Autumn 1

(8 weeks)

Autumn 2

(8 weeks)

Spring 1

(7 weeks)

Spring 2

(5 weeks)

Summer 1

(6 weeks)

Summer 2

(5 weeks)

Learning Challenge

Me and my school

How amazing are animals!

What’s Inside the toy box?

Where around the world?

Changing and growing

Let’s Imagine!

Books/Rhymes/poems

Rhymes:

Row, row, row your boat

Jack and jill

Humpty dumpty

One, two buckle my shoe

Rhyming books:

Frog on a log

Big pig on a dig

Fox on a box

Books:

The Rainbow Fish

The Colour Monster

Rhymes:

Old Macdonald had a farm

Hickory dickory dock

Mary had a little lamb

Baa Baa Black Sheep

Little Miss Muffet

Little Bo Peep

Rhyming books:

Oi frog!

Books:

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

Christmas book – That’s not my penguin

Frog on a log

Non-fiction:

Animal non-fiction books

Books:

Everywhere Bear

Toys in Space

Kipper’s Toy Box

Paddington Bear

Lost in Toy Museum

Non-fiction:

The History of Toys

Books:

Handa’s Surprise

Lost and Found

A Walk in London

Books:

The Enormous Turnip

A Fruit is a Suitcase for a Seed

A Stroll Through the Seasons

Oliver’s Vegetables

Jasper’s Beanstalk

Non-fiction:

Plant non-fiction books

Books:

Little Red Riding Hood

Three Little Pigs

The Gingerbread Man

Literacy

Phonics and Literacy sessions - distinguishing sounds, rhyming, alliteration, grapheme/phoneme correspondence, segmenting and blending sounds orally and independently, letter formation, sitting letters on lines

reading and writing words/labels/captions/simple sentences, reading and writing everyday words

Name writing using correct letter formation

Writing ‘secret messages’ – giving meaning and ascribing meaning to marks

Phonics and Literacy sessions - grapheme/phoneme correspondence, segmenting and blending sounds, reading and writing words/labels/captions/simple sentences, extended sentences, reading and writing irregular common words, reading words by sight, showing understanding of what has been read, reading and writing polysyllabic words, narrative writing, letter formation, sitting letters on lines

Phonics and Literacy sessions - grapheme/phoneme correspondence, segmenting and blending sounds, reading and writing words/labels/captions/simple sentences, extended sentences, reading and writing irregular common words, reading words by sight, showing understanding of what has been read, reading and writing polysyllabic words, narrative writing, letter formation, sitting letters on lines

Communication and Language

·       Understand how to listen carefully and why listening is important

·       Learn new vocabulary

·       Use new vocabulary through the day

·       Ask questions to find out more and to check they understand what has been said to them

·       Articulate their 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 talk to help work out problems and organise thinking and activities, and to explain how things work and why they might happen

·       Develop social phrases

·       Engage in storytimes

·       Listen to and talk about stories to build familiarity and understanding

·       Retell the story, once they have developed a deep familiarity with the text; some as exact repetition and some in their own words

·       Use new vocabulary in different contexts

·       Listen carefully to rhymes and songs, paying attention to how they sound

·       Learn rhymes, poems and songs

·       Engage in non-fiction books

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

Phonics

Initial Code Units 1-2

Everyday words: I, the, no

Initial Code Units 3-7

Everyday words: to, into, was, he,  me, we, be, she

Initial code

Unit 8-9 and unit 11-15

Everyday words said, was,  you, all, are, my, her,  :

Diagraphs

Initial code Unit 8-9

Everyday words: have, like, so, do, her, 

Diagraphs

Initial Code Units 9 -10

Everyday words: Some, come, were,

 there, little, one

Diagraphs

Initial Code Units 9-10 when, out, what

Handwriting

We will be using the nelson handwriting scheme to teach children how to form their letters correctly

a, i, m, s, t, o, p, b, c, g, h

d, f, v, e, k, l, z, r, u, j, w, y, x, z

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N

O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X

Y, Z, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4

5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Mathematics

Exploration of numbers 0-2

Mastering number project

Exploration of numbers 2-4

Mastering number project

Exploration of numbers 5-6

Shape

Mastering number project

Exploration of number 7

Measurement

Mastering number project

Exploration of number 8-9

Mastering number project

Exploration of number 10 and numbers beyond

Mastering number project

Personal, Social and Development

Myself and My Relationships 1 Beginning and Belonging

Myself and My Relationships 2 My Family and Friends - Including Anti-bullying

Citizenship 2 Me and My World

Myself and My Relationships 3 My Emotions

Healthy and Safer Lifestyles 3 Healthy Lifestyles

Healthy and Safer Lifestyles 2 Keeping Safe (Including Drug Education)

Healthy and Safer Lifestyles 1 My Body and Growing Up

Citizenship 1 Identities and Diversity

Physical Development (Gross motor skills)

Throughout the year during continuous provision opportunities, children have a range of activities to choose from to develop their gross motor skills. Children will also take part in PE lessons each week these will include games, dance, gymnastics and balance bike training sessions.

Physical Development (Fine motor skills)

During continuous provision we provide a range of activities which promote fine motor skills, helping children to develop the tripod grip that they need when holding a pencil to write.

Understanding the World

People, culture and communities ELG

·       Talk about members of their immediate family and community

·       Name and describe people who are familiar to them.

·       Comment on images of familiar situations in the past.

·       Draw information from a simple map.

·       Begin to make sense of their own life-story and family’s history.

The Natural World ELG

·       Explore the natural world around them.

·       Begin to understand the need to respect and care for the natural environment and all living things

Past and present ELG

·       Explore how things work.

People, culture and communities ELG

·       Recognise some similarities and differences between life in this country and life in other countries.

·       Recognise some environments that are different to the one in which they live.

·       Know that there are different countries in the world and talk about the differences they have experienced or seen in photos.

The Natural World ELG

·       Explore the natural world around them.

·       Plant seeds and care for growing plants.

·       Understand the key features of the life cycle of a plant and an animal.

·       Begin to understand the need to respect and care for the natural environment and all living things

RE (taken from UTW)

Being special: where do we belong?

Why is Christmas special for Christians

Why is the word “God” so important to Christians

Why is Easter special to Christians?

What places are special and why?

What times/stories are special and why? – teach this unit throughout the year at relevant parts.

Weekly RE lessons.

Planned opportunities across setting – role-play areas to act out experiences and knowledge, construction areas, outside area, exploration and observation tables, activities based around weekly RE lessons.

Expressive Arts and Design

Creating with materials

Colour mixing

Artist - Wassily Kandinsky

Christmas craft making

Drawing:

Drawing with a continuous line

Drawing:

Can we draw our face?

