Social communication skills
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Pencil control and tripod grip PE lessons
• personal, social and emotional development
Fine motor development activities pencil control and pencil grip Name tracing/writing activities
Curriculum
• children learn to be strong and independent through positive •relationshipschildrenlearn and develop well in enabling environments with teaching and support from adults, who respond to their individual interests and needs and help them to build their learning over time. Children benefit from a strong partnership between practitioners and parents and/or carers.
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Working as a team
• Personal, Social and Emotional development
• NumberCountingMathematicsskillsrecognition/ordering/1:1 correspondence activities
Pre reading Montessori activities
Three areas are particularly important for building a foundation for igniting children’s curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, forming relationships and thriving. These are the prime areas:
EYFS: Curriculum Overview
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Using a wider range of vocabulary learning new vocabulary
We also support children in the four specific areas of learning, through which the three prime areas are strengthened and Theapplied.specific areas are:
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Rhymes and songs
Healthy eating/taking care of our teeth/exercise
• ExploringLiteracy a range of fiction and non fiction books and developing comprehension and language skills
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Real life mathematical number problems with numbers
At Orchard House School the children in the Early Years benefit from a continuous provision in the outdoor environment. Children’s learning is extended daily in our outdoor area and children enjoy daily outdoor activities throughout the academic year. Exploratory play is
• physical development
• communication and language
Communications skills with peers and adults
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• literacy
Synthetic phonics
Developing new friendships
Questions and instructions
••mathematicsunderstanding the world
• importance of learning and development. Children develop and learn at different rates.
Select and use resources independently Exploring feelings
At Orchard House School we follow the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum. We follow the four guiding principles as stated in the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage. These principles are:
Listening and communication skills
• Understanding the World
• expressive arts and design
• every child is a unique child, who is constantly learning and can be resilient, capable, confident and self assured
There are seven areas of learning and development that shape our educational programme. All areas of learning and development are important and inter connected.
Areas of Learning
Express their ideas and feelings about their experiences using full sentences, including use of past, present, and future tenses and making
•Communication and Language
Listening, Attention and Understanding ELG Children at the expected level of development will: Listen attentively and respond to what they hear with relevant questions, comments and actions when being read to and during whole class discussions and small group interactions;
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Self Regulation ELG Children at the expected level of development will: Show an understanding of their own feelings and those of others, and begin to regulate their behaviour accordingly; Set and work towards simple goals, being able to wait for what they want and control their immediate impulses when appropriate; Give focused attention to what the teacher says, responding appropriately even when engaged in activity, and show an ability to follow instructions involving several ideas or actions.
Building Relationships ELG Children at the expected level of development will: Work and play cooperatively and take turns with others; Form positive attachments to adults and friendships with peers; Show sensitivity to their own and to others’ needs.
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information about the Early Years curriculum please follow this https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/earlylink years foundation stage framework 2
encouraged in the outdoor area throughout the day. Children in the Early Years also benefit from many aspects of the Montessori curriculum and philosophy at Orchard House
Singing a range of songs
Exploring texture and colour Small world activities developing story telling skills
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Speaking ELG Children at the expected level of development will:
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Participate in small group, class and one to one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary; Offer explanations for why things might happen, making use of recently introduced vocabulary from stories, non fiction, rhymes and poems when appropriate;
Make comments about what they have heard and ask questions to clarify their understanding; Hold conversation when engaged in back and forth exchanges with their teacher and peers.
Gross Motor Skills ELG Children at the expected level of development will: Negotiate space and obstacles safely, with consideration for themselves and others; Demonstrate strength, balance and coordination when playing; Move energetically, such as running, jumping, dancing, hopping, skipping and climbing
• Physical Development
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Self ELG Children at the expected level of development will: Be confident to try new activities and show independence, resilience and perseverance in the face of challenge; Explain the reasons for rules, know right from wrong and try to behave accordingly; Manage their own basic hygiene and personal needs, including dressing, going to the toilet, and understanding the importance of healthy food choices.
• Personal, Social and Emotional Development
*All areas of learning are reinforced by a range of Montessori activities for children to select during independent learning time.
Fine Motor Skills ELG Children at the expected level of development will: Hold a pencil effectively in preparation for fluent writing using the tripod grip in almost all cases; Use a range of small tools, including scissors, paint brushes and cutlery; Begin to show accuracy and care when drawing.
ELG Children at the expected level of development will: Demonstrate understanding of what has been read to them by retelling stories and narratives using their own words and recently
• ComprehensionLiteracy
at the expected level of development will:
Anticipate where appropriate key events in stories; Use and understand recently introduced vocabulary during discussions about stories, non fiction, rhymes and poems and during role
• Understanding the World Past and Present ELG Children at the expected level of development will: Talk about the lives of the people around them and their roles in society; Know some similarities and differences between things in the past and now, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class; Understand the past through settings, characters and events encountered in books read in class and storytelling;
Understand some important processes and changes in the natural world around them, including the seasons and changing states of
Creating with Materials ELG Children at the expected level of development will: Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form, and function; Share their creations, explaining the process they have used; Make use of props and materials when role playing characters in narratives and stories.
People Culture and Communities ELG Children at the expected level of development will: Describe their immediate environment using knowledge from observation, discussion, stories, non fiction texts, and maps; Know some similarities and differences between different religious and cultural communities in this country, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class; Explain some similarities and differences between life in this country and life in other countries, drawing on knowledge from stories, non fiction texts and when appropriate maps
Being Imaginative and Expressive ELG Children at the expected level of development will: Invent, adapt and recount narratives and stories with peers and their teacher; Sing a range of well known nursery rhymes and songs; Perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and when appropriate try to move in time with music.
introduced vocabulary;
The Natural World ELG Children at the expected level of development will: Explore the natural world around them, making observations and drawing pictures of animals and plants; Know some similarities and differences between the natural world around them and contrasting environments, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class;
• NumberMathematicsELGChildren
Numerical Patterns ELG Children at the expected level of development will: Verbally count beyond 20, recognising the pattern of the counting system; Compare quantities up to 10 in different contexts, recognising when one quantity is greater than, less than or the same as the other quantity; Explore and represent patterns within numbers up to 10, including evens and odds, double facts and how quantities can be distributed equally
•matter.Expressive Arts and Design
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Have a deep understanding of number to 10, including the composition of each number; Subitise (recognise quantities without counting) up to 5; Automatically recall (without reference to rhymes, counting or other aids) number bonds up to 5 (including subtraction facts) and some number bonds to 10, including double facts.
*All areas of learning are reinforced by a range of Montessori activities for children to select during independent learning time.
Writing ELG Children at the expected level of development will: Write recognisable letters, most of which are correctly formed; Spell words by identifying sounds in them and representing the sounds with a letter or letters; Write simple phrases and sentences that can be ready by others.
ELG Children at the expected level of development will: Say a sound for each letter in the alphabet and at least 10 digraphs; Read words consistent with their phonic knowledge by sound blending; Read aloud simple sentences and books that are consistent with their phonic knowledge, including some common exception words.
