Essex Primary School Curriculum Map

Year 1 Autumn Spring Summer Main Theme Ourselves/Toys Plants/ Seasons Animals/Pirates Questions What I know… What I know… What I know… What I want to know… What I want to know… What I want to know… (staff & What I would like to learn… What I would like to learn… What I would like to learn… children to devise) Non-fiction Fiction: Fiction: Fiction: Non-fiction: Fiction: Labels, lists & Narrative Narrative Narrative Information Narrative captions (Narrative (Fairy tales) (Fantasy Context: Animals Context: Pirates Context: Ourselves Context:No Dinner for Context: Sleeping worlds) (2 weeks) (2 weeks) Links to Science Anansi Beauty/Rapunzel Context: (1 week) (3 weeks) (3 weeks) Cloudland Poetry: Non-fiction: (2 weeks) Poems on a theme Report Poetry: Fiction: Context: Colour Context: Using the senses Narrative Non-fiction: Poetry: Links to PSHE & Science/Weather Report Context: Ourselves (Patterned language) Information/Report Pattern & Refugee week (2 week) Links to Science Context: Bringing the Context: Week at school/ rhyme (1 week) (1 week) rain to Kapiti plain growth of a seed (3 weeks Fiction: (2 weeks) (2 weeks including including Fiction: Narrative/Letter Assessment writing) Assessment Narrative (Traditional (Moral tales) Fiction: Non-fiction writing) tales) Context: Aesop’s Narrative Recount Context: Jack & the Fables/The Fox and the (Familiar settings) Context: Trip to Beanstalk Crow (Tamil folktale) Context: ‘Not now Museum of Childhood (3 weeks including (3 weeks including Bernard’ Linked to History Assessment writing) Assessment writing) (3 weeks including (2 weeks) Assessment writing) Non-fiction Instructions Context: How to… Poetry: make a puppet/make a English Context: Black fruit salad

history (1 week) (3 weeks including Non-fiction Assessment writing) Instructions Context: Making a sandwich (1 week)

Focus texts No Dinner for Anansi Bringing the Rain to Rapunzel Cloudland Jack and the Beanstalk The Night Pirates by Trisha Cooke Kapiti Plain by J by Peter Harris by Verna Aardema Burningham and Deborah Allwright Poetry & Little Rabbit Foo Foo by Michael Rosen Tractor by Valerie Worth Year group poem Who Has Seen the Wind? by Christina Rossetti Daddy Fell into the Pond by Alfred Noyes Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson Speak Up

Numbers to 10 Addition within 10 Addition and Subtraction Number Bonds Multiplication Time MNP Chapter 1 MNP Chapter 3 within 20 to 40 Chapter 12 Chapter 16 Mathematic (3 weeks) (2 weeks) Chapter 7 Chapter 10 (2 weeks) (2 weeks) s (2 Weeks) (2 weeks) Subtraction within 10 Division Money Number –Bonds MNP Chapter 4 Shapes and Patterns Addition and Chapter 13 Chapter 17 MNP Chapter 2 (2 weeks) Chapter 8 Subtraction (1 week) (2 weeks) (2 weeks) (2 weeks) Word Problems Positions Chapter 11 Fractions Volume Capacity MNP Chapter 5 Length and Height (2 weeks) Chapter 14 Chapter 18 (1 week) Chapter 9 (2 weeks) (1 week) (2 weeks) Numbers to 20 Numbers to 10 Mass MN Chapter 6 Chapter 15 Chapter 19 (2 weeks) (2 weeks) (1 week)

Space Chapter 20 (1 week) History Toys Kings and Queens Seaside (now and then) Where I live – Local history study Toys (EMA) Changes within living memory (to reveal aspects of change in national life)

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Geography Going to the seaside UK Baby Bear Goes to the Seaside (EMA) Weather and climates Where in the world?

Linked to English Science Humans and other Plants Seasonal Animals including humans animals Pupils should be taught Everyday materials change (Ourselves) Pupils should be taught to: (Weather) Pupils should be taught to: Pupils should be *identify and name ● identify and name a variety of common to: Pupils should be taught to: common local plants, animals including fish, amphibians, * To identify human *To name, sort and * To know the basic taught to: reptiles, birds and mammals body parts understand the structures of common ● identify and name a variety of common properties of eveyday flowering plants.dissect *Identify other animals that are carnivores, herbivores *To recognise and materials. * To understand the weather types and omnivores use the 5 senses. * To distinguish functions of parts of a * understand ● describe and compare the structure of a *To identify the between objects and plant. how the variety of common animals (fish, difference between *experience growing amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, the materials they are position of sun humans and their own plants including pets) living and non-living made from. affects day things. *To know materials can length and *To learn that all move things weather. animals, including *Explore winter as part * understand humans, grow and of the 4 seasons. how our change as they position in the become UK affects the older*investigate Autumn as part of weather. the 4 seasons. Belonging and Celebrations Visit to the church Sikhism Religious leaders Relationships in religious special objects Why do Christians give What can we learn from What does it What do we know groups RE presents at Christmas? visiting a Christian mean to be about religious Why are relationships Christianity/ Islam church? Sikh? leaders? important? (EMA) Christian Christian Muslim/Hindu/ Hindu/Christian/ Jewish/ Sikh Christianity/ Jewish/ Islam Sikhism Puppets Observational drawing (drawing plant linked Animal masks - Science link

2 Art & Design Investigating materials (EMA) with Science) Focus on colour mixing and pattern e.g. sock puppets, shadow puppets.

