Key Stage 2 Curriculum Overview
Autumn Term 2 - 2015
Maths
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Y3/4
Counting from 0 in multiples of 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 25, 50, 100 and
1000; recall and use multiplication and division facts for the
3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables (beginning to use all
multiplication tables to 12 x 12); calculating using knowledge
of multiplication tables; problem solving
2d (named quadrilaterals and triangles)and 3d shapes and
their properties; angles of turn and as properties of shape;
acute and obtuse angles; lines of symmetry in 2d shapes
solving number problems
telling and writing the time from an analogue clock, including
using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12-hour and 24hour clocks
English
Story settings:
 Well-chosen adjectives to describe setting
 Prepositional phrases to navigate around the setting
Instructions:
 Organisation – bullet points
 Time connectives
 Imperative verbs
 Using a hook and closing statement
Creative
Curriculum
Castles– History/Geography focus
Within the context we will be:
 Explaining how events from the past have helped shape our
lives(reference to the Battle of Hastings and Magna Carta)
 Appreciating how items found belonging to the past are
Y5/6
1. Fraction and decimals – equivalents and comparison
2. Multiplying multi-digit numbers (including decimals) by
one-digit and two-digit whole numbers using the formal
written method of long multiplication
3. Dividing numbers up to 4 digits by one –digit and two-digit
whole numbers using the formal written method of long
division
4. Calculating percentages
5. Angles – recognition in shapes; calculating missing
angles;
6. Parts of circles, including radius, diameter and
circumference
7. Calculating perimeters and areas of 2d shapes
8. Calculating and interpreting the mean as an average
9. Roman numerals to 1000 (M) and recognise years written
in Roman numerals
Suspense and mystery stories:
 techniques a writer uses to create suspense.
 paragraph structure
 relative clauses – who, that, which
Explanations
 brackets
 fronted adverbials
 modals for certainty and possibility
 conditional sentences
Castles– History/Geography focus
Within the context we will be:
 Describing a key event from Britain’s past using a range of
evidence from different sources
 Summarising the main events from a specific period in
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helping us to build up an accurate picture of how people lived
in the past.
Using various sources to piece together information about a
period in history.
Work scientifically to plan and execute experiments
Forces - how things move on different surfaces; how
magnets attract or repel each other and attract some
materials and not others; compare and group together a
variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they
are attracted to a magnet, and identify some magnetic
materials
Science
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PE
 Invasion Games (Tag Rugby)
 Dance
Y3 –Rhythm and song (Babushka)
Y4 Focus around playing and composing (glockenspiels)
Music
Art
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French
Y3:
 Introduction to French
 First words, greetings and classroom commands
 Introduce French sounds and language learning skills
 Colours and numbers
Y4:
 To continue building sentences, looking at where negatives
and adjectives are positioned.
 To look at how to ask questions.
 Masculine nouns
Christianity
RE
A1: Explore Portraits/Self Portraits
Sketch using different graded pencils
Compare artists
Evaluate work
history, explaining the order in which key events happened.
Communicating knowledge and understanding orally and in
writing and offer points of view based upon what has been
found out
 Work scientifically to plan and execute experiments
 Compare and group together everyday materials on the basis
of their properties, including their hardness, solubility
transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and
response to magnets
 Give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair
tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including
metals, wood and plastic
 Invasion Games (Tag Rugby)
 Dance
Focus around
 playing and composing (glockenspiels)
 1970s pop music (Mamma Mia)
 singing
 Sketch using different graded pencils for effect
 Sketch specific parts of an overall image prior to sketching
the whole image
 Compare artists using specific art-related vocabulary
 Evaluate work
 Noun and adjective agreement – animals and colours, parts
of the body
 Writing grammatically correct sentences
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Christianity
Computing
PSHE
Christmas - Has Christmas lost its true meaning?
 Write simple code and algorithms to accomplish specific
goals.
 Use variables to control a program
 Use internet safely to search and find a range of information
to answer specific questions.
Christmas - How significant is it that Mary was Jesus’ mother?
Design and write a program to accomplish a specific goal
 Use variables
 Use code to stimulate physical systems
 Debug pre-prepared code to find errors before running it
 Use variables and physical inputs to control
Dealing with situations around friendship
(Rainbow scheme/SEAL –Getting on and falling out)
Anti-bullying (w/b 15th November)
Embedding ‘Behaviour for learning’.