Two Year Curriculum Overview for Kingfisher Class
Autumn 1st half
Moving Monsters
D&T
Making monsters,
pneumatics
Food: creating monster
tea party
Autumn 2nd half
Art in the Park
Art
Drawing and sketching
3d sculptures.
Making 3d sculptures
Spring 1st half
Spring 2nd half
Polar regions and Climate Change
Geography
Environmental change and sustainability
New beginnings; getting
on and falling out;
feeling good.
Sukkott (ritual)
Keeping healthy
Say no to bullying
Going for goals
The Magi and their gifts
(prophecy)
French
Science
Greetings
Material properties
Healthy eating
Feelings; Numbers
Attraction and stretching
Circuits and conductors
Lit
Stories set in imaginary
worlds (4 weeks)
Instructions – how to
make a monster.
Exploring form (syllabic
poems 2 wks)
Persuasive writing linked
to art project
Christian miracle stories
– how do people perceive
god?
Shopping
Friction and resistance
Hot and cold – thermal
insulators
Non chronological
reports
Recounts
Maths Applied
Weighing using grams
and litres .
Title
Main
Subjects
PSHE
RE
ICT
TRIP /
VISITORS
Good to be me
Ups and downs in
relationships
Palm Sunday (welcoming)
The Giant Turnip
Persuasive writing and
letters.
Reading thermometers
and negative numbers
Art
Watercolours
We are comic writerscreating a comic strip:
photography, image
editing, text stickman
We are opinion pollsters
– opinion polling:
research, survey creation,
data analysis, charts
We are meteorologists
presenting the weather,
data logging.
Roche Court
Flowers for Christmas
visitor
Gilbert White Museum
Arctic explorer visitor
Summer 1st half
Invaders and settlers
History
Ancient Roman civilisation
and Anglo Saxon invasion.
Geography
Settlements
We are researchers –
research and ppt
presentation with buttons
and sound.
Summer 2nd half
Local Study
Geography
Settlements
Maps of different scales
Change
Comparison with Andover
and Longparish
Changes looking ahead
Purim - identity
The Haunted House
The Room Secrets
Information text 4 weeks
Exploring form – list poems
2 wks S
stories with historical
settings 3 wks
Myths and legends 4 wks
Roman numbers
Stories set in familiar
settings
Charlotte’s web 3 weeks
Plays 2 wks
Shape poetry and calligrams
2 wks.
Position and direction
Coordinates and reading
scales
Mosaics (primary resources)
Line drawings – local
buildings. Landscapes local
scenes.
We are historians – then and
now database survey
creation, presentation
We are artists – geometry
and art: vector graphics
programming
Trip to Fishbourne/
Danebury Hill Fort/ Iron
Age Museum.
Roman day visitor
Orienteering visit to
Sparsholt College for
challenge.
Longparish trail comparison
to town – Andover.
Kingfisher Curriculum Overview – Cycle B
Autumn 1st half
Crimebusters
Science – rocks and soils
Autumn 2nd half
Brilliant Bodies
Science – teeth and eating
moving and growing
keeping healthy
PSHE
New beginnings
RE
Hannukah (symbol)
Keeping healthy say no to
bullying
Mary Mother of God
French
Science
Greetings
Rocks and soils
Lit
Adventure and mystery
stories (4 weeks)
Title
Main
Subjects
Authors and letters (2
weeks)
Language play, riddles,
jokes
Art
Georgia o’Keefe
painting in acrylics
ICT
We are communicators –
text, email, forums,
chat, video conference
(wiz kids)
TRIP /
VISITORS
Visit to Sparsholt
The Hungry Caterpillar
Teeth and eating
Moving and growing
Keeping healthy
Language play: puns,
spoonerisms,
onomatopoeia (2 wks)
Non chronological report
leaflet
Poems to perform –
playground chant, rap (1
wk)
Bodies – sculpture
Clay heads and Alberto
Giacometti
We are animators –
creating a cartoon:
programming, graphics
Spreadsheeets and data
handling.
Visit to Southampton Art
Gallery
Spring whole term
Egypt
History – Ancient
Egyptians
Geography range of
places
Going for goals
Death ceremonies
(Ceremony)
Easter: Paschal Candle
(Ritual)
The Body; Rainbow Fish
Information text (3-4
weeks)
Reports to Papryus Post
(imaginary newspaper
report based on Egyptian
news book).
Explanation texts of
mummification
Instructions: how to
mummify a body, how to
make a pyramid (maths),
how to make papyrus or
how to build a shaduf.
Tomb wall frieze
Canopic jars
We are presenters –
videoing performances
and editing. Producing a
wiki;text; collaborative
editing, research
Hire Hampshire wardrobe
Visit to Highclere Castle /
Ashmolean Museum
Summer 1st half
Rainforests
Science
Growth of plants
Life in habitats
Adaptation
Good to be me
Ups and downs
Trees (symbol)
Watercolour canopy painting
Animals
Growth of plants
Life in Habitats
Creating images –poetry 2 wks.
Summer 2nd half
India
Geography
Chembakolli study – an example of a less
economically developed country, range of
map scales
Changes, looking ahead
Jesus: His teachings and his message
Handa’s Surprise
Light and shadows
Separating solids and Liquids
Plays – linked with Shadow puppets 4 wks.
Stories which raise issues/dilemmas openers, powerful verbs, The Balaclava
Story, (4 weeks).
Stories from other cultures/traditional stories
- description, adjectives (3 wks)
Pop up books
Collage, tactile art, scanning images
Animal print patterns
We are musicians- -producing digital
music; audio, music composition,
sequencing
Shadow puppets
Rongoli puppets
Mendhi designs
We are travel presenters – research, digital
photography, video, video editing.
The Living Rainforest
Indian Day