● Recognise note values learnt in the Den, including dotted quavers, using them as different characters of people in the park: Minims = lazy gardeners; Crotchets = grown ups; Quavers = joggers; Dotted quavers = children; Semi quavers = dogs
● The MusicianshipDen through singing
● sing individually and in a group
● Participate in musical games, showing an awareness of phrasing and creative ideas
● perform to an audience
● Identify note values including crotchets, quavers and semi quavers as members of a family: minims = grandparents; crotchets = parents; quavers = children; semi quavers = dogs
● LowerFrench1:
● Eurythmics
● rehearse and improve their work
Children will learn to…
● Listen and find different reasons for the above changes e.g. different kinds of people or animals
The children will learn and explore: Reintroduction of understanding how to safely move and negotiate space. To understand how to participate in a competitive game and to understand it is okay to be tagged. To explore the concept of coordination, balance and agility. balancing different objects on different parts of the body and to be able to move whilst carrying objects.
● Identify changes in speed and dynamics
● Participate in exercises and games showing an awareness of phrasing and melody
● Recognise bar times 2,3,4 and 5 time shown in different ways with drums etc.
● Lower 1 Children will learn to…
The children will learn and explore: Sing, dance and play whilst absorbing French vocabulary
● Follow music freely
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The children will learn and explore: handling of objects and movement the basics of agility, balance and coordination through a variety of games and activities. different ways their body can move and understand how to move safely and negotiate space.
At Orchard House School we believe that it is important to follow children’s interests. We plan many activities and lessons around these topics but we also ensure our planning and provision facilitates learning based on children’s individual interests and ideas.
Play games to use the new language in a fun context and get confidence at speaking Sing traditional songs and perform rhymes to learn the language and embed the correct intonation and Readpronunciationstorybooks and get exposed to simple language and absorbed French vocabulary
Lower 1
In the autumn term, the Lower 1 topic is ’All about me’. The children will look at the changes in their growth as well as explore the five senses. In the second half term we will learn Specialabout festivals and celebrations leading up to Christmas.
● Participate in exercises in inhibition and incitation to encourage quick reaction
In the autumn term the first Den topic is ‘All about me’. The children explore a range of activities to help them get to know their peers and teachers. Children will be encouraged to talk about themselves and their personal interests. We always plan around children’s interests and ensure the resources we use reflect all of the children’s individual interests and ideas.
● Follow music freely
● The Den
● Music
● EducationalTheComputingDengames on the Ipad Technology toys
Lower 1
• Sing echo songs and perform movements to a steady beat. Nativity
The children continue to use technology toys to start to explore algorithms. The children use iPads with a range of educational apps. We introduce the pupils to laptops to enable them to navigate the laptop and to use the keyboard and trackpad.
Topics Specialist Teaching
● sing individually and in a group
● rehearse and improve their work
• Sing songs with high and low notes reinforced with matching hand or body positions.
● Soft play excellent for developing gross motor skills
● Learn to wipe themselves after going to the bathroom
● Counting toys and ordering from largest to smallest
● Healthy cooking at home
Ideas for Home (Lower 1)
● Drawing pictures
● Role play school. Children love to be the teacher!
● Tidy away the toys
● Role play school. Children love to be the teacher!
● Helping with little jobs at home. Taking responsibility to tidy away my toys/setting the table for dinner/pouring my cereal and milk
● 1:1 reading time using resources provided by teaching team
● Gardening activities at home developing an appreciation for the natural environment
● Sharing stories at home. Talking about books to develop children’s comprehension skills.
● Going on a nature walk. What can I see? What can I hear? What can I smell?
Lower Musicianship1 through singing
● perform to an audience
● 1:1 reading time using resources provided by teaching team
Nativity
● Putting on my clothes/shoes? Socks and coat
● Drawing pictures
● Playdough activities to develop fine motor skills
● Soft play excellent for developing gross motor skills
● Gardening activities at home developing an appreciation for the natural environment
● Helping with little jobs at home. Taking responsibility to tidy away my toys/setting the table for dinner/pouring my cereal and milk
● Use a knife and fork at mealtimes
● Visiting the local library
● Playdough activities to develop fine motor skills
● Brush their own teeth
Ideas for Home (The Den)
● Sharing stories at home. Talking about books to develop children’s comprehension skills
● Healthy cooking at home
● Counting toys and ordering from largest to smallest
• Sing high and low notes, and develop listening skills through matching movement to pitch.
● Talk time at home. Making time to have meaningful conversations at home is excellent for language and communication skills.
● Going on a nature walk. What can I see? What can I hear? What can I smell?
● Pack their school bag
● Help to make a shopping list
● Helping with laying the table
● Talk time at home. Making time to have meaningful conversations at home is excellent for language and communication skills.
● Putting on my clothes/shoes and coat
● Children will use role play to demonstrate an understanding of school life in the era of their grandparents.
● To identify a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores
Geometry: Shape
● To learn and review set 1 and set 2 phonics sounds
● To describe the places that we go often and rarely, and what we see on the way to school
● Represent objects
● Count on from any number
● Measure objects using cubes
● To leave spaces between words
● Subtraction problems
Ideas for home:
● To join words and clauses using ‘and’
● Count objects from a larger group
● Recognise and name 2 D and 3 D shapes
Ideas for home: History:
● Use the internet to research how and why
● Recognise numbers as words
Autumn Term
● Discuss stories with an adult, ask questions
● Sort 2 D and 3 D shapes
● To use descriptive language
● Patterns with 2 D and 3 D shapes
● Count out loud using a number square
● Make a pattern using counters or toys
● To identify the destination of our field trip, and recall the journey to get there
● Order objects and numbers
● Read classic fairytale stories out loud to your toys, as if you are putting on a show
● To identify a variety of animals, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals
● To explore how animals need to be cared for
Ideas for home:
● To know where birds live and what they need in order to survive
● To understand what animals need in order to grow
● Subtraction on a number line
● To understand and use a local area map
● To learn about the 5 senses
● To read Common Exception words
● Number bonds within 10
● To write a sentence with a capital letter and a full stop
● Go on a walk and see what different animals you can find and put them into their correct animal group
● Children to make a body using different materials and label the body parts
English Mathematics History/ Geography Science
● To use the cursive script
● Count out loud using a number line
● Fact families addition facts
● To discover how an animal's offspring is the same as its parents
● To be able to remember a local journey and the stages in order.
● To identify the basic parts of the human body
● To understand the importance of taking care of your body
Ideas for home:
● To understand what is near to school, far away from school and to gain a sense of place
● Part whole model
● Compare numbers
● The number line
● To read simple simple CVC, CVCC and CVCC words
● Write number sentences
History:
● To use and understand a simple plan of the classroom
● Line up your toys and count them out loud
● To develop an understanding of chronology and a sense of time by identifying and describing similarities and differences between their childhood and that of their grandparent’s.
Addition and subtraction
● Less than, greater than, equal to
● Addition problems
● To learn about changes in your body since you were a baby
● Visit the Museum of Childhood or another toy museum
Place Value
● To read the First 100 High Frequency words
● Comparisons will be made between toys, homes, shops and schools of the 1950s and 1960s and the present day.
Geography:
● Discover information books and read out loud with an adult
Form 1: Curriculum Overview
● To draw their own map and include a key
● Mime
● Learning songs for nativity to perform together.
Digital painting
Pupils will use the laptops to create a variety of images using the computer.
● To design a map and show directions to a physical feature within their local area
● Visit the museum
● To write about their most recent field trip
● Visit the aquarium
● Use of the voice
● Music and movement: responding to tempo changes in movement.
● To learn and create wet on wet watercolour techniques.
