locations around the UK

Research Lyme Regis beach, features that attract visitors – cafe, restaurants, water activities, shops. Find on a map using a key

• Use aerial images to locate human and physical features of Lyme Regis beach

• How are beaches formed? Look at how waves move and deposit rocks along the shore

Understand that coastlines have high tide and low tide

Locate Brazil on a map and Copacabana beach. Use pictures to discuss why it might be popular

• Shops, clubs, restaurants, bars, beach football, hot weather

• Use large scale map and aerial pictures to identify human and physical features of Copacabana beach

Compare and identify similarities and differences between Copacabana beach and Lyme Regis

• Draw simple map of the beach showing human and physical features

• Describe which beach they would prefer to visit and why.

Computing

• Use a computer to write, add and remove text

Identify that the look of text can be changed on a computer

Make careful choices when changing text

Compare typing on a computer to writing on paper

• Choose a command for a given purpose

• Show that a series of commands can be joined together

• Identify the effect of changing a value

Explain that each sprite has its own instructions

Design the parts of a project

• Use my algorithm to create a program.

Drama

• Developing movement

• Exploring space

• Role play and improvisation Show preparation.

Music

Continue to embed the foundations of the interrelated dimensions of music: pulse, rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, timbre, texture, structure and notation

• Recognise and name instruments they hear

• Sing in unison and in two parts

• Listen and Appraise Classical music

Play instruments within a song

Improvisation using voices and instruments

Composition

• Learn and perform songs for our Prize Giving performance.

Art

• Roll, carve, make marks on and knead clay to make objects for a purpose. Use patterns

• Create masks using a range of materials and colours

Use tools and hands, cutting and tearing to create collage with a range of materials and textures

Ask and answer questions about starting points, artists etc.

• Evaluate own and others’ work respectfully

• Compare and contrast work of different artists.

French

La Fête, Le Printemps et vêtements aujourd’hui et du passé

• New Year’s celebrations and La Fête des Rois

• Preparing for celebrations, naming and choosing food for a party

• Learning about the tradition of La Chandeleur Selecting appropriate clothing for Winter Giving opinions

• The senses

• Changes in the garden from Winter to Spring.

• Easter celebrations

Review introductions, numbers, colours, days and months Responding to questions: Comment t’appelles-tu? Où habites tu? Quel âge as-tu ? Qu’est ce que c’est?

PE

Athletics

ƒ Running with control

ƒ Jumping with technique

ƒ Overarm throw for distance

ƒ Catching with coordination

ƒ Athletics fundamentals

Tennis

ƒ Forehand grip and swing

ƒ Partner hitting

ƒ Target practice

ƒ Sportsmanship

ƒ Rallying introduction.

PSHE

Recognise the importance of fruit and vegetables in their daily diet

Know that eating at least five portions of vegetables and fruit a day helps to maintain health

• Recognise the importance of regular hygiene routines

• Understand how diseases can spread and use simple strategies for preventing the spread of diseases

Identify things they could do as a baby, a toddler and can do now Explain the difference between teasing and bullying

• Give examples of what they can do if they experience or witness bullying

• Say who they could get help from in a bullying situation

Explain the difference between a secret and a surprise

Identify who they can talk to if they feel uncomfortable about any secret they are told, or told to keep

• Identify parts of the body that are private and describe ways in which they can be kept private

• Identify people they can talk to about their private parts.

RE

• Learn about the dharmic tradition of Buddhism

Know about Buddha’s life

Understand the role of Buddhist monks

Understand the significance of the Noble Eightfold Path to Buddhists

• Learn about Buddhist stories, ceremonies and festivals

• Discuss the term ‘pilgrimage’ and what it means to Buddhists.

Famous Pilots

The Magic Finger

Danny the Champion of the World

Habitats and Food Chains

Classifying Animals and Offspring

Animal Needs

Year 2 Michaelmas Term

Human and Physical Geography

Aviation - First Flight

Lent Term

The Wild Robot

Human and Physical Geography

Local Geography Mapping

IT Around Us

Digital Photography

Remembrance

Islands

Mapping

Plants Needs and Lifecycle

Locality Study

Senses

How We Have Changed

The Plague

Guy Fawkes

The Great Fire of London

Balanced

Robot Algorithms

Pictograms

Charlotte’s Web

Summer Term

Inventions Including Transport

Seasonal Changes

Rural v Urban Farming

Weather

Programming Quizzes

Digital Music

Freezing

Melting

Materials

Building a Home

To Year 3

Year 2 Curriculum - Michaelmas Term

English

• The Magic Finger and Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl

Decoding skills; reading for comprehension; summarising, predicting and empathising

• Reading and responding to class texts in order to explore the following genres: diary entry in role as a character; set of instructions; non-chronological report; information leaflet Using literary devices, such as: descriptive language; simile Use a broad vocabulary including subject-specific language

Write full sentences punctuated with capital letters; full stops; commas for lists

• Know and exemplify word classes (nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs)

Use inverted commas for speech

Practising letter joins; working towards continuous cursive script

• Spell Year 2 high frequency words

• Apply simple spelling rules

• Write from memory simple sentences in dictated format.

Maths

• Revisit the place value chart

• Partition numbers to 100 Write numbers to 100 in words

Order and compare objects and numbers

• Count money in pence and pounds

• Make and compare amounts of money

• Calculate with money

• Find change Count in twos, fives, tens Count in threes

• Add and subtract two two-digit numbers

• Compare number sentences

• Solve missing number problems

• Multiply by make and add equal groups and using arrays

Divide by grouping and sharing Write and compare number sentences for multiplication and division

• Know the number facts for the two, five and 20 times-tables

• Measure in cm and m

Compare, order and calculate lengths and heights.

Science

• Find out about basic needs of animals, including water, food and air

Notice that animals have offspring which grow into adults

Observe chicks hatching

• Record development of baby chicks

• Describe the importance of exercise and diet for animals to be healthy

Identify and name animals that are carnivores, herbivores, omnivores

Explore the difference between things that are living, dead and have never been alive

• Describe how different habitats provide for the needs of different animals

Design and test a bug hotel

Understand food chains and how animals and habitats rely upon each other

History

Learn about fire safety today and in the past

• Ask and answer questions about the Great Fire of London

• Learn about the Great Fire of London through Samuel Pepys’ diaries

Create a timeline of the Great Fire of London

Identify features of Tudor Buildings

Explore how it would have felt to be in the Great Fire of London

• Learn about Guy Fawkes and the significance of the Gunpowder

Plot

• Recognise the poppy as a symbol of remembrance

• Begin to understand the significance of Remembrance Day.

Geography

• Use maps, atlases and globes to identify UK and its countries

• Identify features of the four countries and capital cities of the UK Name and locate the five continents and seven oceans of the world

Use simple compass directions

• Describe the position of key features and routes on a map

• Devise a map, creating basic symbols

• Know the term fieldwork and why it is important in geography

Map key features of the school grounds and buildings using photographs and a simple key

Take part in a local walk to gather information about local buildings

• Use photographs to evidence local land and building use.

Computing

• Recognise the uses and features of information technology

• Explain how information technology helps us

• Explain how to use information technology safely

Recognise that choices are made when using information technology

Use a digital device to take a photograph

• Make choices when taking a photograph

• Describe what makes a good photograph

• Decide how photographs can be improved

Use tools to change an image.

Drama

Working in small groups

Performing as a group

Developing improvisation

• Developing characters through voice, gesture and physicality

• Acting through song.

Music

• Rhythm reading: ta/titi/sh/ta-aa plus crotchets/quavers/minim

• Accuracy of singing, solos

So Mi Do, with hand signals

Explore dynamics two and three time

• Know orchestral families

• Learn and perform hymns and songs for Harvest, Nativity and Christingle.

Art

• Experiment with tools and surfaces – oil pastels, chalks, pencil, colouring pencils, fabrics, pastel paper and wood

Draw lines from observations

Make as many tints as possible using white poster paint

• Darken colours using black poster paint to create shades

• Tear, cut and stick to create collage using a variety of materials to create texture

Work collaboratively to create a Tudor buildings mural using collage

Study work of known artists to inspire own creations.

French

La vie sur une île

• Greetings and introductions

• Introduction to a map of France

• Designing an island

Naming human and geographical aspects, and compass points Packing for a trip

Expressions of opinion

• Using first and second form of verbs and the verb ‘avoir’

• Responding to questions: Comment t’appelles-tu? Où habites tu?

Quel âge as-tu ? Qu’est ce que c’est?

Gender of nouns

Regular review of counting, days of week, months, colours.

PE

Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS)

ƒ Obstacle course mastery

ƒ Advanced balance skills

ƒ Throwing for accuracy and power

ƒ Fms challenges with strategy

ƒ Creative movement sequences

PSHE

Suggest actions that will contribute positively to the life of the classroom

Make and sign a Class Charter pledge

• Recognise, name and understand how to deal with feelings (eg anger, loneliness)

• Explain where someone could get help if they were being upset by

English

The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

someone else’s behaviour

• Recognise that friendship is a special kind of relationship

• Identify some of the ways that good friends care for each other

• Explain the difference between bullying, teasing and isolated unkind behaviour

Recognise that that there are different types of bullying and unkind behaviour

• Understand and describe strategies for dealing with bullying

• Identify some of the physical and non-physical differences and similarities between people

Know and use words and phrases that show respect for other people.

RE

To understand the Christian Creation Story and know that Christians believe:

ƒ God created the universe

ƒ The Earth and everything in it are important to God

ƒ God has a unique relationship with human beings as their Creator and Sustainer

ƒ Humans should care for the world because it belongs to God.

Year 2 Curriculum - Lent Term

• Create imaginary characters and write character descriptions

• Write narratives about personal experiences and that of the ‘Wild Robot’

Write nature poetry

Write instructions for a robot

Spell words adding -es, -ed, -ing, -er, -est, -y

• Spell words with suffixes -ment, -ness, -ful, -less, -ly

• Spell words with letter strings -tion,- le, -el, - al, -il at the end

• Spell words with -or, or -ar after w

Regular practice in joining handwriting and regulating letter size.