Sandwiches Making hats and designing poster Linked with music poster DT Linked to English- instructions

E-safety E-safety 1 week and Basic skills (on and off, using Bee-bots Basic Skills (Coordination, JIT- Data Handling key board, understanding the parts of a computer, direction and position) Computing understanding the key systems of a computer such as saving work) JIT- Coding

Rhythm and Pulse Instrumental Pitch Cross curricular link with Anansi the Spider. Weather- Cross curricular link to Geography Animals- Cross curricular link to Science Music Tuned instruments/ notation Explore pitch

Ball Skills Attacking and Flexibility strength, Net/wall/Racket Fielding and striking Athletics (Handball) defending control balance (Short Tennis) (French Cricket) PE (Football) (Gymnastics)

New beginnings Good to be me Getting on and falling out Going for goals Relationships Changes

Nutrition and Road safety Say no to bullying Drugs, Alcohol Sex and relationship Safety (at home, outside, PSHE Physical activity and tobacco education online)

Museum of Childhood- Toys Church Visit Colchester Zoo and Seaside Tower of London- Kings and Queens Visits

Special National Poetry Day National Anti-Bullying International World Book Day Children’s Book Week World Refugee Day Week Holocaust Events Black History Month Remembrance Day October World Poetry Day International Mother National Science & Language Day Engineering Week (promoting linguistic and cultural diversity)

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Year 2 Autumn Spring Summer Main Themes Black History Continents Kings and Queens: London Questions What I know… What I know… What I know… What I want to know… What I want to know… What I want to know… (staff & children What I would like to learn… What I would like to learn… What I would like to learn… to devise) Literacy Basic skills Non-fiction: Non-fiction: Music Project: Fiction: Fiction/Non-fiction: (1 week) Explanation Letter (2 Weeks) Narrative Narrative/information/ Context: Mary Context: Pen pals in Context: John Letter writing Fiction: Seacole/Florence Sri Lankan link school Poetry: Burningham’s Context: Katie in Familiar & unfamiliar Nightingale linked to (2 weeks) Descriptive Prose - Fire Oi! Get Off Our Train London/Turner linked settings Black History (EMA) Context: Great Fire of (EMA) to Art & Geography Context: Lost Teddy/ (2 weeks) Non-fiction: London (3 weeks) (Bow Art Project) Peace at last Information texts/ (3 weeks including (5 weeks including (2 weeks) Fiction: Reports Assessment writing) Non-fiction: Assessment writing) Narrative Context: The Non-chronological Traditional tales Continents linked to report Fiction: Poetry: Context: Sleeping Geography (EMA) Context: Nocturnal Narrative Different patterned Beauty/Cinderella (3 weeks including animals/life cycle of Context: Carly & We forms (3 weeks) Assessment writing) frogs are all born free Context: variety of (linked to Science) Links to PSHE & poems Fiction/Non-Fiction: (5 weeks) Refugee Week. (1 week) Narrative/Recount (1 week) Context: Trip to the Fiction: Non-fiction: pantomime Narrative extended Poetry: Instructions (2 weeks inc writing Riddles, tongue Context: Recipes assessment week) Context: Space twisters, rhyme linked to Science & (3 weeks including Context: DT Fiction: Assessment writing) (1 week) (3 weeks inc Narrative assessment week) Mama Panya’s Pancakes (1 week).

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Focus texts The Lost Teddy Variety of Cinderella The Seven The Great Fire of Oi! Get Off Our Train Katie in London by David McKee stories Continents London by John Burningham by James Mayhew by Susanna Davidson

Poetry & The Alligator Two Little Kittens Jack Frost Create own Year The King’s Breakfast The Owl and the Pussy by Grace Nichols by Anonymous By C.E. Pike Group poem for recital by A.A. Milne Cat Speak Up (see Great Fire of By Edward Lear London by Collin Ian Jeffrey for inspiration)

Maths Numbers to 100 Addition and Length Picture Graphs Three Dimensional Time MNP Chapter 1 Subtraction MNP Chapter 5 MNP Chapter 8 Shapes MNP Chapter 14 ( 4 weeks) MNP Chapter 2 ( 2 weeks) ( 1 weeks) (2 weeks) ( 3 weeks) ( 1 weeks) Addition and Mass More word problems Fractions Volume Subtraction Multiplication of 2,5, MNP Chapter 6 Chapter 9 MNP Chapter 13 MNP Chapter 15 MNP Chapter 2 10 ( 2 weeks) (not covered) ( 4 weeks) ( 2 weeks) ( 3 weeks) MNP Chapter 3 ( 3 weeks) Temperature Money MNP Chapter 7 MNP Chapter 10 Multiplication and ( 1 weeks) ( 1 weeks) Division of 2,5, 10 MNP Chapter 4 Two Dimensional ( 2 weeks) Shapes MNP Chapter 11 ( 2 weeks)

History Mary Seacole/Florence Nightingale – Great Fire of London

● The life of significant individuals ● Events beyond living memory that are who have contributed to national significant nationally or globally. and international achievements (EMA - links to Black History)

Remembrance Day

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● significant events, people and places in their own locality

Geography The United Kingdom Newham/Sri Lanka

● Compare and contrast area in UK to contrasting non-European country

Science Plants Uses of everyday materials Pupils should be taught to: Animals including humans ● observe and describe how seeds and Pupils should be taught to: bulbs grow into mature plants Pupils should be taught to: ● identify and compare the suitability of a ● find out and describe how plants ● notice that animals, including variety of everyday materials, including need water, light and a suitable humans, have offspring which wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, temperature to grow and stay grow into adults paper and cardboard for particular uses healthy. ● find out about and describe the ● find out how the shapes of solid objects basic needs of animals, including made from some materials can be Living things and their habitats humans, for survival (water, food changed by squashing, bending, twisting and air) and stretching. Pupils should be taught to: ● describe the importance for ● explore and compare the humans of exercise, eating the differences between things that are right amounts of different types living, dead, and things that have of food, and hygiene. never been alive ● identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other ● identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including micro-habitats ● describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food.

