Yearly Overview
for Red Class –
2014-2015
Autumn
Spring
Summer
English
Stories which raise issues –
Flat Stanley and the Great
Egyptian Grave Robbery –
writing descriptions, letters,
drama
Persuasive writing – Debates, letter
writing, advertising.
Stories with historical settings – I was a rat!
WW1 writing – letters,
poems, descriptions
Stories from other cultures – The Firework
Makers Daughter
Newspapers and Magazine
articles – types of articles
(film reviews, role of
journalists, researching a
topic to write an article)
Information Texts – identifying the
features, research, writing own
information texts.
Plays
Poetry – creating images – rhyme,
description, phonics.
Poetry – Exploring form – Haikus, Kennings,
Calligrams, shape poems.
Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine
Stories set in imaginary
worlds – The Minpins –
character descriptions,
drama, researching a topic.
Grammar and punctuation
Maths
Grammar and punctuation
Number
Place value (rounding and
ordering), number problems,
Grammar and punctuation
Number
Fractions of quantities, equivalent
fractions, subtraction, addition, mental
Number
Comparing and ordering larger numbers, begin to
look at negative numbers in the context of
addition and subtraction
whole numbers,
multiplication and short
division
Geometry
Properties of 2D and 3D
shapes, angles, lines of
symmetry.
Measurement
Money, time (reading
analogue and digital clocks
and days and months of the
year), comparing
measurements
Science
History
Geography
ICT
Statistics
Bar graphs, solving one and
two step problems using
information from bar graphs.
Animals including humans –
Digestion, Teeth, Food
chains
Ancient Egyptians
Use of the
internet for
Use of word
to present
multiplication and division involving the
times tables including remainders,
doubling and halving. Identifying factor
pairs. Ordering and rounding decimal
numbers, multiplying decimal numbers by
100
temperatures, multiply and divide decimal
numbers by 10 and 100, recognise roman
numerals, use of the grid method to multiply pairs
of 2 digit numbers, division with or without
remainders.
Measurement
Measurement
Finding change in money, adding amounts
of money, 24 hour clock,
Geometry
Parallel and perpendicular lines, drawing
the other half of a symmetrical shape,
finding the perimeter of a shape, finding
missing values of lengths of a shape.
Sound
Electricity
Calculate the area and perimeter of shapes
Geometry
revision of 3D shapes, use of coordinates to draw
polygons, find coordinates of shapes after
translation.
Statistics
Drawing and interpreting line graphs
Living things and their habitats – grouping,
classification and environment change
Victorians – industrial revolution (Blists Hill)
Italy – including: volcanoes, earthquakes
E-safety
Programming
Networks
search
technologies
R.E
Music
Signs and
symbols
Composition – composing
music for different purposes.
French
Myself
PSHE
New
beginnings
Art
DT
PE (Indoor)
PE (Outdoor)
information
– word art,
cutting and
pasting etc.
Judaism
My Family
Getting on
and falling
out
Tutankhamen Monet –
Masks
Water colour
Water colours
Christmas
cards
Clay
Clay Poppies
Tutankhamen
mummies
Cake making
Gym
Dance
Invasion
Net/Wall
Games
Our World
Easter through
story
Recorders – performing in solo and
ensemble contexts, beginning to introduce
the staff and musical notations
Sport
My Home
Christian rites of
Background to the life
passage
of Jesus
The staff and musical notations and listening to
music with increasing awareness of different
sounds made by different instruments.
School
Cafe
Relationships
Say no to bullying –
cyber bullying link
Going for goals
Italian Artists
Flower Festival work
Musical Instruments
Swimming
Invasion Games
Flower Festival work
Dance
Net games
Gym
Athletics
Dance