Maths

Consolidate two, five, ten times tables

Recognise and find halves, quarters and thirds

Find the whole

• Recognise the equivalence of 1/2 and 2/4

• Count in fractions up to one whole

• Read and write the time past and to the hour

Tell the time to five minutes

Know how may minutes in an hour and hours in a day

Represent data using tally charts, tables, block diagrams and pictograms

• Interpret pictograms

• Using the language of position

Describe movement, turns and shape patterns with turns

Science

Investigate and compare materials and their properties

Find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching

• Investigate absorbency

• Make fabrics waterproof

Discuss the difference between natural and man made objects

Test balls to find the bounciest

Investigate elasticity of fabrics

• Investigate rigidity and flexibility of materials

• Test paper for strength

• Make a paper bridge.

History

Order significant explorers on a timeline

• Learn about the life of Christopher Columbus

• Learn about the life of Neil Armstrong

• Compare the journeys of Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong

Explore a history of aviation

Create a history of flight timeline

• Learn about the life of Amelia Earhart

• Compare the clothing used by different explorers

• Compare the vessels the different explorers used

Consider own experience of exploration, where and how might be explored next.

Geography

Look at map of UK and identify islands, noting where they are found

• Explore the geographical features of the Isle of Skye and the fictional island of Struay

• Create a map of an imaginary British island with a key

Imagine the daily life of someone living on an island

Consider the impact of weather on islands

Look at map of the world and find Fiji, in the Pacific Ocean

• Compare geographical features of Fiji and Skye

• Know what lives in the Pacific Ocean

• Explore the features of the Great Barrier Reef

Consider the impact of humans on the geography of both parts of the world.

Computing

Describe a series of instructions as a sequence

Explain what happens when we change the order of instructions

• Use logical reasoning to predict the outcome of a program

• Explain that programming projects can have code and artwork

• Design an algorithm

Create and debug a program

Recognise that we can count and compare objects using tally charts

• Recognise that objects can be represented as pictures

• Create a pictogram

• Select objects by attribute and make comparisons

Recognise that people can be described by attributes.

Drama

• Character exploration

Using voice to create soundscapes

Storytelling through drama

Historical drama

• Creating drama based on Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Music

• Explore genres of rock and reggae

• Using voices and instruments, listen and sing back

• To learn how songs can tell a story or describe an idea

Understand that rhythms are different from the steady pulse

Explore pitch through singing and playing instruments

Learn to find a comfortable singing position

• Learn to start and stop singing when following a leader

• Play a part in time with the steady pulse

• Learn how the notes of the composition can be written down.

Art

• Collect, sort and match colours to create an image

Use colour on a large scale for backgrounds

Create mod roc and pipecleaner sculptures

Consider how to make sculptures stronger

• Discuss qualities of mod roc as a material

• Paint sculptures considering colour and texture.

French

Moi et des personnages historiques

• Learning about cultural events including Fête des Rois and La Chandeleur

• Naming parts of the face and body

• How to describe myself

Researching a person from French history

Learning how to use adjectives (colours, petit/grand)

• Seasonal food and giving opinions

• Review introductions, numbers, days and months

• Birthdays and celebrations

• Responding to questions.

PE

• Multi-Skills

ƒ Advanced multi-skill activities

ƒ Problem-solving through movement

ƒ Strategic thinking

ƒ Fair play and sportsmanship

ƒ Leading and following

PSHE

• Understand how to be safe with medicines

• Identify situations in which they would feel safe or unsafe and who to ask for help

Identify situations in which they would need to say ‘Yes’, ‘No’, ‘I’ll ask’, or ‘I’ll tell’, in relation to keeping themselves and others safe

• Identify the types of touch they like and do not like and who they can talk to if someone touches them in a way that makes them feel uncomfortable

Know that they can ask someone to stop touching them

Identify safe secrets (including surprises) and unsafe secrets

Recognise the importance of telling someone they trust about a secret which makes them feel unsafe or uncomfortable

• Describe and record strategies for getting on with others in the classroom

Identify special people in the school and community who can keep them safe

• Understand that people have choices about what they do with their money

ƒ Know that money can be saved for a use at a future time or spent on items which are essential or non-essential

ƒ Explain how they might feel when they spend money on different things

• Identify what they like about the school environment and make suggestions for improving it

• Recognise that they all have a responsibility for helping to look after the School.

RE

• Recognise the term ‘Gospel’

Understand that Christians believe Jesus brings good news for all people, including being loved by God, and being forgiven for bad things

• Christians believe Jesus is a friend to the poor and friendless

• Christians believe Jesus’ teachings make people think hard about how to live and show them the right way.

Year 2 Curriculum - Summer Term

English

Charlotte’s Web by E B White

Write a chapter summary

• Tell the story from different perspectives

• Sequence Wilbur’s day and write A Day in the Life of a Special Pig

• Write a poster

• Write a persuasive letter

Explore alliteration

Use speech marks

• Apostrophes for contractions

• The possessive apostrophe

• Homophones.

Maths

• Partition two and three-digit numbers

• Compare and order numbers to 1000

Count on and back in ones, tens and 100s

Count on and back in twos, fives, tens and threes

• Add and subtract ones, tens, 100s, spotting patterns

• Use written method to add and subtract two-digit numbers without exchange

• Recognise addition and subtraction as inverse operations

• Know number facts for the three times-table

• Consolidate multiplication and division as sharing and grouping Solve written problems for the four operations

Measure and compare mass, capacity and temperature.

Science

Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants

• Find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow/stay healthy

• Observe and describe hydroponic bean growth

Create an allotment and grow edible plants

Identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats

• Observe the allotment as a micro-habitat

• Describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals

Identify different sources of food

Understand the transfer of energy from the sun through the food chain

• Harvest and cook food from the allotment, observing the changes.

History

• Match inventions and inventors

Create an inventions timeline

Consider the difference between an idea and an invention

Learn about Leonardo da Vinci and the invention of the parachute

• Understand how transport has changed over time

• Make a timeline of transport

• Learn about how wheels and cars have changed over time

Learn about the history of the steam train

Interview a grandparent about transport when they were young

• Write about own experience of travel and transport.

Geography

Use aerial photographs to identify local key rural geographical features such as rivers, hills, fields, hedges, farms

• Identify and name our local rivers

• Know the difference between a river and a canal

Learn how rivers change shape

Consider key features of farms and why they are important

Understand, read and make a weather forecast

• Make a weather station

• Understand how clouds are formed and different types of clouds

• Understand how rain is formed and why we need rain

Conduct fieldwork to find out about local weather.

Computing

Identify that there are patterns in music

Experiment with sound using a computer

Use a computer to create a musical pattern

• Create music for a purpose

• Review and refine our computer work

• Explain that a sequence of commands has a start and an outcome

Create a program using a given design

Change a given design

• Decide how a project can be improved.

Drama

The art of storytelling

• Imagining and developing own characters with different moods

• Drama through dance

• Show preparation.

French

Un voyage

• Planning a trip

• Modes of transport

• Discussing and writing about different areas, urban/rural

Different foods eaten in France

Naming different items of clothes

• Using prepositions

• Learning to use the je/tu/il/elle forms of verbs

• Compass points

Regular review of counting, days of week, months, colours

Responding to questions.

Music

Listen and Appraise Classical music

Continue to embed the foundations of the interrelated dimensions of music using voices and instruments

• Singing

• Play instruments within the song

Improvisation using voices and instruments

Composition

Learn and perform songs for Prize Giving.

Art

• Print with a wide range of objects, man made and natural

Discuss regular and irregular shapes

Experiment with over printing and colour

Cut and shape fabric using scissors

• Glue and stitch together using large eye needles

• Use simple applique

• Knot, fray, fringe, twist or plait threads/fabrics

Show awareness of contrasts in textures and colours

Describing the differences and similarities between different artists and compare to own work.

PE

• Athletics

ƒ Running form and speed

ƒ Running relays

ƒ Multi-skill challenges

ƒ Developing coordination

ƒ Introduction to athletics rules

• Tennis

ƒ Refined forehand and backhand grips

ƒ Forehand swing technique

ƒ Underarm serve

ƒ Footwork and movement

ƒ Simple rules and strategy.

PSHE

• Explain the stages of the learning line showing an understanding of the learning process

• Suggest phrases and words of encouragement to give someone who is learning something new

Understand and explain that some choices can be either healthy or unhealthy and can make a difference to their own health

• Explain how germs can be spread and that vaccinations can help to prevent certain illnesses

• Describe simple hygiene routines such as hand washing and teeth cleaning

Understand that the body gets energy from food, water and oxygen

• Recognise the range of feelings that are associated with losing (and being reunited) with a person they are close to

• Identify different stages of growth (eg baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult) and describe some of the things that people are capable of at these different stages

• Know that our genitals help us make babies when we are older

• Understand that we mostly have the same body parts but how they look is different from person to person

• Explain what privacy means and give examples of private information

Know that you are not allowed to touch someone’s private belongings without their permission

• Identify how inappropriate touch can make someone feel and explain that if someone is being touched in a way that they don’t like they have to tell someone in their safety network so they can help it stop.

RE

Introduction to Judaism

Know who Moses was and why he is important to Jews

• The Ten Commandments

• The Torah

• The Sabbath

• Understand how Jews celebrate Passover.

The Firework Maker’s Daughter

Natural Disasters

Year 3 Michaelmas Term

Short Stories: Flood, Hurricane, Escape from Pompeii

Historical Figures

The Last Bear

Lent Term

Polar Explorers

Arctic and Antarctica

Christmas

Reproduction of Plants

Seed Dispersal

Fertilisation

Connecting Computers

Stop-Frame Animation

Climate Change

Diet and Exercise

Human Skeleton Joints and Muscles

Branching Databases

Romans

Rocks

Fossils

Soil

Vikings

How to Train Your Dragon

Summer Term

Light: Shadows and Reflections

Forces: Magnets

Mountains and Glaciers

Desktop Publishing Events and Actions in Programs

Easter

Sequencing Sounds

To Year 4

Year 3 Curriculum - Michaelmas Term

English

• Read The Firework Maker’s Daughter by Philip Pullman

Understand when to use ‘a’ and ‘an’

Read for comprehension focusing on retrieval and inference, writing full answers

• Descriptive writing using sensory language to create atmosphere using five senses

• Descriptive writing of a setting using figurative language: similes, metaphors, alliteration, personification

Identify word classes: nouns, adjectives, verbs

Weekly spelling programme tested in punctuated, dictated sentences

• Handwriting: diagonal and horizontal strokes that are needed to join letters and understand which letters are un-joined

Punctuate sentences with full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, question marks, and commas for lists

• Use alphabetical order to find words quickly in a dictionary and thesaurus.