6 RE How do special Why do people Why are different What special stories Where does the world What does it mean to foods and fasting celebrate festivals? books special for are told at Easter? come from and how say sorry? help people in their different people? should we look after it? faith? Kwanzaa Hinduism/Christianity/J Hindus/Judaism/ Christianity udaism/Islam Christianity/Islam Christianity/Islam/Sik h Art & Design Study of poppies – drawing, painting, cutting Portraits – Kings & Queens Bow Arts Project – Turner (linked to English & Focus on observational drawing skills Geography) Painting skies DT Cooking Moveable vehicles Crowns - fit for a King/Queen Design a healthy meal for… e-safety Beebot We are Scratch JR DETECTIVES Computing Basic skills chromebook (Communicating Clues) Rhythm and pulse Instrumental Pitch Cross curricular link to Mary Seacole Cross curricular link with the fire of London Cross curricular link with the UK and Sri lanka Music (Jamaican rhythms) ● Exploring instruments (including the voice) by looking at how sounds are made playing them in different ways: scraping, tapping etc.

Music project Ball Skills Attacking and Flexibility strength, Net/wall/Racket Net/wall/Racket Athletics (Handball) defending control balance (Short Tennis) (Short Tennis) PE (Football) (Gymnastics) Fielding and striking (French Cricket) PSHE New beginnings Road safety Going for goals Getting on and falling Relationships Changes out Say no to bullying Safety (at home, outside, online) Visits Theatre - Pantomime Museum of London East London Mosque National Gallery/London Special National Poetry Day National Anti- International International Mother Children’s Book Week World Refugee Day Bullying Week Holocaust Language Day: Year 6 SATs Events Remembrance Day Promoting linguistic Black History Month and cultural diversity October Online Safety Day: World Book Day

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World Poetry Day National Science & Engineering Week

Year 3 Autumn Spring Summer Main Themes Change Stone Age/Rocks/Animals London Questions What I know… What I know… What I know… What I want to know… What I want to know… What I want to know… (staff & children What I would like to learn… What I would like to learn… What I would like to learn… to devise) English Basic Skills Fiction: Poetry: Shape poems Non-fiction: Fiction: Fiction: (1 week) Narrative & Calligrams (1 week) Information texts Author Study Play scripts (Adventure stories) Context: Context: Roald Dahl Context: Roald Dahl Fiction: Context: Magic key Characteristics of (2 weeks) and variety of plays Narrative books (EMA) Non-fiction: rocks (2 weeks) (Descriptive writing) (2 weeks) Non-chronological Links to Science Fiction: Context: Climate report/Presentation (2 weeks) Narrative settings, ‘A balloon Poetry Context: Nutrition, (Myths & legends) Non-fiction: for Grandad’ (EMA) The Magic box by Kit balanced lunch Poetry: Context: The legend of Letters (3 weeks) Wright Links to DT Context: Exploring King Arthur Context: The Rights (1 week) (3 weeks including different forms of Links to History of Every Child Non-fiction: Assessment writing) poetry (3 weeks including Links to PSHE Autobiography & Non-fiction: (3 weeks including Assessment writing) (3 weeks including biography Explanation Narrative Assessment writing) Assessment writing) Context: Ignatius Context: Forces and (Fairy tales from a Poetry: Sancho magnets different viewpoint) Language play Non-fiction: Links with Black Link with Science Context: Little Red Context: Song writing Persuasive writing History (EMA) (3 weeks including Riding Hood about London Context: ‘N is for (3 weeks including Assessment writing) (2 weeks) (1 week) Newham’ book Assessment writing) (EMA) Fiction: (2 weeks)

8 Narrative/recount Context: The Christmas Story Links with RE (2 weeks) Focus texts A Balloon for The Story of Christmas The Wolf's Story: National Geographic Variety of World Various books Grandad by Jane Ray What Really Happened Readers: Rocks and Alphabet books including George’s by Nigel Gray and to Little Red Riding Minerals including A is for Africa Marvellous Medicine Jane Ray Oxford Reading Tree – Hood by Toby Forward by Kathy Weidner (World Alphabet) by Roald Dahl Magic key books & Izhar Cohen Zoehfeld by Ifeoma Onyefulu Poems to perform: by Alex Brychta & The BFG: A set of A Classic Collection Roderick Hunt The Secrets of What’s For lunch: London for Children by plays chosen by the Stonehenge by Mick How Schoolchildren Matteo Pericoli by David Children’s Laureate Manning Eat Around the World Wood/Roald Dahl by Julia Donaldson by Andrea Curtis and Clare Melinsky Doodle dandies: Amazing life Cycles: poems that take shape Plants by J Patrick Lewis by Tick Tock For every child

Poetry & Please Mrs Butler The Magic Box The Tyger Create own Adventures of Isabel Television by Allan Ahlberg By Kit Wright by William Blake Year Group Poem by Ogden Nash by Roald Dahl Speak Up for recital

Maths Fractions Angles Numbers to 1000 Multiplication and Time MNP Chapter 11 MNP Chapter 12 MNP Chapter 1 Division Mass MNP Chapter 9 (6 weeks) (2 weeks) (2 weeks) MNP Chapter 3 MNP Chapter 6 (3 weeks) (3 weeks) (2 weeks) Lines and Shapes Addition and Statistics MNP Chapter 13 Subtraction Further Multiplication Volume MNP Chapter 10 (2 weeks) MNP Chapter 2 and Division 2,5 and MNP Chapter 7 (2 weeks) (4 weeks) 10 (2 weeks) Perimeter of Figures MNP Chapter 4 MNPChapter 14 (2 weeks) Money (2 weeks)