Planned opportunities across setting –  open-ended junk modelling and collage, outdoor stage for performing, open-ended construction, open-ended modelling and small-world areas, story box resources for acting out stories

Imaginative play/acting out narratives – role-play areas, construction and small-world areas (adult modelling)

Opportunities during continuous provision time and carpet time to talk about ideas and processes

Weekly music sessions – sound, rhythm, song, dance

TEXTILES - Templates and joining techniques 

FOOD – Preparing fruit and vegetables 

STRUCTURES – Sliders and leavers 

Throughout the year, Foundation Stage will participate in a number of planned focused tasks (teacher led, guided and independent) which will prepare the children for the units that they will do within Key Stage 1. This may include activities such as junk modelling, crafts, cutting activities and construction equipment play.  

The children will participate in a number of Design, Make, Evaluate projects throughout the year which will explicitly focus on the prior learning skills required for the units taught in Year 1. 

Singing - nursery rhymes and action songs, Whole class.

Small group work:

Clapping whilst following teacher – changing tempo

Introduction to playing percussion instruments. Tambourines, drums, maracas, triangles etc.

Varying the tempo (speed) and the dynamics (loudness).

Singing –, nursery rhymes and action songs. Longer songs plus songs for nativity

Small group work: Introduce body percussion – follow teacher, vary tempo and combinations of actions. Rhythms increasing in complexity.

The Snail and the Whale

Compose sound effects to The Gruffalo and Bear Hunt using percussion instruments

Using music, song and dance to tell stories (Gruffalo, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt)

Making Gruffalo Crumble

Singing more complex songs – wider vocal range.

Introduce  whole class body percussion

Small group instrument work - Move to child taking the lead. Introduce child only playing when it is their turn.

Introduce tunedpercussion- vary dynamics and tempo

Listening to music and responding with movement.

Grand Finale – whole class percussion session!

Charanga

Listening to music and responding with movement.

Using music, song and dance to tell stories etcs TOYS

Charanga

Singing nursery rhymes and action songs.

Using music, song and dance to tell stories (The Enormous Turnip, Jack and The Beanstalk)

Charanga

Singing nursery rhymes and action songs.

Using music, song and dance to tell stories (What the Ladybird Heard)

Through out foundation stage the children have experience of singing a wide range of nursery rhymes

AUTUMN 1

AUTUMN 2

SPRING 1

SPRING 2

SUMMER  1

SUMMER 2

Learning  Challenge

What’s it made of?

Exploring everyday materials and textures.

My town:

What is like to live in Market Harborough?

We’re going on a journey

My country:

What can we learn about the country that Market Harborough is in?

Great Britain:

What are our capital cities and what seas surround us?

The world around me

Animals

Where does my food come from?

Plants

The Victorian age

What is a bathing machine, and why did Queen Victoria have one?

How were things different in the past and what has stayed the same?

English

(Written Outcomes)

Writing a sentence-ensuring it makes sense and is punctuated accurately.

Writing sentences with adjectives in them for description.

Writing a sequence of sentences.

Labelling pictures.

Write a prediction sentence for a science experiment.

Short narratives (beginning of a story writing)

Writing information sentences.

Recount/ Letter

about the trip to the market

Autumn poetry

Rhyming Poetry

Recounts

Planning a narrative

Non-fiction sentences for animal booklets.

Non-fiction factsheets

Writing sentences with adjectives in them

Retelling a story

Instructions (IT link)

Writing scientific questions (What does it look like inside the stem?)

Short sequence of science/observational sentences

Writing sentences with adjectives in them for description

Poetry

Biographies

Persuasive writing

Writing sentences with adjectives in them for description

Story writing

Recounts including diary writing

English

(Sentence development)

In Year 1, children develop their understanding of sentence construction. They develop understanding of capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks. They orally rehearse sentences then write them. As the year progresses, they learn to edit their sentences and check that they make sense and are punctuated correctly. They link clauses within sentences with the use of ‘and’ and ‘but’. They use some adjectives to describe objects, people and settings.

English

(Handwriting)

In Year 1, children continue to learn how to form letters (including capitals) and numbers correctly that are of a consistent size.

English-Phonics

(Reading and Spelling)

See phonics policy for SSCs and Everyday words per term.

Quality Stimulus

Including books

When I was one (poetry)

The Tiger Who Came To tea

That’s not my…

Animal Bop

Augustus and his smile

Open very carefully

Autumn is Here

Clean up!

Planet full of plastic

Katie Morag

Finn McCool

Katie in London

The disgusting sandwich

Non-Fiction Animal Books

I Love...

World Book Day

Instruction text

The seed is sleepy

The Paperbag Princess

Where the Wild Things Are

Victorian workshop

Jabari Jumps

Ruby’s Worry

I do like to be beside the seaside (John A Glover-Kind)

The friendly octopus (Mike Jubb)

Queen Victoria’s Bathing Machine

 Maths

Comparison of quantities and part-whole relationships; Numbers 0-5; 2D and 3D shape; Numbers 0-10; Additive structures

Addition and subtraction facts within 10; Numbers 0-20

Unitising and coin recognition; Position and direction; Time

Science

Materials

Can I distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made?

Can I identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock?

Can I describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials?

Can I compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties?

Working scientifically:

-I can ask simple questions.

I can perform simple tests to find things out.

Making predictions for simple tests – What is the best material to keep a dinosaur dry?

Seasonal changes-Autumn

Can I identify the features of autumn?

Can I identify evergreen and deciduous trees?

Working scientifically:

Observing closely and grouping:

sorting leaves into the two categories.

Using scientific equipment e.g. magnifying glasses and tweezers

Animals including humans

Can I identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense?

Recording data: What are my 5 senses?

Seasonal changes – Winter

Can I identify the features of Winter?

Animals

Can I identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals?

Can I identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores?

Can I describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals including pets)?

Can I Identify and classify different types of animals?

Working scientifically:

-I can use my observations to suggest answers to questions.

-I can recognize that questions can be answered in different ways.

Identifying and classifying: What are the different types of animals?

Observe closely and write a conclusion- What do animals eat?

(STEM week)

Plants

Can I identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants?

Can I conduct a growing experiment with different seeds to compare and contrast growing times and heights of plants?

Can I identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees?

Working scientifically:

-I can observe closely

-I can use equipment to dissect a plant.

I can write a scientific conclusion.

Seasonal changes-Spring

Can I identify the features of spring?

Seasonal changes – Summer

Can I identify the features of summer?

Link to local geography – the trees in the school grounds.

