Curriculum Plan 2015 – 2016
Autumn 1
8 weeks
4 weeks
Theme
Marvellous Me
Class 7
Autumn 2
7 weeks
7 weeks
4 weeks
Medieval The
Norman Conquest
Experience
Key Texts
National Events
and Religious
Festivals
All the colours of
the Earth (art)
Ash Grove Junior and Infant School
Spring 1
5 weeks
Spring 2
5 weeks
Celebration
The Shang Dynasty
Farmer
Copley’s trip
Chinese day (food/clothing/music/dance)
The Canterbury
Tales
Various Myths and Legends
Halloween
Christmas
Chines New year
Gung Hey Fat Choy
Easter
Summer 1
8 weeks
Summer 2
7 weeks
Under the canopy
Coal mining
Frickley Colliery
Mining Museum
Curriculum Plan 2015 – 2016
Skills
Communication
1 speak effectively for different
audiences
2 Listen appropriately to others
3 Understand others through
talk
4 respond appropriately to others
5 participate effectively in group
discussions
6 read a range of literary and
non-fiction texts
7 reflect critically on what is
read
8 write fluently for a range of
audiences and purposes
9 analyse critically their own and
others’ writing
Science
Yr4/5 Animals including humans
History
Geography- TOPIC
The Norman Conquest
History focus wks 5-7
(3weeks)
RE
Keeping the 5 pillars of Islam
Sacred Journeys – Why do
believers choose to go on sacred
journeys? Yr 4
Class 7
Ash Grove Junior and Infant School
Application of Number
10 develop a range of
mental calculation
strategies and apply in
different contexts
11 understand and use
mathematical language
12 solve increasingly
complex problems and
present findings
13 explain the reasoning
used to solve problems
14 solve number
problems in real life
situations
Information Technology
15 use a range of
information sources
16 use a range of ICT
tools
17 Find, analyse,
24 Understand the needs
interpret, evaluate,
of others
present information
25 Develop social
using ICT for a range of interaction strategies
purposes
26 Co-operate with
18 make critical and
others in a range of
informed judgements
settings
about when and how to
27 Appreciate the
use ICT
experience of others
19 Use ICT information
28 Consider different
sources to enquire
perspectives
20 Use a range of ICT
29 Benefit from what
information sources to
others think, say and do
support decision making
Improving own learning
21 Modify work with
and performance
ICT
30 Reflect and critically
Working with others
evaluate their own wok
22 Contribute to small
31Consider what they
group and whole class
have learnt
discussions
32Identify the purpose
23 Work with others to
of learning
meet a challenge
Other Curriculum Areas (if not already linked to the main theme)
Earth & space Yr5
Sound Yr4
Properties and changes
Chinese theme
of materials Yr 5
States of matter Yr4
33 Reflect on the
processes of learning
34 Assess progress in
learning
35 Identify obstacles
or problems in learning
36 Identify and plan
ways to improve
learning
Problem Solving
37 Solve problems
faced in learning and
life
38 Identify and
understand a problem
39 Plan ways to solve a
problem
40 Monitor progress in
tackling a problem
41Review solutions to a
problem
42 Respond to the
challenge of a problem
43 Plan, test, modify and
review the progress
needed to achieve
particular outcomes
Personal and Emotional
44 Manage own and
others’ feelings
appropriately
45 Manage future
behaviour reflecting on
past experience
46 Set goals for personal
development
47 Work independently
towards deadlines
48 Control physical
movements in a range of
contexts
Living things and their
habitats Yr4/5
Whiz Bang Unit
Investigations
Electricity focus Yr4
Forces focus Yr5
Coal mining History focus
wks 1-3
The Shang Dynasty
Geog focus
Under the canopy
Coal mining Geog focus
wks 4-7
Easter
What is it like to be a
Sikh?
Beliefs into practiceWhat can we learn from
people who belong to a
religion? Yr5
Topic based RE
(pos Medieval times)
The Shang Dynasty
History focus
The Norman Conquest
Geog focus wks 1-4
(4weeks)
Christmas
Do the Hajj change
lives?
Places of worship –
What can be learned
about Christian and
Jewish beliefs and
practices from
Curriculum Plan 2015 – 2016
Class 7
Computing
DT / Art
Social media
Sketch books used throughout
the whole year
Portait painting
Text – All the colour of the
Earth
Data & Information
The Solar System
Paper Mache planets
Indoor PE
Gymnastics
Outdoor PE
Football y5 (Wakefield)
Y4-unit 1 Balance
DANCE
Y5-invasion games
Y5 go swimming.
Music
French
Music Express/charanga used
throughout year
Lean on me
Y4 Lessons-11 to 16
SEAL
New Beginnings
Literacy
Poetry Yr4/5
(Kennings/list poems)
Wk 1-4 linked to topic
Marvellous Me Yr4/5
SPAG
exploring buildings for
worship?
Design and de-bug
Chines brush art/brush
paintings (inks)
Chinese artist study –
Xue Yuan or Bada
Shannen
To include Gung Hey fat
Choy- paper
dragons/fans
Y5 unit 1 Bridges
Tag Rugby (Y4
Wakefield)
Ash Grove Junior and Infant School
Film-making
Chinese
architecture/buildings
DT/art Observational
drawings of buildings
Internet services
Large scale
collaboration
(rainforest theme)
Mixed media work
Y4-Unit 2 Recvieing body
weight.
Hockey skills (Y5
Wakefield)
Y5-Flight
Athletics(Y5)
Algorithms
Nature/environmental
art
3D work
Stone painting/wishing
pebble jewellery
Newspaper
paintings/drawings
Lollipop stick puzzles
Dance unit-English
country dancing.
OOA-orienteering (both)
Medieval music
Samba
Benjamin Britton Cuckoo
Mamma Mia
Reflect, rewind, replay
Y4 Lesson 17-20
Y4 Christmas themes
Lesson6-7 Y5 Christmas
learn a Christmas carol.
Getting on and Falling
out
Anti-Bullying Week
Wk1-4
The Canterbury Tales
(Fiction from our
literacy heritage) Yr 5
Y5Lesson 1-6
Y5 lessons 7-11 (Y4
Easter -Lesson 14)
Y5 lessons 12-15
Y5 lessons 16-20.
Good To Be Me
Relationships
Going for Goals
Changes
Adventure stories Yr5
Myths and
legends/fairy stories
Yr4
Plays Yr4/5
Stories from other
cultures Yr5
Newspaper journalism
Yr4
Balanced argument Yr5
Wk 4-7 The Canterbury Tales
Wk 5-8
links to the Normans topic
Instructions Yr4
(poetry/prose ones)
Explanations Yr5
To be taught throughout the whole year
Year 4
Nouns/pronouns
Extend sentences by one or more clause
Conjunctions/adverbs/preposition
Biography/Autobiography Yr5
Letters Yr4 (formal)
Letters Yr5
(formal/informal)
Year 5
Passive verbs
Expanded noun phrases
Modal verbs/adverbs
Relative clauses – who, which, where, when ,whose, that
Non-chronological report
Yr4
Curriculum Plan 2015 – 2016
Fronted adverbials
Possessive apostrophe
Punctuate direct speech
Plural/possessive s
Verb inflections
Determiners
Adverbials
Possessive pronoun
Class 7
Ash Grove Junior and Infant School
Commas
Hyphens
Brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis
Semi-colours, colours, dashes to mark boundaries between main clauses
Colons for lists
Bullet points (to punctuate)
Cohesion
Ambiguity
Verb prefixes
Relative pronoun
Relative clauses