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Length (2 weeks) MNP Chapter 5

(2 weeks) History Black history – Ignatius Sancho (EMA) Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the London- Journey down the Thames: A local Iron Age History study

This could include: ● a study over time tracing how several ● late Neolithic hunter-gatherers and early aspects of national history are reflected in farmers, e.g. Skara Brae the locality (this can be beyond 1066) ● Bronze religion, technology and travel e.g. Stonehenge ● Iron age hill forts: tribal kingdoms, farming, art and culture Geography Climates Around the World UK Regional Study – London

● Locational knowledge: name and locate counties and cities of the United Kingdom, geographical regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics, key topographical features (including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers), and land- use patterns; and understand how some of these aspects have changed over time. ● Human & Physical Geography: Physical geography of London compared to rest of UK. Human geography of London including types of settlement and land use, economic activity and trade links.

Science Light Animals including humans Plants

Pupils should be taught to: Pupils should be taught to: Pupils should be taught to: ● recognise that they need light in order to ● identify that animals, including ● identify and describe the functions of see things and that dark is the absence of humans, need the right types and different parts of flowering plants: light amount of nutrition, and that they roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers ● notice that light is reflected from surfaces cannot make their own food; they get ● explore the requirements of plants for ● recognise that light from the sun can be nutrition from what they eat life and growth (air, light, water, dangerous and that there are ways to ● identify that humans and some other nutrients from soil, and room to protect their eyes animals have skeletons and muscles grow) and how they vary from plant

10 ● recognise that shadows are formed when for support, protection and to plant the light from a light source is blocked by movement. ● investigate the way in which water is a solid object transported within plants ● find patterns in the way that the sizes of Rocks ● explore the part that flowers play in shadows change. the life cycle of flowering plants, Pupils should be taught to: including pollination, seed formation Forces & Magnets ● compare and group together different and seed dispersal. kinds of rocks on the basis of their Pupils should be taught to: appearance and simple physical ● compare how things move on properties different surfaces ● describe in simple terms how fossils ● notice that some forces need contact are formed when things that have between two objects, but magnetic lived are trapped within rock forces can act at a distance ● recognise that soils are made from ● observe how magnets attract or repel rocks and organic matter. each other and attract some materials and not others ● compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they are attracted to a magnet, and identify some magnetic materials ● describe magnets as having two poles ● predict whether two magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing.

How do Jews What is the How did Jesus and How and why do How are symbols and What do Sikh celebrate their significance of light Buddha make people Hindus celebrate sayings important in symbols and sayings RE beliefs at home and and religion? Science stop and think? Holi? religion? tells us about Sikh in the synagogue? link beliefs? Hinduism Christianity/ Islam Judaism Christianity/Judaism/ Sikhism Sikhism Cave painting – pictures that tell a story (linked Architecture – Famous Buildings in London to myths and legends/literacy) (linked to History) Art & Design Sketching famous buildings in London/ silhouette painting - linked to RE Making and decorating pottery (linked to William Morris – pattern History) (linked to Science and Maths)

11 Windmills (links to Geography) Stonehenge model (links to History) Architecture- Famous Buildings in London Making windmills using recycled materials Making the model of Stonehenge using clay (links to History) DT Create a balanced meal for a lunchbox (links to Science) Making a healthy sandwich for a lunchbox

e-safety We are We are BUG FIXERS We are We are PPROGRAMMERS (Finding and PRESENTERS OPINION POLLSTERS Computing (Programming an correcting bugs in (Videoing (Collecting and animation using Scratch – NPW performance) analysing opinion) Scratch) planning)

Music Rhythm and pulse Instrumental Pitch Cross curricular link with Ignatius Sancho Cross curricular link to iron age Cross curricular link to English- Song writing Notation and using untuned percussion - To improvise melodic phrases - Exploring melodic patterns - To be able to play untuned - Pentatonic scales instruments.

PE Attacking and Ball Skills Net/wall/Racket Flexibility strength, Athletics Fielding and striking defending (Handball) (Tennis) control balance (Cricket) (Football) (Gymnastics) PSHE New Beginnings Say no to bullying Going for Goals Nutrition and Physical Children’s Rights Changes Activity

MFL ● Greetings ● Numbers 10-20. ● Numbers 20-30. ● numbers 0-10. ● Respond to verbs of command and ● Listen and respond to songs in French. ● Respond to classroom phrases. adverbs. ● Vocabulary for days of the week. ● Recognise some colours and letters of ● Learn conventions for asking and ● Write some familiar words/sentences the alphabet. thanking. from memory. ● Start to build some sentences from ● Recognise more alphabet letters. ● Vocabulary for clothing. given models. ● Names of classroom objects. ● Use correct pronunciation when ● Recognise and respond to French ● Write some familiar words from a reading/ saying words/ sentences. songs and rhymes. model/ memory. ● Spelling skills. ● Asking and answering simple questions.

