Updated June 2015 JShaw
New Curriculum Overview 2015-2016
Year/Term
TOPIC NAME
Science
History
Geography
Art and DT
PSHE
RE
ICT
Literacy
Year 1
AUTUMN
All About Me
Humans
Material
Seasonal change(Autumn
and Winter)
Florence Nightingale
Medicine
Key Vocab linked in
with Literacy
Self portraits
New Beginnings
Belonging to a
Muslim Family
Getting to know IT
Animals
Seasonal Change (Spring)
Stevenson – steam
Lowery
Victorians
Industiral openshaw
Vasco de Gamma
Explorers
Belonging to a
Christian Family
Sort IT (pictograms)
E - Awareness
Labels and lists
The Naughty Bus
Recounts of trip
Narrative/familiar
settings
Report on Lime square
Non-fiction sentences
about Lowry
Belonging to a
Hindu Family
Code IT
The Church
Getting to know IT 2
Pictures and Words
The Natural World
(New Life)
Sort IT
Year 1
SPRING
Year 1
SUMMER
Year 2
AUTUMN
Year 2
SPRING
Year 2
SUMMER
Year 3
AUTUMN
Where We Live
Where in the World
Flying High Explorers
Wild About Animals
Fire and Ice
Groovy Greeks
Plants
Seasonal Change (Summer)
Materials
Humans and Animals
Getting on and falling
out
History of transport and
flight and people
associated with.
Wright Brothers and Neil
Armstrong
Victorian Christmas
Animals and Plants
Animals
Earth Rocks
Victorians – changes
through the seaside.
Inuits
Greek civilisations – life in
ancient Greeks
Mirror mirror
Year 3
SPRING
World Weather
Food and our bodies
How does your garden
grow?
Lime Square and the
local area
Plot UK and their
countires
India
Playground construction
Lowery artwork
Going for Goals
Good to be me
Batik
Indian food tasting and
making
Pastel space art work
Footprints on clay
Moving moon buggies
Relationships
Geography term –
map work, country
location, sea location,
comparing UK with
Africa.
Polar and tropical
region comparisons.
Seaside vocab
compared with local.
African Artwork
TInga TInga study
Designing and making
healthy snacks
Going for Goals
Start with UK
Geography skills
(mapping)
Local study,
comparing to what life
was like
Building the parthanon
Paper maches masks,
pots, scultures
Sketching and drawing
of greek artefacts
New Beginnings
Naming of continents
and seas.
European Focus
Focus on one type of
biome in detail.
Natural disasters.
DT food experience day
– linked with trade links
and seasonality.
Going for Goals
Map work
Food links and
identifying countries
Plot on UK and their
Changes
New Beginnings
Getting on and falling
out
Good to be me
Relationships
Animate IT
Recount writing
Topic based instructions
Stories from India
Narrative space story
Star gazing poetry
Instructional writing
The Christmas story
Non Chronological
reports
Explanation texts
Lifecycles
Special Places
Code IT 2
People of the
convent
Communicate IT
(text)
Traditional tales with
twists
Character descriptions
Non chronological
reports
Extended stories by the
same author9
Stig of the dump and Ug
boy narrative work
Present IT
Recounts
Sort IT
Instructions (recipes)
Cre8 IT (podcasting)
Adventure stories
Changes
Getting on and falling
out
Jesus and friends
Good to be me
Cuban art
Poetry linked with
geography
Sewing
Year 3
SUMMER
Roman and Celtic life
Opposites attract
We are astronauts (if time)
Celtic life in Britain
Roman Life in Britain
Boudicca
Comparing Greeks, Roman
and Celts.
