Greenfield EACT Academy Creative Curriculum 2015-17
Lower Key Stage Two – years 3 and 4
Creative Curriculum matrix: Lower Key Stage 2 2015/16 Cycle 1
Term 1
Term 2
Term 3
Term 4
Topic title
What was life like
for a child in the
1940s?
What was life like
for a child in the
1940s?
How does your
garden grow?
Can you tell me Who won the 100
the difference year war?
between UK
and India?
How did the Tudors
discover the world was
really round?
Skill Focus
-History,
Geography or
Science.
History
History
Enterprise
Science
Geography –
History
compare
growing up as a
child
History
Topic Text
Class Text: The
Lion, The Witch &
the Wardrobe
Class Text: The Lion, Class Text: The
The Witch and the
Secret Garden
Wardrobe
Year 3:
Year 3&4: NonDiscussion Text
chronological report Poems with a
Playscripts
structure
PoemsYear 4:
character/scene
Explanation Text
from WW2
Fantasy
Class Text: Life
of Pi
Class Text: Terrible
Tudors
Class Text: The Tudor
Rose
Year 3:
Recount
Biography:
Mother Theresa
Folk Tale
Year 4:
Myth
Discussion
Kennings about
Henry V111
Fables
Year 3:
Recount: Diaries
Year 4:
Fairy Tales
Newspaper reports
Year 3:
Mystery
Explanation Text
Year 4:
Information Booklet
Film & Playscripts
Year 3&4:
Persuasive Letters
instructions, nonchronological
report, persuasive
poster.
Term 5
Term 6
Greenfield EACT Academy Creative Curriculum 2015-17
Lower Key Stage Two – years 3 and 4
Poems on a
theme: War poetry
– feelings
Scenes from a
book
RESPECT theme
plus religious
ceremonies/
celebrations
ISLAM
Rosh Hashanah
Harvest festival
CHRISTIANITY
Christmas
Remembrance day
Diwali
Guru Nanak Dev
St Andrews
Children in Need.
BUDDISM
Commonwealth
Day
St Patrick’s Day
HINDUISM
Easter
St David’s Day
Mothers’ day
JUDAISM
SIKHISM
St Georges Day
Ramadan
Shakespeare's
birthday
Europe Day May 9th
SMSC
(Including SEAL,
UNICEF focus
assembly and
P4C)
New Beginnings
UNICEF focus: 5th
October: world
teacher’s day.
ANTI BULLYING
WEEK
Greenfield
democratic
election
Getting on/Falling
out/Bullying
UNICEF focus: 20th
November World
Children’s day.
Going for goals
Relationships
UNICEF focus: 15th WORLD BOOK
January Martin
WEEK
Luther King Day
SCIENCE AND
SAFER INTERNET ENGINEERING
DAY
WEEK
Good to be me
UNICEF focus: 7th
April World Health
Day
Changes
UNICEF focus: 12th
June: World Day
against Child Labour
BIG DAYS in
school
BIG MATHS
CHLLENGE
WORLD BOOK
WEEK
SATS/CAMP TERM
HEALTHY SCHOOLS &
SPORTS DAY
Greenfield EACT Academy Creative Curriculum 2015-17
Lower Key Stage Two – years 3 and 4
(off timetable
days)
SCIENCE WOW
DAY
Science
Yr 3 Mirror, Mirror Yr 3 Food & Our
Yr 4 What’s that
bodies
sound
Yr 4 Teeth & Eating
Yr 3 How does
your garden grow
Yr 4 Living Things
Yr 3 Earth
Rocks
Yr 4 Looking at
states
Yr 3 Opposites
attract
Yr 4 Power it up!
Yr 3 We are astronauts
Yr 4 Brilliant bubbles
Computing
Yr 3 We are
opinion pollsters
Yr 4 We are toy
designers
Yr 3 We are
presenters
Yr 4 We are coauthors
Yr 3 We are
communicators
Yr 4 We are
meteorologists
Yr 3 We are
bug fixers
Yr 4 We are
HTML editors
Yr 3 We are
network engineers
Yr 4 We are
musicians
Yr 3 We are
programmers
Yr 4 We are software
developers
Creative
curriculum links
(RE, Music, Art
and/or DT)
Yr 3/4
Art/DT: make
their own
Anderson shelter
Music: Vera Lynn
etc.
Evacuation
Yr 3/4
Rationing
Burning Bristol
Skyline
Daily Life
Yr 3/4
Henna
Jewelry
Mehndi
patterns on
fabric – using
Indian Gods
Yr3/4
Portraits
Clay coat of arms –
House
York/Lancashire
Yr 3/4
Map of expanding
British Empire
Yr 3/4
Monet – water
lilies (water
colour,
experimenting
with creating
Plan & fundraise for mood and colour)
WW2 Christmas
3d collages of
party
plants
Planters outside
classroom to grow
food in.