Maths

• Read and write numbers up to 1000 in numerals and in words

Count in steps of two, three, and five from zero, and in tens from any number, forward and backward addition

Count from 0 in multiples of four, eight, 50 and 100

• Find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number

• Recognise the place value of each digit in a two-digit number and then three-digit number

Compare and order numbers up to 1000

Column addition and subtraction of two two-digit numbers and then three-digit numbers

• Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations

• Mental addition (two-digit + one-digit, two-digit + two-digit, one-digit + one-digit +one-digit)

Add and subtract numbers mentally using known patterns and number bonds

• Combining addition with knowledge of <, > and = signs in number sentences e.g 17+6 > 14 + 8

• Estimate the answer to a calculation and use inverse operations to check answers

Solve problems, including missing number problems, using number facts, place value, and more complex addition and subtraction

• Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the two, three, four, five, eight and ten multiplication tables, including recognising odd and even numbers

Understand that addition is commutative (but subtraction is not), multiplication is commutative (but division is not)

• Write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division using known multiplication tables

Solve problems involving multiplication, division and scaling, and correspondence

Review fractions, and count up and down in tenths; recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into ten equal parts and in dividing quantities by ten.

Science

• Plants

ƒ To identify and describe the functions and different parts of a flowering plant

ƒ To describe how the structure of the plant links to its function

ƒ To identify the requirements of a plant for life and growth

ƒ To describe how water is transported through a plant

ƒ To describe how seeds are formed and dispersed

ƒ To describe the process of pollination

• Rocks

ƒ To compare different kinds of rocks based on their appearance and simple physical properties

ƒ To describe how fossils and soils are formed

ƒ To describe the fossils observed

ƒ To research the different kinds of living things whose fossils are found in sedimentary rock

ƒ To observe how rocks change over time.

History

Understand the reasons behind the Roman invasion of Britain and describe the main events of the invasion

• Explore the art of Roman mosaics, learn how they were made, and understand their significance in Roman culture

• Investigate the types of entertainment enjoyed by Romans, including gladiatorial games, theatre, and public baths

Identify and describe key features of Roman architecture, such as aqueducts, roads, and temples, and their uses

• Learn about Boudicca, her rebellion against the Romans, and its significance in British history

Understand the organization, training, and daily life of a Roman soldier, and the role of the Roman army in expanding and protecting the empire

• Discuss the lasting impact of the Romans on Britain, including the introduction of new infrastructure, language, and laws

• Identify key Roman inventions and innovations, such as roads, aqueducts, and concrete, and explain their importance

Compare aspects of Roman life, such as housing, clothing, and food, with life today, highlighting similarities and differences

• Develop skills in historical inquiry by asking questions about the Romans and using a variety of sources to find answers, including artifacts, documents, and archaeological findings.

Geography

Identify different types of natural disasters, including earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods, and wildfires

• Explain the natural processes that cause different types of natural disasters, such as tectonic plate movements, weather patterns, and human activities

Locate regions of the world where natural disasters commonly occur, using maps and atlases to identify earthquake zones, volcanoes, and hurricane-prone areas

• Understand how natural disasters affect people and communities, including physical damage, loss of life, and economic consequences

Learn about emergency preparedness and safety measures that can be taken to reduce the impact of natural disasters, such as evacuation plans and safety kits

• Study specific and recent natural disaster, analysing the causes, effects, and responses from local and international communities

• Explore how communities respond to and recover from natural disasters, including emergency services, government aid, and rebuilding efforts

Investigate how technology is used to predict, monitor, and mitigate natural disasters, such as seismographs, weather satellites, and early warning systems

• Discuss the environmental impact of natural disasters, including changes to landscapes, ecosystems, and wildlife habitats

Understand the connection between climate change and the frequency and intensity of certain natural disasters, such as hurricanes and floods.

Computing

• Explain how digital devices function

Identify input and output devices

Recognise how digital devices can change the way we work

Explain how a computer network can be used to share information

• Explore how digital devices can be connected

• Recognise the physical components of a network

• Explain that animation is a sequence of drawings or photographs

Relate animated movement with a sequence of images

Plan an animation

Identify the need to work consistently and carefully

• Review and improve an animation

• Evaluate the impact of adding other media to an animation.

Drama

• Working and performing in small groups, through improvisation

Developing characters through voice, gesture and physicality

Acting through song

• November production: Oliver Twist

Music

• Know how pulse, rhythm and pitch work together to make a song

• Recognise a piece’s structure, including introduction, verse, chorus

Identify instruments and voices within a piece of music

Accuracy of singing, part singing, sight singing

Do Re Mi

• Read music notation including treble clef and notes in a scale and play notes on a tuned instrument

• Recognise ten orchestral pieces

Year 3 Instrumental Music Scheme; learn to play the recorder

Improvise using voice and instruments

• Compose a melody using simple rhythms

• Learn and Perform songs in the musical Oliver

Art

• Use a sketchbook to collect ideas, develop ideas and annotate. Experiment with different grades of pencil, cross hatching, blending

Use different grades of pencil to apply tone to drawings

Create textures with different drawing implements, pencil, oil pastels, charcoal

• Observed drawing of pumpkins using oil pastels

• Explore Roman pottery, make clay pots (urns)

Experiment with Roman patterns

Create paper mosaics

Mix colours and know which are primary, secondary and tertiary colours and make colour wheels.

French

Le monde au tour de moi

• Greetings and introductions

• Introduction to France and identifying it on a map

English

• Read The Last Bear by Hannah Gold

Naming different weather types and natural catastrophes

• Review of days of the week, months, seasons

• The negative form of verbs

• Responding to questions

Expressions of opinion

Gender of nouns

Indirect and direct articles

• Regular review of counting, days of week, months, colours

PE

• Basketball

ƒ Develop control of the ball

ƒ Pass and receive accurately

ƒ Shoot with correct form

ƒ Work effectively with teammates

ƒ Understand basic game rules

• Badminton

ƒ Grip and forehand swing

ƒ Footwork and movement

ƒ Underarm serve

ƒ Rallying

ƒ Basic rules

PSHE

• Rules and their purpose

Cooperation

Friendship (including respectful relationships)

• Coping with loss

• Recognising and respecting diversity

• Being respectful and tolerant My community.

RE

Place the concepts of God and Creation on a timeline of the Bible’s ‘Big Story’

• Make clear links between Genesis 1 and what Christians believe about God and Creation

• Describe what Christians do because they believe God is Creator Ask questions and suggest answers about what might be important in the creation story for Christians living today, and for people who are not Christians.

Year 3 Curriculum - Lent Term

• Continuation of spelling programme including homophones

• Read for comprehension focusing on retrieval and inference

Writing: informal and informal letters

Writing: non-fiction fact files

Writing: recount

• Writing: dialogue (inverted commas, new line for a speaker) with synonyms for said

• Writing: descriptive writing (character) using figurative language and synonyms

Understand and use apostrophes of contraction and possession

Understand and use pronouns and adverbs in own writing.

Maths

• Find ten or 100 more/less than a starting number in a missing number sentence

Add and subtract numbers with up to three digits, using formal written methods

Solve missing number problems involving addition and subtraction

• Consolidate multiplication/division facts for three, four and eight times tables

• Compare and order unit fractions, and fractions with the same denominators

Recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators

Recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects

Recognise and use fractions as numbers

Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator within one whole

• Solve problems using all fraction knowledge

• Compare and order lengths, mass, volume/capacity and record the results using >, < and =

Measure, compare, add and subtract with: -lengths (m/cm/mm) -mass (kg/g) -volume/capacity (l/ml)

• Measure the perimeter of simple 2D shapes

• Add and subtract amounts of money to give change, using both £ and p in practical contexts

Tell and write the time to five minutes, including quarter past/to the hour and draw the hands on a clock face to show these times

• Estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute

• Know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year and leap year

Compare durations of events in terms of seconds, minutes, hours.

Science

Animals, including Humans:

To identify that animals, including humans, get their nutrition from what they eat

• To describe why animals need the right type and amount of nutrition

To research and design my own balanced diet using different food groups

• To describe the function of a skeleton in humans

• To describe the function of muscles in humans

To identify animals with and without skeletons

To describe what would happen if a human did not have a skeleton.

History

• Identify and describe the achievements of key Arctic explorers, including Roald Amundsen, Robert Peary, Ernest Shackleton, and Tenzing Norgay

Understand the reasons why explorers ventured into the Arctic, such as the search for new routes, scientific discovery, and personal ambition

• Investigate the challenges and dangers faced by Arctic explorers, such as extreme cold, ice, and limited resources

Explore the types of equipment and clothing used by Arctic explorers to survive and navigate the harsh environment

Learn how explorers mapped the Arctic region, including the use of navigation tools like compasses and sextants

• Understand the importance of indigenous Arctic peoples’ knowledge and skills in aiding explorers

Discuss the scientific discoveries made during Arctic expeditions, including new animal species and geographical features

Evaluate the impact of Arctic exploration on the environment and indigenous communities

• Compare the experiences and technologies of historic Arctic explorers with modern-day Arctic expeditions

Develop skills in historical inquiry by researching an Arctic explorer, such as Ernest Shackleton or Tenzing Norgay, and presenting findings using a variety of sources, such as diaries, maps, and photographs.

