HARDWICK COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL
LONG TERM CURRICULUM PLAN
2015 – 2016
Year 2
Term 1
KNIGHTS AND
PRINCESSES
Term 2
FIRE
Term 3
ANIMALS
Term 4
GIANTS AND
BEANSTALKS
Term 5
HOT COUNTRIES
Term 6
Literacy: Traditional Tales, narrative, labels, nursery rhymes
Texts: Fairy Tales, Non-fiction Castle books, story of King Arthur
Science: Every day materials, changing materials, materials and their properties
History: Significant historical places, castles, King Arthur
P.E: Gymnastics and Swimming
DT: Textiles – castles flags wall hanging – paint/print background fabric, join felt shapes
with running stitch and decorate with braids/ribbons
Art: Medieval pennants and flags
Music: Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the interrelated
dimensions of music ( dynamics, timbre. Pitch, tempo, duration, structure and texture)
Computing: Video
R.E: Islam or Judaism: Believing and Symbols Theme
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Literacy: Narrative, character description
Texts: Story of King Arthur, The Princess and the Pea, The Frog Prince
History: Bonfire night, Great Fire of London
Geography: Fieldwork studies in the local area and vocabulary – river, town, house, shop,
office, farm, factory
P.E: Dance and Swimming
D.T: Making a cardboard model of old London
ART: Silhouette pictures, wax resist pictures.
Music: Nativity Play
Computing: Research, graphics
R.E Christmas
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Literacy: Information pages, narrative
Texts: Aesop’s Fables, Dick King-Smith The Sheep Pig
Science: Life cycles of animals, needs of animals, habitats
P.E: Multi skills and Swimming
ART: 3D sculpture of animals
Music: Play tuned and unturned instruments musically
Computing: Text, Graphics
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Literacy: Recount, Character description, information text – non chronological report,
narrative
Texts: The Smartest Giant in Town
Science: Plants
P.E: Gymnastics and Swimming
DT: Sheet Materials: Linkages – moveable animal.
Art: Still Life drawings
Music: Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the interrelated
dimensions of music ( dynamics, timbre. Pitch, tempo, duration, structure and texture)
Computing: Programming, Internet
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Literacy: Narrative, non-chronological report, letters, instructions
Texts: Traditional African stories, myths
Science: Living creatures around the world
Geography: Name and locate the worlds continents and oceans including key human and
physical features, Compare local area to a non European country
P.E: Dance/Athletics and multi skills
DT: Food:
Art: Printing
Music: Play tuned and unturned instruments musically
Computing: E-mail
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Year 3
Literacy: Myths and Legends ( All narratives in Year 3 have a focus on setting- but also recap on
character)
Text: The Cat Mummy – Jacqueline Wilson
History: Ancient Civilisations – Ancient Egypt –( links to Geography – River Nile)
Science: Forces and Magnets
P.E Multi skills and Dance
ART: 3D/sculpture: design and create Egyptian jewellery /headwear - work in papier-mache.
ARTWORKS: Egyptian arts and crafts.
Music: Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the interrelated dimensions of
music.
Computing: Presentation of text ( Power-point)
Spanish: Hola! ( introductions and greetings)
Term 1
ANCIENT EYGPT
Term 2
EXPLORERS
Literacy: Biographies, Diary entry, recount and letters
Text: Snowblind – Paul Stewart The Lion, Witch and The Wardrobe
Geography: Edmund Hillary – key topographical features – mountains and identify the position and
significance of latitude and longitude, Arctic and Antartic.
Science: Light
P.E: Invasion – football and OAA
Art: Collage: Explorers- collage portraits/world map/country landscapes
ARTISTS: Look at range of artists to include Henri Rousseau, using a number of these works as
basis for children’s collage work.
Computing: Programming, Blogging
Spanish: Vamos a contra (age and counting)
Term 3
RAINFORESTS
Term 4
INTO THE
WOODS
Term 5
ARCHEOLOGY
Literacy: Discussion, poetry, narrative – setting focus
Text: Where the forest meets the sea – Jeannie Baker
Geography: Identify the position and significance of the Equator and the tropics of
Cancer and Capricorn.
Science: Animals
P.E: Net/Wall Tennis and Dance
DT: Sheet Materials: Rainforests: leavers and linkages, moving picture.
Music: Perform in solo and ensemble contexts using musical instruments.
Computing: Graphics, Internet Research
Spanish: Colores (colours)
Literacy: Fairy Stories, Play-scripts, Recount
Text: The Enchanted Wood, Hansel and Gretel
Science: Plants
Geography: Name and locate countries of the UK and their identifying human and physical
characteristics, key topographical features and land use patterns e.g Sherwood Forest,
New Forest.
P.E: Invasion: Hockey and Gymnastics
DT: Textiles: Into the Woods – Applique/needle felt image for framing.
DT: Design and create a shelter for a story character.
ARTIST: Beatrix Potter’s nature studies
Music: Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the interrelated
dimensions of music.