Introduction to coding using ScratchJR on the iPad. Learning how code fits together and why we create Understandingcode. the events need to be in a certain order. Progressing to Scratch on the laptops to see how
● To design a 3D model of the classroom
● To be able to know and understand where people and events fit within a chronological
Art/ DT Drama Music Computing
● Composition work on untuned percussion with emphasis on steady beat.
● Draw and create a pattern using colour pencils
● Write numbers up to 20 using colour pencils
● Make a list of all the animals you can think of
Exploring pulse and rhythm
● Write simple sentences about stories you have read
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● To imagine you are a child in the olden days write about what you would play
● Role play
● Interview a grown up about the toys they played with as a child
● Draw a picture of a character from your favourite story
● Add and subtract numbers using counters
● Make 2 digit numbers using the dienes
● Visit the local Farm
● Draw a picture from your favourite character from the story toys have changed
● Music games exploring pulse and rhythm.
● Find different ways to sort your games and toys
● To learn about the colour wheel and primary and secondary colours.
● Take a walk to your nearest pond and make a list of the different plants and species you can find
● To learn about portraiture self portrait
They will explore how to use the software while developing their ability to manipulate the trackpad and keyboard.
● Seasonal crafts and artwork / Christmas card project Children will create a piece of artwork for the annual Christmas card fundraiser.
● Make a list of the foods you have eaten during the day and put them into the correct food group
To use a variety of texts to explore conventions and learning conventions in drama:
● Look at baby pictures and discuss the changes that have happened with an adult
● Draw pictures of animals / insects that you may spot in your garden
Next steps:
● Investigate and make a toy e.g.cup and ball
● Improvisation
● Use descriptive language to describe the characters
● To improve drawing skills on line and texture.
● Walk around their local area describing what is around them, near to them and far away
KS1 Christmas Celebration
Next History:steps:
● Draw 2 D shapes using chalk
Geography:framework.
● To buy a local map and navigate their way to a physical feature within that local area
Next steps:
● Focus on clear words and musicality.
Next steps:
● Working collaboratively
● To understand different faiths such as Christianity, judaism, Sikhism, Buddisham
● Fruits
● Each week children will learn fundamentals of a variety of different sports.
● To practise ball mastery skills, including dribbling, kicking, stopping and shooting.
● Orchard House School Values
Religious studies MFL French PE/ Games PSHCEE
● To understand the meaning of Hanukkah
● Introduction to attacking and defending in football.
● Greetings
● Play a small sided game and understand basic rules.
● To understand the term ‘bullying’ and to know how to help if somebody is being bullied
● Tactical awareness and game play.
● Practise shooting.
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● To know what a celebration is and how it makes us feel
● Introduction to roles of attacking and defending. Understand how to shoot in a simplified game.
● To understand what happened on each day of the creation story
● Paris landmarks
● Balls skills in different sports including using feet and hands.
● Days of the week
Netball:
To be exposed to simple French phrases and seasonal and cultural vocabulary through songs, games and story books.
Football:mate.
● What does my body feel like when I exercise (physiological changes)?
● Seasons
PE Games for Understanding
● To understand how God wants Christians to look after the world.
Health Related Fitness
● Range of activities to focus on: cardiovascular endurance, speed, agility, balance, coordination, competition.
● Practise hand eye coordination skills through catching and throwing with soft balls.
● To learn about inclusion
● To be able to show this in small sided games.
● To understand the rights and responsibilities as a member of the class
● To use kindness as a way of making new friends
● Attacking and defending principles.
● Colours
● To be able to play small sided games.
● To celebrate and accept that people are different
● To understand how christians believe the world was created
● To understand an sequence the christmas story
● To be able to move and pass to another team
● Why is exercise important?
● To make a creation
● To understand that everybody has different views
● Help to pay for items at a shop (Know how much money they have, how much the items will cost and what change they will receive).
● Add and subtract 10s
● To exercise at least three times a week.
● To identify human and physical features on an island.
● Play fun sentence games.
Ideas for home:
● Compare objects and numbers
Animals including Humans Growth
● To explain which food groups are important within a healthy diet and why.
● Tens and ones with a part whole model
● To understand what the Gunpowder Plot was.
● Count objects to 100 and read and write numbers in numerals and words
An Island Home
Geometry: Shape
● Tens and ones using addition
● Add and subtract a 2 digit and 1 digit number not crossing ten and crossing ten.
Animals including Humans Diet and Health
● To know that old age is a stage of life.
● Use a video or picture stimulus to encourage children to write a setting description.
● To describe how a baby animal can be born .
● Save money.
Ideas for home:
Autumn Term
● Phonics: Children will review set 1, 2, and 3 phonic sounds.
Ideas for home:
● To know what happened during the Great Fire of London.
● To make a 3D life cycle at home.
English Mathematics History/ Geography Science
● Writing: recount, setting description linked to Katie Morag, traditional tales The Magic Paintbrush.
● Lines of symmetry on shapes
● To understand why the Great Fire of London spread so quickly.
Place value
● Research how the actions of significant Black people have changed the future.
● To be able to follow a route prepared on a map.
● To design a settlement thinking about the needs of the community.
● Sort 2 D and 3 D shapes
● To know what characteristics are.
● Provide creative writing opportunities at home.
● Research a significant person in the past and create a fact file.
● To look at nutritional labels at home.
● To understand why Guy Fawkes took the action he did in 1605.
● To use a grid reference to identify places.
● To know how animals get their food from other animals.
● Make an island and add human and physical features.
● Fact families addition and subtraction bonds to 20
● Related facts
● Recognise 2 D and 3 D shapes
● Use a place value chart
● To understand how Bonfire Night has changed over the years, and why it is still celebrated.
● To explore how important nutrition is for humans.
● To know what a life cycle is.
● To identify the needs of humans such as warmth, food and water using the experience I know about.
● Represent numbers to 100
Form 2: Curriculum Overview
Ideas for home:
● To know the countries and capital cities that make up Great Britain.
● Compare number sentences
● Reading comprehension: Children will develop the core reading skills (retrieval, vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation and summary) through reading comprehensions.
Addition and subtraction
● Explore the local area using maps.
● Grammar: time connectives, adjectives, nouns, verbs, expanded noun phrases.
● Bonds to 100 (tens)
History:
● To understand the importance of the range of evidence available about the fire, and that there were a number of consequences of the fire.
● To identify map symbols.
● To compare an island to a mainland.
● To identify and describe the developmental changes from baby to adult.
● To describe how to be healthy and know what diet, hygiene and exercise is.
● To explain why exercise is so important to our bodies.
● To talk to their parents about the characteristics he/she may have gotten from them.
● To explain the similarities and differences between the life cycle of a frog and the life cycle of a plant.
● To draw a diagram which shows and explains the stages in a butterfly’s life cycle.
● Refer to the past in terms of periods.
Next steps:
Next steps:
● Solve number problems and practical problems involving these ideas.
● Compare and order numbers up to 1000.
● Use some key dates as important markers of events.
● Identify differences between versions of the same event e.g. the video gives a different view to what we have just read
● Understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human geography of a region of the United Kingdom;
History
● Spell most KS1 common exception words correctly
● Begin to make simple inferences based upon information from the source
Next steps:
● Name and locate counties and cities of the United Kingdom, identifying human and physical characteristics including hills, mountains, rivers and seas, and how a place has changed;
● Add and subtract numbers with up to three digits, using formal written methods.
