Cale Green Primary School
CURRICULUM THEME OVERVIEW
YEAR
Year 1
Identify seasonal and
daily weather patterns
in the UK throughout
the year
Plants and Animals in
local environment
throughout the year
Theme 1
Theme 2
Where can our
Wellies take us?
Use simple fieldwork
and observational skills
to study the geography
of the school and its
grounds.
Compass points
NSEW, routes on a
map, locational and
directional language
Skills – maps, aerial
photographs.
Once upon a Toy Story
Name, Locate and
identify characteristics
of the 4 countries and
capital cities of the UK
and its surrounding
seas.
Humans and Senses
-Carl Linnaeus
-Amy Vedder
Changes within living
memory. Where appropriate,
these should be used to
reveal aspects of change in
national life.
TOYS or homes / transport /
holidays / festivals.
(Christmas / Eid – families
get together – interview
family members, compare
festivals)
Everyday Materials
-John McAdam
-Chales Mckintosh
Theme 3
There was a castle
long ago
Significant historical
events, people and
places in their own
locality.
Key human and
physical features of
surrounding
environment.
Skills – maps, aerial
photographs.
Plants and Animals
-Barbara McClintock
-George Forrest
Theme 4
Cale Green Primary School
Year 2
Flickering flames and
rascal rats
Multi-coloured dream coat
To infinity and
beyond!
Events beyond living
memory that are
significant nationally or
globally.
GREAT FIRE/PLAGUE
Understand geographical
similarities and differences
through studying human and
physical geography of a
small area of the UK
and a small area in a
contrasting non-European
country.
The lives of significant
individuals in the past
who have contributed to
national and
international
achievements.
EXPLORERS
Events / anniversaries
– 5th November / Eid /
Remembrance Day.
PAKISTAN - a region of
Name, locate and
identify characteristics
of the 4 countries and
capital cities of the UK
and its surrounding
seas.
Plants in local
environment
throughout the year
Uses of Everyday
Materials
-Leo Hendrick
Name and locate the
world’s seven
continents and five
oceans.
Identify the location of
hot and cold areas of
the world .
Living Things and Their
Habitats
-Kate Humble/Chris
Packham
-Steve Backshall
Animals including
humans – animals for
survival
-David Attenborough
Cale Green Primary School
Year 3
Skills – maps, atlases,
globes and digital /
computer mapping to
locate countries and
describe features
settled.
Use 8 points of
compass, 4 figure grid
references, symbols,
keys.
Tomb raiders
River deep, mountain high!
Rock, paper, scissors
The achievements of
the earliest civilisations
– an overview of where
and when all 4 and an
in-depth study of
Ancient Egypt.
Name and locate
topographical features in the
UK (hills and mountains
only), geographical regions
in the UK, human and
physical characteristics.
Changes in Britain from
the stone age to the
iron age.
Animals including humans
((9 weeks)
-Diane France
Rocks, soils and fossils
(7 weeks)
-William Smith
-Mary Anning
Settlements and Land
use patterns in the UK,
and changes over time
(only up to Iron Age).
The importance of
rivers to earliest
civilisations (for
agriculture and trade).
Use fieldwork to
observe, measure,
record and present
human and physical
features including
sketch maps, plans,
graphs and digital
technologies.
Forces and Magnets (4
weeks)
Light (6 weeks)
-William Gilbert
-James C Maxwell
Plants (9 weeks)
-Barbara McClintock
-Joseph Banks
Cale Green Primary School
Year 4
Groovy Greeks
Roman raiders
Skills – maps, atlases,
globes and digital /
computer mapping to
locate countries and
describe features
settled.
Ancient Greece – a
study of Greek life and
achievements and their
influence on the
Western world.
The Roman Empire and its
impact on Britain.
Use 8 points of
compass, 4 figure grid
references, symbols,
keys.
Early trade links –
Greek Empire
Early trade links – Roman
Empire.
Locate the world’s countries
of Europe including
Russia.
Use fieldwork to
observe, measure,
record and present
human and physical
features including
sketch maps, plans,
graphs and digital
technologies.