Computing

We are treasure hunters

Tinkering with robots, using predictions and writing and debugging an algorithm (topic link - going on a journey/directions)

We are TV chefs

Writing, debugging and following an algorithm

Computer keyboards 

Logging on to the school sytem

We are painters

RE

What does it mean to belong to a faith community?

What do Christians believe God is like?

Who is Jewish and how do they live? (God, Torah, The People)

Who do Christians say made the world? (Creation)

How should we care for the world and for others, and why does it matter?

History / Geography

Simple mapping skills-looking at maps of the school, comparing old and new maps

Local area – Market Harborough including local landmarks, the history of the market, how spaces are used

Trip to Market Harborough market-Where in the town is the market?

What does it sell?

Who visits the market?

England-what is its capital, what are some of the national foods?

UK countries and capitals and surrounding seas

Looking at an atlas, map and globe

???Compare MH to a non-UK location

The Victorians

How were things different in the past and what has stayed the same?

Who were the Victorians?

Who was Queen Victoria?

What is a bathing machine and why did Queen Victoria have one?

Where did the Victorians go on holiday and what did they do there?

How did the Victorians travel?

Art / DT

DT: Investigating, designing and preparing a food product- fruit salad

Art: Painting and Romerro Britto

Learning about colour mixing

Practising brush strokes and mixing colours

Looking at how to paint in the style of an artist, thinking about suitable colours and bold/pale shades

DT: mechanisms – cards with moving parts

Printing

Looking at different printing techniques, creating patterns and how to design a printing block

Artist: Romero Britto

Drawing

Mark making, shading techniques

Textiles

Looking at how to manipulate and embellish fabric, create texture and use scissors to create shapes

DT: textiles make a finger puppet

Drawing part 2

Looking at how to draw 2d shapes accurately

Looking at how to draw 3d shapes, thinking about shading and shadows

PE

Multi-skills

Boot camp

Mighty movers (Running)

Story time dance

Skip to the beat

Groovy gymnastics

Brilliant ball skills

Gymfit circuits

Throwing and catching

Cool core (strength)

Active athletics

Fitness frenzy

Music

Charanga Introducing beat:  How can we make friends when we sing together?

Nativity songs

Charanga Adding rhythm and pitch -

How does music tell stories about the past?

Carnival of the animals

Charanga

Introducing tempo and dynamics -

How does music make the world a better place?

Charanga

Combining pulse, rhythm and pitch -

How does music help us to understand our neighbours?

Charanga Having fun with improv -

What songs can we sing to help us through the day?

Charanga

Explore sound and create a story -

How does music teach us about looking after our planet?

PSHE

Myself and My Relationships-beginning and belonging

Citizenship-diversity and communities

Healthy and Safer Lifestyles- managing safety and risk

Digital lifestyles (internet safety week)

Healthy and Safer Lifestyles-– Healthy lifestyles

Healthy and Safer Lifestyles relationships and sex education

Myself and my relationships – My emotions

Visits & visitors/

Trips

Trip to the market

Charlie the chimney sweep

Cultural Heritage

Familiar Poems

Hickory, Dickory Dock

Hey Diddle Diddle

One, Two, Buckle my Shoe

Stories

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Three Billy Goats Gruff

Favourite Songs

Hush Little Baby

Here we go Round the Mulberry Bush

Art

Sculptures

Familiar Poems

It’s Raining, It’s Pouring

Monday’s child

Mary had a Little Lamb

Stories

The Little Red Hen

Chicken Little

Favourite Songs

London Bridge is Falling Down

London’s Burning

History/Geography

The Union Jack

Familiar Poems

Three Blind Mice

Three Little Kittens

Old King Cole

Stories

Little Red Riding Hood

The Ugly Duckling

St George and the Dragon

King Arthur and the Round Table

History/Geography

The ContinentsFavourite Songs

Pop! Goes the Weasel

One Man Went to Mow

Scientists

Jane Goodall

Familiar Poems

Hot Cross Buns

Sing a Song of Sixpence

Stories

Tug of War

King Midas and the Golden TouchHistory/Geography

Stonehenge

Favourite Songs

The Bear Went Over the Mountain

Scientists

Joseph Banks

Aesop’s Fables

The Lion and the Mouse

The Hare and the Tortoise

The Grasshopper and the Ant

Stories

The Velveteen RabbitHistory/Geography

The Ice Age

Art

Cave Paintings Favourite Songs

The Farmer in his Den

The Old Man

Scientists

Wilbur and Orville Wright

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Stories

Winnie the PoohHistory/Geography

Prime Ministers

Art

Van Gogh PaintingsFavourite Songs

Kum Ba Yah

AUTUMN 1

AUTUMN 2

SPRING 1

SPRING 2

SUMMER  1

SUMMER 2

Learning  Challenge

What can we investigate?

Books, places, people, objects

What is Remembrance?

What was a soldier’s life like in World War 1?

London’s Burning

Did London really burn down?

Where in the world do different stories come from?

Why and where were castles built?

How can we

look after plants?

 ENGLISH

Units of Work 

Short narratives, sequencing of events

Four sentence types  

Persuasive writing

-leaflets linked to the moon 

Non-chronological report writing

Description writing about life in the trenches 

Diary entry from a soldier in the trenches 

Sequencing and retelling Buster’s Christmas 

Christmas Poetry

Asking and answering questions about the Great Fire of London 

Imaginary recount about Toby from Toby and the Great Fire of London 

Non-chronological report 

Report writing following a science investigation

Persuasive writing 

Setting descriptions  

Character descriptions 

Postcards 

Non-chronological  report 

Story writing

poetry

Labels  

Recount of our trip to Warwick Castle  

Persuasive writing  

Descriptions of castle defences and ways of attacking  

Diary entry  

Recipe for Mrs Twit 

Narrative relating to the effect the new medicine may have on Mrs Twit 

Science report writing  

Descriptions  

Design and describe a new land that could be at the top of the faraway tree  

Story writing  

Poetry

 Maths

Numbers 10 to 100

Calculations within 20

Fluently add and subtract within 10

Addition and subtraction of 2 digit numbers

Introduction to multiplication

Introduction to multiplication

Introduction to division structures

Shape

Addition and subtraction of 2 digit numbers

Money

Fractions

Time

Position and Direction

Multiplication and Division

Measure

Science

Uses of everyday materials

Animals including humans

Living Things and Their Habitats

Plants

Computing

We Are Astronauts programming on screen

We Are Games Testers

Exploring how computer games work

We Are Photographers

Taking better photos

We Are Researchers

Researching a topic

We Are Detectives

Collecting clues

We Are Zoologists

Collecting data about bugs

RE

Who Is Muslim and how do they live? Part 1

Why does Christmas matter to Christians? (incarnation)

Who Is Muslim and how do they live? Part 2

Why does Easter matter to Christians? (salvation)

What is the good news that Christians say Jesus brings? (gospel)

What makes some places sacred to believers?

