GREENGATE JUNIOR SCHOOL LONG TERM PLAN
AUTUMN
SPRING
SUMMER
Maths as NNS
Stories with familiar settings/non-chrono reports/shape poems and
calligrams/myths and legends/Owl who was afraid of the dark/Wolf story
Plant structure/electricity
Touch typing/ ‘net research
Light festivals/Christmas story
‘Out and about’ local buildings history
‘Out and about’ geography fieldwork skills
Andy Goldsworthy and ‘out and about’ as starting points for art
Party hats/ Christmas crafts
Dance/Multiskills/Games
Singing/Violins/ Brass
SEAL units followed
Maths as NNS
Historical stories/play scripts/poems/reports/news articles/instructions
Materials
Collecting and presenting info/ writing for audiences
Creation stories/ Christian customs for Christmas
Green Heart Den past and present usage
Green Heart Den/Improving an environment with fieldwork skills /In The News
Time slip art/ John Duffin
Arches model/ snowflake framed model
Invasion games/Gym with balances/Short tennis
Oliver!/Christmas songs/ Singing
SEAL units followed
Maths as NNS
Journey to Jo’berg/Performance poetry/Letter writing/Instructions/Roman
reference books/The Ice Palace
Sun and shadows/Environment/ Materials
PowerPoint/Word
Places of Worship/Easter
Invaders and Settlers
World weather with weather collecting/ presentation skills
Ice palace and Romans as a starting point for art
Shelters
Gym/Invasion games
Singing/Violins/Brass
SEAL units followed
Maths as NNS
Stories about imagined worlds/Serials/classic and modern poetry including
different times and cultures/Info texts/ Explanations
Plants/Sound/ The skeleton
Modelling computer effects on screen/Emailing
Rites of passage
Black African and aboriginal history
World knowledge, maps, places with field mapping skills
Aboriginal and South African art
Posters/control mechanisms(eg; pop ups)/didgeridoo and tinga tinga making
Invasion games/ gym/rugby
Cultural music styles/ singing
SEAL units followed
Maths as NNS
Classic books-way Home/Magicians Boy/My dad’s got an alligator/persuasive
texts/dialogue and play script/wordplay
Light sources and effects/magnets and springs/teeth, food and nutrition
Music simulation on computer
The life of Jesus
Topical history/Geography and fieldwork/Art project e.g. Witches Gold for Olympic
year
Sandwiches
Athletics/rounders’/ net and wall games
Singing/Violins/Brass
SEAL units followed
YEAR 5
Maths as NNS
Classic fiction-Charlotte’s web/Poetry styles/Instructions/Significant
authors/Persuasive texts
Rocks and soils/keeping healthy/gravity and other forces
Publisher/ data analysis
Old testament characters
Children in World War 2
Barrow during the Blitz fieldwork
World war 2 as a starting point for art
Air raid shelters
Dance of 40s-60s/multiskills/hockey
Songs of world war 2
SEAL units followed
Maths as NNS
Persuasive writing/Narrative poetry classics (The Highwayman)/Stories from other
cultures/recounts
Life cycles/ Earth-moon-sun
Spread sheets
Miracles/Signs and symbols
History of Greengate school and area
River study with visit and field work/ In the news
Biscuits including selling and evaluation
Paul Klee/painting to music
Gym/netball/tennis/ rugby
Musical journey to space
SEAL units followed
Maths as NNS
Traditional fables and myths/film narrative/Performance poetry/drama conventions/
classic literature (Shelly’s Frankenstein)/poems and stories from other cultures
Changing light and sound/water, the environment and green issues
Controlling devices/graphic modelling
Buddhism
Ancient Greece
European study
Making musical instruments
Sense of place as a starting point for art/ European artists
Striking and fielding games
Design and make a musical instrument
SEAL units followed
YEAR 6
Maths as NNS
Poetry/narrative writing/journalistic writing/biography-autobiography/media
and plays/Journey to Riversea/Why the whales came/ Street child
Dissolving/changes to materials/light
Multimedia presentation/personal IT skills
Sacred Texts/ Christmas themes
Barrow-past-present-future
Cross curricular geography of Amazon/Scilly Isle
Sculpture town trail/Chris Kelly/making large sculptures
3D sculptures
Gym/hockey
Singing
ASDAN and SEAL units followed
Maths as NNS and revision work
Poetry/ narrative/argument/formal language/revision/Clockwork/Street
child/Skellig/Iron man
Forces/microbes/Sex and relationships
Spread sheets/personal IT skills
Judaism/Passover
Post war Britain project
Tee shirt design and make
Tee shirt design and make
Dance crazes from post war Britain/basketball/rugby
Post war Britain music styles/ Beatles/singing
ASDAN and SEAL units followed
REVISION/REVISION GROUPS THIS TERM
Maths as NNS and transition work
Narrative reading and writing/Poetry/ reading and writing nonfiction/extended
narrative/ Kensuke’s Kingdom project/Piel Book Project
Plants/interdependence and adaptation
Control technology/Internet research/ Personal IT skills
Moses and Joseph
Ancient Egypt/ History of Piel island
Forest and Piel island field craft skills
Egyptian art /Hokusai
Egyptian sculpture, design and technology
Gym/cricket/athletics/field orienteering
ASDAN and SEAL units followed/transition work
YEAR 3
YEAR 4
Maths as NNS
Stories that raise issues/Poetry in different forms/persuasive texts/adverts, circulars,
flyers/discussion texts/ info books
Day and night/habitats/ electricity/forces
Repeat patterns/ branching databases
Religious and monastic life
Tudors and Dissolution with Furness Abbey
Grizedale as a contrasting locality with fieldwork skills
Portrait painting and Tudor painters ( Hans Holbein)
Textiles/ model making
Striking and fielding games/ athletics/orienteering(with geog)
Singing
SEAL units followed