● Make a plausible prediction about what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far
● Note key changes over a period of time.
● Estimate the answer to a calculation and use the inverse operation to check answers.
● Use symbols and keys (including the use of Ordnance Survey maps), to build their knowledge of the United Kingdom and the wider world;
● Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations.
● Solve problems, including missing number facts, place value, and more complex addition and subtraction.
● Extract simple information from sources
● To identify the many different lifestyles in nature.
● Read and write numbers up to 1000 in numeral and in words.
● Make simple additions, revisions and proof reading corrections to their own writing
● Write effectively and coherently for different purposes, drawing on their reading to inform the vocabulary and grammar of their writing
● Use and understand the terms BC/AD.
● Understand that events have more than one cause.
● Add suffixes to spell most words correctly in their writing (e.g. ment, ness, ful, less, ly)
● Use the punctuation taught at key stage 1 mostly correctly
Next Geographysteps:
● Make links between the book they are reading and other books they have read.
● Reference three periods of time.
● Physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes, volcanoes, tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes and the water cycle;
● Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100.
● Make inferences
● To subtract numbers mentally, including a three digit number.
● Human geography, including: types of settlement and land use;
● Ask questions to further own knowledge about a time period/ event
● Describe everyday lives of people in time studied compared with our life today.
● To plan a healthy diet.
● Use the diagonal and horizontal strokes needed to join some letters.
● Use fieldwork to observe and present the human and physical features in the local area using sketch maps, plans and digital technologies;
Considering the purpose of the document.
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● France: location and how to get there.
● Finger rhyme: “Deux petits oiseaux”
● Introduction to the impressionist and postimpressionist art movements and learning about the art and style of Monet and Vincent Van Gogh.
short scenes
● Why does bullying happen
● Songs exploring changes in pitch
● Singing together, working on using voices more expressively
● To be able to play small sided games.
Thought tracking
Enquiry:ChristianityWhy do Christians believe God gave Jesus the world?
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Being me in my word
● Owning our learning charter
● Standing up for myself and others
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Celebrating differences
KS1 Christmas Celebration
● To be able to show this in small sided games.
● Introduction to roles of attacking and defending. Understand how to shoot in a simplified game.
● Christmas card project: Children will create a piece of artwork which will use for the annual Christmas card fundraiser.
● Introduction to attacking and defending in football.
● Rewards and consequences
Learning how to enter text and images.
To be exposed to simple French phrases and seasonal and cultural vocabulary through songs, games and story books.
● To understand why Christmas is a special time.
Developing drama skills and exploring texts used in English RoleImprovisationthrough:playand
GamesPE for Understanding
range of documents.
● Months and birthdays
● Greetings and feelings
Netball:GAMES
● To learn about line and shape so they can fold and draw a pet shop.
Enquiry:ChristianityIsit possible to be kind to everyone all over the world?
Health Related Fitness
● To understand how Christians countdown to Jesus’ birth.
● Clear words and confident diction, work on good presentation and musicality.
● To know how and why we need to look after the world.
● Range of activities to focus on: cardiovascular endurance, speed, agility, balance, coordination, competition.
● Our learning charter
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● Each week to change sports/activity
● Rights and responsibilities
Freeze frames
● Matching pitch shapes when listening
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● Boys and girls
● Celebration differences and still being friends
● To understand why Jesus’ teachings were important.
● To understand how Jesus showed kindness.
Exploring characterisation
● To understand how people show kindness in their daily work.
● Balls skills in different sports.
● To understand what kindness is.
● Attacking and defending principles
● What does my body feel like when I exercise (physiological changes)?
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● To be able to move and pass to another team Football:mate.
● Why is exercise important?
● Practise hand eye coordination skills through catching and throwing with soft and hard balls.
● To understand how they can show love and be kind to others.
● To practise ball mastery skills, including dribbling, kicking, stopping and shooting.
● Playing pitch lines on tuned percussion
● To understand it isn’t always easy to show kindness.
● Hopes and fears for the year
● Creating seasonal arts and crafts
● Gender diversity
Religious studies MFL French/ Spanish PE/ Games PSHCEE
● Tactical awareness and game play.
Art/ DT Drama Music
Computing
● Story: “Trotro a Paris”
● Play a small sided game.
● Understand basic rules.
● Practise shooting.
● Estimating on a number line to 1,000
● Order numbers to 1,000 Count in 50s
● How do we know about the Ancient Egyptians?
● Speaking and Listening (following instructions, listening to others, taking turns in conversations, speaking clearly to a variety of audiences, presentations, performance)
● Represent numbers to 1,000
● What is the internal structure of the earth?
● Ask questions around the plot, characters and settings allowing children to make justified inferences and predictions
Ideas for home:
● Understand what a fossil is
● Describe how mountains are formed
● Count in 50s
● Read relevant, age appropriate texts
● Observe any x ray pictures
Rocks
● Classify different types of gravestone weathering
Autumn Term
● Spelling (National Curriculum Form 3 spelling words, affixes, spelling patterns, revision of high frequency words and word families)
English Mathematics History/ Geography Science
● Discuss healthy food and its’ benefits
● Practise mental maths daily quick recall
● Explore and make your own papyrus paper
Form 3: Curriculum Overview
● Introduction to the skeleton
● Recognise the difference between igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks
● Using arrays
● Play times table games
● Know how to keep healthy through diet
● Consolidate 2s, 4s and 8s times tables
● Observe rocks, including those used in buildings and gravestones
● Estimate answers
● Add and subtract 1s, 10s and hundreds (across tens and hundreds)
● Who were the Ancient Egyptians and when did they live?
● Grammar (sentence structure including correct use of full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, commas, question marks, inverted commas, nouns, proper nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions and fronted adverbials)
● Why was the landscape crucial in the lives of Ancient Egyptians?
● Create artwork using hieroglyphics
● Counting forwards and backwards in different increments (e.g. 10s, 2s, 5s, 100s)
● Create a timeline of all historical periods studied so far
● Reading (independent, paired, group and shared, adding expression and intonation)
● Who was Tutankhamen?
Multiplication & division
● Visit The British Museum Ancient Egypt galleries
● Read maths based stories
● Knowing multiplying is in equal groups
● Find 1, 10 or 100 more or less
● Compare numbers to 1,000
● Complements to 100
● What is a volcano?
● Describe what soils are made of
● Who built the Ancient Egyptian pyramids and how?
● Create a paper mache volcano
● Watch relevant TV shows e.g. Horrible Histories
Ideas for home:
● Comprehension (literal and inferential, written and verbal in full sentences)
● Learn the importance of nutrition for humans
Ideas for home:
● Inverse operations
● Explore and taste different food
● Keep active and talk about it, encouraging healthy lifestyle
● Why and where are volcanoes located across the earth?
● Count in 100s
● What are some of the effects of the Mt.St. Helens volcanic eruption on the people, environment and animals?
● What are hieroglyphics?
● Add and subtract two and three digit numbers
● Discuss the place value of different digits in this number 3628 which is greater in value, the 3 or the 8? Why? Prove it/explain it to me
● Sharing and grouping
● Visit the Science museum
● Apply number bonds within 10
● How and why does an earthquake happen?