History

WW1 and Remembrance

Great Fire of London-  Did London really burn down?

Samuel Pepys

Amelia Earhart-first woman to fly across the Atlantic

Why were castles so important? What are the features of a castle?

Geography

Human and Physical Features

The Continents and Oceans of the World

The importance of physical features for the location of castles.

 Local fieldwork study

Art

Drawing

Draw a teddy bear

Painting

Drawing

A tudor house

Collage

Creating a landscape

Artist Study

Bridget Riley

3D clay work

Make a dragon’s eye

DT

Structures – designing and making a slide

Mechanisms

Food – making a vegetable salad.

PE

2.2 Mighty Movers (Running)

2.1 Multi-skills

2.1 Boot Camp

2.3 Skip to the Beat

2.3 Groovy Gymnastics

2.4 Brilliant Ball Skills

2.4 Gymfit Circuits

2.6 Active Athletics

2.6 Fitness Frenzy

2.5 Throwing and Catching

2.5 Cool Core (Strength)

Music

Singing in class,and singing assemblies.  

Revise songs from year 1 21/22. 

Singing in class, singing assemblies and songs for the nativity.  

Christmas nativity songs 

Pulse, tempo and dynamics -  

Singing in class,and singing assemblies.  

Charanga 

I wanna play in a band 

WYCNK Instruments and their families  

Singing in class,and singing assemblies.  

Revise beat/pulse, rhythms, percussion

Introduce Notation- 

Reading notation then use to record compositions. 

Composing – using percussion, children compose background sounds for the Great Fire of London. 

Singing in class,and singing assemblies.  

The different sections of the orchestra, Music which tells a story – orchestral, opera, ballet and tone poems 

Listening and appreciating. 

Singing in class,and singing assemblies.  

Pulse, tempo and dynamics  

Further listening and appreciating. 

Introduce tuned percussion, gamelan bases, add tune over the top. 

PSHE

Citizenship

Rights, Rules and responsibilities

Myself and My Relationships

Family and Friends

Anti - Bullying

Healthy and Safter lifestyles – Digital Lifestyles

Healthy and safer lifestyles

Relationships and Sex Education

Healthy and Safer Lifestyles

Drug education

Myself and My Relationships

Managing Change

Healthy and Safter lifestyles – Personal Safety

Visits & visitors/

Trips

Visit to Harborough Museum and the Memorial Gardens

Samuel Pepys visit

Trip to Warwick Castle – usually in June

Visit to a local park

AUTUMN 1

AUTUMN 2

SPRING 1

SPRING 2

SUMMER 1

SUMMER 2

Learning  Challenge

How did the geography of Ancient Egypt influence their lives?

Can you use a range of sources to decide what life was like in Ancient Egypt?

What did the Ancient Egyptians believe about the afterlife?

Could these rocks contain fossils?

How did the geography of Ancient Egypt influence their lives?

Can you use a range of sources to decide what life was like in Ancient Egypt?

What did the Ancient Egyptians believe about the afterlife?

What do artefacts tell us about the Anglo-Saxons?

How can knowing about proportion help us to create our own Anglo-Saxon hero or heroine?

How can I make a pitched musical instrument?

Who was Beowulf and what does the story tell us about life in Anglo-Saxon times?

Why do we have a skeleton?

What do plants need to grow and reproduce?

Is Market Harborough a good place to live?

English

Recap on word classes and learn about adverbs of manner, time and place.

Rewrite part of Flat Stanley using adverbs.

Poetry – rhyme, repetition and performance.

Subordinate conjonctions.

Expanded noun phrases.

Writing short stories using pictures as a stimulus.

Non-fiction biography – Mary Anning

Non-fiction - Retell the story of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb.

Write a story from an animation.

Create a non-fiction report about ancient Egypt

Non-fiction – using a story map to explain the Book of the Dead and weighing of the heart ceremony.

NF Ancient Egypt Double Page Spread

Story based on animation using PSHE anti-bullying message

Writing a version of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse – Charles Mackesy

Story including direct speech using Traction Man and Pingu animation

Non-fiction report on the discovery at Sutton Hoo using prepositions.

Poetry kennings, alliteration, repetition and performance (linked to history, science and PSHE).

Adventure story (linked to history)

NF non-chronological report on animals

NF poster on healthy eating

Persuasive writing based on the Vikings.

Writing a setting for a story

Writing character descriptions

Revisit subordinating conjunctions

Poetry based on The Flower Man

Revisit Speech punctuation – For the Birds Pixar animation

Writing science non-fiction report on plants using features of non-fiction texts.

Questions about the development of Market Harborough

Letters to organisations.

Writing using The Window – comparing development,

describing a scene using expanded noun phrases.

Writing about Market Harborough in the past, present and future.

Quality Stimulus inc class novels

Flat Stanley – Jeff Brown

NF Monster Stones: The Story of a Dinosaur Fossil – Jacqui Bailey

Poetry – Please Mrs Butler (Allan Ahlberg) Walking with my Iguana (Brian Moses) Down behind the dustbin (Michael Rosen) On the Ning Nang Nong (Spike Milligan)

Class reading

A Mummy Ate My Homework – Thiago de Moraes

NF The Search for Tutankhamun – Jane Shuter

Video clips from BBC of life in Ancient Egypt

Camel animation

Sprout Boy advert

Class reading

Bill’s New Frock – Anne Fine

Stories of Ancient Egypt

Poetry

The Night Before Christmas

Traction Man is Here – Mini Grey

Poetry: Mum – Polly Peters, Kingfisher from The Lost Words – Robert Macfarlane, The Door – Miroslav Holub,

Boneyard Rap – Wes Magee

Class reading

The Sleeping Sword – Michael Morpurgo

NF The Anglo-Saxons

Beowulf – Michael Morgurgo, Keven Crossley Holland, Brain Patten

Non Fiction

Viking (P. Steele)

A Viking Longship

The Bayeux Tapestry

Class reading

How to Train Your Dragon – Cressida Cowell

The Flower Man – Mark Ludy

NF How Plants Grow (A. Royston)

Class reading 

A Necklace of Raindrops – Joan Aiken

Poetry

Emily Dickinson -

Bee! I’m Expecting You, Hurt no living thing, How soft a caterpillar steps.

The Window – Jeannie Baker

NF maps and atlases

Class reading

Poetry

The Lost Words – Robert Macfarlane

 Maths

Place Value

Reading, writing, making, comparing and ordering 3 digit numbers to 1000 (numerals and words). Recognising the value of each digit in a 3-digit number. Finding 1, 10 and 100 more/less than a given number. Counting in 4s, 8s, 50s, 100s.