Roman Shields
Roman bridge work
Mosaics – paper and pot
Celtic round houses
Relationships
Changes
Messages of Allah
Code IT
Project (ebooks)
Numeracy
Stories from other
cultures
Myths and legends
(roman myths)
Non chronological
reports
Shape
Symmetry
Measures
Venn diagrams
Mass
Reflection
Co-ordinates
position
Negative numbers
Measures
Data
statistics
Fractions
Collection and
presentation
Roman numerals
Calendars
Distance
Shape
Symmetry
Money
Data handling
Co-ordinates
Updated June 2015 JShaw
Year 4
AUTUMN
Vicious Vikings
What’s the sound
Vikings
Local study
Local study
Developing trade links
Viking shields
Hagar comic strips
Power it up
New Beginnings
The Gurus (Sikhs)
Activate IT
Getting on and falling
out
How to train your dragon
Myths and legends
Imaginary worlds
Year 4
SPRING
Eery Egyptians
Teeth and Eating
Egyptians
Local study
Local study
Developing trade links
Hieroglyphics
Pyramid building
Clay work /
Going for Goals
S. USA, map work
Natural disasters/
water cycle
South American art
Natural Printing
Chocolate cooking
(healthy eating focus)
Relationships
Map and OS map
work
Mars landing moon
buggies
New Beginnings
Bubbles
Year 4
SUMMER
Year 5
AUTUMN
Rainforests and Habitats
Out of this World
Living things
Looking at State
Out of this world
Aztecs/
Chocolate focus
History of space travel
Let’s get moving
Natural resources and
trade
Year 5
SPRING
Rock of Ages
Material World
Circle of life
Year 5
SUMMER
Magical Cities
Growing up and growing old
Stone and iron age (what
was life like in Manchester
during this time?)
Kings and Queens in
History
Super Scientists
Comparing cities
(London, Paris and
Openshaw)
Local study
Space pictures, printing
and marbelling.
Serving Jesus
Email
E safety
blogging
Persuasive writing
(adverts)
Recounts
Instructions
The Buddha
Sort IT
Branching databases
Excel
Charlie and the
chocolate factory
Deforestation debate
Stories with dilemmas
Sikhism
Code IT (scratch)
Information booklets on
space
Newspaper articles
Poetry
Narrative (significant
authors)
Bible stories
Cre8 IT (graphics)
Diaries
Persuasive letters
Greek myths and legends
Stories from other
cultures
Good to be me
Changes
Getting on and falling
out
Anthony gormley work
(natural sculpture)
Cave paintings
Clay pots
Sewing
Going for Goals
Portraits in different
media of monarchs
Relationships
Good to be me
Using a search
engine
Hinduism
Changes
Photo stories
Film Making
3d building structures
Monet watercolours
Year 6
AUTUMN
Battle of Britain
Electrifying
Battle of Britain WW2
Let it shine
WW1
Wars across the ages
Map work, local
geography/ European
Geography
Drawing and painting of
planes
Models of working
Lancaster bombers
New Beginnings
Judaism (linked
with holocaust)
Code IT (game
design)
Getting on and falling
out
Poetry (voice poems)
Linked with holocaust
Journalistic
writing/reports/
newspapers
Blitz landscapes
Year 6
SPRING
Human Planet
We’re evolving
Classifying critters
Year 6
SUMMER
Born in the USA
Staying alive
We are dinosaur Hunters (if
time)
The Mayans
Biographies of kings and
queens
Instructional writing for
kip on a ship
Tour guides about
London
Film narrative
Narrative Diary extracts
South American
Geography
(comparing human
and physical features)
Graffiti work (banksy)
Going for Goals
Food- south America (
nutrition and
seasonality)
Good to be me
North American
Geography (physical
and Human features)
Map work
Pop Art
3d mayan temples
Clay work (mayans)
Relationships
Changes
Islam (5 pillars of
Muslims)
Podcasting
Data Handling
Multifaith
Blogging
Film Making
Motivational speeches
Information texts of
South America
Persuasive arguments
American habitats
writing
Narrative (south
American stories)
Biographies
Adventure stories
Boy/Girl projects
Venn diagrams
Timelines
Place value
Angles
Symmetry
Division
Measures
Mass
graphs
Time
Sorting
Negative numbers
Graphs
statistics
Ordering numbers
Timelines
Place value
Fractions
time
Data and graph
analysis
Compass points
Length
Co-ordinates
Ratio
Scale
Symmetry
Shape and measure
Problem solving and
reasoning
Timetables
Time
Ordering numbers
Timelines
Place value
Routes
directions
Statistics
Graphs
Timelines
Ratio
Measures
mass
Classifying
Sorting problem
solving
Statistics
Graphs
Data
measures
Fractions
Tessellation
Symmetry
translation