● Know about the skeleton tendons and ligaments
Number & Place Value
● Flexible partitioning of numbers to 1000
Ancient Egyptians
● Writing (postcard, non chronological reports, stories from other cultures, mythology, newspaper reports, poetry).
Ideas for home:
● Identify common rocks
● What are the main three types of volcanoes and how are they different?
● Daily reading of a range of genres including newspapers, magazines, recipes, non fiction books and novels.
● Collect and observe interesting pebbles/ rocks/soil
● Learn/revise times tables
● Use a video, experience or picture as a stimulus for creative and/or descriptive writing
● Make edible rocks using rice krispies
● Handwriting (posture, letter size and formation, presentation and revision of joining the cursive script)
● Number line to 1,000
Addition & Subtraction
● Spelling games
● What was the legacy of the Ancient EarthquakesEgyptians?&Volcanoes
● Inverse operations
Animals Including Humans What Makes Us
● Build a coloured cardboard model of the internal structure of the earth
Next steps:
Developing drama skills and exploring texts used in English
● When shopping, ask your child questions linked to rounding of the price and encouraging them to use money to calculate including change
● Fractions
Singing for Performance
To develop improvisation skills
Creating a range of documents for a fictitious Understandingbusiness. the purpose of the document and what needs to be included.
Next steps:
● Multiplication and division
● To learn about artists Edward Hopper and create watercolour seascapes.
Using a variety of software to create the Bedocuments.abletoexplain some good points and possible PupilsCodingimprovements.usingScratchwilldesignagame
Pupils will create a game in Scratch, using iteration, variable and selection.
● Length and perimeter
● Statistics
● To learn about self portraiture and facial expressions.
RoleImprovisationthrough:playand short scenes
Business Documents
● Visit the natural history museum tectonics area. Experience an earthquake for yourself!
● Money
Next steps:History:Ancient Greece
● Explore the internet to discover what have been the most major earthquakes / volcanoes which have occurred over the last 25yrs and where they are located.
● Find out the meanings of some of the key terms about earthquakes
Next steps:
Djembe Drumming
To learn about the origins of djembe drumming
for a specific purpose linked to their business.
Hot seating and conscience alley Thought tracking Freeze frames
Art/ DT Drama Music Computing
● To learn and work with line, texture, emphasis and value.
To learn songs for Christmas performances
● Build a model showing how the 3 types of volcano are different out of clay or plasticine
● Continue to develop vocabulary through reading, conversation and experiences from different starting points
● To learn about collage creating seasonal arts and crafts.
To develop the ability to read notation and play short rhythms in small groups
● Christmas card project Children will create a piece of artwork which will use for the annual Christmas card fundraiser.
Be able to evaluate their game, and suggest improvements.
To sing as an ensemble with an awareness of tone, dynamics, articulation and diction
Exploring characterisation
To learn how to use different drumming techniques, including ‘slap’, ‘bass’ and ‘tone’
● Know and understand importance of Diwali
● Describe Upanishads
● Gender in French : indefinite articles
● Improving understanding and technique of all four strokes.
● Words that harm
● Small sided games and competitive matches
● Understand more complex rules of football
● European Day of Languages
● Our nightmare school
● Know where the Ganges River is and recognise its importance
NetballGAMES (girls)
● To practise ball mastery skills, including dribbling, kicking, stopping and shooting.
Celebrating differences:
● Attacking principles.
● Classroom instructions
● Attacking principles and movement towards the ball
To listen and recognise familiar vocabulary
● Understand why gods/goddesses are important
● Understand Hinduism and its origin
● Classroom items
● Range of activities to focus on: cardiovascular endurance, speed, agility, balance, coordination, competition.
● Know where Hindu people show their faith
● Present tense of verb avoir (to have)
Swimming
● Building confidence in the water.
● Owning our learning charter
● Footwork
● Practise shooting.
● Greetings and introductions
● To understand the symbolic meaning of water in different religions
Religious studies MFL French/ Spanish PE/ Games
● What happens to the body during exercise (physiological changes)
● Defending principles
PSHCEE
Hinduism
● Rewards and consequences
To say the sound of a few letter strings
● To know what a religious pilgrimage is
● Letter to Père Nöel
*children will have the chance to play the opposing sports later in the term and in squads along with the opportunity to participate in some matches.
● Celebrating differences: compliments
● To demonstrate attacking and defending in football.
GamesPE for Understanding
● Game play against other schools.
● Witness and solutions
● Families
To read and recognise key words
FOOTBALL (boys)
Being me in my world:
● Our learning charter
● Shooting technique
● Defending principles man on man, zone, defensive line.
● Tactical awareness, game play and umpiring.
● Why is exercise important?
● Balls skills and rules of different sports.
● Getting to know each other
● Our dream school
Health Related Fitness
● Family conflict
● Witness and feelings
● Understand the roles we play in our environment
● Know and understand Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are the main deities
● Positions and rules
● Play in a small sided and larger games.
● Ball skills including chest, overhead, and shoulder passes
● Describe what fairtrade banana farming is how it is beneficial to the local area and people on the island
● Comparing 4 digit numbers using more than and less than
● Reading (independent, paired, group and shared, adding expression and intonation)
● To compare sounds in solids, liquids and gases
● To understand the difference between a series and parallel circuit.
● Negative numbers
Form 4: Curriculum Overview
● To multiply by 10
● Counting in 25s
● To locate St.Lucia on a map and identify some of the main features
● Compare life in St.Lucia to life in the UK
● To compare the speed of sound and the speed of light.
● To identify when a lamp will light in a simple series circuit.
● Case Study of Dorothy Agard (A fairtrade banana farmer in St. Lucia)
● Counting squares
● Writing (fiction, traditional tales and fables, none fiction, instructions and explanations, poetry, fantasy writing, biographies and focusing on imagination)
● To multiply by 100
● To divide by 10
● Comprehension ( literal and inferential, written and verbal in full sentences)
● Rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100.
● To multiply by 1 and 0
● Roman Numerals
The House of Tudor
Sounds
● To explain how to recognise electrical conductors and insulators.
● Handwriting (posture, letter size and formation, presentation and revision of joining the cursive script)
Autumn Term
● Finding 1, 10, 100 and 1000 more or less than a given number
● To describe how sound travels.
● To identify different reasons why Henry broke away from Rome (The English Reformation).
● Efficient methods for addition and subtraction.
● To explain how to protect your ears.
● Ordering 4 digit numbers in ascending and descending order.
Electricity
● Estimating answers.
● To identify the reasons for the failure of the Spanish Armada
● To describe different sounds.
● To explore how electricity is transported.
● Adding 4 digit numbers multiple exchanges.
● What is area?
● Explore number lines up to 10 000
● Building on our knowledge of place value to add and subtract 1s, 10s, 100s, and 1000s.
● Compare area Multiplication and division
St. Lucia
● Using and understand the place value of 4 digit numbers.
● To learn who the Tudors were and when they reigned.
● Grammar (sentence structure including correct use of full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, commas, question marks, semicolons, nouns, proper nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, connectives, conjunctions and fronted adverbials)
Place Value
● To know how to work safely with electricity.
● To divide by 100
● Compare the climate of St.Lucia and the UK using a climate graph, looking at temperature and rainfall trends.
● Spelling (consolidating national curriculum Form 4 spelling words, affixes, spelling patterns, revision of high frequency words and word families)
English Mathematics History/ Geography Science
Addition and subtraction
● To explain what causes sound.