Geography

• Understand and describe the unique landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctica, including features such as ice sheets, glaciers, tundra, and mountain ranges

Identify and learn about the various animals that inhabit the Arctic and Antarctica, such as polar bears, penguins, seals, and whales, and understand how they are adapted to survive in these extreme environments

Explore the types of plant life found in the Arctic and Antarctica, including mosses, lichens, and algae, and understand how these plants are adapted to cold climates and limited growing seasons

• Investigate the climate of the Arctic and Antarctica, including temperature ranges, seasonal variations, and weather patterns, and understand the challenges these climates pose for living organisms

Compare and contrast the Arctic and Antarctica, focusing on their geographical locations, climates, landscapes, wildlife, and plant life, to understand both the similarities and the differences between these two polar regions

• Understand what climate change is, including the difference between weather and climate, and the concept of global warming

Identify the main causes of climate change, such as greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrial activities

• Explore the impacts of climate change on the environment, including rising temperatures, melting ice caps, sea-level rise, and extreme weather events, as well as its effects on wildlife and human communities

• Investigate ways to make the school more climate-friendly, including energy-saving measures, recycling programs, and creating green spaces, and develop a plan to implement these ideas

Learn about actions individuals and communities can take to reduce their carbon footprint and help combat climate change, such as using renewable energy, reducing waste, and promoting sustainable practices.

Computing

• Explore a new programming environment

Identify that commands have an outcome

Explain that a program has a start

Recognise that a sequence of commands can have an order

• Change the appearance of my project

• Create a project from a task description

• Create questions with yes/no answers

Identify the attributes needed to collect data about an object

Create a branching database

• Explain why it is helpful for a database to be well structured

• Plan the structure of a branching database

• Independently create an identification tool.

Drama

Character exploration

Using voice to create soundscapes

Storytelling through drama

• Historical drama

• Creating drama based on Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll

Music

• Find the pulse and identify funky rhythms, tempo changes and dynamics in a reggae song

Listen and respond to music from around the world

• Improvise using the notes of the pentatonic scale (C,D,E,G and A)

• Compose a melody using the pentatonic scale

• Read music notation including notes of treble clef, notes with stems, keys and key signatures

Year 3 Instrumental Music Scheme; learn to play the recorder.

Art

Develop drawing skills with a range of tools and techniques

• Use pencil, charcoal and oil pastels to draw different form and shape

• Record from observations and their own imagination

Dye fabric – tie dye

Stitch (running stitch and over stitch), cut and join fabric

Use collage to represent objects as well as imaginative work.

French

Moi et des personnages historique

Learning about cultural events including Fête des Rois

• La Chandeleur and pancake day

• Le Carnaval

• Parts of the face and body

Use of possessive pronouns

Describing myself and friends

• Looking at historic figures and describing them.

• Using adjectives of personality

• Learning how to use the internet for research

• Expressing likes/dislikes of food types, giving opinions

Review introductions, numbers, colours, days and months

PE

Handball

ƒ Catching and throwing

ƒ Dribbling

ƒ Footwork and movement

ƒ Basic shooting

ƒ Teamwork

Health and Fitness

ƒ Fundamental movement skills

ƒ Cardiovascular fitness activities

ƒ Importance of exercise

ƒ Warm-up and cool-down

ƒ Healthy habits.

PSHE

• Managing risk

Decision-making skills

Drugs and their risks

Staying safe online

• Skills we need to develop as we grow up

• Helping and being helped

• Looking after the environment

Managing money

English

RE

• Read stories from the ‘Gospel’, about the life and teaching of Jesus

Make clear links between the calling of the first disciples and how Christians today try to follow Jesus and be ‘fishers of people’

Offer suggestions about what Jesus’ actions towards the leper might mean for a Christian

• Make simple links between Bible texts and the concept of ‘Gospel’ (good news)

Give examples of how Christians try to show love to all, including how members of the clergy follow Jesus’ teaching.

Year 3 Curriculum - Summer Term

• Read How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell

• Read for comprehension and presentation

Read own work aloud using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear

• Writing: narrative (story planning)

• Writing: narrative (story writing)

• Writing: varied sentence openers

• Writing: with an awareness of audience, uplevel work to a detailed and interesting standard using technical vocabulary

Handwriting: increase the legibility, consistency, stamina and quality

• Read aloud using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear

• Understand and use conjunctions, prepositions

Review word classes

Continuation of spelling programme including commonly misspelt words from Y3-4 list

• Organise paragraphs around a theme.

Maths

• Ten or 100 more/less than a starting number

• Identify right angles, recognise that two right angles make a half turn, three make three quarters of a turn and four a complete turn

Identify whether angles are greater or less than right angle

• Identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles up to two right angles by size

• Describe positions on a 2D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant

• Describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left/right and up/down

Plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon

• Three-digit column addition and subtraction

• Solve number and word problems with more than one step

• Interpret and present discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical methods, including bar charts, pictograms, tables and time graphs

Solve one-step and two-step questions (for example, ‘How many more?’ and ‘How many fewer?’) using information presented in scaled bar charts, pictograms and tables

• Solve comparison sum and difference problems using information presented in bar charts, pictograms, tables and other graphs

Consolidate multiplications tables up to 10x12.

Science

Forces and Magnets

ƒ To describe how objects move on different surfaces

ƒ To investigate that some forces need contact between two objects eg push and pull

ƒ To describe how pushes and pulls can alter the movement and speed of an object

ƒ To observe how magnets attract and repel each other

ƒ To investigate how magnets attract some materials and not others

ƒ To describe how magnets have two poles

ƒ To predict whether two magnets will repel or attract one another depending on their poles

• Light

ƒ To recognise that we need light to see things

ƒ To describe what happens when there is an absence of light

ƒ To describe what happens when light hits a mirror

ƒ To describe how light from the sun can be dangerous and the ways that I can protect my eyes

ƒ To recognise how shadows are formed when a solid object blocks the light

ƒ To investigate how the size of shadows changes

ƒ To find patterns in the way that the size of shadows changes.

History

• Learn who the Vikings were, where they came from, and the time period in which they lived

Understand why the Vikings raided other lands, the methods they used in their raids, and the impact of these raids on Europe

Explore the daily life of Vikings, including their homes, family life, clothing, and food

• Investigate the Vikings as traders, examining the goods they traded, the trade routes they used, and their interactions with other cultures

Discover Viking mythology, art, and culture, including their gods and goddesses, sagas, crafts, and artistic achievements

• Develop skills in historical inquiry by researching different aspects of Viking life and presenting findings using a variety of sources, such as artifacts, documents, and reconstructions.

Geography

Understand what mountains are, how they are formed, and identify the different types of mountains, such as volcanic, fold, and block mountains

• Explore how humans and wildlife adapt to living in mountainous regions, including the challenges they face and the unique adaptations that enable survival in high altitudes

Learn about the journey of a river from its source to its mouth, including the stages of a river (upper, middle, and lower course) and the features found in each stage, such as waterfalls, rapids, meanders, and deltas

• Investigate how rivers are used by people for various purposes, including transportation, irrigation, drinking water, recreation, and as a source of energy through hydroelectric power

Identify the diverse range of wildlife that depends on rivers for their habitat, including fish, amphibians, birds, and mammals, and understand the importance of rivers in supporting biodiversity

• Understand what glaciers are, how they form, and their role in shaping the landscape, including the processes of glacial movement and erosion, and their impact on the environment and water cycle.

Computing

• Recognise how text and images convey information

• Recognise that text and layout can be edited

Choose appropriate page settings

Add content to a desktop publishing publication

Consider how different layouts can suit different purposes

• Consider the benefits of desktop publishing

• Explain how a sprite moves in an existing project

• Create a program to move a sprite in four directions

Adapt a program to a new context

Develop my program by adding features

Identify and fix bugs in a program

• Design and create a maze-based challenge

Drama

• The art of storytelling

• Character development

Drama through dance

Show preparation

Music

• Know the difference betweena musical question and an answer

• Sing in unison and in simple two-parts

• Demonstrate a good singing posture and sing with awareness of being ‘in tune’

Follow a leader when singing

Explore singing solo

• Play differentiated parts on a tuned instrument using notation

• Improvise using instruments in the context of a song they are learning to perform

Learn and perform songs for the Prize Giving performance.

Art

Collect, sort and match colours to create an image

• Use specific colour language – primary colour, secondary colour, tertiary colours, hue, shades (black added), tints(white added)

• Experiment with paint and pastels

Experiment with effects and textures – dotting, scratching, splashing

Experiment with mono printing

• Colour mix by overlapping colour prints

• Create repeating patterns using relief ie leaves, string prints

• Interpret manmade and environmental patterns.

French

La vie en plein air

• The weather and packing appropriate clothing for different situations

Adjectives to describe clothes

Learning how to order food

• Different types of shops

• Expressing opinions

• Formal/informal language

Using first, second and third form of verbs

Learning the full paradigm of ‘avoir’

Compass points

• Responding to questions

• Regular review of counting, days of week, months and colours.

PE

Athletics

ƒ Running fundamentals

ƒ Jumping techniques

ƒ Throwing techniques

ƒ Athletic events

ƒ Sportsmanship

Tennis

ƒ Grip and forehand swing

ƒ Footwork and movement

ƒ Underarm serve

PSHE

• Keeping healthy and well

• Celebrating and developing skills

Developing empathy Relationships

• Keeping safe

• Safe and unsafe secrets

RE

• Introduction to Hinduism

Hindu Gods

Hindu Worship

Know some Hindu Stories (Krishna and the Butter) and the learnings Hindus take from them

• Hindu Festivals: Holi and Raksha Bandan

• Important ceremonies: coming of age, marriage and death

Hindu symbols and signs

Why are pilgrimages important for Hindus?

The Explorer

Year 4 Michaelmas Term

Classifying Living Things

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

Lent Term

Oxford Colleges and Writers

Digestive System

The Internet

Rainforest

Food Chains

Audio Production

Local Area Comparison and Changes

Egyptians

Sustainability

Electricity and Dangers

Secrets of a Sun King

Conductors

Aztecs

Teeth

How Sound Travels

States of Matter

Repetition in Shapes

Series and Parallel Circuits

Photo Editing Repetition in Games

Data Logging

Pitch

To Year 5

Year 4 Curriculum - Michaelmas Term

English

• Read The Explorer by Katherine Rundell

Amazon Adventure description – showing a picture, please write me a description

Identifying features of a diary recount

• Writing a diary recount – as Fred, Con, Lila or Max

• Descriptive writing – focusing on vivid adjectives and sensory language

Identifying features of a fact file

Writing a creature fact file

Revising word classes (nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs)

• Use conjunctions to express time or cause

• Use prepositions to express time and place

• Understand that writing can be in the third or first person

Use adverbs to modify verbs

Maths

Find 1000 more or less than a given number

• Recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number

• Order and compare numbers beyond 1000

• Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000

Recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12

Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers

• Read Roman numerals to 100 (I to C)

• Add and subtract numbers with up to four digits using the formal written methods

Estimate and use inverse operations to check answers to a calculation

Solve addition and subtraction two-step problems in contexts

• Use place value, known and derived facts to multiply and divide mentally, and multiply by a one-digit number using the formal written method

Recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by one hundred and dividing tenths by ten.