12 Visits Places of Worship – Synagogue Thrift Farm The William Morris Gallery Library Visit Kidzania Museum of London Docklands

Special Events National Poetry Day National Anti-Bullying International World Book Day Children’s Book Week World Refugee Day (Theme: Messages) Week Holocaust World Poetry Day Black History Month Remembrance Day National Science & October International Mother Engineering Week Language Day 10-19th March 2017

Year 4 Autumn Spring Summer

Main Themes Brazil Romans Teeth/Baghdad Questions What I know… What I know… What I know… What I want to know… What I want to know… What I want to know… (staff & children What I would like to learn… What I would like to learn… What I would like to learn… to devise)

13 English Grammar: Fiction: Poetry: Fiction: Non-fiction: Poetry: Basic skills (1 week) Narrative/Play scripts) Image poems Narrative Information & Exploring a theme – (Stories which raise Context: Window by (Myths & legends) instructions Refugees Non-fiction: issues) Jeannie Baker Context: How was Rome Context: A guide to Context: Benjamin Persuasive writing Context: Save the Links to Art founded? Romulus & the types and Zephaniah’s (Travel brochure) rainforest! (2 weeks) Remus functions of teeth and ‘We Refugee’ Context: Brazil Links with Geography Links to History how to look after (2 weeks) Links to Geography (3 weeks) Non-fiction: (2 weeks) them (5 weeks) Recount Links to Science Non-fiction: Poetry Context: Why is Non-fiction: (2 weeks) Formal Letters Fiction/Non-fiction: Onomatopoeia, List Harriet Tubman so Chronological Report/ Context: British Newspaper poems and Kennings important? Links to Character description Fiction: Values report/Diary entry Context: Animals, Black History (EMA) Context: Roman invasion Narrative Links to PSHE Context: Brazil Sound, Musical (2 weeks) of Britain/ (Stories from another (3 weeks including Links to Geography Instruments Boudicca culture) Assessment writing) (3 weeks including Links to Music and Fiction: Links to History Context: 1001 Arabian Assessment writing) Science Narrative (3 weeks) nights Fiction: (3 weeks including (Historical settings) Links to History Author study: Michael Assessment writing) Context: What Non-fiction: /Music Morpurgo happened when Mt Explanation (4 weeks including Context: What makes Vesuvius erupted? Context: Enterprise Assessment writing) Michael Morpurgo Links to History & Week such a popular Geography Links to DT author? (3 weeks including (2 weeks including (2 weeks) Assessment writing) Assessment writing)

Focus Texts The Orchard Book of Escape from Pompeii Journey to the River The Bible One Thousand and Collection of Michael Roman Myths by Christina Balit Sea One Arabian Nights Morpurgo books by Geraldine by Eva Ibbotson by Geraldine McCaughrean McCaughrean Poetry & Speak The Sound Collector From a Railway Writing and presenting Poetry performance for I wish I’d looked After We Refugee by Roger Gough Carriage own poems parents me Teeth by Benjamin Up by R.L Stevenson by Pam Ayres Zephaniah

14 Maths Numbers to 1000 Addition and Further Multiplication Fractions Decimals Area of figures MNP Chapter 1 Subtraction within 10 and Division MNP Chapter 6 MNP Chapter 8 MNP Chapter 11 (6 Weeks) 000 MNP Chapter 4 (4 weeks) (3 weeks) (1 week)

MNP Chapter 2 (3 weeks) Geometry (3 weeks) Time Money MNP Chapter 12 Graphs MNP Chapter 7 MNP Chapter 9 (2 weeks) Multiplication and MNP Chapter 5 (1 week) (2 weeks) Division (1 week) Position and MNP Chapter 3 Mass, Volume and Movement (3 weeks) Length MNP Chapter 13 (2 weeks) MNP Chapter 10

Further Multiplication (2 weeks) Roman Numerals and Division MNP Chapter 14 MNP Chapter 4 (1 week) (1 week)

History The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain Early Islamic civilization, including a study of Baghdad This could include: ● Julius Caesar’s attempted invasion in 55- ● A non-European society that provides 54 BC contrasts with British history ● the Roman Empire by AD 42 and the power of its army ● successful invasion by Claudius and conquest, including Hadrian’s Wall ● British resistance, for example, Boudicca ● ‘Romanisation’ of Britain: sites such as Caerwent and the impact of technology, culture and beliefs, including early Christianity

Boudicca - EMA project

Geography A region in North/South America Volcanoes/Earthquakes Rainforests/Brazil

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Science States of matter Electricity Living things and their habitats ● compare and group materials together ● identify common appliances that run on ● recognise that living things can be grouped according to whether they are solids, liquids electricity in a variety of ways or gases ● construct a simple series electrical circuit, ● explore and use classification keys to help ● observe that some materials change state identifying and naming its basic parts, group, identify and name a variety of living when they are heated or cooled, and including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and things in their local and wider environment measure or research the temperature at buzzers ● recognise that environments can change which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) ● identify whether or not a lamp will light in and that this can sometimes pose dangers ● identify the part played by evaporation and a simple series circuit, based on whether to living things. condensation in the water cycle and or not the lamp is part of a complete loop associate the rate of evaporation with with a battery Animals including humans temperature. ● recognise that a switch opens and closes a ● describe the simple functions of the basic circuit and associate this with whether or parts of the digestive system in humans not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit ● identify the different types of teeth in Sound humans and their simple functions ● identify how sounds are made, associating ● some of them with something vibrating ● recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear ● find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it ● find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it ● recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases.

RE What is The Bible and How and why do How are the Why is Easter What happens when What religions are why is it important to Hindus worship at expressive arts used in important to someone gets represented in our Christians? home or at the worship? Christians? married? neighborhood? Mandir? Christian/Hindu (Linked with English) Muslim/Sikh

16 Art & Design Art in religion - Observational Tunnel theatres Celtic/Roman army shields drawing/painting (3D perspective) religious costume buildings; Islamic Art geometry and pattern; Christian stained glass windows

DT Music Project props Musical instruments (links to Science) Electricity – alarms (links to Science) masks Roman shields (links to History) instruments

Computing e-safety Scratch – Creating maze screen creating wiki page We are meterologist we are meteorologists Creating a game

Music Rhythm and pulse Instrumental Pitch Cross Curricular link to Brazil (the rainforest) Cross curricular link to the Romans Cross curricular link to Islamic nations and the UK Exploration rhythmic patterns - Music Project -To distinguish between un-tuned and tuned instruments.