● Partitioning numbers
● Speaking and Listening (following instructions, listening to others, taking turns in conversations, speaking clearly to a variety of audiences, presentations, performance)
● Subtracting 4 digit numbers multiple exchanges.
Area
● Strategies to check answers.
● Make shapes
● To multiply and divide by 3
● To understand how ordinary people lived during the Tudor era.
● To explain why King Henry VIII wanted an heir and explore this through his marriages' positives and negatives.
● To explore the life of Queen Elizabeth I
To perform as an ensemble a piece with multiple independent parts with an awareness of how all parts come
● To know the 6 times table and division facts
● Discuss the place value of different numbers you see; what is the value of each of the digits?
● To multiply and divide by 9
● Practise counting forwards and backwards in different increments.
● When shopping, ask your child questions such as rounding up items to the nearest whole and using those rounded prices to estimate costs.
Pupils will design a game for a specific purpose linked to their fictitious business.
● Practising all times tables up to 12x12 daily.
● Create circuits at home using electricity kits.
● To learn about portraiture inspired by Amedeo Modigliani
● Reading with an adult every night for at least 10 minutes.
● To know the 9 times table and division facts
Ideas for home: Sounds
● Using various methods for addition and subtraction.
● Dress like Tudors and cook a Tudor banquet!
● Discuss the dangers of electricity and how we can keep each other safe when around it.
● AR quizzes
● Listen to Tudor music and discuss the differences and similarities with modern music
Hot seating and conscience alley Thought tracking Freeze frames Body Percussion and Composition
Cretaing a range of documents for a fictitious theme Understandingpark. the purpose and how to make the document appropriate.
To develop rhythmic skills through the study of Anna Meredith’s ‘Connect It’
Pupils will code their game in Scratch, considering iteration, variable and selection.
● To develop and consolidate artworks related to line drawing, space and shape.
Be able to evaluate their game, and make improvements
To sing as an ensemble with an awareness of tone, dynamics, articulation and diction
● Create a piece of Tudor artwork
● To know the 7 times table and division facts
● Cook a meal which would be eaten in St.Lucia
Exploring characterisation
Ideas for home:
● Discuss stories you enjoy and interesting things you have been currently reading with your children to encourage the ‘love for reading’ and ‘role model’ for your child.
Ideas for home:
● To learn about the ready mades and the Dadaism and to create a painting inspired by Marcel Duchamp.
● To know the 3 times table and division facts
● Using egg box cartons, can you sound proof a room and how things sounded before and Electricityafter?
● Locate other islands in the world and compare what life is like, compared to the UK.
● Create cup and string phones.
● Christmas card project Children will create a piece of artwork that will use for the annual Christmas card fundraiser.
Developing drama skills and exploring texts used in English RoleImprovisationthrough:playand short scenes
ToSingingtogetherforPerformancelearnsongsforChristmas performances
Business Documents
To devise and compose short motifs in small groups
● To multiply and divide by 6
● Explore the sounds of various musical instruments; how do they change in different environments?
● Explore all of the different uses of electricity throughout your home.
Scratch
Ideas for home:
Art/ DT Drama Music Computing
● Continue reading and supporting children’s book choices.
● Ask questions about the plot, character and settings and begin to make links to other stories and the world around them.
● Visit the Tudor exhibitions at the V&A museum
● Visit a supermarket and explore what other fairtrade products are available to buy. Do a taste test with a non fairtrade product to decide which is best.
● To learn about abstract expressionism and create an action painting inspired by Jackson Pollock.
● To multiply and divide by 7
Using a variety of software to create the Codingdocuments.using
● To discuss the ways in which Jewish people show their commitment to God
● To identify the key areas and features of a Synagogue.
● Authentic story "Va t'en grand monstre vert”
Religious studies MFL French/ Spanish PE/ Games
To ask and answer a few familiar questions with a language scaffold
To write a simple sentence using a language scaffold
● Positions and rules of 5 a 0side and 7 a side.
● Rewards and consequences
● Ball skills including chest, overhead, and shoulder passes
● To define a Bat/Bah Mitzvah and discuss why they are an important moment.
● Judging by appearance
● To understand the importance of the covenant story of Abraham.
● Understand more complex rules of football
● Understanding influences
FOOTBALL (boys)
● Competitive matches.
To produce the sound for several letter strings
● Being part of a class team
● Game play against other schools.
● Defending principles man on man, zone, defensive line.
● Rights, responsibilities and democracy (school council)
Swimming
● To understand what trust is and why it is important.
● Practise shooting.
● Problem solving
● Attacking principles.
● To practise ball mastery skills, including dribbling, kicking, stopping and shooting.
● Parts of the body
● Footwork
● Attacking principles and movement towards the ball
● Range of activities to focus on: cardiovascular endurance, speed, agility, balance, coordination, competition.
● To understand the promises Jewish people make to God by following the 10 commandments.
● Why is exercise important?
● The explore the importance of the relationship Jewish people have with God.
● Birthdays dates
NetballGAMES (girls)
● To demonstrate attacking and defending in football.
Judaism
GamesPE for Understanding
● Group decision making
● What motivates behaviour
● Adjective position and agreement
● To understand how Jewish people show their faith at home through a Mezuzah.
● To discuss how our responsibilities change as we grow older.
● Shooting technique.
Being in my world
● Months
● Having a voice
● Numbers to 31
To speak, read and understand a simple sentence (eg. noun and colour adjective)
● European Day of Languages
● Defending principles.
● Building confidence in the water.
● Improving understanding and technique of all four strokes.
● Tactical awareness, game play and umpiring. Health Related Fitness
*children will have the chance to play the opposing sports later in the term and in squads along with the opportunity to participate in some matches.
● Being a school citizen
● Accepting self and others
● Understanding bullying
● To understand how Jewish celebrations help show their faith in God.
● Identifying how special and unique everyone is
● To reflect on the importance of people, things and beliefs to themselves.
● Balls skills and rules of different sports.
● What happens to the body during exercise (physiological changes)
● First Impressions
● Challenging assumptions
PSHCEE/RSE
Celebrating Difference
● Describe the movement of the Earth in space
Form 5: Curriculum Overview
Number: Addition and Subtraction
● Describe which river features you would find in each of the stages of a river
● Read and write numbers to 1,000,000
● Why did the British Empire decline?
● Multiples and common multiples
● Formation of the empire
● 10/100/1,000/10,000/100,000 more or less than any given number
● Add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers
● Describe the Big Bang theory
Poetry: Poetic Language
● Understand and identify the main features of a drainage basin
● Compare and order fractions less than and greater than 1
● Introduce RAPSAMO53 as a useful acronym to
● Plan and present a pitch to show how some wild and wacky inventions work
English Mathematics History/ Geography Science
● Extended use of punctuation, including uses of commas for 3 different purposes
● How the load of a river is transported, using 4 main processes
● Compare and contrast different forms of description
● Understand how the different processes of erosion, deposition and transportation form different river features
● Learn about gravitational force
Through reading The Hole by Øyvind Torseter and the Promise by Nicola Davies and Laura Carlin
● Explore gravity and air resistance
Number: Multiplication and Division (B)
● Understand water resistance and friction
● Mental strategies
● Compare calculations
● Round within 100,000 / 1,000,000
● Recognise equivalent fractions
Blogs and reports: travel writing
Lonely Planet Kids Malcolm Croft
● Explore how cohesion can be achieved in writing an explanation
● Writing dialogue with correct punctuation
● Rounding and use of inverse to check answers
● Multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1,000
● How did Britain obtain its empire?