Addition and Subtraction

Add and subtract mentally – 3 digit number plus ones, tens or hundreds.

Column addition with regrouping 3 digit numbers.

Column subtraction with regrouping 3 digit numbers.

Addition and subtraction of money.

Estimation and checking using inverse. Missing number problems.

Multiplication and Division

Recalling multiplication facts (3, 4, 8).

Multiplication 2-digit by 1-digit numbers.

Division bus stop method – short division. 2-digit number by 1-digit number.

Data

Create and interpret bar charts, pictograms, tables.

Fractions

Comparing and ordering, equivalent fractions, fractions of amounts including non-unit fractions, adding and subtracting fractions with same denominator within one whole, comparing unit fractions with different denominators or non-unit fractions with same denominator, tenths, mixed numbers.

Money

Giving change, using both £ and p in practical contexts

Time

Tell and write time from analogue clock to the nearest minute.

Convert 12 and 24hr.

Record and compare time and duration.

Know the number of:

·       seconds in a minute

·       days in each month, year and leap year.

Measure

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

Perimeter of simple 2D shapes

Shape

Draw and make 2D/3D shapes; recognise 3D shapes in different orientations; angles and turns; lines (horizontal, vertical, parallel, perpendicular)

Science

How can I compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties?

How are fossils formed?

What are soils made from? Are they all the same?

Working scientifically: C (obs), A (ques) Comparing rocks/what is soil?

How do things move on different surfaces?

Do all forces need contact between 2 objects? What about magnetic forces?

Which materials are attracted to a magnet? Are magnets always attracted to each other?

What are the poles of a magnet?

Can I predict whether 2 magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing?

Working scientifically: B (test), G (pred & concl) Friction investigation

How is sound made? What is vibration and how does a sound get to our ears?

What is the relationship between the pitch of a sound and the features of the object that produced it?

What is the relationshipbetween the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it?

How is sound measured? How can we make sound fainter?

Working scientifically: B (fair test) D (data logging) What is the best material for muffling sound?

What is nutrition? What is a healthy diet for a human?

What is a skeleton? Why do we have a skeleton? Do other animals have skeletons, and are there different types of skeleton?

What are muscles? How do they work? What muscles do humans have?

Working Scientifically: E (evid), F (gathering data) What can we find out from nutrition labels?

What are the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers?

What does a plant need to live and grow healthily? (Air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow.)

 How is water transported within plants?

What part do flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants? (Pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.)

Working Scientifically: C (obs) What does a plant need to grow healthily?

COMPUTING

Connecting Computers

-Networks

-Computer Systems

Stop Frame Animation

-Effective use of tools

-Creating Media

Sequencing sounds

-Programming

-Design and Development

Branching Databases

-Data and Information

-Effective use of tools

Desktop Publishing

-Effective us of tools

-Creating Media

Events and Actions in Programs

-Programming

-Design and Development

RE

What do Christians learn from the Creation story? (Creation) 

What is it like for someone to follow God? (People of God) 

How do festivals and worship show what matters to a Muslim? (Ibadah)u 

How do festivals and family life show what matters to Jewish people? (God/Torah/the People)u 

What kind of world did Jesus want? (Gospel) 

How and why do people try to make the world a better place? 

History / Geography

Countries and continents

What is a continent? What are the continents in the world?

What is a country? What is a capital city? What are the capital cities of the UK and other countries?

What is climate? What is a climate zone? What are the climate zones in the world?

What is a geographical feature? What are the major geographical features in the world?

Where is Egypt? 

When was Ancient Egypt?

How do we know about Ancient Egyptians?

What was everyday life like for Ancient Egyptians?

What did Ancient Egyptian believe about the life after death (mummification)

Why was the Nile important to Ancient Egyptians?

What did the Ancient Egyptians believe about life after death? (The Book of the Dead/Gods)

How was Tutankhamun’s tomb discovered and why was it so important?

How doarchaeologists find out about the past?

Where did the Anglo-Saxons come from?

Why did the Anglo-Saxons come to Britain?

Where did the Anglo-Saxons live in Britain?

(Anglo-Saxon settlements (location, names etc) and maps of Britain from the past.)

Who was buried at Sutton Hoo? Why was the discovery of Sutton Hoo important?

What was life like for Anglo-Saxons in Britain?

What religion did Anglo-Saxons follow?

Where did the Vikings come from? When was the Viking era in Britain?

Why did the Vikings raid and then settle in Britain?

How successful were the Vikings in conquering Britain?

What was life like in Viking Britain?

How did the Vikings maintain law and order?

What does the Bayeux Tapestry tell us about the Battle of Hastings?

What is ‘development’ and how does it change a place?

How has Market Harborough changed in the past?

What developments are there in Market Harborough now?

Why are these developments needed?

Why are these developments important?

What do you want to know about these developments?

What would you like to see in Market Harborough in the future?

Is Market Harborough a good place to live?

Local area mapwork, compass and grid references

Art

Drawing: Develop techniques in drawing to create pattern and texture in a sketch of a fossil.

Printing: To use lino printing to create a Christmas card with impressed methods and overlays.

Printing: Using flowers as a stimulus to create ‘wallpaper’ in the style of William Morris with repeating patterns incorporating reliefs and overlays.

Drawing: Develop techniques in drawing to create an Anglo-Saxon hero or heroine using proportion accurately.

3-D: Create a sculpture in the style of Anuradha Patel.

Artist study: Anuradha Patel

Painting: Create a detailed, oversized watercolour of part of a flower in the style of Georgia O’Keeffe.

Drawing: Develop techniques in drawing to create a traditional perspective drawing of a landscape relating to Market Harborough.

DT

DT – 2D shape to 3D product. To create a reinforced 3D ‘burial site’ for a ‘mummified tomato’.

DT – Levers and Linkaages. To create a pop-up or moving book based on Traction Man

DT: Healthy and varied diet. To make a sandwich using 3 fillings.

PE

3.6 Active Athletics

3.6 Fitness Frenzy

3.5 Throwing and Catching

3.5 Cool Core (Strength)

3.3 Skip to the Beat

3.3 Groovy Gymnastics

3.4. Brilliant Ball Skills

3.4 Gymfit Circuits

3.2 Mighty Movers (Running)

3.2 African Dance

3.1 Multi-skills

3.1 Boot Camp

Music

Developing Notation Skills. Using these to play simple songs on the recorder.

Enjoying Improvisation

What stories does music tell us about the past?

Composing Using Your Imagination

How does music make the world a better place?

Sharing Musical Experiences

How does music help us get to know our community?

Learning More about Musical Styles

How does music make a difference to us every day?

Recognising different sounds

How does Music connect us with our planet?