Solve problems using fractions to calculate quantities, and fractions to divide quantities,

• Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator

• Recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths.

Science

Living things and their Habitats

ƒ To group animals into vertebrates and invertebrates

ƒ To group plants into categories such as flowering plants and non-flowering plants

ƒ To use keys to identify living things in the local environment

ƒ To recognise that environments change over time

ƒ To understand the impact humans have on the local environment

ƒ To research and describe the positive and negative human effects on an environment such as creating nature reserves or dropping litter

Animals including Humans

ƒ To identify and describe the basic parts of the human digestive system

ƒ To identify and describe the different types of teeth in humans and how they function

ƒ To compare the teeth of herbivores and omnivores

ƒ To describe how to look after teeth

ƒ To identify and describe a producer in a food chain

ƒ To identify and describe a predator in a food chain

ƒ To identify and describe prey in a food chain

ƒ To interpret and create a food chain.

History

Aztecs: When and where they lived

Everyday life of children and adults

• Aztec artefacts

Aztec Gods

• Tenochtitlan - Aztec capital city

• Aztec clothing

• Aztec diet Designing an Aztec chocolate bar Sacrifices.

Geography

• Rainforest locations now and then

• Layers of the rainforest

• Rainforest animals or plants – research project

• Rainforest climate

What is deforestation?

Threats to the tropical rainforest

• Amazon rainforest vs UK forest

• A journey down the Amazon River – identifying features, location, human uses of the river

A journey down the River Thames - identifying features, location, human uses of the river, pollution

Thinking about the different ways we use water.

Computing

• Describe how content can be added and accessed on the World Wide Web (WWW)

• Recognise how the content of the WWW is created by people

Evaluate the consequences of unreliable content

Identify that sound can be recorded

• Explain that audio recordings can be edited

• Recognise the different parts of creating a podcast project

• Apply audio editing skills independently

• Combine audio to enhance my podcast project

Evaluate the effective use of audio.

Drama

Setting and physicalising the environment

• Exploring drama through scripted and improvised work

• Acting through song

• November production: Oliver Twist

Music

Sight read and sing a short melody

Talk about the musical dimensions working together in a piece of music

• Talk about a piece of music and how it makes them feel

• Use musical vocabulary when describing a piece of music

Rejoin the song if lost

Listen to the group when singing or playing

Learn an orchestral instrument and play as part of a group.

Art

• Use a sketchbook to record observations and other visual information from different sources

• Question, discuss and make observations about starting points/ artists and artworks.

Discuss how they feel about their own and others work. What might they change?

• Apply and use simple pattern and texture to a drawing show an awareness of objects have a third dimension

• Shape, form, model and construct malleable and rigid materials –clay tiles

Embellish work using a variety of techniques and materials

• Explore Aztec patterns

• Create own materials for collage

• Use Rousseau’s work as inspiration for own collage.

French

Les pays francophones du monde

• Greetings and introductions

Introduction to France and its geography

• Discovering the French speaking world

• Planning a trip, including producing a passport

• Regular review of days, months, seasons; colours, numbers.

Verbs avoir and être; Using first, second and third form of verbs

Responding to questions

• Giving opinions

• Descriptions and use of adjectives

• French culture and festivals.

PE Basketball

ƒ Refine dribbling skills

ƒ Master different passes

ƒ Develop shooting accuracy

ƒ Apply basic offensive and defensive strategies

ƒ Development of sportsmanship

Badminton

ƒ Grip variations

ƒ Clear shot

ƒ Overhead serve

ƒ Rallying with strategy

ƒ Basic scoring system.

English

PSHE

• Healthy relationships Listening to feelings Bullying Assertive skills

• Recognising and celebrating difference (including religions and cultural difference)

• Understanding and challenging stereotypes

RE

Place the concepts of God and Creation on a timeline of the Bible’s ‘Big Story’

• Make clear links between Genesis 1 and what Christians believe about God and Creation

• Describe what Christians do because they believe God is Creator Ask questions and suggest answers about what might be important in the creation story for Christians living today, and for people who are not Christians.

Year 4 Curriculum - Lent Term

• Read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

• Synonyms – levels of formality

Identifying features of a formal letter

Formal letter – as character from the book, writing to home, modelling a formal letter

• Slow write – showing them a picture, please write me a description

• Preparation for persuasive writing - you should, you will, the power of three adjectives, emotive language

Persuasive writing – as the White Witch

Inventing dialogue using direct speech

Grammar and punctuation:

ƒ Use commas after or before phrases and clauses

ƒ Use pronouns to avoid repetition or ambiguity and to add clarity and cohesion

ƒ Use dialogue in narrative or in drama, emphasising the differences between spoken and written speech.

Maths

• Find the effect of dividing a one- or two-digit number by ten and 100, identifying the value of the digits in the answer as ones, tenths and hundredths

Round decimals with one decimal place to the nearest whole number

Compare numbers with the same number of decimal places (up to two decimal places)

• Solve simple measure and money problems involving fractions and decimals to two decimal places

Convert between different units of measure (mm to cm, cm to m etc.)

Estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money in pounds and pence

• Measure and calculate perimeter in centimetres and metres

• Find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares

Convert between different units of measure of time (eg hours to minutes)

Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital twelveand 24-hour clocks

• Solve problems involving converting from: hours to minutes, minutes to seconds, years to months, weeks to days

Compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles, based on properties and sizes

Identify lines of symmetry in 2D shapes presented in different orientations and complete a simple symmetric figure with respect

Science States of Matter

To compare and describe solids, gases, and liquids

• To group materials by whether they are a solid, liquid, or gas

• To observe how materials change state when heated or cooled

• To use the terms evaporation and condensation when describing the water cycle Sound

• To identify how sounds are made

To describe how sounds travel to my ear, eg, vibrations through the air

To recognise patterns between the pitch of a sound and the features of the object that produced the sound

• To recognise patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it

• To describe what happens when you move away from the source of a sound.

History

Famous writer: JRR Tolkien – biography (research)

• What was life like in 1937? How was it similar/different to life today?

• Christ Church Cathedral – history, coat of arms (what is a coat of arms?)

Designing a coat of arms for Cokethorpe Prep School (cross curricular link with Art)

Christ Church Cathedral – significance of Oxford to the story of Alice in Wonderland

• Famous writer: Lewis Carroll research, writing questions to ask Carroll if he were still alive

Lewis Carroll: Role play – interview with Lewis Carroll (cross curricular link with Drama)

• 3D model of Christ Church Cathedral – junk modelling (cross curricular link with Art)

• Presentation of model (cross curricular link with Drama).

Geography

Local area of Oxford, comparison and changes over time

Comparing a historical map of Oxfordshire to a current one Identifying industrial areas, fields, woods and built up areas –through aerial images

• Identifying different types of land use in Oxfordshire – through aerial images

to a specific line of symmetry Review Michaelmas Term fraction targets.

Comparing old pictures of Witney town centre to a current one

• Research the history of Witney – what has changed and what has stayed the same?

• Creating a pamphlet to advertise the community of Witney Research the history of Blenheim Palace

Creating a Blenheim Palace fact file.

Computing

• Identify that accuracy in programming is important

• Create a program in a text-based language

• Explain what ‘repeat’ means

Modify a count-controlled loop to produce a given outcome

Decompose a task into small steps

Create a program that uses count-controlled loops to produce a given outcome

• Explain that data gathered over time can be used to answer questions

Use a digital device to collect data automatically

Explain that a data logger collects ‘data points’ from sensors over time

• Recognise how a computer can help us analyse data

• Identify the data needed to answer questions

• Use data from sensors to answer questions.

Drama

Exploring characters and emotions

Develop melodrama and character

• Introduction to scripted drama

• Exploring news headlines through drama

• Creating drama based on Matilda by Roald Dahl.

Music

Develop music notation and write short melodies

Play an instrument in an ensemble; rehearse and perform together

Listen to and reflect upon a developing composition and make musical decisions about pulse, rhythm, pitch, dynamics and tempo

• Record a composition to recognise the connection between sound and symbol.

Art

Mix and use, tints, tones and shades and apply to work

Use paints and chalk pastels

• Experiment with a variety of paints

• Compare watercolour and acrylic tints, tones and shades

• Evaluate and adapt own work.

English

Italian

• Introducing yourself Talking about your family using possessive pronouns Describing yourself and other people. Expressing opinions

• Numbers

• Days of the week and months of the year,

• Birthdays and saying your age Classroom instructions

Colours and other adjectives

• Learning about cultural events, Carnival and Easter.

PE

• Handball

ƒ Catching and throwing proficiency

ƒ Dribbling with agility

ƒ Passing variations

ƒ Shooting with accuracy

ƒ Basic attacking strategies

• Health and Fitness

ƒ Fitness components

ƒ Fitness testing

ƒ Developing fitness

ƒ Importance of good nutrition

ƒ Personal fitness goals.

PSHE

• Managing risk

• Understanding the norms of drug use (cigarette and alcohol use) Influences Online safety

• Making a difference (different ways of helping others or the environment)

• Media influence Decisions about spending money.

RE

Read stories from the ‘Gospel’, about the life and teaching of Jesus Make clear links between the calling of the first disciples and how Christians today try to follow Jesus and be ‘fishers of people’

• Offer suggestions about what Jesus’ actions towards the leper might mean for a Christian Make simple links between Bible texts and the concept of ‘Gospel’ (good news)

• Give examples of how Christians try to show love to all, including how members of the clergy follow Jesus’ teaching.