Greenfield EACT Academy Creative Curriculum 2015-17
Lower Key Stage Two – years 3 and 4
PE (indoor and
outdoor)
Yr 3 Travelling
with a ball using
feet. Kicking –
control and
accuracy
Yr 3
Dance Body shape
(Monsters)
Swimming
Yr 4 Catching –
correct technique
Gymnastics –
Jumping balancing
on body parts
Dance – Body
actions (TV
Yr 4 Swimming
Detectives)
Gymnastics –
balancing and
moving on points
and patches. The
5 basic jumps
Yr 3
Rolling &
retrieving/Bounci
ng
Gymnastics –
balancing on a
small body parts,
copying a
partner’s
sequence
Yr 4
Passing on the
move/directional
play
Gymnastics –
variety in ways of
approaching and
leaving apparatus
Yr 3 Throwing
for distance
and accuracy
Yr 3
Hitting and striking
skills
Yr 3
Hitting and striking
skills
Dance –
Travelling and
pathways
(Water)
Gymnastics –
running quickly,
jumping for
distance, throwing
for distance
Athletics – running
quickly, jumping for
distance, throwing for
distance
Yr 4 Ball
handling
skills/on the
move
Yr 4
Yr 4
Acceptance of rules in
Striking a ball with a a striking and fielding
bat/racquet
game
Dance – Body
Parts (Sayings)
Gymnastics –
receiving body
weight Part B
Athletics – sustaining
effort over a longer
run, combining jumps
(hop, step, jump)
Throwing 2 handed
Greenfield EACT Academy Creative Curriculum 2015-17
Lower Key Stage Two – years 3 and 4
WOW
opportunities
Week 1 – WOW
Evacuation
experience
Week 2 – Swindon
Railway Museum
Fundraising –
budgeting,
Daisy Flynn – WW2
dancing
Romeo & Juliet
WW2 cooking with
rations
Northern Slopes
Indian Banquet Year 4 Camp
Bristol University (invite parents)
Botanical Gardens Cook Indian
Tudor Dance
curry etc.
Walk around Tudor
Bristol (link to
source work)
Red Lodge
Matthew & M Shed
visit
Use food from Term 3
to create a Tudor
inspired dish.
Greenfield EACT Academy Creative Curriculum 2015-17
Lower Key Stage Two – years 3 and 4
Creative Curriculum matrix: Lower Key Stage 2 2016/17
Term 1
Term 2
Term 3
Term 4
Term 5
Term 6
Topic title
Romans
Romans
Local Geography
Caribbean
Healthy
Eating/Bodies
Brunel
Skill Focus
-History,
Geography or
Science.
History
History
Enterprise
Geography
Geography –
Science
compare
growing up as a
child
History
Topic Text
Class Text: Myths
and legends
Class Text: TBC
Class Text: TBC
Class Text: TBC
Class Text: Alice in
Wonderland
Year 3: Persuasive
letters/leaflets to
join Roman Army
Year 3: Recount:
Diaries
Year 4:
Newspaper
reports
Class Text:
Caribbean
Tales
Year 3: Explanation
Text
Year 3: Novel as a
theme
Year 3: Nonchronological
reports
Year 4: Nonchronological
reports
Year 4: Persuasions
sales pitch/article
Year 3: Mystery
Year 3: Adventure
Year 3: Folk
and fairy tales
Year 4: Explanation
Year 4:Folk and Text
fairy tales
Year 3: Playscripts
Year 4: Fantasy
settings
Year 3: Recount:
Greenfield EACT Academy Creative Curriculum 2015-17
Lower Key Stage Two – years 3 and 4
Year 3: Fables
story
Year 4: Myths
Year 4: Issues and
dilemmas
Year 4:
Film/playscripts
Year 3:
Discussion
Year 4:
Discussion
Year 3: Shape
poems
Biography
Year 4: Information
booklet
Year 4: Novel as a
theme
Year 3 and 4: Poems as
a theme
Year 3: Classic
Poetry
Year 4: Kennings
Year 4: Classic
Poetry
RESPECT theme
plus religious
ceremonies/
celebrations
ISLAM
Rosh Hashanah
Harvest festival
CHRISTIANITY
Christmas
Remembrance day
Diwali
Guru Nanak Dev
St Andrews
Children in Need.
BUDDISM
Commonwealth
Day
St Patrick’s Day
HINDUISM
Easter
St David’s
Mothers’ day
SMSC
(Including SEAL,
UNICEF focus
assembly and
P4C)
New Beginnings
UNICEF focus: 5th
October: world
teacher’s day.
