Curriculum Overview
Religion
English
Maths
Subject
Y1
Y3
Y4
Y5
Y6
We teach the objectives from the National Curriculum through studying quality texts. We believe this approach helps the children to develop a love of reading and
writing. We learn about spelling, punctuation and grammar in a systematic and progressive way throughout each key stage. Phonics is taught in Reception, Year 1 and
Year 2, following the RML teaching sequence. Homework is given each week and is linked to spellings and current class activities. Children develop their reading skills
through taking home reading books from our extensive school reading scheme, including Oxford Reading Tree and Phonics Bug, and they participate in Guided Reading
sessions on a daily basis in class. In these Reciprocal Reading sessions, children read a challenging and varied selection of texts, incorporating fiction and non-fiction,
and work both in groups where they are guided by an adult, and also in groups where they develop their reading skills independently from an adult, where each child
has a specific and active role.
Our RE curriculum is based on The Way, the Truth and the Life and the Caritas schemes. We incorporate Statements to Live By into our RE and PSHCE work and
teach about relationships through ‘In the Beginning’.
Materials
Animals including humans
Plants and seasons
Science
Y2
Objectives from the National Curriculum are taught in a planned sequence in each year group and include topics of number sense, data, fractions, calculation,
measures, geometry – properties of shape and geometry – position, direction and movement. Children develop a depth of understanding of each area through problem
solving and investigation. Children practise key skills such as number bonds and times tables in school and also as part of their homework activities. Other activities
linked to classwork are also set each week to enable the children to work independently on their maths at home.
Uses of everyday
materials
Living things and their
habitat
Animals including humans
Plants
Forces and Magnets
Rocks
Light
Plants
Animals including humans
Living Things
States of matter
Electricity
Animals including humans
Sound
Life cycle of plants
Sun, Earth and Moon
Classifying materials
Mixtures and solutions
Reversible and
irreversible changes
Changes as humans
develop inc. SRE
Gravity, resistance and
mechanical forces
Living Things
Light
Electricity
Evolution and
inheritance
Animals including
humans inc. SRE
We incorporate the foci from History, Geography, Art, DT and Music into our Learning Challenge each half term. See our Curriculum
Newsletters for further detail.
History
Geography
Art
DT
Computing
Famous people from the
past
Great Fire of London
Local history studies
Vikings
Victorians
Romans
Anglo Saxons
The Scots
Greeks
Egyptians
WW2
Aztecs
The Stone age
Maps and the Seaside
Contrasting Localities –
UK and non-European
Contrasting locality –
local area and nonEuropean country
Oceans and Continents
Maps and the immediate
environment
Where do you live? Local
Geography
Contrasting localities
Countries of Europe and
Americas
Geographical language and
equipment
Italy – Volcanoes
Human and physical
features of countries
focusing on Europe and
Americas
Geographical language and
equipment
Kandinsky – oil pastel,
paint, collage
Britto – painting and
drawing, colour, sculpture
Van Gogh – texture,
shape, form, 3D modelling
Georges Seurat –
pointillism
Lowry
Van Gogh
Quentin Blake
Viking Art
Journeys
Alexander Von Wagner The Chariot Race
Mosaic
Geographical language
and equipment
Modern Greece
The River Nile
Counties, cities, regions
and features of the UK
Europe and the
Americas
Pastels
Silk painting
Lettering
Papier mache
Masks
War paintings
Geographical language
and equipment
Mexico
Mountain Environment
Comparing locality –
Castleton & Tintagel
Counties, cities, regions
and features of the UK
Stone age wall painting
Turner/Hokusai
seascapes
Roy Lichtenstein – pop
art
Escher – pencil, shading
3D
Christmas crafts
Sewing, collage, joining
materials
Healthy eating - Fruit
kebabs
Tudor houses
Healthy eating
Pop up books
Viking ships
Viking shields
Healthy eating
Roman shields
Healthy eating
Sandals and costumes
Shaduf
Andersen shelters
Healthy eating - bread
Constructing a shelter
Costume design
Torch and circuits
Healthy eating – a feast
fit for a king
Technology in the
environment
Coding
E-safety
Technology in the
environment
Coding
E-safety
Basic computing
Coding – Purple Mash
E-safety
Basic computing
Coding – Purple Mash
E-safety
Basic computing
Coding – Purple Mash
E-safety
Basic computing
Coding – Purple Mash
E-safety
PE
Gymnastics
Games
Dance
Athletics
Gymnastics
Games
Dance
Athletics
Swimming
Gymnastics
Athletics
Gymnastics
Dance
Games
Athletics
Charanga
Nativity
Charanga
Nativity
Charanga
BBC Vikings
Charanga
Pace and mood
Charanga
Singing –
Heroes of Troy
Rivers
WW2
French - Catherine
Cheater
French - directions
French – Catherine
Cheater
Languages
Music
Gymnastics
Games
Dance
Athletics
French - Catherine
Cheater
French - Catherine
Cheater
Ball skills and games inc.
netball
Robinwood
Dance
Mexico/James Bond/In
the Hall of the
Mountain King
Charanga
Mexico/James Bond/In
the Hall of the
Mountain King
French – Catherine
Cheater
Spanish - Aztecs