2015 – 2016
Curriculum Overview
Theme
Year 1 Autumn
Everything Changes
Fiction Text
Traditional Tales
Australian style
School Trip
Autumn walk
Geography
Locational Knowledge – Uk
– Countries. Where we
live, my school etc.
Skills and Fieldworkdevise a simple map
Human and Physical Weather Patterns
History
Changes in Living Memory
Science
Seasonal Changes
Plants
Computing
Art and
design
Design and
Technology
Music
Year 1 Spring
Down Under
1:6 – We are Celebrating
1:3 – We are painters
Self Portraits – growing up
(watercolours)
4 season trees - painting
Cooking and nutrition
Seasonal Changes/Harvest
– Where does our food
come from?
Changes in beat/tempo
Mindfulness Harvest
We are all different
Locational Knowledge – 7
Continents
Place Knowledge –
non-European contrasting
study
Human and Physical –
Hot and cold places
Key human and physical
features
Skills and Fieldwork Use world maps + globes, Use
simple fieldwork to study
school area, aerial
photographs
Animals – Identify and
name common animals
Living things and their
habitats (Year 2)
1:1 – We are treasure
hunters
1:4 – We are collectors
Aboriginal Art
Animals – Junk modelling
(painting)
Australian Instruments
Experiment with sound
Weather sounds
Different cultures
(Aboriginal)
Year 1 Summer
Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch
Year 2 Autumn
Up, Up and Away
The Lighthouse Series
Lighthouse visit
Beach + picnic
Locational Knowledge - 7
Continents + 5 Oceans
(other beaches UK
Countries – plotting
beaches
Finmere?
Seasides – then and now
(Victorian link )
Events beyond Living
Memory - 1ST aeroplane
flight
Uses of everyday
materials
Everyday materials
1:2 We are TV Chefs
1:5 – We are storytellers
Drawing lighthouses
(watercolour)
Clay – shell tiles
Design and make a
lighthouse / boat
Locational Knowledge UK – Countries and capital
cities
Balloons – Map where it
got to
Skills and Fieldwork Use world maps + globes, Arial
photographs
Year 2 Spring
Neverland
Peter Pan
The Snorg and the Sailor
Human and Physical – Key
human and physical
features
Skills and Fieldwork Compass, devise maps,
symbols and key
Exploration – treasure
hunt in woods?
Locational Knowledge - 7
Continents + 5 Oceans
Human and Physical Identify Hot and cold
places
Skills and Fieldwork Compass – Drawing maps
of journeys
Animals including humans –
Lost Boys – Looking after
them
1:1- We are astronauts
1:2 – We are games
testers
Printing – Balloon patterns
1:3 – We are
photographers
1:4 – We are researchers
Crocodiles – Making marks
(pastels)
Design and make a kite to
fly at the park
Cooking and nutrition
Design and make a healthy
and balanced meal for Lost
Boys
Chants – Pirates, lost boys
Seaside songs
Water music
Tuned instruments
Helping others
Aiming high, how do we
earn our wings?
Year 2 Summer
Intrepid Explorers
We all have different
talents and skills
Importance of community
Compare the lives of 2
significant individuals –
Columbus V’s Scott
Plants – Explore outside –
What can you
discover/find?
2:5 – We are detectives
2:6 – We are zoologists
Close observation –
Discovering – What could
it be?
See shanties etc.
Jungle composition
Asking questions
Making discoveries
Year 3 Autumn
Tomb Raiders
Theme
Fiction Text Terry Deary Egypt series
Year 3 Spring
Chocolate
Year 3 Summer
Stigs and Stones
Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory
Stig of The Dump
The Egyptian Cinderella
School Trip
Ashmolean Museum
Cadburys World
Chiltern Open Air Museum
Geography
Locational Knowledge – Recap
continents -World’s countries
Physical characteristics of UK
- Rivers
Human and Physical –
Rivers, settlement, land use,
water cycle
Skills and Fieldwork Use maps, atlases, globes
Locational Knowledge –basic
position of equator etc.
Human and Physical –
Climate zones, trade links,
distribution o natural
resources
Skills and Fieldwork Use maps, atlases, globes
History
Ancient Egypt
Science
Light
Art and
design
Design and
Technology
Music
Year 4 Spring
Legend
Year 4 Summer
Charlotte’s Web/Sheep Pig
Charlotte’s Web
Sheep Pig
Roman Day (?)
King Arthur and the
Knights of the Round
Table
Horrible Histories (?)
Human and Physical –
Land use – distribution of
natural resources
Skills and Fieldwork Use fieldwork to observe,
measure, record.