PE Attacking and Ball Skills Net/wall/Racket Net/wall/Racket Athletics Fielding and striking defending (Handball) (Tennis) (Tennis) (Cricket) (Football) Flexibility strength, control balance (Gymnastics)

17 PSHE New Beginnings Getting on and falling Developing our Good to be me Children’s rights out school grounds – Human rights Changes

Anti-bullying week

MFL ● Ask and respond to simple questions. ● Adjectives to describe feminine and ● Develop vocabulary for questioning. ● Names of animals, recognising masculine nouns. ● Numbers up to 49. feminine and masculine nouns. ● Follow a short text. ● Recognise some towns and cities in ● Learn some times tables. ● Recognise months of the year. France on a map. ● Create sentences from a model ● Write some familiar phrases using ● Alphabet /memory. models and from memory. ● Reciting some poems from memory. ● Possessive pronouns. ● Celebrations

Visits Kew Gardens British Museum Victoria & Albert Museum – Islamic Art Aquatic Centre Local Place of Worship

Special Events National Poetry Day National Anti-Bullying International World Book Day Children’s Book Week World Refugee Day (Theme: Messages) Week Holocaust Remembrance Day World Poetry Day World Maths Day Theme: To be agreed National Science & International Mother Engineering Week Language Day Black History Month (promoting linguistic October and cultural diversity)

Year 5 Autumn Spring Summer Main Themes Anglo-Saxons/Water Invention and Development Explorers and Adventurers

18 Questions What I know… What I know… What I know… (staff & children What I want to know… What I want to know... What I want to know… What I would like to learn… What I would like to learn… What I would like to learn… to devise)

Literacy Basic Skills Fiction: Fiction: Fiction: Fiction: Fiction: (1 week) Narrative Narrative Narrative (radio script) Older literature Debate/Balanced Myths and legends Context: The Context: Why was the Context: The Lion, argument Poetry: Context: The Anglo- Disney/Pixar film ‘Up’ Titanic travelling so the witch and the Context: Discovery of Poetic style Saxon myth ‘Beowulf’ focussing on fast? wardrobe Tutankhamun’s tomb Context: Various Links to History relationships and Linked to History (2 weeks) Links to History poems (2 weeks) changes to humans as (2 weeks) (3 weeks) (2 weeks) we grow old Non-fiction: Non-fiction: Links to Science & PSHE Non-fiction: Chronological report Non-fiction: Fiction: Newspaper Reports (2 weeks) Report Context: The History Letter Novels and stories Focus text: Current Context: Inventions/ of Space Exploration Context: Mountain by a significant newspaper reports Fiction: Inventors Links to Science explorers children’s author Context: Italian Diaries Links to History (2 weeks) Links to Geography Context: Anne Fine earthquake Context: The (2 weeks) (2 weeks including (2 weeks) Outcome: Highwayman Fiction: Assessment week) Newspaper report. Diary writing Assessment writing: Narrative Non-fiction: (2 weeks) (2 weeks) Poetry Context: Science Poetry: Biography Classic poems fiction Choral and Context: The life Non-fiction: Fiction/Non-fiction: Links to Shakespeare (2 weeks including performance poetry and times of Nelson Explanation Journalistic reports Week Assessment week) Links to Refugee Mandela Context: Materials Context: Highwayman (2 week week Links to Black Links to DT and (2 weeks including (2 weeks) History Science Assessment Week) (3 weeks - (3 weeks including Assessment Week) Assessment week)

Focus texts Bill’s new frock Beowulf ‘Up’ by Disney/Pixar Selection of The Lion, the Witch Selected research by Anne Fine by Michael Morpurgo Shakespeare’s poetry and the Wardrobe materials , e.g. The Highwayman by CS Lewis articles on Howard Nelson Mandela: by Alfred Noyes Carter’s discovery of Long Walk to Original newspaper Tutankhamun’s tomb Freedom by Chris articles First man on Van Wyk, Nelson moon(21st July 1969) Mandel, Paddy

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Poetry & Daffodils Talking Turkeys The Highwayman Create own Year Group Gran, Can You Rap? Jabberwocky Speak Up by William by Benjamin by Alfred Noyes poem for recital by Jack Ouseby by Lewis Carroll Wordsworth Zephaniah

Basic Skills (1 Roman Numerals (1 Multiplying/Dividing (3 Fractions (5 weeks) Decimals (2 weeks) Geometry- Shape (1 Week) week) weeks) week) Mathematics Percentages (1 Place Value (3 Addition/Subtractio Introducing Fractions (1 week) Geometry - Angles weeks) n (3 weeks) week) (2 weeks) Measurement (3 Rounding (1 week) Property of numbers weeks) Geometry- (2 weeks) Position/direction (2 Negative numbers Geometry- Shape (1 weeks) (2 weeks) Multiply/Dividing by weeks) 10, 100, 1000 (1 Statistics (2 weeks) week) .