PSHE

Healthy & Safer Lifestyles: Digital Lifestyles

Myself and My Relationships  

Anti-Bullying  

Healthy & Safer Lifestyles Healthy Lifestyles (in science, Y4 to teach teeth in science)  

Healthy and Safer Lifestyles  

Managing Safety and Risk 

Myself and My Relationships  

My Emotions 

Citizenship

Rights, Rules and Responsibilities

Healthy and Safer Lifestyles 

Relationships and Sex Education  (to include non-binary definition)

MFL

Finger rhymes and stories

Greetings

Instructions

Name and age

How you are feeling

Counting to 10

Greetings

Instructions

Name and age

How you are feeling

Counting to 10

Visits & visitors

New Walk Museum:  Egyptian workshop and self-guided tour of rocks and fossils gallery.

Anglo Saxon/Viking experience day

Visits from Harborough District Council, Harborough Historical Society and Town Planner Mr Heath.

Visit to Market Harborough including The Town Trail and Harborough Theatre.

AUTUMN 1

AUTUMN 2

SPRING 1

SPRING 2

SUMMER 1

SUMMER 2

Learning  Challenge

How did the geography of Ancient Egypt influence their lives?

Can you use a range of sources to decide what life was like in Ancient Egypt?

What did the Ancient Egyptians believe about the afterlife?

Could these rocks contain fossils?

How did the geography of Ancient Egypt influence their lives?

Can you use a range of sources to decide what life was like in Ancient Egypt?

What did the Ancient Egyptians believe about the afterlife?

What do artefacts tell us about the Anglo-Saxons?

How can knowing about proportion help us to create our own Anglo-Saxon hero or heroine?

How can I make a pitched musical instrument?

Who was Beowulf and what does the story tell us about life in Anglo-Saxon times?

Why do we have a skeleton?

What do plants need to grow and reproduce?

Is Market Harborough a good place to live?

English

Recap on word classes and learn about adverbs of manner, time and place.

Recap sentence structures diary writing and informal letters

Rewrite part of Flat Stanley using adverbs.

Poetry – rhyme, repetition and performance.

Subordinate conjonctions.

Expanded noun phrases.

Writing short stories using pictures as a stimulus.

Non-fiction biography – Mary Anning

Non-fiction - Retell the story of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb.

Write a story from an animation.

Create a non-fiction report about ancient Egypt

Non-fiction – using a story map to explain the Book of the Dead and weighing of the heart ceremony.

NF Ancient Egypt Double Page Spread

Story based on animation using PSHE anti-bullying message

Writing a version of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse – Charles Mackesy

Story including direct speech using Traction Man and Pingu animation

Non-fiction report on the discovery at Sutton Hoo using prepositions.

Poetry kennings, alliteration, repetition and performance (linked to history, science and PSHE).

Adventure story (linked to history)

NF non-chronological report on animals

NF poster on healthy eating

Persuasive writing based on the Vikings.

Writing a setting for a story

Writing character descriptions

Revisit subordinating conjunctions

Poetry based on The Flower Man

Revisit Speech punctuation – For the Birds Pixar animation

Writing science non-fiction report on plants using features of non-fiction texts.

Questions about the development of Market Harborough

Letters to organisations.

Writing using The Window – comparing development,

describing a scene using expanded noun phrases.

Writing about Market Harborough in the past, present and future.

Quality Stimulus inc class novels

Flat Stanley – Jeff Brown

NF Monster Stones: The Story of a Dinosaur Fossil – Jacqui Bailey

Poetry – Please Mrs Butler (Allan Ahlberg) Walking with my Iguana (Brian Moses) Down behind the dustbin (Michael Rosen) On the Ning Nang Nong (Spike Milligan)

Class reading

Flat Stanley Egypt

NF The Search for Tutankhamun – Jane Shuter

Video clips from BBC of life in Ancient Egypt

Camel animation

Sprout Boy advert

Class reading

Bill’s New Frock – Anne Fine

Stories of Ancient Egypt

Poetry

The Night Before Christmas

Traction Man is Here – Mini Grey

Poetry: Mum – Polly Peters, Kingfisher from The Lost Words – Robert Macfarlane, The Door – Miroslav Holub,

Boneyard Rap – Wes Magee

Class reading

The Sleeping Sword – Michael Morpurgo

NF The Anglo-Saxons

Beowulf – Michael Morgurgo, Keven Crossley Holland, Brain Patten

Non Fiction

Viking (P. Steele)

A Viking Longship

The Bayeux Tapestry

Class reading

How to Train Your Dragon – Cressida Cowell

The Flower Man – Mark Ludy

NF How Plants Grow (A. Royston)

Class reading 

A Necklace of Raindrops – Joan Aiken

Poetry

Emily Dickinson -

Bee! I’m Expecting You, Hurt no living thing, How soft a caterpillar steps.

The Window – Jeannie Baker

NF maps and atlases

Class reading

Poetry

The Lost Words – Robert Macfarlane

 Maths

Place value – value digits

Ordering and comparing numbers

Rounding

Estimation

Factors and multiples

Multiplication

Division

Bar models

Interpreting data

Line graphs

Perpendicular and parallel lines

Fractions

Adding and subtracting fractions

Fraction word problems

Angles

Squares and rectangles

Decimals tenths, hundredths and thousandths

Decimals-fractions

Rounding decimals

Perimeter and Area

Calculating Decimals

Decimal word problems

·       Time

Symmetry

Tessellation

Word problems

Science

How can I compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties?

How are fossils formed?

What are soils made from? Are they all the same?

Working scientifically: C (obs), A (ques) Comparing rocks/what is soil?

How do things move on different surfaces?

Do all forces need contact between 2 objects? What about magnetic forces?

Which materials are attracted to a magnet? Are magnets always attracted to each other?

What are the poles of a magnet?

Can I predict whether 2 magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing?

Working scientifically: B (test), G (pred & concl) Friction investigation

How is sound made? What is vibration and how does a sound get to our ears?

What is the relationship between the pitch of a sound and the features of the object that produced it?

What is the relationshipbetween the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it?

How is sound measured? How can we make sound fainter?

Working scientifically: B (fair test) D (data logging) What is the best material for muffling sound?

What is nutrition? What is a healthy diet for a human?

What is a skeleton? Why do we have a skeleton? Do other animals have skeletons, and are there different types of skeleton?

What are muscles? How do they work? What muscles do humans have?

Working Scientifically: E (evid), F (gathering data) What can we find out from nutrition labels?

What are the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers?

What does a plant need to live and grow healthily? (Air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow.)

 How is water transported within plants?

What part do flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants? (Pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.)

Working Scientifically: C (obs) What does a plant need to grow healthily?