Computing: Sounds, Data
Spanish: Frutas y verduvas ( fruit and veg)
Literacy: Narrative, Instructional, Newspaper recount
Text: Stig of the Dump
Science: Rocks including Volcanoes
History: Changes in Britain from Stone age to the Bronze Age
Geography: Types of settlement in Early Britain linked to history, Why did people choose
to settle there?
P.E: Striking and Fielding: Cricket and Dance
Art: Painting: Archaeology – rock art. Create rocks from plaster. Children to paint these
in natural tones as observed from nature before etching into them.
ARTWORKS: Cave drawings.
Spanish: En mi escuela –clase, estuche (in my school – lessons, pencil case)
RE: Christianity: Beliefs and Questions and Symbols Theme
Term 6
Term 1
ANCIENT
CIVILISATIONS
(ROMANS/
VIKINGS)
Term 2
ANCIENT
CIVILISATIONS
(ROMANS/
VIKINGS)
Term 3
SUPERHEROES
Term 4
CHOCOLATE
Term 5
WATER
Term 6
P.E: Striking and fielding: Rounders and Athletics
Music: Perform in solo and ensemble contexts using musical instruments.
Computing: Programming, E –books
Year 4
Literacy: Narrative ( setting, plot and character), Myths and Legends
Text: Asterix the Gaul, How to train your Dragon.
History: Romans, Vikings, Anglo Saxons
Science: Animal ( Teeth and Healthy Eating)
Geography: Settlements
P.E: Multi skills and Gymnastics
DT: Textiles: Romans – create tunics.
Music: Perform in solo and ensemble contexts using musical instruments.
Computing: Text, e-mails
Spanish: Tiempo libre: Los deports ( Free Time – sports)
RE:Islam: Beliefs and Questions and Symbols Theme
Literacy: R.E myth
Science: Living Things
P.E: Invasion – football and OAA
Art: Printing: Vikings – link to studies of decorative detail and/or dragon scales – etching
with Perspex plates and repeated patterns created with string plates
ARTWORKS: Viking arts and crafts.
Computing: Programming
Spanish: Tiempo libre: Los deports ( Free Time – sports)
Literacy: Diary entry, recount, newspaper report
Text: Amazing Grace, Operation Gadget man, The Iron Man
Geography: Study of a region of the UK e.g Snowdonia, Llandudno, London Lake District
etc – identifying human and physical characteristics.
Science: Sound
P.E: Dance and Net/Wall tennis
DT: Construction: incorporate a bulb or buzzer into a circuit – use computing to program,
monitor and control their products.
Music: Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the interrelated
dimensions of music.
Computing: Animation, search technologies
Spanish: En el restaurante: comida y bebida ( In the restaurant – food and drink)
Literacy: Play-scripts, character, setting description
Texts: Roald Dahl
Science: States of matter
Geography: links to Spain and Mexico.
P.E: Invasion – hockey and Gymnastics
DT: Food – link with states of matter
Music: Perform in solo and ensemble contexts using musical instruments.
Computing: Video, Data
Spanish: En el restaurante: comida y bebida ( In the restaurant – food and drink)
Literacy: Narrative, Poetry, Discussion
Text:
Geography: Describe and understand key aspects of rivers and the water cycle.
Science: Electricity and Water Cycle
P.E: Striking and Fielding - cricket and Dance
ART: Textiles: Batik/paste resist- link to water.
ARTIST: Claude Monet
ARTWORKS: original batiks.
Music: Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the interrelated
dimensions of music.
Computing: Programming, Blogging
Spanish: Espana ( Spain – culture and geography)
P.E: Striking and Fielding – Rounders and Athletics
Art: Digital Media: Record and collect visual information using digital cameras and video
recorders. Present recorded visual images using software: Photostory, Powerpoint – link
to literacy work.
ARTISTS: Contemporary artists working in digital media and/or take another piece of
artwork as a starting point.
Computing: Graphics
Spanish: Espana ( Spain – culture and geography)
Year 5
Term 1
WWII
( Coventry – Local
Study)
Term 2
FESTIVALS
AROUND THE
WORLD
(Europe Study)
Term 3
SPACE
Term 4
ANCIENT
GREEKS
Term 5
WIZARD OF OZ
Term 6
Literacy: Narrative, Diary, Poetry
Texts: Good Night Mister Tom/Carries War/War poetry
Geography: Name and locate countries, cities, regions and features of UK identifying human and
physical characteristics, land use, patterns and how some of these aspects have changed over time.
Science: properties and changes of materials
P.E: Invasion – Tag Rugby and Invasion – basket ball
Art Painting: Using acrylics mixed with other media/materials – texture/scratching into etc
ARTIST: John Piper – Interior of Coventry Cathedral.
Music: Use and understand staff and other musical notations.
Computing: Internet research, Programming
Spanish: A’ que fecha estamos? Que hora es?
RE: Judaism: Beliefs and Questions and Symbols Theme
Literacy: Myths: stories from other cultures, modern stories.
Texts: Rama and Sita
Science: All living things – life cycles
Geography: Study a region on Europe ( Spain) including their environmental regions, key
physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities. Contrast to UK.