Year 4 Curriculum - Summer Term

Read Secrets of a Sun King by Emma Carroll

Identifying features of a newspaper report

• Writing a newspaper report – on the discovery of the human feet

• Writing a chapter review – inform, persuade, evaluate, express

• Descriptive writing – focusing on vivid adjectives and sensory language

Identifying features of a postcard

Writing a postcard – as Lilian, sending a postcard back home from Egypt

• Creating a new chapter

• Grammar and punctuation:

ƒ Use adverbs and adverbials (prepositional phrases which act as adverbs)

ƒ Use the possessive apostrophe

ƒ Use fronted adverbials.

Maths

• Recognise the % symbol, and understand that % relates to ‘number of parts per hundred’, writing percentages as a fraction with

denominator 100, and as a decimal

• Solve problems which require knowing percentage and decimal equivalents of ½ , ¼ , 1/5 , 2/5 , 4/5 and those fractions with a denominator of a multiple of ten or 25 - solve problems involving numbers up to three decimal places

• Convert between different units of metric measure

• Understand and use approximate equivalences between metric units and common imperial units such as inches, pounds and pints

Estimate volume and capacity

Solve problems involving converting between units of time

Complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables

• Calculate and compare the area of rectangles (including squares), using units cm² and m², and estimate the area of irregular shapes

Measure and calculate the perimeter of composite rectilinear shapes in cm and m

Use all four operations to solve problems involving measure (for example, length, mass, volume, money) using decimal notation

• Use the properties of rectangles to deduce related facts and find missing lengths and angles

Distinguish between regular and irregular polygons, based on reasoning about equal sides and angles

• Identify, describe and represent the position of a shape following a reflection or translation, using the appropriate language, and know that the shape has not changed

Solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in a line graph.

Science

Electricity

To identify common appliances that run on electricity

• To identify the basic parts of a simple series electrical circuit, eg cells, wires, bulbs, switches, and buzzers

• To create a simple series circuit using basic parts

To describe what will happen if the circuit isn’t complete

To describe the impact of an open and/or closed switch on a simple series circuit

• To recognise and describe some common conductors

• To recognise and describe some common insulators

• To identify metals that are good conductors

To describe how to work safely with electricity.

History

Who were the Ancient Egyptians?

• Why was Ancient Egypt the ‘Gift of the Nile’?

• Who were the Ancient Egyptian pharaohs?

• Why did the Ancient Egyptians build the pyramids?

What did the Ancient Egyptians do for fun?

What was mummification in Ancient Egypt?

Who were the Ancient Egyptian gods?

• What did Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics mean?

• What was discovered inside Tutankhamun’s tomb?

• Who was Cleopatra and how is she remembered?

Geography

What is sustainability?

Sustainable living

• Recycling and protecting the environment

• Exploring non-renewable and renewable energy

• Pros and cons of fossil fuels

Natural and agricultural resources

Fieldwork: how sustainable is my community

Plan a letter with recommendations for greater sustainability to the local council (cross curricular link with English)

• Writing a letter with recommendations for greater sustainability to the local council (cross curricular link with English).

Computing

Explain that the composition of digital images can be changed

Explain that colours can be changed in digital images

• Explain how cloning can be used in photo editing

• Explain that images can be combined

• Combine images for a purpose

• Evaluate how changes can improve an image

Develop the use of count-controlled loops in a different programming environment

• Explain that in programming there are infinite loops and count controlled loops

• Develop a design that includes two or more loops which run at the same time

Modify an infinite loop in a given program

Design a project that includes repetition

• Create a project that includes repetition.

Drama

• Choral speaking

• Drama through dance

Silent theatre

Dialogue and diction

• Show preparation.

Music

• Listen to Blackbird by the Beatles, discuss themes and emotions

Understand that music can represent themes that are important to the composer

Listen carefully and respectfully to other people’s thoughts about the music

• Consider how music can tell a story and this in composition

• Reflect and feed back upon group performance

Recognise ten pieces of classical music

Compare styles of music and express personal preference.

Art

• Introduction to lino printing - Egyptian symbols

• Sculpt in clay with purpose – canopic jars

• Embellish work with own choice of textures and materials

Use a wide variety of stitches (running, back, blanket, over, cross stitch, chain stitch) to join materials and to create pattern and texture

• Evaluate own work, listen to critique and adapt accordingly.

French

Mes animaux de compagnie et les sport

• Talking and writing about outdoor activities

• Sports

• Pets and animals, we look after Carrying out class surveys Describing a pet using Plural nouns

• Giving opinions

• Focus on verbs

• Regular review of numbers, days of week, months Responding to questions.

PE

Athletics

ƒ Refined running techniques

ƒ Jumping for distance and height

ƒ Throwing for accuracy and distance

ƒ Competition strategies

ƒ Understanding athletics rules Tennis

ƒ Grip variations

ƒ Clear shot.

PSHE

• Having choices and making decisions about my health Taking care of my environment My skills and interests

• Body changes during puberty

• Managing difficult feelings

• Relationships including marriage.

RE

Introduction to Islaam The life of Mohammed The five pillars of Islaam

• The Qur’an

• Inside the Mosque

• Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr.

Local Study

Street Child

Frost Hollow Hall

Year 5 Michaelmas Term

Settlements and Land Use Oliver Twist Production

October, October

Lent Term

Systems and Searching

Video Production Artefacts Unearthed

Water Cycle

Properties of Materials

Victorians

Ancient Greeks

The Solar System

Myths

Mediterranean

Selection in Physical Computing

Who Let the Gods Out

Greece

Forces: Gravity and Friction Gears and Pulleys

Selection in Quizzes

Introduction to Vector Graphics

Flat-File Databases

To Year 6

Year 5 Curriculum - Michaelmas Term

English

• Biographical writing

Diary writing

Verbs in past tense

Contextualised vocabulary

• Retrieval and inferential comprehension questions

• Persuasive writing

• Coordinating conjunctions

Subordinating conjunctions

Formal and Informal language

Adverbials of time, place and manner

• Poetry.

Maths

• Roman Numerals

Factors, multiples, primes

Negative numbers

Place value up to 1,000,000

• Rounding

• Multi-step problems using four operations

• Formal long multiplication

Division

Fractions

Decimals

• Times tables recall to 12 x 12 (weekly tests)

• Arithmetic Practice (weekly).

Science

Living things and their habitats

• To describe the similarities and differences between the life cycles of different plants

To describe the similarities and differences between the life cycles of different animals

To identify the processes of sexual reproduction in animals

• To identify the processes of sexual reproduction in plants

• To describe asexual reproduction in plants

• To compare the life cycles of plants in my local environment to different habitats around the world (such as in the rainforest or in the Arctic)

Animals including Humans

To describe how humans grow and develop as they age

To identify the changes to male and female bodies as they reach puberty

• To research and use evidence to describe the different gestation periods of various animals

To find out and record how the length and mass of a baby changes over time.

History

Queen Victoria

• Everyday life in a terraced/ wealthy home

• Children at work

• Education for Victorian children

The Workhouse

The Great Exhibition

• Prominent inventions

• Thomas Barnardo

• Town and Country life

• Milestones Museum Visit.

Geography

The British Empire Farming

• Land owners

• Tenant farmers

• Independent farmers

How did the British Empire expand?

Why did the British Empire expand?

Growth of the British Empire

• Which countries formed the British Empire?

• Does the British Empire still exist today?

Computing

• Explain that computers can be connected together to form systems Recognise the role of computer systems in our lives Experiment with search engines

• Describe how search engines select results

• Explain how search results are ranked

• Recognise why the order of results is important, and to whom

• Explain what makes a video effective Identify digital devices that can record video Capture video using a range of techniques

• Create a storyboard

• Identify that video can be improved through reshooting and editing.

Drama

Developing character through voice, gesture and physicality

Developing voice for stage

Acting through song

• Theatre basics

• November production: Oliver Twist

Music

In music notation, read rhythm dotted notes and ties, grouped notes and rests

Practise and build upon sight singing and playing

• Listen to and recognise works of the Composer of the Month

• Know about the life of the Composer of the Month

• Know the historical context of the songs and music listened to Learn and perform songs in the musical Oliver

Art

Use a sketchbook to record observations and other visual information from different sources

• Shape, form, model and construct from observation and imagination

• Use different media to make marks and lines in dry media – digital mark making, pencil, charcoal, oil pastels

Explore colour mixing and blending with coloured pencils

• Explore shadow and silhouette pictures

• Plan a wire sculpture through drawing and other preparatory work – Chimney Sweeps.

French

Un voyage au monde francophone

• Greetings and introductions

• Discovering the French speaking world

Planning a trip and giving opinions Map work

• Journeys and modes of transport

• Regular review: days, months, seasons; colours; numbers

• Irregular verbs: avoir, être and using first, second and third form of verbs

French culture and festivals

Responding to questions: Comment t’appelles-tu? Où habites tu?

Quel âge as-tu ? Comment ça va ? Qu’est ce que c’est?

• Description of places and use of adjectives.

PE

• Basketball

ƒ Advanced dribbling control

ƒ Develop passing accuracy and vision

ƒ Master different shooting techniques

ƒ Apply offensive and defensive tactics

ƒ Develop leadership and communication skills

Badminton

ƒ Footwork drills and agility

ƒ Drop shot technique

ƒ Net play

ƒ Doubles play

ƒ Advanced rules and regulation.

PSHE

• Feelings

• Friendship skills, including compromise

• Assertive skills

Cooperation

Recognising emotional needs

Recognising and celebrating difference, including religions and cultural

• Influence and pressure of social media.

English

Read October, October by Katya Balen

Word classes

• Descriptive writing

• Slow writing

• Instructional writing

RE

• Outline the importance of Creation on the timeline of the ‘big story’ of the Bible

Identify what type of text some Christians say Genesis 1 is, and its purpose

• Taking account of the context, suggest what Genesis 1 might mean, and compare their ideas with ways in which Christians interpret it, showing awareness of different interpretations

Make connections between Genesis 1 and Christian belief about God as Creator

• Show understanding of why many Christians find science and faith go together

• Weigh up how far the Genesis 1 creation narrative is in conflict, or is complementary, with a scientific account.