COMPUTING

Connecting Computers

-Networks

-Computer Systems

Stop Frame Animation

-Effective use of tools

-Creating Media

Sequencing sounds

-Programming

-Design and Development

Branching Databases

-Data and Information

-Effective use of tools

Desktop Publishing

-Effective us of tools

-Creating Media

Events and Actions in Programs

-Programming

-Design and Development

RE

What do Christians learn from the Creation story? (Creation) 

What is it like for someone to follow God? (People of God) 

How do festivals and worship show what matters to a Muslim? (Ibadah)u 

How do festivals and family life show what matters to Jewish people? (God/Torah/the People)u 

What kind of world did Jesus want? (Gospel) 

How and why do people try to make the world a better place? 

History / Geography

Countries and continents

What is a continent? What are the continents in the world?

What is a country? What is a capital city? What are the capital cities of the UK and other countries?

What is climate? What is a climate zone? What are the climate zones in the world?

What is a geographical feature? What are the major geographical features in the world?

Where is Egypt? 

When was Ancient Egypt?

How do we know about Ancient Egyptians?

What was everyday life like for Ancient Egyptians?

What did Ancient Egyptian believe about the life after death (mummification)

Why was the Nile important to Ancient Egyptians?

What did the Ancient Egyptians believe about life after death? (The Book of the Dead/Gods)

How was Tutankhamun’s tomb discovered and why was it so important?

How do archaeologists find out about the past?

Where did the Anglo-Saxons come from?

Why did the Anglo-Saxons come to Britain?

Where did the Anglo-Saxons live in Britain?

(Anglo-Saxon settlements (location, names etc) and maps of Britain from the past.)

Who was buried at Sutton Hoo? Why was the discovery of Sutton Hoo important?

What was life like for Anglo-Saxons in Britain?

What religion did Anglo-Saxons follow?

Where did the Vikings come from? When was the Viking era in Britain?

Why did the Vikings raid and then settle in Britain?

How successful were the Vikings in conquering Britain?

What was life like in Viking Britain?

How did the Vikings maintain law and order?

What does the Bayeux Tapestry tell us about the Battle of Hastings?

What is ‘development’ and how does it change a place?

How has Market Harborough changed in the past?

What developments are there in Market Harborough now?

Why are these developments needed?

Why are these developments important?

What do you want to know about these developments?

What would you like to see in Market Harborough in the future?

Is Market Harborough a good place to live?

Local area mapwork, compass and grid references

Art

Drawing: Develop techniques in drawing to create pattern and texture in a sketch of a fossil.

Printing: To use lino printing to create a Christmas card with impressed methods and overlays.

Printing: Using flowers as a stimulus to create ‘wallpaper’ in the style of William Morris with repeating patterns incorporating reliefs and overlays.

Drawing: Develop techniques in drawing to create an Anglo-Saxon hero or heroine using proportion accurately.

3-D: Create a sculpture in the style of Anuradha Patel.

Artist study: Anuradha Patel

Painting: Create a detailed, oversized watercolour of part of a flower in the style of Georgia O’Keeffe.

Drawing: Develop techniques in drawing to create a traditional perspective drawing of a landscape relating to Market Harborough.

DT

DT – 2D shape to 3D product. To create a reinforced 3D ‘burial site’ for a ‘mummified tomato’.

DT – Levers and Linkaages. To create a pop-up or moving book based on Traction Man

DT: Healthy and varied diet. To make a sandwich using 3 fillings.

PE

3.6 Active Athletics

3.2 African Dance

3.5 Throwing and Catching

3.5 Cool Core (Strength)

3.3 Skip to the Beat

3.3 Groovy Gymnastics

3.4. Brilliant Ball Skills

3.4 Gymfit Circuits

3.2 Mighty Movers (Running)

3.6 Fitness Frenzy

3.1 Multi-skills

3.1 Boot Camp

Music

Developing Notation Skills. Using these to play simple songs on the recorder.

Enjoying Improvisation

What stories does music tell us about the past?

Composing Using Your Imagination

How does music make the world a better place?

Sharing Musical Experiences

How does music help us get to know our community?

Learning More about Musical Styles

How does music make a difference to us every day?

Recognising different sounds

How does Music connect us with our planet?

PSHE

Healthy & Safer Lifestyles: Digital Lifestyles

Myself and My Relationships  

Anti-Bullying  

Healthy & Safer Lifestyles Healthy Lifestyles (in science, Y4 to teach teeth in science)  

Healthy and Safer Lifestyles  

Managing Safety and Risk 

Myself and My Relationships  

My Emotions 

Citizenship

Rights, Rules and Responsibilities

Healthy and Safer Lifestyles 

Relationships and Sex Education  (to include non-binary definition)

MFL

AUTUMN 1

AUTUMN 2

SPRING 1

SPRING 2

SUMMER  1

SUMMER 2

Learning  Challenge

What is beyond Planet Earth?

How are Rivers formed?

What can we do with Cocoa Beans?

Who were the Mayans and what was their society like?

Was William Shakespeare right about Richard III?

Are all life cycles the same?

 ENGLISH

Units of Work 

Autobiography/Biography   

Space Poetry  

Descriptive writing   

Recounts   

Morris Lessmore  

Narrative Poetry  

Tuesday – Story writing  

Performance Poetry 

Formal letter writing   

Classic Literature-Charlie and the chocolate factory   

Descriptive writing   

Persuasive writing and letter  

Story Writing (Book week)  

Discussion  

Debates   

Explanation text   

Recount – diary/first person perspective   

Stories from other cultures – The birthday Boy  

Descriptive writing  

Internal monologues  

Newspaper report   

Non-chronological reports  

Descriptive Writing  

Story Writing  

Recount – diary/first person perspective    

 Maths

Read and Write numbers to 1000000

Place Value

Decimals

Ordering, comparing and rounding numbers

Estimation

Multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 1000

Mental strategies for addition and subtraction

Formal written methods for + - X ÷

Solving one and two step problem

Problem Solving

Fractions

Factors

Prime Numbers

Multiples

Negative numbers

2D and 3D shapes

Angles

Perpendicular and parallel lines

coordinates

Perimeter and area

Decimals

Adding and subtracting decimals (money)

Metric measure

Converting between units of measure

Converting between imperial and metric

Time

Presenting and interpreting data 

Ratio

Percentage

Science

Earth and Space

Forces

Materials –

Materials and their properties

Materials –

Changing states /

 Dissolving, evaporating, filtering, sieving and separating materials

Living Things – life cycles and reproduction

Humans and animals

Computing

We are game developers.

Developing an interactive game

We are bloggers.

Sharing experiences and opinions

We are artists.

Fusing geometry and art

We are cryptographers.

Cracking codes

We are web developers.