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Ancient Egypt History Inventors and Inventions: a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ The achievements of the earliest civilizations Britain’s settlement by Anglo- Saxons and – an overview of where and when the first chronological knowledge beyond 1066 Scots civilizations appeared and a depth study of This could include: one of the following: ● ● Finding out about important inventions Roman withdrawal from Britain ● Ancient Sumer and discoveries from the past in c. AD 410 and the fall of the ● The Indus Valley ● Finding out about famous people whose western Roman Empire ● Ancient Egypt ● ideas caused social change e.g. Isambard Scots invasions from Ireland to ● The Shang Dynasty of Ancient China north Britain (now Scotland) Kingdom Brunel. ● Anglo-Saxon invasions,

settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life

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Geography Water Mountains

Coasts & Rivers

Science Properties and changes of materials Plants and their habitats Earth and Space

Pupils should be taught to: Pupils should be taught to: Pupils should be taught to: ● compare and group together ● describe the differences in the life cycles ● describe the movement of the everyday materials on the basis of of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and Earth, and other planets, relative to their properties, including their a bird the Sun in the solar system hardness, solubility, transparency, ● describe the life process of reproduction ● describe the movement of the conductivity (electrical and in some plants and animals. Moon relative to the Earth thermal), and response to magnets ● describe the Sun, Earth and Moon as ● know that some materials will approximately spherical bodies dissolve in liquid to form a solution, Animals, including humans ● use the idea of the Earth’s rotation and describe how to recover a to explain day and night and the substance from a solution Pupils should be taught to: apparent movement of the sun ● use knowledge of solids, liquids and ● describe the changes as humans develop across the sky. gases to decide how mixtures might to old age. be separated, including through ● Pupils should draw a timeline to indicate Forces filtering, sieving and evaporating stages in the growth and development of ● give reasons, based on evidence humans. They should learn about the Pupils should be taught to: from comparative and fair tests, for changes experienced in puberty. ● explain that unsupported objects the particular uses of everyday ● Pupils could work scientifically by fall towards the Earth because of materials, including metals, wood researching the gestation periods of other the force of gravity acting between and plastic animals and comparing them with the Earth and the falling object ● demonstrate that dissolving, mixing humans; by finding out and recording the ● identify the effects of air resistance, and changes of state are reversible length and mass of a baby as it grows. water resistance and friction, that changes act between moving surfaces ● explain that some changes result in ● recognise that some mechanisms, the formation of new materials, including levers, pulleys and gears, and that this kind of change is not allow a smaller force to have a usually reversible, including greater effect. changes associated with burning and the action of acid on

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RE What inner forces How is Christmas What do religions and Animal Law-case Unit Why is Mohammed How do Christians try affect how we think celebrated around world views believe important to Muslim to follow Jesus’ and behave? the world? about God? people? example?

Art & Design Moulding clay, painting and embellishing Observational drawing and painting – plants and Egyptian art – symbolism, scale and form (links to History) animals e.g. make papyrus, paint hieroglyphics & canopic jars Observational drawings based on the highwayman DT Metalwork, jewellery and packaging Structures – bridges & tunnels Simple machines – levers & pulleys (K’nex) (links to History and Enterprise week) (links to History) (links to Science)

Computing e-safety scratch We are cryptographers We are cryptographers we are artists we are web We are online developers creators

Music Rhythm and pulse Pitch Instrumental Cross curricular link to water Cross Curricular link to the Egyptians Cross Curricular link to Scientific inventions ● Water Music – short composition ● Learn about, understand and identify ● Listening and evaluating ‘Machine activity, using available sound dynamics, getting louder/quieter through inspired’ music. sources, instruments, voices and the exploration of Egyptian pyramid body percussion as appropriate to graphic scores. describe their “water” image.

PE Attacking and Ball Skills Net/wall/Racket Flexibility strength, Athletics Fielding and striking defending (Handball) (Tennis) control balance (Cricket) (Football) (Gymnastics)

PSHE Safety (at home, Getting on and falling Respect for Property In the Media - What’s in Relationships Changes outside, online) out the News? Sex and Anti-bullying week Relationships Education MFL ● Use bilingual dictionary. ● Recognise and use simple negatives. ● Naming and giving opinion about ● Learn adjectives, adverbs of place ● Extend vocabulary of adverbial sentence food/ sports. and conjunctions. starters. ● Tell the time in hours and half ● Likes and dislikes with reasons. ● Use of pronouns. hours.

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Visits Residential to Fair Play House Little Ilford School Natural History Museum

In school theatre (with year 6) Manor Park Library The Greenwich Observatory

British Museum Special Events National Poetry Day National Anti- International Holocaust World Book Day Children’s Book World Refugee Day (Theme: Messages) Bullying Week Remembrance Day World Poetry Day World Maths Day International Mother National Science & Language Day Engineering Week (promoting linguistic Black History Month and cultural diversity) October

Year 6 Autumn Spring Summer

Main Themes Ancient Greece/Fairtrade The Heart/Light Vikings/Changes

Questions What I know… What I know… What I know… What I want to know… What I want to know… What I want to know… (staff & children What I would like to learn… What I would like to learn… What I would like to learn… to devise)

English Basic Skills: Fiction: Non-fiction/fiction: Non-Fiction: Transition Unit Transition Unit Week 1 Diary entry Informal/formal Letter writing Context: Text Context: Shakespeare Context: Anti-bullying writing Context: Pig Heart Analysis Transition Unit

23 Fiction: Week/Wonder Context: Pig Heart Boy, Boy A Christmas Carol - (2 weeks) Narrative Links to PSHE diary entry (2 weeks) Scrooge character Context: Greek Myths (2 weeks) (2 week) analysis Links to History Fiction: (2 weeks) ( 2 weeks) Non-fiction: Non-fiction/fiction: Narrative Fiction: Letter writing Balanced Argument Context: A Christmas Transition Unit: Play scripts Fiction: Context: Cambridge Context: Pig Heart Boy Carol (re-edit) Creative Writing - Context: Performance narrative Narrative visit (2 week) (2 weeks) (5 weeks) (1 week)

Context: (1 week) Stormbreaker Non-fiction: Fiction: SATS revision (2 weeks including Fiction: Newspaper article Narrative writing assessment Modern retelling/ Context: Pig Heart Boy Context: and assessment extended writing (2 week) Stormbreaker (re- week) Context: Charles edit) Dickens’ ‘A (2 weeks) Poetry: (Black History Christmas Carol’ Month) (3 weeks) The power of imagery Context: Poems Maya Non-fiction: Angelou Explanation text Music week Context: Chocolate (1 weeks) Links to DT (2 weeks including writing assessment Assessment Week)