Year 5 Curriculum - Lent Term

History

The history of Cokethorpe

The history of Cokethorpe Chapel

• Blanket manufacture in Witney

• Mudlarking

Imperative verbs, adverbs and conjunctions

Recounts

• Informal language (to include verb contractions)

• Comprehension, relating to themes of family, nature and being different

• Figurative devices (personification, metaphor etc.).

Maths

Fractions and decimals

Percentages

• Constructing and measuring angles using a protractor

• Angles on a straight line and around a point

• Properties of polygons

Line graphs

Application of the four operations

Addition and subtraction (two-step problems)

• Interpreting remainders with division problems

• Multiplications and division by ten, 100 and 1,000

• Times tables recall to 12 x 12 (weekly tests)

Arithmetic Practice (weekly).

Science

Properties of materials

To compare and group everyday materials on the basis of their properties eg hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal) and response to magnets

• To recognise that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution

• To describe how to recover a substance from a solution

To use evidence from tests to decide how to use everyday materials effectively

• To demonstrate that dissolving, mixing, and changing are reversible processes

• To explain that certain changes are irreversible and new materials can be formed eg burning Earth and space

• To name all of the planets

To describe the Sun, Earth, and Moon as approximately spherical bodies

To describe the movement of the Earth, and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system

• To describe the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth

• To explain day and night, using the Earth’s rotation and the movement of the Sun across the sky.

• Oxfordshire’s historical treasures What do artefacts tell us about the past? Detectorists

• Ashmolean museum (Watlington Hoard)

• Archaeological finds in Oxfordshire.

Geography

• Woodlands exploration Arboretums

Cokethorpe flora and fauna Bushcraft

• Water cycle

• Local Study – River Windrush

• Where does our water come from? Mapping local rivers.

Computing

Control a simple circuit connected to a computer

• Write a program that includes count-controlled loops

• Explain that a loop can stop when a condition is met

• Design a physical project that includes selection

• Create a program that controls a physical computing project Use a form to record information Compare paper and computer-based databases

• Outline how you can answer questions by grouping and then sorting data

• Explain that tools can be used to select specific data

Explain that computer programs can be used to compare data visually

Use a real-world database to answer questions.

Drama

• Physical theatre and mime

• Genre exploration

• An introduction into Shakespearean drama

Creating drama based on The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.

Music

Improvisation and composition using voice and a variety of tuned and untuned instruments

• Rehearse and perform with an ensemble

• Choose what and how to perform, considering dynamics

Musical notation of the bass clef Accidentals.

Art

• Identify and work with complementary and contrasting colours using different media – paint, pastels etc

Mix and match colours to create atmosphere

Use a variety of tools to create texture

• Apply the effect of light on objects from different directions

• Begin to use perspective in work using a single foci point and horizon.

German

Introducing yourself

Talking about your family using possessive pronouns

• Describing yourself and other people.

• Expressing opinions

• Numbers

Days of the week and months of the year, Birthdays and saying your age

Classroom instructions

• Colours and other adjectives

• Learning about cultural events, Carnival and Easter.

PE

• Handball

ƒ Advanced dribbling skills

ƒ Passing with vision

ƒ Shooting techniques

ƒ Defending strategies

ƒ Teamwork and communication

English

• Writing playscripts

Myths and legends

Use of the apostrophe

• Direct speech

• Indirect speech

• Modal verbs

Relative clauses

Parenthesis

Descriptive writing

• Use of commas.

Maths

• 2D and 3D shapes, including nets

• Unknown angles in polygons Coordinates in all four quadrants

Translation of shapes

• Circles and associated terminology

• Pie charts

• Line graphs

• Area and perimeter

Mean average

Unit conversions

• Volume of cubes and cuboids

Health and Fitness

ƒ Principles of training

ƒ Designing fitness programmes

ƒ Benefits of different activities

ƒ Healthy eating habits

ƒ Importance of rest and recovery.

PSHE

• Managing risk, including online safety

• Norms around use of legal drugs (tobacco, alcohol)

• Decision-making skills

Rights, respect and duties relating to health

Making a difference

Decisions about lending, borrowing and spending.

RE

• Identify features of Gospel texts (for example, teachings, parable, narrative)

• Taking account of the context, suggest meanings of Gospel texts studied, and compare their ideas with ways in which Christians interpret biblical texts, showing awareness of different interpretations

• Make clear connections between Gospel texts and how Christians live in the Christian community and in their individual lives

• Relate Gospel ideas, teachings or beliefs (for example, about trust, forgiveness or justice) to the issues, problems and opportunities of their own lives.

Year 5 Curriculum - Summer Term

History

• Introduction to ancient Greece Who were the ancient Greeks? How did the Olympic Games begin?

• Greek family life

• Who were the ancient Greek Gods and heroes?

• How did the ancient Greeks change the world? Culture in ancient Greece What did the ancient Greeks believe in? Art and entertainment for the ancient Greeks

• What did the ancient Greeks discover?

Geography

• Location of Greece

• The history of Greece Physical geography of Greece Landmarks of Greece

• The people of modern Greece

• Traditions

• Culture

• Nature Government Secrets of Greek cuisine.

• Times tables recall to 12 x 12 (weekly tests)

• Arithmetic Practice (weekly).

Science Forces

• To explain that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object

To identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces

• To recognise that some mechanisms including levers, pulleys and gears allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.

Computing

• Identify that drawing tools can be used to produce different outcomes

• Create a vector drawing by combining shapes Use tools to achieve a desired effect

Recognise that vector drawings consist of layers Group objects to make them easier to work with

• Explain how selection is used in computer programs

• Relate that a conditional statement connects a condition to an outcome

Explain how selection directs the flow of a program Design, create and evaluate a program which uses selection.

Drama

• Masks and Commedia dell’arte

Devising from literature

Creative expression as a group

Movement and choreography.

Music

• Play the ukelele as part of a group, in time and listening to one another

• Build, name, write and improvise with tonic triads

Record own compositions using musical notation

Preform own compositions, reflect and give feedback respectfully

• Recall Composers of the Month and discuss own response to their music

• Rehearse and perform songs for the Prize Giving performance.

Art

Identify how artists use textiles

Create work using textiles, and various stitching techniques and embroidery stitches

• Recreate designs from other times and cultures using a variety of materials

• Explore printmaking

Print with three overlays – using card, string and small lino tiles to create block prints

• Consider how they feel about their work – evaluate and adapt accordingly.

French

Mon chez moi et l’habitat

• Talking and writing about where people live

• Describing home and looking at features of a French ‘ville’ and comparing them to British towns

Independent project planning a French town/city

Focus on regular verbs

• Prepositions

• Developing research skills

• Responding to questions

• Regular review of numbers

Days of week, months

Review colours and adjectives

PE

• Athletics

ƒ Advanced running techniques

ƒ Multiple jumping techniques

ƒ Throwing for power and accuracy

ƒ Developing personal bests

ƒ Teamwork in relays

• Tennis

ƒ Footwork drills and agility

ƒ Drop shot technique.

PSHE

Growing independence and taking ownership

Keeping myself healthy

• Media awareness and safety

• My community

• Managing difficult feelings

Managing change

How my feelings help keep me safe

Getting help.

RE

• Introduction to Sikhism

Guru Nanak

Guru Granth Sahib

The five Ks of Sikhism

• The festival of Vaisakhi

• Service in the Sikh faith

• What does Sikhism have in common with other world religions?

Tudors

Holes

Spanish Language

Historical Figures

Year 6 Michaelmas Term

Deserts and Global Biomes

The Devil and His Boy

Lent Term

Shakespeare

London and Capital Cities

Europe

Goodnight Mr Tom

Light

Classification of Living Things

Evolution and Inheritance

Rocks and Adaptations

Communication and Collaboration

Black History

The Sun

Circulatory and Digestive System

When Sky Falls

Once

World War II

Electricity: Circuits Web Page Creation

Sensing Movement Office

Spreadsheets

Variables in Games

To Senior School

Year 6 Curriculum - Michaelmas Term

English

• Read Holes by Louis Sachar

Descriptive writing (setting) using figurative and sensory language to create atmosphere

Descriptive writing (character) using figurative language

• Black History Month: biography

• Informal Letter Writing

• Read Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell

Comprehension (retrieval, inference, analysis)

GPS (word class review, punctuation accuracy including apostrophes, speech marks in dialogue)

• GPS (weekly spelling programme tested in dictated sentences, vocabulary: synonyms and antonyms)

• GPS (clauses, hyphens and ellipsis).

Maths

Place value up to 1,000,000

Negative numbers

• Factors, multiples, squares and cubes

• Formal long multiplication

• Division Multi-step problem solving

Four operations

Fractions

• Percentages

• Algebra

• Ratio

Scale factors

Times tables recall to 12 x 12

Entrance Examination preparation.

Science

Living things and their habitats

To explain why living things can be classified into different groups

• To explain why living things can be in one group and not another

• To describe the main features of particular groups such as vertebrates and invertebrates

To use research of unfamiliar animals in order to classify them

Evolution and inheritance

• To recognise that living things have changed over time

To describe how fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago

• To use evidence from my observations to describe how offspring vary and are not identical to their parents

• To describe how variations occur between individuals of the same species

To research and identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways

• To describe how adaptation can lead to evolution.

History

• American History overview

• American Black History overview

• Black History Month: (Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King)

British Black History overview

Russian History overview

• Early Russia

• Russian Revolution

• Bolsheviks and Lenin

The Romanov Family Chernobyl.

Geography

Global Biomes

• American Geography Overview

• Texas and Chihuahuan Desert

• Desert and Adaptation Presentation Skills

Arctic, Tundra and Adaptation

• Russian Geography (Physical)

• Russian Geography (Human)

• Energy (oil and gas) Energy (renewable).

Latin

Origins and Relevance

• Etymology of common English language

• Salutations and valedictions

• Household nouns

• Adjectives and colours

Etymology: Months of the year, days of the week Etymology: Planets and star signs

• Sentence structure

• Simple translation

• Latin sayings in English language

Computing

To use own Microsoft Surface device with individual login To set security measures on their Surface to keep themselves safe To access lessons through Microsoft Teams

• To organise their work using Microsoft Onenote

• To work collaboratively on a shared document

• To understand and use the Assignments feature in Microsoft Teams To use Microsoft Surface to complete and present homework.