Locational Knowledge –
Counties of UK – Then and
now
Human and Physical –
Settlements
Skills and Fieldwork Use maps, globes
Locational Knowledge –
Counties of UK – Then and
now
Human and Physical –
Settlements
Skills and Fieldwork Use maps, globes
Locational Knowledge –
Counties and geographical
features (farms)
Human and Physical –
Biomes, vegetation belts, lamd
use, economic activity, trade
links, distribution of natural
resources
Skills and Fieldwork Use world maps + globes Use
fieldwork to observe,
measure, record. Draw maps
Aztecs (Overview)
Stone Age to Iron Age
Romans
States of matter (Year 4)
Electricity (Year 4)
Rocks
Forces and magnets
Sound
Anglo Saxons (In depth
study)
Vikings (Overview)
Animals
3:1 – We are programmers
3:2 – We are bug fixers
3:3 – We are presenters
3:4 – We are network
engineers
4:1 – We are software
developers
4:3 – We are musicians
4:4 – We are HMTL
editors
4:5 – We are co-authors
Clay cartouches
Painting – colour wheel
3:5 – We are
communicators
3:6 – We are opinion
pollsters
Create a recycled art
sculpture
Sketching – close
observation – 3D + shading
Cooking and Nutrition
Cooking on a camp fire
Living things and their
habitats
Plants (Year 3)
4:2 – We are toy designers
4:6 – We are
meteorologists
Celtic Art – printing/ silk
painting
Close observational
drawing - artefacts
Painting– Shields
Famous Paintings – Farms
Watercolour – Farm
scenes
Songs from Charlie
Stomp
Recycled Art
Roman Music
Army chants
Drumming
Composition
Selfish and unselfish
characteristics
Fair Trade
Looking after our
environment
Other cultures
What makes us British?
Bravery
Teamwork
Feeling special
Land use v’s development
Animals
Computing
Year 4 Autumn
Rotten Romans
Design and make a shaduf
Egyptian music
Ocarina
River music
Mindfulness Other cultures
Farm Visit
Cooking and Nutrition
Understand seasonality –
know where ingredients are
grown, reared, caught and
processed.
Design and make Roman
Money container
Theme
Year 5 Autumn
Year 5 Spring
Hard Times
One Small Step
Fiction Text Street Child
School Trip
Year 5 Summer
Get set…GO!
Greek Myths
Year 6
Autumn 1
Frida Khalo
Year 6
Autumn 2
Macbeth
Macbeth
Locational
Knowledge –
Cities and
counties in
UK
National Space Centre / PGL
Geography
Locational Knowledge UK counties and cities
Locational Knowledge –
World’s countries – America –
Where Space science has
taken place / been based.
Locational Knowledge – World’s
countries and major cities
Place Knowledge –
European contrasting study
(Greece?)
Human and Physical –
Describe human and physical
geography for there and
England/Buckingham
Skills and Fieldwork Use maps, atlases, globes, digital
mapping, Sketch maps
Locational
Knowledge –
Locate
world’s
countries
Place
Knowledge –
American
contrasting
study
History
Victorians
Local Study - Florence
Nightingale (?)
Since 1066 - Space
Exploration
Ancient Greeks
Science
Light (Year 6)
Electricity (Year 6)
Forces
Earth and Space
Year 5 – Animals Including
Humans
Year 6 – Animals including
Humans
Mayan
Since 1066
- Kings and
Queens
Living
Things and
Their
Habitats
(Year 5)
Living
Things and
Their
Habitat
(Year 6)
5:6 – We are architects
5:3 - We are artists
5:4 - We are web
developers
5:2 – We are
cryptographers
Pastels - planets
5:1 - We are game
developers
5:5 - We are bloggers
6:1 - We
are app
planners
6:2 - We
are project
managers
Clay Greek pots
Frida Khalo
Charcoal –
images of
power
Computing
Art and
design
Close observational sketching
– Artefacts
Famous Victorian Artist
Design and
Technology
Music
Mandolin
Mindfulness Hierarchy in society
Masks
Design and make a moving
planet toy
Cooking and Nutrition
Understand and apply the
principles of a healthy and
varied diet
Classical music – Space
theme
Composition
Exploration – opening our
eyes
Creation ideas
National Anthems
Greek / sporting music
Economic problems
Building relationships
Other cultures
Traditional
Mexican
music
Other
cultures
Year 6 Spring
Year 6 Summer
Blitz
Everything Changes
PGL
London Trip
Locational Knowledge –
Locate world’s countries
Cities and counties in UK
Place Knowledge –
non-European contrasting
study
Human and Physical –
Trade links etc.
Skills and Fieldwork Use maps, atlases, globes
Orienteering – Compass
and map of School.
Where is my new school?
WWII
Home Front
Properties and changes of
Materials (Year 5)
Evolution and Inheritance
6:3 - We are market
researchers
6:4 - We are interface
designers
Watercolour
Henry Moore
6:5 - We are app
developers
6:6 - We are marketers
Design and make a model
Anderson shelter
Cooking and Nutrition
Savoury dishes
Witches
chants
WWII songs
School Play
Power and
ambition
Leadership v’s dictatorship
Looking forward
New relationships
Aspiration
Portrait screen printing