● Powers of 10
● Factors and common factors
● Explore what causes the different phases of the Moon Forces
Earth and Space
● Add and subtract whole numbers with more than four digits
Classic fiction Creative Writing: The Hole
● Multi step addition and subtraction problems
● Find fractions equivalent to a unit and non unit fraction
● Investigate mechanisms (levers and pulleys)
● Use parentheses and other cohesive devices.
Instructional Texts Changes in Technology
● Investigate mechanisms (gears)
● Plan and write a guide to a futuristic form of transport, providing a coherent and effective explanation
● Compare and order numbers to 1,000,000
● Describe the processes and stores in the water cycle and how they interact with one another
Classic Childrens’ fiction: Goth Girl
● Find missing numbers
● Combine creative skills to create an original imaginative piece of writing
● What did people think of the British Empire?
● Predict if an object will float or sink
● Study adverbs of possibility
● Revise the use of pronouns and synonyms to avoid repetition
● Number line to 1,000,000
Autumn Term
Number: Multiplication and Division (A)
● Prime numbers, square numbers and cube numbers
● What can you tell about the British Empire from a Christmas pudding?
● Making predictions by using inference skills
● Use relative clauses to add detail/humour
● Extended use of relative clauses
● Multiples of 10, 100 and 1,000
● Write up as a formal explanation using cohesive features
● Partition numbers to 1,000,000
Number: Place Value
● Understand and use various types of imagery and personification
● Explore how atmosphere, settings & characters are created
● Write own travel recount
● Understand how the river channel changes from source to mouth in the three main stages of the river
● Describe the characteristics of the planets in our solar system
● Describe how different river features are formed e.g. meander,ThewaterfallBritishEmpire
● Describe the life and work of Sir Isaac Newton
● Describe Nicolaus Copernicus' ideas about planetary motion
Number: Fractions (A)
● Use commas for effect
● Convert improper fractions to mixed numbers and reverse this process
River systems and processes
● Christmas card project Children will create a piece of artwork which will use for the annual Christmas card fundraiser.
To perform a samba piece with an awareness of others
● Create a timeline of events from the start to the end of the British Empire.
● Research facts about the British Empire.
● To learn about J. M. W. Turner and create a
Business Documents
Ideas for home:
● Multiply 4 digits by 1 digit
To develop the ability to read notation and play short rhythms in small groups
● Description using expanded noun phrases coupled with prepositional phrases
● To learn about surrealism, Salvador Dali Childre will make clay clocks inspired by Dali.
describe the main figures of speech used in descriptive writing and poetry
● To learn about portraiture and create an animal portrait inspired by Tamara Philips.
● Improvisation
Art/ DT Drama Music Computing
● To learn about folk art and use lines, shapes & patterns to create a folk cityscape.
To compose short samba pieces in small groups
● To use line, repetition and bright colours and design a piece of work inspired by Joseph Amedokpo as part of Black History Month
● Play maths games together.
● Practice times tables regularly
● Build a clay/plasticine model of different river features e.g. an Ox bow lake, and create an animation of how the feature is formed over time. Add a recorded voice over describing the different stages of formation.
● Use positive language around your children when discussing maths.
● Discuss opinions on what you have read, justify your opinions using evidence where you can and encourage your children to emulate you.
● Hot seating and conscience alley
● Talk about the commonwealth and colonies of the British Empire.
● Create a cardboard model of a drainage basin, showing all the main features.
● Play spelling games, word association games, Scrabble and other language based games together.
Ideas for home:
Ideas for home:
● Research how 2 rivers in the UK are different from one another using the internet. Find photos to support your research.
Understandingbusiness.thepurpose and audience for the
Singing for Performance
● Describe something from an unusual perspective
● Support with the written methods taught in school.
● Thought tracking ● Freeze frames
● Use fractions in everyday life.
● Discuss spelling words in context, asking your children to use them in sentences and explain their meanings
● Divide with remainders
● Keep a diary of the moon, drawing the moon each night
To learn about the origins of samba music
● When proofreading written work, emphasise the importance of reading work out loud to pick up errors and look for ways to improve their draft.
Samba Music
● Multiply numbers up to 4 digits by 2 digits
To learn how to use different traditional samba instruments and their role in a samba band
To be able to create an animation that is suitable for the purpose of promoting the company.
To learn songs for Christmas performances
● Build a plasticine model of the Solar System
● Divide 4 digits by 1 digit
Usingdocumentavariety of software that is suitable for the task.
Punctuation and Grammar: These skills are directly embedded throughout English lessons by using high quality texts to give children an understanding of new grammatical concepts in context.
To consider the audience in their animation.
● Exploring characterisation
Children will use the texts taught in English as a basis to explore and develop various different dramatic skills, including but not limited to:
● Read together, take turns reading aloud to each other. Focus on varying delivery based on context: dialogue, description, action, taking cues from the punctuation and presentation of the text, visually.
Creating a range of documents for a fictitious video streaming
To be able to evaluate and make improvements to their animation.
● Role play and short scenes
● Write a seasonal poem
To sing as an ensemble with an awareness of tone, dynamics, articulation and diction
ToAnimationbeable to plan a video animation advert
● Take a boat ride on a river, or a walk alongside a river and take photos or complete a field sketch of any features you can identify on your journey
● Personification & description using relative clauses
● To collaborate with the International day creating an art project
Ideas for home:
● Play to their love of technology by playing online maths games.
Religious studies
● Different cultures
● To ask and answer a variety of questions
● Defending principles in transition and in the circle.
● Practise shooting and goalkeeping.
● Rumours and name calling
NetballGAMES (girls)
● The importance of a Guru (and the Guru Granth Sahib)
● Using a bilingual dictionary
● Why is exercise important?
Swimmingpeers.
● To speak, read and understand a complex sentence (eg. noun, adjective, verb and adverbial phrase)
● Ball skills including chest, overhead, and shoulder passes
● The key beliefs
● Sports
● Range of activities to focus on: cardiovascular endurance, speed, agility, balance, coordination, competition.
● Types of bullying
● Food
● Tactical awareness, gameplay and umpiring. Health Related Fitness
● Improving understanding and technique of all four strokes.
*children will have the chance to play the opposing sports later in the term and in squads along with the opportunity to participate in some matches.
● Attacking principles, including centre pass set play and movement in the circle.
● Balls skills and rules of different sports.
● Competitive matches and tournaments
● The Langar
● Footwork
● Opinions
● My year ahead
GamesPE for Understanding
● Celebrating differences across the world.
● Karma and Moksha
● Shooting technique
Objectives
● Build endurance levels in the pool.
● The Gurdwara
● The mandir
● Rewards and consequences
● The origins of Hinduism
● Positions and rules for 5 and 7 a side.
● Owning our learning charter
Linguistic Content
● Defending principles man on man, zone, defensive line.
● To write a more complex sentence using a language scaffold
Celebrating Difference
● Understand more complex rules of football
● The 5 key Sikh beliefs
Being in my World
● To demonstrate attacking and defending in football.
● Our learning charter
● Puja
● Being a citizen of my country
● Opportunity to lead a fitness session for their
● What happens to the body during exercise (physiological changes)
● Responsibilities
● Racism
● To practise ball mastery skills, including dribbling, kicking, stopping and shooting.