ANTI BULLYING
Getting on/Falling
out/Bullying
UNICEF focus: 20th
November World
Children’s day.
Going for goals
Relationships
th
UNICEF focus: 15 WORLD BOOK
January Martin
WEEK
Luther King Day
SCIENCE AND
JUDAISM
SIKHISM
St Georges Day
Ramadan
Shakespeare's
birthday
Europe Day May 9th
Good to be me
UNICEF focus: 7th
April World Health
Day
Changes
UNICEF focus: 12th
June: World Day
against Child Labour
Greenfield EACT Academy Creative Curriculum 2015-17
Lower Key Stage Two – years 3 and 4
WEEK
Greenfield
democratic
election
SAFER INTERNET
DAY
BIG DAYS in
school
(off timetable
days)
BIG MATHS
CHALLENGE
Science
Yr 3 Earth Rocks
Yr 4 Looking at
states
Yr 3 Opposites
attract
Yr 4 Brilliant
Bubbles
Computing
Yr 3 We are
opinion pollsters
Yr 4 We are
software
developers
Yr 3 We are bug
fixers
Yr 4 We are coauthors
ENGINEERING
WEEK
WORLD BOOK
WEEK
SCIENCE WOW
DAY
SATS/CAMP TERM
HEALTHY SCHOOLS &
SPORTS DAY
Yr 3 How does
your garden grow
Yr 4 Living Things
Yr 3 Mirror,
Mirror
Yr 4 What’s
that sound
Yr 3 Food & Our
bodies
Yr 4 Teeth & Eating
Yr 3 We are astronauts
Yr 4 Power it up!
Yr 3 We are
communicators
Yr 4 We are
meteorologists
Yr 3 We are
presenters
Yr 4 We are
musicians
Yr 3 We are
programmers
Yr 4 We are HTML
editors
Yr 3 We are network
engineers
Yr 4 We are toy
designers
Greenfield EACT Academy Creative Curriculum 2015-17
Lower Key Stage Two – years 3 and 4
Creative
Yr 3/4
curriculum links Roman collage of
(RE, Music, Art soldier
and/or DT)
Yr 3/4
Yr 3/4
Roman lamps (clay) Street Art map of
Roman Vases
Bristol landmarks
(paper/silhouettes)
Yr 3/4
Caribbean
curry
Steel pan
drums
Pastel
Caribbean
animals/setting
s
Yr3/4
Skeletons
Still life art
Food printing
Make fruit people
Yr 3/4
Chalk suspension
bridges
Making own invention
(rat problem)
PE (indoor and
outdoor)
Yr 3
Dance Body shape
(Monsters)
Yr 3 Throwing
for distance
and accuracy
Yr 3
Hitting and striking
skills
Yr 3
Hitting and striking
skills
Dance –
Travelling and
pathways
(Water)
Gymnastics –
running quickly,
jumping for
distance, throwing
for distance
Athletics – running
quickly, jumping for
distance, throwing for
distance
Yr 4 Ball
handling
skills/on the
move
Yr 4
Yr 4
Acceptance of rules in
Striking a ball with a a striking and fielding
bat/racquet
game
Dance – Body
Parts (Sayings)
Gymnastics –
receiving body
Yr 3 Travelling
with a ball using
feet. Kicking –
control and
accuracy
Swimming
Yr 4 Catching –
correct technique
Yr 3
Rolling &
retrieving/Bounci
ng
Gymnastics –
Jumping balancing
on body parts
Dance – Body
actions (TV
Yr 4 Swimming
Detectives)
Gymnastics –
balancing on a
small body parts,
copying a
partner’s
sequence
Gymnastics –
balancing and
moving on points
and patches. The
Yr 4
Passing on the
move/directional
play
Athletics – sustaining
effort over a longer
Greenfield EACT Academy Creative Curriculum 2015-17
Lower Key Stage Two – years 3 and 4
5 basic jumps
weight Part B
run, combining jumps
(hop, step, jump)
Throwing 2 handed
Year 4 Camp
Trips to SS Great
Britain/
Suspension Bridge
Gymnastics –
variety in ways of
approaching and
leaving apparatus
WOW
opportunities.
Carousel WOW of
activities (dig,
language, lollies,
dressing up)
Trip to The Roman
Baths
Food – make a
Roman soup.
Visitor /Tour Bus
of Bristol
Enterprise
challenge: raise
funds for a local
charity
Carousel WOW
of activities
(jewelry,
shakers,
bunting,
tasting)
Food –
Caribbean
curry
Bordeaux Quay
cookery lessons
Food – cook
healthy meal