Curriculum Overview

English

*Captions and labels

*Sentence structure

Contemporary Fiction

Hairy Maclary

*Retell & description

Contemporary Fiction

Lost and Found

Billy and the Beast

The Lion Inside

*Narrative Story

*Diary

Here Comes Frankie

Contemporary Fiction

*Letter writing

*Questions and Facts

Classic Fiction

The Jolly Postman

*Narrative - new version

Traditional Tales and Alternative versions

Little Red Riding Hood

*Classic Fiction/significant author

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

*Poetry: Rhyming couplets

Big Green Crocodile

*Geographical Report – The UK

*Note Taking

Non Chronological Report

*Indirect Recount – people’s history/bio

Significant People 

*Narrative- story

Invent a character

Contemporary Fiction

The Adventures of the Egg Box Dragon

Maths

Number: counting within 100

Number: comparison, wholes and parts

Number: place value (0 to 5)

Geometry: shape

Geometry: shape

Number: place value (0 to 10)

Number: addition

Number: addition

Number: addition and subtraction facts within 10

Number: place value (0 to 20)

Number: multiplication (unitising and coin recognition)

Number: multiplication (unitising and coin recognition)

Geometry: position and direction

Measurement: time

Science 

Animals

Seasonal changes -Autumn

Scientist focus:

Anders Celsius

Everyday Materials

Scientist focus:

Charles Mackintosh

Animals, including humans

My Body

Seasonal changes -Winter

Scientist focus:

Steve Backshall

STEM Project

Seasonal changes -Spring

Scientist focus:

Linda Brown Buck

Seasonal Changes

Plants

Scientist focus:

Beatrix Potter

History

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

A similarity and difference enquiry

How did these people make a change in the world?

Rosa Parks 

Millicent Fawcett

Malala Yousafzai 

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

Significance enquiry

Geography

Mapping our Area- Local Area study

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

Comparative Study- London & Nairobi

Computing 

Computing and Networks

Technology around us

Creating Media

Digital Painting

Programming A

Moving a Robot

Data and Information

Grouping Data

Creating Media

Digital Writing

Programming B

Programming animations

Design and Technology

Mechanisms 

Sliders and Levers 

Project: Moving Picture 

Mechanisms 

Sliders and Levers 

Project: Moving Celebration card 

Food

Preparing fruit and vegetables 

Project: Fruit salad

Food

Preparing fruit and vegetables 

Project: Fruit smoothies

Structures

Freestanding structures 

Project: structure (prop) from story book 

Structures

Freestanding structures 

Project: Bridges

Music 

My Musical Heartbeat 

How can we make friends when we sing together? 

Dance, Sing and Play

How does music tell stories about the past?

Exploring Sounds

How Does Music Make the world a Better Place?

Learning to Listen

How does Music Help us to Understand our Neighbours?

Having fun with Improvisation

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

Let’s Perform Together

Learning to play the Glockenspiel and read musical notation

Art 

Drawing

Mark making with range of materials - Howard Hodgkin 

Make own tools

Create and use different surface

Make controlled drawing

Use imagination to draw

Patrick Caulfield

Painting

Use of thick/thin paint

Brush strokes - Joan Mitchell

Respond to stories using colour

Responding to artists work - Jasper Johns

Printmaking

Direct printmaking

Negative stencils

Combine techniques –layered printed image

Clay slab relief

Collagraph block

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

Collage

Tear, overlap, stick

Identify hot/cold colours

Contrasting materials

 Patrick Heron

Andy Goldsworthy

 Richard Long

Textiles

Investigate weaving

Embellish fabric 

Fabric resist technique

Wrapping and knotting technique

Julia Bland

3-D/Sculpture

Pattern and line

Working with clay

Use a story as starting point

Clay balls and coils

Plaster cast mould

Andy Goldsworthy

Richard Long

PSHE/ safeguarding 

Physical & Mental Health 

Keeping Safe 

Relationships: Friends & Family 

Respectful & safe Relationships 

Living in the Wider World: Financial Literacy 

Health & Wellbeing: Ourselves- Growing & Changing 

RE

What does it mean to belong to a faith community?

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

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

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

What makes some places sacred? 

What makes some places sacred? 

PE

Introduction to Invasion Games

Introduction to Invasion Games

Gymnastics

Athletics

Cricket

Tennis

Educational Visits

Local Park 

Geography

Local Christian Church

RE

Using Transport (bus, tube, train)

PSHE

British Library

English

TBC

National Portrait Gallery

Art/History