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Please find below the summaries of the curriculum for each year group for the Lent Term:

Reception
  • Communication and Language: Sharing stories/Telling tales
  • Personal, Social and Emotional Development: Turn taking, Thinking of others, Independence
  • Physical Development: Dance, Handwriting, Using precision tools
  • Literacy: Traditional Tales, The Rainbow Fish
  • Mathematics: Manipulating numbers, Mass, Capacity, Time, 3D Shape
  • Understanding the World: French language and culture, Life in cold lands, Spot the Science
  • Expressive Arts and Design: It’s Not a Box, Puppets, Working with wood, Picasso
Year 1
  • English: Letter writing, diary entries and narrative stories. After half term, Alternative Fairy Tales
  • Maths: Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and measures
  • Science: Classification of animals and the changes in the seasons
  • Humanities: All about dinosaurs after half term mapping
  • ICT:  Coding, digital literacy and e-safety
  • DT:  Different ways of joining
  • Art: Sketching and watercolours, clay sculpture. Collage a Winter scene, Dinosaur Art
  • Music: Dynamics within songs and pieces of music
  • RS: Worship and festivals
  • PSHCE: Living in the wider world. What rules are; caring for others’ needs; looking after the environment. Using the internet and digital devices; communicating online. Strengths and interests; jobs in the community.
  • MFL: Simple phrases and greetings
  • PE: Dance
  • Games: Cross-country and swimming
Year 2
  • English: Paddington Bear (Instructions), Poetry, The Magic Paintbrush (Narrative)
  • Maths: Multiplication and Division, Fractions
  • Science: Keeping Healthy (Exercise, hygiene, healthy eating). Basic needs of animals. Food chains
  • Humanities: London v Peru - Mapping Skills
  • RE:  How do people demonstrate their beliefs?
  • ART: Paddington Portraits, London Landmarks
  • PE: Cross Country and swimming
  • Music: Exploring texture within songs. Singing solo, as a chorus and in group combinations
  • PSHCE: Living in the wider world. Belonging to a group; roles and responsibilities; being the same and different in the community. The internet in everyday life; online consent and information. What money is; needs and wants; looking after money.
  • DT: Making Paddington bears/Marmalade
  • ICT: Keeping safe on-line and an introduction to animation
  • MFL: French
Year 3
  • English: Writing: Traditional tales
  • Maths: Multiplication and Division and Money
  • Science: Light and Shadow
  • Humanities: Rainforests
  • Computing: ‘Google Doodles’ - Computer Science
  • DT: Wooden Frame boxes
  • Art: Artist: Henry Russo and ‘Jungle in a box’
  • RE:  Caring for the World
  • PSHCE: Living in the wider world. The value of rules and laws; rights, freedoms and responsibilities. How the internet is used; assessing information online. Different jobs and skills; job stereotypes; setting personal goals.
  • PE: Benchball and Basketball
  • Games: Netball and Football
  • MFL: French
  • Music: All lessons will involve a variety of practical activities – singing and using classroom instruments to improvise, create and rehearse. Learning songs for events and performances will also be an integral part of the lessons throughout the year. Water Music: a wide variety of water-inspired music is a basis for singing, performing, composing, improvising and listening and appraising; Smetana’s ‘Vltava’ will be used to identify melodies and pupils will compose their own ‘wandering’ music, then put some together to create a ‘water cycle’; they will create some improvisations using Debussy’s ‘La Mer’ and Monet’s sea paintings.
Year 4
  • English: Descriptive writing - developing settings for stories; Diary writing including Diary of a Wimpy Kid; play scripts including a look at Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  • Maths: Multiplication and Division; Fractions; Area; Decimals
  • Science: The Earth, Moon and Space; Forces
  • Humanities: The Mayans; geography of Central America
  • ICT: eSafety and animation
  • DT: Making trucks and cranes
  • Art: Mayan Art
  • PSHCE: Living in the wider world. What makes a community; shared responsibilities. How data is shared and used. Making decision about money; using the keeping money safe.
  • RE:  Saints
  • PE: Basketball
  • Games: Football and Netball
  • MFL: French
  • Music: All lessons will involve a variety of practical activities – singing and using classroom instruments to improvise, create and rehearse. Learning songs for events and performances will also be an integral part of the lessons throughout the year.  Journey into Space: Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” is the basis for creative composition e.g. ostinati, using Mars, The Bringer of War and mood, tempo, dynamics and instrumentation (or timbre) through Strauss’s “Also Sprach Zarathustra”.
Year 5
  • English: Extreme Exploration: Diary Writing and Adventure Stories
  • Maths:  Multiplication and Division; Fractions; Decimals and Percentages
  • Science: Forces
  • Humanities: Extreme Weather and Climate
  • ICT: Programming in Scratch: Computer Science
  • DT: Building Bridges
  • RS: Faith in Action
  • Art: William Morris
  • Games: Football, Netball
  • PE: Basketball, Dance
  • PSHCE: Living in the wider world. Protecting the environment; compassion towards others. How information online is targeted; different media types, their role and impact. Identifying job interests and aspirations; what influences career choices; workplace stereotypes.
  • MFL: Spanish
  • Music: All lessons will involve a variety of practical activities – singing and using classroom instruments to improvise, create and rehearse. Learning songs for events and performances will also be an integral part of the lessons throughout the year. Weather and Seasons: creative composition in response to the weather and the seasons, investigations into how sound can be used expressively and music of the Baroque period including Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
Year 6
  • English: Persuasion (letter), The Highwayman (classic poetry), The Tempest (character descriptions, scene setting, playscripts)
  • Maths: Decimals, percentages, algebra, converting units of measure, perimeter, area and volume
    Science: Evolution and Inheritance
  • PSHCE: Living in the wider world Valuing diversity, challenging discrimination and stereotypes; evaluating media sources, sharing things online; influences and attitudes to money, money and financial risks
  • RS: Living a faith 
  • History: Ancient Greece
  • Geography: Living on the edge - locating and investigating settlements
  • ICT: Digital password - Digital literacy
  • DT: Construction - Design and make a moving toy using pneumatic sytem to move a load
  • Art: The Greeks - drawing, shading and papier mache. Artist study of Andy Warhol
  • MFL: Spanish - Describing a photo and Spanish festivals
  • PE: Gymnastics, dance and basketball
  • Games: Girls - Netball. Boys - Football
  • Music: All lessons will involve a variety of practical activities – singing and using classroom instruments to improvise, create and rehearse. Learning songs for events and performances will also be an integral part of the lessons throughout the year. Ancient Greece: triple time, inspired by the three prongs on Poseidon’s trident; pentatonic scale (made up of two Greek words - “pente” (five) and “tonic” (tone), creating and performing pentatonic melodies; leitmotif, used to represent the features and attributes of Greek Gods and Goddesses
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