Focus texts Greek Myths Wonder Pig Heart Boy Holes by Louis Macbeth (Shakespeare) By Marcia Williams By R J Palacio by Malorie Blackman Sachar A Christmas Carol (Dickens) Stormbreaker by A Christmas Carol Antony Horowitz by Charles Dickens The Sad Book by Michael Rosen

24 Poetry & Caged Bird Macavity: the Create own The Witches’ Spell If The Thought Fox by Mystery Cat Year Group Poem from Macbeth by by Speak Up Maya Angelou by for recital by William Rudyard Kipling Ted Hughes T.S. Eliot Shakespeare

Number – Number Number – Addition, Ratio and Proportion Geometry-properties Place Value (2 weeks) Subtraction, (2 weeks) of shapes (2 weeks) Revision for SATS- (4 Transition project Mathematics Multiplication and weeks)

Number – Addition, Division (continued 1 Algebra ( 1 week) Geometry-position Subtraction, week) and direction (1 Measurement (2 Multiplication and week) weeks) Division (4 weeks) Number – Fractions

(including Statistics (1 weeks) Percentages and

Decimals) (6 weeks) Revision for SATS (1 week) History Ancient Greece Vikings

A study of Greek life and achievements and The Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the their influence on the western world. Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor. This could include:

● Viking raids and invasion ● resistance by Alfred the Great and Athelstan, first King of England ● further Viking invasion and Danegeld ● Anglo-Saxon laws and justice ● Edward the Confessor and his death in 1066 Geography Fairtrade – Chocolate A region in a European Country (France)

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L.O.To know who Linnaeus was and learn Pupils should be taught to: Pupils should be taught to: about his classification system ● recognise that light appears to travel in ● recognise that living things have changed straight lines over time and that fossils provide To use classification keys to sort living things ● use the idea that light travels in straight information about living things that according to observable characteristics lines to explain that objects are seen inhabited the Earth millions of years ago

because they give out or reflect light into ● recognise that living things produce offspring

L.O To investigate factors affecting the the eye of the same kind, but normally offspring vary growth and uses of microorganisms ● explain that we see things because light and are not identical to their parents Set up mould growth on bread investigation travels from light sources to our eyes or ● identify how animals and plants are adapted over time, from light sources to objects and then to to suit their environment in different ways our eyes and that adaptation may lead to evolution. ● use the idea that light travels in straight

lines to explain why shadows have the L.O. To understand how to protect from harmful microorganisms. same shape as the objects that cast them.

Electricity Animals including humans

Pupils should be taught to: Pupils should be taught to: ● associate the brightness of a lamp or ● identify and name the main parts of the the volume of a buzzer with the human circulatory system, and describe the number and voltage of cells used in the functions of the heart, blood vessels and circuit blood ● compare and give reasons for variations ● recognise the impact of diet, exercise, in how components function, including drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of function buzzers and the on/off position of ● describe the ways in which nutrients and switches water are transported within animals, use recognised symbols when including humans. representing a simple circuit in a diagram.

26 How is art important How do different What do people What are the sources What similarities and What qualities are in Christianity? religions and world believe about life after of the story about differences do important to religious RE views create death? what happened on religions and world leaders? celebrations? the first Easter views share? Sunday? Art & Design Design and make a Greek vase that tells a story Light and colour in Impressionist painting Backdrop, props, costumes etc. for year 6 (Links to Art) (linked to Science) performance

DT Cooking-chocolate (link to Fair trade) Backdrop, props, costumes etc. for year 6 performance

Computing e-safety We are app planners We are market We are interface We are app Selling presentation unit researchers designers developers or Media Project

Music Rhythm and Pulse Instrumental Cross curricular link to Ancient Greece Cross Curricular link to France

Rhythm, scales and evaluation. Notation, composition and evaluation

Year 6 Production

PE Attacking and Ball Skills Net/wall/Racket Flexibility strength, Athletics Fielding and striking defending (Handball) (Tennis) control balance (Cricket) (Football) (Gymnastics)

New beginnings(SEAL) Getting on and falling Relationship (SEAL) Good to be me (SEAL) Citizenship QCA UNit Changes (SEAL) Citizenship QCA UNit out (SEAL) 11: In the media- PSHE 10 Local Democracy Nutrition and Physical what’s the news? Citizenship QCA Unit 12: for young citizen Say no to bullying Activity Moving on

Sex and Relationship

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● Numbers 60-100. ● Verb etre (to be). ● Recognise and use some adverbs of ● Further verbs. ● Respond to mental arithmetic time. MFL ● Understand main points in a short questions. ● Describe items of clothing. written passage. ● Ask and respond to questions. ● Use a dictionary to select vocabulary for ● Learn a poem. ● Use negative sentence structure. written sentences. ● Naming more body parts. ● Respond to dictation. ● Name the weather and write a weather ● Give opinions. ● Describe self and others. report. ● Creating complex sentences using ● Relative pronouns. ● Verbs in conjugated forms: past, present models/ memory. ● Naming and giving opinion about food and future. ● Phonics (healthy/ unhealthy). ● Phonics ● Phonics Visits Residential to Fair Play House Residential visit to FRance/The Tate Modern Southend Fairground visit Theatre-in school

Visit to Cambridge

Special Events National Poetry Day National Anti-Bullying International World Book Day Children’s Book Week World Refugee Day (Theme: Messages) Week Holocaust Remembrance Day World Poetry Day Year 6 SATs World Maths Day International Mother National Science & Language Day Engineering Week Black History Month (promoting linguistic October and cultural diversity)

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