St-Mary’s Bluecoat CE Primary School
Long Term Curriculum Plan 2014
Year 3/4
Subject
AUTUMN
Down on the
Farm
Visits and Theme
Days
Art Gallery
Farm Visit
Whole Class
Texts
Stig of the dump –
Clive King
English
Stone Age Boy –
Satoshi Kitamura
Information text –
compare prehistoric
man
Instructions – how to
make soup
Cycle 1
SPRING
Bombs Away
SUMMER
In Search of the
Pharaohs
AUTUMN
The Rise of the
Romans
Cycle 2
SPRING
Amazon
Explorers
Attingham Park
WW2 Day
3/4 Production
Goodnight Mr Tom
Egyptian Day
Roman Day
Wroxeter
Carnival Day
3/4 Production
Playscript - evacuation
Diary writing for
evacuee
Story writing for
evacuee
Myths and legends?
Tomb discovery story?
Information texts Romans
Journalistic writing –
looking at Amazon
explorers
Light – reflections,
shadows and
absorbency of light
Forces – pushes, pulls,
friction and magnetic
forces
Rocks, Fossils and Soils
Sound – how is sound
made? Changing pitch,
dynamics.
The water cycle
SUMMER
Alfred’s England
Anglo-Saxon Day
Narrative structure
(historical setting) –
Stone Age Boy
Poetry?
Maths
Time - timelines
Measure – area and
perimeter of
excavation sites/
orienteering courses
Measure – weighing and
measuring ingredients
Science
1
Animals/Humans
Food, nutrition,
digestive system,
teeth.
Electricity – circuits,
switches, conductors
and insulators
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Animals and humans –
skeletons, bones, joints
and muscles.
Geography
History
Art
2
Plants – parts of
flowering plant,
conditions for healthy
plant growth,
pollination, seed
formation, seed
dispersal in flowering
plants.
Materials – solids,
liquids and gases –
changing state.
Name and locate places
in the UK (Shropshire),
Human geography –
distribution of food,
minerals and water.
Land use patterns.
Compare crop/livestock
land use in the UK and
rest of world.
Mapping – counties and
countries, local area,
food miles, aerial views
Field work – a farm
visit
Changes in Britain from
Stone Age to Iron Age,
Neolithic hunter
gatherers, early
farmers
UK geography –
counties and cities –
invasions, attacks,
evacuation to
countryside
Africa and Ancient
Egypt, river Nile, aerial
and satellite
photographs,
Mapping skills, land use,
rivers and settlements,
people and jobs.
Physical Geography –
volcanoes – Mount Etna
and Pompeii.
Socio-Economic
Geography – links and
infrastructure – what
the romans did for us –
roads, bridges,
aqueducts, towns,
plumbing
Mapping – southern
Italy
Britain beyond 1066,
WW2 Focus on
evacuees, Battle of
Britain.
Achievements of the
earliest civilisations,
Ancient Egypt – life,
beliefs, pharaohs,
tombs
The Roman Empire and
its impact on Britain,
Iron Age hill forts,
Roman invasion on
Britain (Caeser and
Claudius), Roman
Empire and power of
army, British
resistance - Boudicca.
Drawing/Painting –
farm animals from
photographs, maps of
farms,
2D Work –
Drawing/Painting –
Observational Drawing
2D Work –
Collage – city scape
during the Blitz.
Drawing/Painting –
Patterns and motifs
2D Work –
Mixed media collage –
tomb paintings
Drawing/Painting Boudicca from a range
of sources
2D Work –
Mosaics
Living things –
classifying plants,
vertebrates and
invertebrates in the
rainforest.
Environmental change –
human impact, food
chains, predator and
prey.
South America –
mapping - continents
and countries, virtual
trip to Brazil, climate
zones (rainforest),
longitude/latitude,
equator, tropics, time
zones, water cycle,
compare life in Brazil
with life in England,
environmental changes
– deforestation, global
warming, flooding.
Human Geography –
settlements/land use,
change over time
Mapping – compass
directions, counties,
major cities and other
types of settlement
and land use patterns.
Britain’s settlement –
Anglo-Saxons and
Scots, Viking and
Anglo-Saxon struggle
for England, Alfred the
Great Winchester.
Drawing/Painting –
Wildlife art
2D Work –
Different mediums for
above artwork.
Drawing/Painting –
Portraits of King
Alfred
2D Work –
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Long Term Curriculum Plan 2014
Applique farm maps
Cave paintings
3D Work Clay farm animals
Key Artists –
e.g. Diane Whitehead
and Peter Gray
ICT –
Photographing animals
DT
Music
Food Technology –
soups and salads from
school grown produce
3D Work –
Weaving, rag rugs,
make do and mend
Key Artists
Elaine Fine, Malcolm
Surridge – pen
drawings linked to
Anderson shelter
observational drawings
ICT –
Photos of Attingham
Construction materials
– structures and
shelters.
