Curriculum Overview -Spring Term
6 weeks
5 Weeks
Creativity
Themes
Traditional Tales: The Frog Prince
(3 weeks)
W.O.W!
Role Play area: Vets
English
Traditional Tales
Retelling/writing own version
Drama: Retelling and acting out
story.
Maths
Additive reasoning (3
weeks)
China
(2 weeks)
Creativity Week - Music
(1 weeks)
(To be confirmed)
Chinese artefacts.
Chinese food
Role Play area: Chinese
restaurant
Animals
(3 weeks)
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Stories from a range of
cultures: ‘For you are a
Kenyan Child’ Retell and
write own version.
Number Sense (3 Weeks)
Visit to the Zoo
Role play area: Vets
Texts with predictable phrases/patterned
language: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Recount: Trip to the Zoo
Non Fiction: Making an animal Fact Booklet.
Lists Labels and captions
Green Peace story - letters
Multiplicative reasoning
Science
Sound and hearing
Scientific Enquiry: Pennies
investigation. What
substance works the best to
clean a penny?
& (Mentos in coke).
Fireworks
Omnivores, herbivores and carnivores.
Life Cycles
Habitats
Computing
Sequencing
Photographic evidence
Create a talking book.
ResearchObtain information about
another country and culture.
Dances and parades
Create a talking story book
Butterfly Symmetry
Keyboard skills, print and save work.
Flexi tree (databases to sort animals).
Research animals
Obtain information from internet/DVD sources
History
Castles and Knights
Castles and knights
continued
Chinese traditions
Extinct animals and fossils
Geography
Linked to Castles: Where are some
famous castles? Why were they built
there?
Chinese culture- History of
Chinese New Year story.
PE
Dance
Art
DT
Spring walk
Easter bonnet/egg make and
competition.
Spring Poems
Descriptive Writing - Spring
Recount – farm and Walled garden
visit
Town Mouse Country Mouse
Number Sense
Plants – deciduous and evergreen.
Parts of a plant.
Compare and describe the structure of
animals.
Plants – name and identify wild and
garden plants .
Grow seeds.
Photographs
Word processing
Town and Country
Comparing jobs in the city with jobs
in the country
Chinese Dragon Dance
Looking at the different climates that
animals live in:
- North pole
- Desert
Rainforest
dance
Painting knights
Painting castles
Draw -Chinese writing,
symbols and Patterns.
Looking at Chinese art
Painting dragons
Draw - Observational Drawing of animals
Printing - animal patterns.
Symmetry
Animal display
Draw - Observational Drawings - plants
Develop ideas, collage, draw, paint Mother’s Day Cards/ Easter Cards
Make a castle out of junk modelling
Planning and making musical
instruments
Wind chimes
Investigate, make and
evaluate - Fans, Lanterns,
dragons.
Design, make and evaluate -Bird/bug
box/animal home.
Make bird cake for the birds in your garden
Design an Easter egg
Design and make and exhibit – Easter
bonnet/egg (Home project)
Gym
RE
Where we belong
SEAL
Personal
Developmen
t
Music
Spring
(2 weeks)
Indoor games/skills/Gym
Easter Story
Going for Goals
Relationships
Right and Wrong
Right and Wrong
Rhythms, Patterns and Rhyme.
Pentatonic Scale and
response to Chinese music.
There’s a tiny caterpillar on a leaf
The Monarchy: Where does the Queen
live?
.
What makes us British?
How we respect animals.
Practice Easter Songs for Easter
service
Easter songs
Enterprise
British
Values
Visits/
Visitors
Outcome
China display.
Performance.
Noah’s Ark Zoo Trip
Westfield Church
Animal display – cross curricular
Easter Service at church. Spring
display/collage.
Anthology of Spring poems..