● Gods and goddesses
Sikhism
● The food pyramid and healthy eating
● Competitive matches and tournaments, FOOTBALL (boys)
● The 5K’s in a Sikh’s life
● Improve diving technique
● Does money matter?
Hinduism
seascape using observational drawing, sponge and splatting paint techniques.
● Attacking principles.
MFL French/ Spanish PE/ Games PSHCEE
Living Things and their Habitats
● To understand what different plants and animals live in the tropical rainforest
● Pond
● Speaking and Listening (following instructions, listening to others, taking turns in conversations, speaking clearly to a variety of audiences, presentations, performance)
● Examination practice papers for the 11+
● Spelling (consolidating national curriculum Form 6 spelling words, affixes, spelling patterns, revision of high frequency words and word families)
● How did the legal system work in AngloSaxon Britain and how does it compare with the modern British justice system?
● Statistics
●
of texts Ideas for home: ● Regular exam practice papers ● Regular mental maths exercises ● Schofield & Sims calculations Ideas for home: ● Independent research Ideas for home:
● The Highwayman: Hero or Villain?
papers ● Regular
● To understand how climate change affects the polar regions
● Sorting animals into different classifications
● Writing (fiction, non fiction, instructions and explanations, poetry, descriptive writing, biographies and focusing on imagination)
Electricity
What is the Roman legacy of crime and punishment?
● Reading (independent, paired, group and shared, adding expression and intonation)
● To understand the characteristics of the different environments around the world
● Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
● Describing the different types of fungi
● Differences between different types of vertebrates
● Handwriting (posture, letter size and formation, presentation and revision of joining the cursive script)
● Why were they called the torturing Tudors?
dipping
● Geometry: position and direction
● Number and place value
● Ratio and proportion
● Examination practice papers for the 11+
● Algebra
● To understand the dangers of avalanches in a mountain environment
● Has the way we catch and punish criminals improved in the last 100 years?
● Research skills into how living things are classified into different groups
● Understand how the different kingdoms of life are identified.
● Systematically investigating components within a circuit to design a set of traffic lights
● Explaining how variable resistors can work like a switch practice spelling reading of a range
● What was life like in a Victorian prison?
Form 6: Curriculum Overview
● local wetland
Visit
● Grammar (sentence structure including correct use of full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, commas, question marks, semicolons, nouns, proper nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, connectives, conjunctions and fronted adverbials)
● Comprehension (literal and inferential, written and verbal in full sentences)
English Mathematics History/ Geography Science
● Fractions (including decimals and percentages)
● Measurement
Contrasting Environments
● Knowledge of the processes to carry out a fair investigation
● Examples of organisms and microorganisms that live in soil
● Geometry: properties of shapes
● Investigating what affects the output of a circuit
Ideas for home: ● Regular exam
practice ● Regular
● Investigating electrical circuits
centres and local parks
Autumn Term
● To understand how plants and animals are adapted to life in an arid environment
● Why is Mary is important and how she Mary was viewed by Joseph
Pupils will create the graphics and interface for their game.
Identify key musical features of famous film music
To learn songs for Christmas performances
● What does eternal mean?
● Character and physical description
● Students will work both individually, in pairs and in small groups to master the following: Back to Cartwheels/Basicsbasic vaults
Pupils will code their game in Scratch.
RoutinesBalancesRollsHandstandsand sequences
● Feeling welcomed and valued and know how to make others feel the same
Be able to evaluate their game, and make improvements
● Understand that some things last forever whilst others don’t
GamesPE f or Understanding
BM (Being Me in My World)
● Build endurance levels in the pool.
Respect for similarity and difference. Anti
● Knowing that there are universal rights for all children but for many children these rights are not met
Singing for Performance
● Understand what unconditional love is and the importance of forgiveness
● Making choices about individuals own behaviour
To engage in a short conversation using familiar language
● Balls skills and rules of different sports.
● European Day of Languages
● High frequency verbs present tense
Understanding the purpose and audience for the document
● To learn about Matisse and his paper cutouts and create a collage using scissors and coloured papers.
No drama in Autumn term
Computing
Using a variety of software that is suitable for the task.
● The meaning of Incarnation
● Understanding that individual actions affect other people locally and globally
● Understand the significance of Mary being chosen as Jesus’s mother
Pupils will design a game for a specific purpose linked to their fictitious business.
● Attacking principles.
● Defending principles man on man, zone, defensive line.
● Understanding how democracy and having a voice benefits the school community
● To understand the importance of responsibility
● Pupils will learn about space, line and lettering and design an inspirational quote poster.
● Tactical awareness, game play and Gymnasticsumpiring.
To write complex familiar sentences from memory with understandable accuracy
Religious studies MFL French/ Spanish PE/ Games PSHCEE
● Personal pronouns
To speak, read and understand a complex sentence by manipulating language using a language scaffold or a bi lingual dictionary.
● Christmas card project Children will create a piece of artwork which will use for the annual Christmas card fundraiser.
Business Documents
● Identify goals for this year, understanding fears and worries about the future and know how to express them
Swimming
● Improving understanding and technique of all four strokes.
● To learn about line and symmetry and use it to draw and paint a Mexican sugar skull.
● Understand how rewards and consequences feel and to understand how these relate to individual rights and responsibilities
To compose film music for a silent film clip
To listen and evaluate different pieces of film music
To apply basic grammatical concepts
● Understanding our own wants and needs and be able to compare these with children in different communities
Music for Motion Picture
● Understanding how an individual’s behaviour can impact on a group
Art/ DT Drama Music
● Continued learning about lettering, space and texture and create a graffiti tag.
● Improve diving technique
● CD (Celebrating Difference)
Creating a range of documents for a fictitious business.
Coding using Scratch
● Introductions
● Writing letters to our French penpals
● Recognise and understand the importance of leading a good life
Christianity
'Who am I and how do I fit?'
To sing as an ensemble with an awareness of tone, dynamics, articulation and diction
● Recognise the symbols associated with marriage
To evaluate and appraise own compositions
● Practise shooting and goal keeping.
● To know some of the reasons why people use bullying behaviours
● Understanding how being different could affect someone’s life
● Footwork
* sportschildrenwillhavethechancetoplaytheopposinglaterinthetermandinsquadsalongwiththeopportunitytoparticipateinsomematches.
● Understand more complex rules of football
● Being able to explain some of the ways in which one person or a group can have power over another
bullying and being unique
● To be able to explain ways in which difference can be a source of conflict and a cause for celebration
● Competitive matches and tournaments
● Competitive matches and tournaments, FOOTBALL (boys)
Respect for similarity and difference. Anti bullying and being unique
● Understanding there are different perceptions about what normal means
● Shooting technique
● Ball skills including chest, overhead, and shoulder passes
● Attacking principles, including centre pass set play and movement in the circle.
NetballGAMES(girls)
CD (Celebrating Difference)
● Defending principles in transition and in the circle.
● To practise ball mastery skills, including dribbling, kicking, stopping and shooting.
● Be able to give examples of people with disabilities who lead amazing lives and appreciate people for who they are
● Positions and rules for 5 and 7 a side.
● To demonstrate attacking and defending in football.
● Explain a range of strategies for managing one's own feelings in bullying situations and for problem solving when a part of one