Scales - Old Macdonald
‘Dragon Scales’ (Y3)
Food Technology –
Ration recipes
(lavender biscuits etc.)
Singing Year 3/4
Production
WW2 Songs
Forties Music
P.E
Games – team building
games/inclusion
sports/orienteering
Games – multi-skills –
selecting and applying
skills through hockey
Gym – key steps –
selecting and applying
skills through creative
movement – low level
apparatus.
Gym – key steps selecting and applying
skills through creative
movement – large
apparatus.
Tea Dance
3
3D Work –
Canopic jars
Key Artists
Ancient Egyptian
artefacts
ICT Motif research
Levers and linkages –
pop-up books.
Food Technology –
Ancient Egyptian recipe
– pitta breads
Exploring arrangements
– The Class Orchestra’
(Y3) – link to radio
jingles for a news flash
programme on Egyptian
News
Games – multi-skills –
selecting and applying
skills through tennis
and athletics
Dance - selecting and
applying skills through
creative movement –
Egyptian dancing.
3D Work –
e.g. roman weaponry
Key Artists
?
ICT –
Mosaic design websites.
3D Work –
DT Link - Carnival
masks
Key Artists
Beatriz Milhazes
ICT –
Dazzle pictures and
patterns
Drawing of AngloSaxon villages
3D Work –
Models of long boats
and Anglo-Saxon
armoury
Key Artists
Food Technology –
Roman Market produce
– bread, meats, honey
toast, sesame cake,
honey apples.
Carnival masks
Food Technology –
Anglo-Saxon bread,
stew and oat cakes.
Exploring Sound ’Painting with Sound’ –
market scene (Y3)
Drumming Workshop
Pitch
Exploring arrangements
‘The Class Orchestra’Calypso
Singing
Rhythmic Patterns
Roman Raps ‘Play it
again’ (Y3)
Games – team building
games/inclusion
sports/orienteering
Singing -Year 3/4
Production
Gym – key steps –
selecting and applying
skills through creative
movement – low level
apparatus.
Food Technology –
Brazilian cuisine and
smoothies.
Games
Multi-skills –selecting
and applying skills
through basketball
Dance – selecting and
applying skills through
creative movement –
Samba dancing.
ICT -
Games – multi-skills –
selecting and applying
skills through tennis
and athletics
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Long Term Curriculum Plan 2014
MFL
R.E
Games
Multi-skills – selecting
and applying skills
through football
Games
Multi-skills –selecting
and applying skills
through netball
Games – multi-skills –
selecting and applying
skills through athletics
and cricket
Games
Multi-skills – selecting
and applying skills
through football
Games
Multi-skills –selecting
and applying skills
through tag rugby
Games – multi-skills –
selecting and applying
skills through rounders
and athletics
Dance – selecting and
applying skills through
creative movement –
country dancing.
Dance – selecting and
applying skills through
creative movement –
WW2 dance.
Sports Day
Dance – selecting and
applying skills through
creative movement –
Gladiator dancing.
Sports Day
All about Me
Celebrations
Friends
All aboard
Gym – key steps selecting and applying
skills through creative
movement – large
apparatus
Telling a Story
Games and Songs
Portraits
Growing things
Pocket Money
Sporting Lives
God RQ9 – How do
believers think of God?
Friendship RQ3 – What
does a Christian mean
by loving your
neighbour?
Our World RQ6 – Why
should we look after
the world? (Christian
viewpoint)
Our Special Book RQ11
– What sort of book is
the Bible?
Easter RQ14 – Why do
Christians celebrate
Easter? RQ12 – What
do people do when
someone dies and why
do they do this?
The Church RQ5 –
What do religious
communities do to show
members they belong?
RQ7- How do religions
attempt to help people
who suffer?
Relationships RQ4 –
What do religious
traditions say about
how we should treat
one another?
What’s the weather
like?
Creation RQ8 – What
different views
describe how the world
began? Creation
stories from different
religions.
Compassion
Friendship
Truthfulness
Humility
Light RQ14 – Why do
Muslims celebrate Eid?
P.S.H.E
(Values for Life)
4
Hope
Thankfulness
Advent and Christmas
RQ14 – Why do
Christians celebrate
Christmas?
Why do we prepare for
and celebrate
Christmas?
(Commercialism, role
play Christmas story
characters)
Generosity
Reverence
Easter RQ13 – In what
ways does a religious
belief influence how
someone lives their
life?
How do Jesus’
teachings influence how
we live our lives?
Respect
Wisdom
Carnival of the Animals
Islam RQ2 – How do
Muslims mark special
times in their life?
RQ5 – What do
Muslims do to show new
members that they
belong?
Perseverance
Service