P.E: Dance and OAA
DT: Construction: Festivals – puppets/figurines and vehicles – link to work of artist.
Create a model that incorporates a CAM mechanism.
ARTIST: Joan Miro – ‘The Carnival of the Harlequin’
Computing: Sound, Recording
Spanish: Que tiempo hace? ( date, time, weather)
Literacy: Explanation text, debate, diary
Text: Tuesday
Science: Space
P.E: Net and wall – volleyball and Gymnastics
ART: Collage: Spacescapes ( rock studies, marbling, sewing into collage onto painted
background)
ARTIST: look at work of landscape artists for inspiration – also Vincent Van Gogh ‘Starry
Night’
DT: Textiles; Design and embroider mission badges
Music: Use and understand staff and other musical notations.
Music: Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the interrelated
dimensions of music.
Computing: Graphics, computer networks
Spanish: Mi familia y yo: descripciones ( My family and I – descriptions)
Literacy: Myths and Legends, Stories from cultures
Texts: Myths and Legends, Skellig
History: Ancient Greece – make links to Geography.
Science: Animal – human life cycles
P.E: Invasion – netball and Gymnastics
ART: 3D Sculpture: Vases/marble architecture and sculpture – work in clay.
ARTWORKS: Greek architecture, sculpture and pottery.
Computing: Animation, Data
Spanish: Las partes del cuerpo ( parts of the body)
Literacy: performance, playscripts
Science: Forces ( Friction, gears, pulleys)
Understand biomes, vegetation belts, land use, economic activity, distribution of
resources
P.E: Net and Wall – badminton and Dance
DT: Sheet Materials: Complex pop ups – link to literacy on Wizard of Oz
Music: Use and understand staff and other musical notations.
Music: Perform in solo and ensemble contexts using musical instruments.
Computer: Programming
Spanish: A bordo! Las vacaciones ( All aboard! Holidays)
P.E: Striking and Fielding – cricket and Athletics
Computing: Programming
Spanish: A bordo! Las vacaciones ( All aboard! Holidays)
Year 6
Term 1
TRANSPORT
(Railways)
Term 2
PHILLIP
PULLMAN study
The Firework
Makers Daughter
Term 3
SHAKESPEARE
Term 4
AMERICA
Term 5
REVISION
Term 6
CIRCUS
Literacy: Narrative, diaries, poetry, debate, recount
Texts: The Railway Children
The Night Mail ( poem) Kensuke’s Kingdom
History: Study an aspect of British History that extends beyond 1066 (Transport)
Science: Living things and their habitats
P.E: Invasion – Tag Rugby and Dance
DT: Food: Design and make a healthy snack to take on a railway journey.
Music: Use and understand staff and other musical notations.
Music: Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the interrelated
dimensions of music.
Computing: Programming
Spanish: En mi pueblo
RE: Hinduism: Beliefs and Questions and Symbols Theme
Literacy: Narrative
Text: Firework Makers Daughter
Science: Electricity
Geography: Name and Locate countries, cities regions and features of the UK – possible
study of Oxford.
P.E: Invasion – basketball and OAA
DT: Textiles: Create 3D product
Computing: Graphics, Computer Networks
Spanish: En mi pueblo
Literacy: Playscripts, performance, poetry, debate
Texts: Orchard Book of Shakespeare Stories
Science: Light
History: Revision of chronological order
P.E: Net/wall – volleyball and Gymnastics
ART: Printing: lino cuts – two overlays
ARTWORKS: Traditional linocut images.
Music: Use and understand staff and other musical notations.
Computing: Programming
Spanish: America latina
Literacy: Narrative, autobiographies
Text: Charlotte’s Web
History – non European study – Mayan
Geography :Study a region of North/South America concentrating on their environmental
regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities. Contrast to
Spain and UK.
Science: Evolution and inheritance
P.E: Invasion – netball and gymnastics
Art: Textiles: America/Mayans – Weaving – Create 3D product, possibly a small pencil
case.
ARTWORKS: Mayan/Mexican arts and crafts.
Computing: Video, Data
Spanish: America latina
Texts: Cloudbusting – Malorie Blackman. The Secret Garden, Stranger
History: Revision of chronological order
P.E: Net/Wall badminton and Striking and Fielding – cricket
Spanish: Los puntos de vista y ideas ( opinions and ideas)
Literacy: Playscripts, performance, explanation, discussion text
Texts: The Great Elephant Chase
Science: Animals
Geography: understand biomes, vegetation belts, land use, economic activity, distribution of
resources.
P.E: Dance and Athletics
ART: Digital Media
ARTISTS: contemporary artists working in digital media and/or take another piece of artwork as a
starting point.
DT: Construction: pulley/gear models linked to the Circus.
Music: Use and understand staff and other musical notations.
Music: Perform in solo and ensemble contexts using musical instruments.
Computing: Animation, blogging
Spanish: Los puntos de vista y ideas ( opinions and ideas)