Overall Curriculum Plan 2004/5

Reception

Early learning goals: Subjects: Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2
Communication Language and Literacy  Literacy National Literacy Strategy
Mathematical Development   Numeracy National Numeracy Strategy
Knowledge and Understanding of the world   Science
Geography
5 Senses Homes Frogs and ponds Toys Seasons The environment
History How are our toys different from those in the past? What were homes like a long time ago? What were seaside holidays like in the past?
Personal, social and emotional development PSHE  
Physical Development   P.E. To be completed over the Year, @ half terms of Games, Dance and Gymnastics plus Swimming
Creative Development  

Art
D.T.
Music

QCA 1 Ongoing Skills QCA 2 Sounds interesting – Exploring sounds QCA 3 – The long and short of it – exploring duration

Year 1

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2
Literacy National Literacy Strategy NLS NLS NLS NLS NLS
Numeracy National Numeracy Strategy NNS NNS NNS NNS NNS
Science QCA 1A Ourselves QCA 1B Growing Plants Q 1C Sorting and using materials QCA 1D Light and Dark QCA 1E Pushes and Pulls QCA 1F Sound and Hearing
History QCA 1 How are our toys different from those in the past? QCA 2 What were homes like a long time ago?  QCA 3 What were seaside holidays like in the past?
Geography QCA 1 Around our school, the local area   QCA 2 How can we make our local area safer?
Art QCA 1A Self Portrait QCA 1B Investigating Materials QCA 1C What is sculpture?
D.T. QCA 1C Eat more fruit and vegtables QCA 1D Homes  
I.C.T.      
Music QCA 4 Feel the pulse – exploring rhythm and pulse QCA 5 Taking off – exploring pitch QCA 6 What’s the score? – Instruments and symbols
P.E. To be completed over the Year;  2 half terms of Games, Dance and Gymnastics plus Swimming
P.S.H.E.  
French Who we are, colours, count to 20, songs, poems, halloween, Xmas, St Nicholas, Carnival, Mother’s and Father’s day, stories, food and animals

 

Year 1/2

Autumn 1

Autumn 2 Spring 1

Spring 2 Summer 1

Summer 2

Literacy National Literacy Strategy NLS NLS NLS NLS NLS
Numeracy National Numeracy Strategy NNS NNS NNS NNS NNS
Science

QCA 2A Health and Growth

QCA 2B Plants and Animals

QCA 2C Variation

QC 2D Group & change materials

QCA 2E Forces and Movement

QCA 2F Using electricity

History QCA 4 Why do we remember Florence Nightingale?

QCA 5 How do we know about the great fire of London?

World Explorers – eg: Christopher Columbus, Marco Polo.
Geography

 

QCA 3 An Island Home - Struay

QCA 4 Going to the seaside

Art

QCA 2A Picture this!

Plus project/festival related work.

QCA 2B Mother Nature

Plus project/festival related work.

QCA 2C Can Buildings speak?

Plus project/festival related work.

D.T.

QCA 2B Puppets

 

QCA 2A Vehicles

Music

QCA 7 Rain, Rain, tempo, timbre and dynamics

QCA 8 Ongoing skills

QCA 9 Animal Magic – exploring deceptive sounds

P.E.

To be completed over the Year;  2 half terms of Games, Dance and Gymnastics plus Swimming

French

Who am I?, alphabet, school material, counting, autumn, seasons, weather, counting, Xmas, St Nicholas, carnival, Mother’s day, songs and stories, food and shops, restaurants

Year 3/4

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2
Literacy National Literacy Strategy NLS NLS NLS NLS NLS
Numeracy Nat. Numeracy Strategy NNS NNS NNS NNS NNS
Science QCA 3A Teeth and eating QCA 3B Helping plants grow well Characteristics of materialsQCA 3C QCA 4D Solid, Liquid separation QCA 4E Friction QCA 4F Circuits and conductors
History QCA 18 What was it like for children living in Victorian Britain? QCA 20 What can we learn about recent history from a famous person?

Proposed rolling curriculum:

Even year (eg: 2004)

1a.Why did Henry VIII marry six times? OR
1b.What were the differences between the lives of rich and poor people in Tudor times?
2.What was it like for children in the Second World War?
4. How can we find out about ancient Egypt from what has survived?

Odd year (eg: 2005)

1. Why have people invaded and settled in Britain in the past? A Roman case study, an Anglo-Saxon case study and a Viking case study.
2. Who were the ancient Romans?
3. What are we remembering on Remembrance Day?

Geography Continuous- 18 Connecting ourselves to the world. QCA 7 Weather around the world QCA 19 How and where do we spend our time?
Art QCA 3A Portraying relationshipsPlus project/festival related work. QCA 3B Investigating patternPlus project/festival related work. QCA 3C Can we change places?Plus project/festival related work.
D.T. QCA 3B Sandwich snacks   QCA 3C Moving monsters
I.C.T.  
Music QCA 10 Play it again, exploring rhythmic patterns QCA 11 The class orchestra Exploring arrangements QCA 12 Dragon scales- Exploring pentatonic scales
P.E. To be completed over the Year;  2 half terms of Games, Dance and Gymnastics plus Swimming
P.S.H.E.        
French Presentation, alphabet and school material, verbs, etre, avoir and –er verbs, passe compose, adjectives, plurals, Xmas, days, months, weather, time, restaurant and shops

Year 5/6

  Autumn 1

Autumn 2 Spring 1

Spring 2 Summer 1

Summer 2

Literacy National Literacy Strategy NLS NLS NLS NLS NLS
Numeracy National Numeracy Strategy NNS NNS NNS NNS NNS
Science

Inter-dependence & adaptation 6A

QCA 6B Micro-organisms

QCA 6C More about dissolving

6D Reversible and irreversible

QCA 6E Forces in action

QCA 6F How we see things.

History

QCA 16 How can we find out about the Indus Valley civilisation?

QCA 9 Children in the 2nd world war

QCA 13 How has life in Europe changed since 1948

 

Even year (eg: 2004)

1. How has Europe changed since 1945?
2. Who were the ancient Greeks? How do we use ancient Greek ideas today?
3. World Explorers – eg: What were the effects of Tudor exploration?

Odd year (eg:2005)

1. What was it like for children living in Victorian Britain? How did life change in our locality in Victorian times?
2. How can we find out about the Indus Valley civilization?
3a.What was it like to live here in the past? OR
3b.What can we learn about recent history from
studying the life of a famous person?

 
Geography

QCA 20 Local traffic- an environmental issue.

QCA 15 The mountain environment

QCA 16 What’s in the news?

Art

QCA 5A Objects and meanings

Plus project/festival related work.

QCA 5B Containers

Plus project/festival related work.

QCA 5C Talking textiles

Plus project/festival related work.

D.T.

QCA 5B Bread

 

QCA 5C Moving Toys

I.C.T.  
Music

QCA 16 Cyclic patterns, exploring rhythm and pulse.

QCA 17 Roundabout, exploring sounds

QCA 18 Journey into space, exploring sound sources

P.E.

To be completed over the Year;  2 half terms of Games, Dance and Gymnastics plus Swimming

P.S.H.E.        
French