Creating a website about cyber safety

We are architects.

Creating a virtual space

RE

What does it mean to if Christians believe God is Holy and Loving

What does it mean to be a Muslim in Britain today?

Why do Christians believe Jesus was the Messiah?

Why is the Torah important to Jewish people?

Christians and how to live – what would Jesus do?

What matters most to Humanists and Christians?

History

Space race

The Mayans

The Mayans

Local study- Richard III

Geography

Longitude & Latitude, climates and time zones

Rivers

Local area study / map work of MH

Welland Park Map/Field work 

Art

Drawing

3D shape

Painting

Impressionist water art (Monet)

Collage

Drawing

Perspectives

Printing

Media – printing

 Artist

 Banksy

DT

Structures – Frames

Textiles – Combining different fabric shapes 

Food– Celebrating culture and seasonality 

PE

 Gym Sequences

 Step to the beat

 Healthy lifestyle: you are what you eat!

 Invaders

 Boot Camp

 Healthy body: inside out

 Dynamic Dance

 Mighty Movers (Boxercise)

 Healthy mind: going for goals

 Nimble Nets

 Cool Core (Pilates)

 Healthy mind: healthy body

 Striking and Fielding

 Gymfit Circuits

 Healthy body: blood and guts

 Young Olympians

 Fitness Frenzy

 Healthy lifestyle: germ busters!

Music

Charanga –

Getting started with music tech- How does music bring us together?

Emotions and musical styles- How does music connect us with our past?

Exploring key and time signatures – How does music improve our world?

Introducing chords- How does Music teach us about our community?

Words, meaning and expression- How does music shape our way of life?

Identifying important musical elements- How does music connect us with the environment?

PSHE

Healthy and Safer Lifestyles

Relationships and Sex Education

Myself and My Relationships   

Family and Friends   

Anti-Bullying  

Healthy and Safer Lifestyles    

Managing safety and risk  

Healthy and Safer Lifestyles    

Drug education   

Healthy and Safer Lifestyle  

Healthy lifestyles   

Citizenship 

Diversity and Community  

MFL

Clothes, uniform 

Adjectival agreement: colours to describe masculine and feminine nouns 

Penfriend letter exchange 

Focus on Strasbourg 

Using a bilingual dictionary

Family, revision of pets 

Size adjectives 

Alphabet 

Count to 60 

Christmas 

Using a bilingual dictionary

Visits & visitors/

Trips

Space Centre

Richard III Visitor Centre

AUTUMN 1

AUTUMN 2

SPRING 1

SPRING 2

SUMMER  1

SUMMER 2

Learning  Challenge

What did the Greeks ever do for us?

Poles Apart Could you survive at the ends of the Earth?

Who is Charles Darwin and Why is he so important?

What does it take to be a master of espionage?

Why is South America sensational?

What a performance!

ENGLISH

-Narrative: Retelling a Greek myth and creating own Greek myth - setting, character and atmosphere  description

-Diaries

-Setting, character and atmosphere description

-Formal Letter of application

-Motivational writing

-Mini-biographies

-Information text

-Newspaper report

-Poetry

-Balanced argument

-Biography

-Advertising a product

-Explanation text

-Narrative: action scene with character, action and dialogue

-Journal writing

-Narrative: Short story writing - setting, character and atmosphere description

-Persuasive letter

-Non chronological report

-Poetry

TBC

 Maths

Place value

Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division

Fractions

Reasoning problems for all of the above

Arithmetic

Fractions

Geometry

Arithmetic

Fractions

Measurement

Ratio

Coordinates

Line Graphs/pie charts

Shape

Algebra

Year 6 gaps/ revision

Year 6 gaps/ revision plus:

Time

Roman numerals

M/KM

Investigative maths projects

Science

Heart, blood and circulation

Investigating light

Evolution and Inheritance

Electricity and electrical circuits

Living things and their habitats

Classification

Computing

(e-safety runs throughout)

We are Gamers.

Making a text based adventure game

We are Computational thinkers

Mastering algorithms

We are Publishers

Creating a yearbook or magazine

RE

Why do some people believe in God and some people not?

Why do Hindus want to be good (Karma/Dharma/Samsara/Moksha)?

What do Christians believe Jesus did to ‘save’ people (salvation)?

For Christians, what kind of king is Jesus (Kingdom of God)?

How do faith help people when life gets hard?

History

Ancient Greece and its legacy

The Polar Regions:

Timeline of exploration/study of an explorer from the past

World War II

Geography

The Polar Regions – Physical and human geography

South America - physical and human geography

Art

Drawing

Self Portrait- half face

Sculpture

Greek vases

3D

Carnival hats

Year 6 production props and scenery

Textiles

Leavers T-shirt- Batik

Drawing

Self-portrait- full face

Artist

Henri Rousseau – rainforest paintings

DT

Food and Nutrition

Flatbread

Design, make and evaluate an authentic Greek flatbread for athletes and their families to eat at an end of Olympics celebration

Mechanical Systems

Moveable vehicles

Electrical Systems

Alarm for moveable vehicles

PE

6.3 Gym Sequences

6.3 Step to the beat

6.3 Healthy lifestyle: you are what you eat!

6.2 Dynamic Dance

6.2 Mighty Movers (Boxercise)

6.2 Healthy mind: going for goals

6.5 Nimble Nets

6.5 Cool Core (Pilates)

6.5 Healthy mind: healthy body

6.1 Invaders

6.1 Boot Camp

6.1 Healthy body: inside out

6.4 Striking and Fielding

6.4 Gym Fit Circuits

6.4 Healthy body: blood and guts

6.6 Young Olympians

6.6 Fitness Frenzy

6.6 Healthy lifestyle: germ busters!

Music

Charanga:

Developing melodic phrases

How does music bring us together?

Charanga:

Understanding structure and form

How does music connect us with our past?

Charanga: Gaining confidence through performance

How does music improve our world?

Charanga:

Exploring notation further

How does music teach us about our community?

Key stage singing

Year 6 performance

Charanga

Using chords and structure

How does music shape our way of life?

PSHE

Myself and My Relationships  

My Emotions  

Myself and My Relationships   

Anti-Bullying  

Healthy and Safer Lifestyles  

Digital Lifestyles 

Health and safer Lifestyle

Relationship and Sex Education

Health and Safer Lifestyles

Personal Safety

French

Sports/hobbies 

Verbs 

Subject pronouns 

Expressing opinions Penfriend letter exchange 

Easter 

Food and drink 

Ordering in a café  

Money 

Counting 60-100 

Countries 

Holidays 

Festivals  

Penfriend letter exchange 

Transition: link with secondary schools 

Visits & visitors/

Residential

Arctic explorer

The Warning Zone