Location, location,
location
Name and locate
topographical features
in the UK (coasts and
rivers only and how
they have changed
over time).
Europe - concentrating
on environmental
regions, key physical
and human
characteristics (trade /
food / natural resources
/ energy and minerals briefly), countries and
major cities.
In-depth study of region
in European country
(Naples, Pompeii area).
Volcanoes and
earthquakes – how they
are formed.
The water cycle.
Animals, including
humans, food chains,
teeth (6 weeks)
Electricity (6 weeks)
-Al Jahiz
-Charles Elton
-Alessandro Volta
-Andre-Marie Ampere
Sound (6 weeks)
-Heinrich Hertz
-Robert Boyle
States of Matter (9
weeks)
-Alfred Nobel
Living things and their
habitats (9 weeks)
-Carl Linnaeus
Cale Green Primary School
Year 5
Skills – maps, atlases,
globes and digital /
computer mapping to
locate countries and
describe features
settled.
Use 8 points of
compass, 6 figure grid
references, symbols,
keys.
Space invaders
Britain’s settlement by
Anglo-Saxons and the
Scots.
The Viking and AngloSaxon struggle for the
Kingdom of England
Arabian nights
A non-European society
Baghdad 900 AD.
Name and locate UK
counties and cities.
Use fieldwork to
observe, measure,
record and present
human and physical
features including
sketch maps, plans,
graphs and digital
technologies.
Amazing America!
Locate the world’s
countries, including
North America
concentrating on
environmental regions,
key physical and
human characteristics,
trade / food / natural
resources / energy and
minerals (briefly),
countries and major
cities.
Focus on a region –
Niagara Falls.
Identify the position and
significance of
longitude, equator,
northern hemisphere,
southern hemisphere,
Greenwich meridian
and time zones
(including day and
night).
Properties and changes
of materials (9 weeks)
-Marie Curie
-John Dalton
Earth and Space (6 weeks)
Living things part 1 (3 weeks)
-Edward Hubble
-Brian Cox
Forces, resistance
friction, mechanisms (9
weeks)
-Sir Isaac Newton
Animals, including
humans (RSE) (3
weeks)
Living things part 2 (6
weeks)
-Robert Winston
Cale Green Primary School
Year 6
Skills – maps, atlases,
globes and digital /
computer mapping to
locate countries and
describe features
settled.
Use 8 points of
compass, 6 figure grid
references, symbols,
keys.
Use fieldwork to
observe, measure,
record and present
human and physical
features including
sketch maps, plans,
graphs and digital
technologies.
Stockport at war!
Samba Special!
A study of an aspect or
theme in British History
that extends pupil’s
chronological
knowledge beyond
1066 (and how it had
an impact on local
area).
WW1/WW2
Locate the world’s countries,
including South America,
concentrating on
environmental regions, key
physical and human
characteristics (trade / food /
natural resources / energy
and minerals –briefly),
countries and major cities.
Land use patterns in
the UK and changes
over time (beyond
1066).
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureonline/science-of-naturalhistory/expeditionscollecting/beagle-voyage/
Identify the position and
significance of latitude,
longitude, equator, northern
hemisphere, southern
hemisphere, tropics of
cancer and Capricorn, Arctic
and Antarctic.
Climate zones, biomes and
vegetation belts.
Keep calm and carry
on revising
Transition
Suggested
independent research
project: Transition to
High School - Changes
through time – children
choose own topic to
research and create
project.
Cale Green Primary School
Light (6 weeks)
Electricity (3 weeks)
-Thomas Young
-Sir David Brewster
-Jean Bernard Leon
Foucault
-Thomas Edison
-Benjamin Franklin
-Alessandro Volta
Electricity (3 weeks)
Evolution and inheritance (6
weeks)
-Darwin
-Alfred Russel Wallace
-Richard Owen
Animals including
humans (9 weeks)
-William Harvey
Living things and their
habitats (9 weeks)
-Carl Linnaeus
-Evelyn Cheesman