Drama

Devising small performances

• Developing opinions and justifying ideas

• The art of directing

• Monologue preparation and performance.

Music

In music notation, read rhythm dotted notes and ties, grouped notes and rests

• Practise and build upon sight singing and playing

• Listen to and recognise works of the Composer of the Month

• Know about the life of the Composer of the Month

• Know the historical context of the songs and music listened to Compose simple melodies using the pentatonic scale and simple rhythms that reflect the jazz style.

Art

• Shape, form, model and join using malleable and rigid materials –Lizard sculptures

• Explore the work of Basquiat and use it as inspiration for self-portrait

Mix and match colours to create light, thinking about direction of light and its effect on images Use different media to create tints, tones, shade and mood

• Identify how colour can portray emotion and use this in their own artwork

Use fabrics to create a 3D structure – poppies.

French

Les biomes du monde

Greetings and introductions

What do you know about France? Sharing knowledge of the country

• Writing and talking about geography in France and the francophone world

• Researching physical features including plains and rivers, mountains, coasts, islands and forests Full paradigm of regular -er verb

• Irregular verbs : avoir, être

• Descriptions and use of adjectives

• Expressing opinions and giving reasons

Regular review of days, months, seasons; colours, numbers

• French festivals including Christmas.

PE

• Basketball

ƒ Master dribbling under pressure

ƒ Develop a complete passing repertoire

ƒ Refine shooting technique and range

ƒ Lead offensive and defensive plays

ƒ Manage game situations

• Badminton

ƒ Footwork patterns

ƒ Smash technique and power

ƒ Deception and strategy

ƒ Advanced doubles play

ƒ Officiating skills

PSHE

• Assertiveness

Cooperation Safe/unsafe touches

English

Planning technique

Positive relationships

• Recognising and celebrating difference

• Recognising and reflecting on prejudice-based bullying

• Understanding Bystander behaviour

Gender stereotyping

RE

Outline the importance of Creation on the timeline of the ‘big story’ of the Bible

• Identify what type of text some Christians say Genesis 1 is, and its purpose

Taking account of the context, suggest what Genesis 1 might mean, and compare their ideas with ways in which Christians interpret it, showing awareness of different interpretations

• Make connections between Genesis 1 and Christian belief about God as Creator

• Show understanding of why many Christians find science and faith go together

Weigh up how far the Genesis 1 creation narrative is in conflict, or is complementary, with a scientific account.

Year 6 Curriculum - Lent Term

• Descriptive Writing using figurative and sensory language

• Test technique

• Comprehension (retrieval, inference, analysis)

The works of Shakespeare, overview

Read Macbeth by William Shakespeare

• GPS (modal verbs)

• Writing: recount

• Writing: Playscript

• Performance skills.

Maths

Place value up to 10,000,000

Negative numbers

• Factors, multiples, primes and cubes

• Formal long multiplication

• Division Multi-step problem solving

Four operations

Fractions

• Percentages

• Algebra

• Ratio and Scale factors

Times tables recall to 12 x 12

Entrance Examination preparation.

Science

Animals including Humans

To identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system

• To describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood

• To describe how water and nutrients are transported around the body

To describe how blood is pumped around the body

To recognise the impact of an unhealthy diet

• To recognise the impact of drugs, alcohol and smoking on the human body

• To describe how to keep the human body healthy

Light

• To use examples to show that light appears to travel in straight lines

To demonstrate that light travels in straight lines to explain how objects are seen

To discuss how objects are seen using scientific vocabulary eg light source and reflection

• To use my knowledge of the way light travels to describe how shadows are formed.

History

Tudor Family Tree

• Battle of Bosworth

• Henry VIII

• Six Wives of Henry VIII

Catholicism and Protestantism

The Reformation

Hampton Court (Tudor food, pastimes, hierarchy, trip)

• Architecture, Culture and Legacy

• Elizabeth I

• William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre.

Geography

Global London Landmarks

• The Thames

• London Underground

• London demography and diversity

British Isles

Capital cities: Edinburgh

Capital cities: Cardiff

• British capital cities: Belfast

• Republic of Ireland.

Latin

• Latin in Modern Foreign Language Decoding Philosophers

• Gods and Goddesses

• Myths (Romulus and Remus)

• Myths (Hercules)

• Colosseum and gladiators

Roman Empire and invasion

Roman Britain and legacy

• Roman feast.

Computing

• Define a ‘variable’ as something that is changeable

• Explain why a variable is used in a program Choose how to improve a game by using variables

Design a project that builds on a given example

Use my design to create a project

• Evaluate my project

Create a data set in a spreadsheet

• Build a data set in a spreadsheet

• Explain that formulas can be used to produce calculated data

• Apply formulas to data

Create a spreadsheet to plan an event Choose suitable ways to present data.

Drama

• Shakespearean drama

• Developing character relationships

• Rehearsing scenes with a focus on emotional delivery Theatre basics.

Music

Improvisation and composition using voice and a variety of tuned and untuned instruments

• Rehearse and perform with an ensemble

• Choose what and how to perform, considering dynamics

• Musical notation of the bass clef Accidentals.

Art

Experiment with wet media to make marks, lines, patterns, textures and shapes – ink, paint, watercolour pencils

• Produce accurate drawings from observation and use tonal contrast in drawings

Use mixed media in artworks using a combination of areas taught Develop an awareness of composition, scale and proportion, foreground, middle ground and background.

Spanish

• Introducing yourself

• Talking about your family using possessive pronouns

• Describing yourself and other people. Expressing opinions Numbers

• Days of the week and months of the year

• Birthdays and saying your age

• Classroom instructions

English

Once by Maurice Gleitzman

Writing: Diary

• Writing: reports and information

• Writing: persuasion

• Writing: argument

Writing: analytical GPS (curriculum review)

Use of the active and passive voice

• Poetry (Haiku, clerihew)

• Poetry (Kennings, limerick).

Maths

• Statistics Percentage increase/decrease

Solving linear equations

• Visual algebra

• Ratio

• Reasoning and problem-solving

• Area and perimeter

Pascal’s Triangle Number sequences

• Nth term.

Science

Electricity

Colours and other adjectives

• Learning about cultural events, Carnival and Easter.

PE

• Handball

ƒ Advanced ball handling

ƒ Complete passing repertoire

ƒ Shooting power and range

ƒ Attacking and defending plays

ƒ Game management

• Health and Fitness

ƒ Principles of training

ƒ Designing fitness programmes

ƒ Benefits of different activities

ƒ Healthy eating habits

ƒ Importance of rest and recovery.

PSHE

• Understanding emotional needs

Staying safe online

Drugs: norms and risks (including the law)

• Understanding media bias, including social media

• Caring: communities and the environment

• Earning and saving money

• Understanding democracy.

RE

Identify features of Gospel texts (for example, teachings, parable, narrative)

• Taking account of the context, suggest meanings of Gospel texts studied, and compare their ideas with ways in which Christians interpret biblical texts, showing awareness of different interpretations

Make clear connections between Gospel texts and how Christians live in the Christian community and in their individual lives

• Relate Gospel ideas, teachings or beliefs (for example, about trust, forgiveness or justice) to the issues, problems and opportunities of their own lives.

Year 6 Curriculum - Summer Term

with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit

• To compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on/off position of switches

To use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram

• STEM project: To design and build a model which incorporates an electrical circuit using LED lighting

STEM project: To code LED lighting using Crumble.

History

Overview of WW2

• Hitler and Nazism

• Holocaust overview

• Blitz and evacuation

• Winston Churchill Propaganda Code breaking

• Battle of Britain

• Home front

• D-Day.

Geography

Europe on the world map and stage (overview)

European cities: Berlin

European cities: Paris

• To associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer

• Europe: physical geography (overview)

Europe: coastlines and rivers

• Europe: human geography

• Europe: borders and migration

• Europe: food and culture

Europe: climate Europe: tourism.

Computing

• Review an existing website and consider its structure

• Plan the features of a web page

• Consider the ownership and use of images (copyright)

Recognise the need to preview pages

Outline the need for a navigation path

Recognise the implications of linking to content owned by other people

• Create a program to run on a controllable device

• Explain that selection can control the flow of a program

Update a variable with a user input

Use a conditional statement to compare a variable to a value

Design and develop a project that uses inputs and outputs on a controllable device.

Drama

• Introduction to musical theatre, understanding storyline and characters

Choreography and movement for musical scenes

Scene work and transitions

• Acting through song.

Music

• Listen to a range of songs and pieces of music from Composers of the Month, reflecting upon style indicators, lyrics, musical dimension

Listen to each other when singing and playing and know how to fit into a group

• Play the ukelele as part of a group, in time and listening to one another

• Build, name, write and improvise with tonic triads

Record own compositions using musical notation

Preform own compositions, reflect and give feedback respectfully

• Rehearse and perform songs for the Prize Giving performance.

Art

• Use a range of mixed media to create collages, textiles, fabric, sew onto canvas, card etc

Add collage to a printed or painted background

Introduction to screen printing

Evaluate work and adapt accordingly. Revisit and consider further developments

• Prepare work for presentation in an exhibition.

French

On va en colo! - Going on a residential

• Talking and writing about activities

• Expressing opinions

Writing about our aspirations for the future

Learning to conjugate -er verbs

Near future tense

• Use of adjectives

• Prepositions

• Reviewing reading strategies

Regular review of numbers, day of week, months, colours

Responding to questions: Comment t’appelles-tu? Où habites tu?

Quel âge as-tu ? Comment ça va ? Qu’est ce que tu aimes?

PE

• Athletics

ƒ Optimising running performance

ƒ Advanced jumping techniques

ƒ Throwing with different implements

ƒ Competition analysis and strategy

ƒ Leading and officiating

• Tennis

ƒ Footwork patterns

ƒ Smash technique and power.

PSHE

• Aspirations and goal setting

• Managing risk

• Looking after mental health Coping with changes Keeping safe Body Image

• Sex education

• Self-esteem.

RE

• Introduction to Humanism Humanist values What is a Humanist understanding of human beings?

• Understand how Humanists approach living a happy life

• Humanist ethics and the golden rule

• Humanist goals for society.