Brentfield Primary School Curriculum Overview · 2021. 4. 20. · 1 Brentfield Primary School Curriculum Overview NB: Due to current COVID-19 restrictions, no external trips are currently

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Brentfield Primary School Curriculum Overview

NB: Due to current COVID-19 restrictions, no external trips are currently taking place. This will be reviewed according to guidance.

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2 Whole School

Drivers Belong

Responsible Aspiration

Valuing Diversity Empowered

Whole School Theme

Questions

Maybe It’s Because I’m A Londoner?

Who is The Bravest?

BHM

Water, Water Everywhere and Not

a Drop to Drink

Discover the Wonders of the

World

Why is the Earth So Angry?

Express Yourself

Suggested Celebrations of

Learning

Whole School: Art exhibition

Virtual: Who is the Bravest?

Phase: Science Fair (Teaching our peers.

Parent invitation) Postponed due to partial lockdown

Virtual Art

competition

Virtual: Our Covid Reflections

Phase: Science Fair

Whole School: This is Us

(International Event)

EYFS Here I Am

Trips/Experiences: I spy shapes

(looking at shapes in the environment)

Core Texts: Here we are Owl Babies

Three Little Pigs How Many Legs

Animals

Trips/Experiences: Autumn walk in our local

area

Core Texts: Giraffes Can’t Dance

Click Clack Moo Elmer

The Poles

Trips/Experiences: Investigating snow and

ice

Core Texts: Polar Bear, Polar Bear,

what do you hear? Lost and Found

A Dot in the Snow

Growth and Traditional Tales

Trips/Experiences:

Story telling workshop

Core Texts: Baby Brains

The Gingerbread man Little Red Hen

Non-fiction books: families

Space

Trips/Experiences: Ruislip Woods

Core Texts:

Whatever Next Beegu

Non-fiction books: Space

Storytelling

Trips/Experiences: Art workshop

Core Texts:

Tiddler We’re Going on a

Bear Hunt Sleeping Beauty

2

PSED:

Settling into school Our experiences

Sharing and taking turns

PD: Handwashing and

handling Developing our muscles

Developing co-ordination

Copying patterns and shapes

CL:

Listening to each other Joining in with stories

Sounds, rhyme and alliteration

Literacy:

Reading and writing names

Listening to and joining in with stories

Maths:

Matching, sorting and comparing amounts

Recognising and describing patterns

Comparing size, mass and capacity

EAD:

Self-portraits

PSED:

Accepting and celebrating our

differences. Solving conflicts without

aggression

PD: Transporting and storing safely and managing risk

Exploring ways of moving like animals.

Developing pencil grip

CL: Vocabulary relating to animals and habitats

Developing conversations

Literacy:

Reading books about animals

Learning our sounds and sounding out words Writing labels and simple sentences.

Maths:

Representing and comparing numbers up

to 5. Learning about basic

shapes, positional language and time.

PSED:

People and things that are important to us.

Working independently and asking for help.

PD:

Keeping ourselves clean and dry by playing

safely. Jumping

Practicing letter formation

CL:

Retelling familiar stories Working together in

groups

Literacy: Writing missing persons’

posters Sequencing stories and writing favourite parts

Maths:

White Rose-Alive in 5 Growing 6, 7 and 8

EAD:

Watercolour polar scenes

Sculpture penguins

UW:

PSED:

Learning about strengths and needs Sharing and helping

others

PD: Healthy foods

Throwing, catching and kicking a ball

Controlling the size of letters

CL:

Following a story without pictures or

props Following 2-step

instructions whilst cooking

Literacy:

Comparing different versions of stories Writing own story

starters, changing the characters

Maths:

White Rose-Building 9 and 10

Consolidation Recognising,

representing and working with numbers

11-20

PSED:

Talking about activities that we enjoy

How our actions affect others

Exploring our own feelings

PD:

The impact of exercise on our bodies

Navigating an obstacle course

Correctly forming all letters.

CL:

Learning new vocabulary about space

Playing with ‘alien’ words

Retelling events in the right order

Literacy:

Reading fiction and non-fiction about space

Writing speech bubbles and using full sentences

to describe a picture Using non-fiction books to find out information

Maths:

PSED:

Speaking in positive terms about

ourselves and developing confidence

PD:

Keeping ourselves healthy and safe

Running and changing direction

safely Using movement to

retell stories

CL: Introducing own storylines into a

play Using language

creatively to tell new and familiar

stories

Literacy: Retelling and

rewriting familiar stories

Change and innovate stories

using story elements in new

ways.

3

Role play and dressing up

Exploring primary colours

UW:

Families and communities.

Here We Are: Looking at the wider world

ICT:

Using battery operated toys

Using the computer and interactive white board

(touch screen and mouse)

EAD:

Mixing colours Moving to music

UW:

Observing similarities and differences between

animals. Learning about

celebrations and communities (Diwali and

Christmas)

ICT:

Exploring Beebots. Learning that we can use computers to find out information about

animals.

Comparing the arctic to the immediate

environment and other familiar habitats

Exploring the differences between

materials.

ICT: Making representations with pen or finger on a

touchscreen Begin to understand

online safety

EAD:

Acting out traditional tales as well as own

stories.

UW: Growth and decay

(planting watercress) Exploring how

ingredients change when we cook them.

ICT:

Using a mouse. Using a computer to

make representations of learning

White Rose-On the move, Superhero to 20

and beyond Solving problems

including adding, taking away, grouping and

sharing within 20

EAD: Making 3D models of

planets and spaceships Exploring ways to

represent the night sky

UW: Technology needed for

space travel Using computers and

tablets to find information

ICT:

Using a keyboard to type

Maths:

White Rose-First, then now

Find my pattern

EAD: Creating

representations from favourite stories using a

range of materials and media

UW:

Learning to express and accept

similarities and differences

between ourselves and others

ICT:

1 Famous Landmarks

Trip/

Experience: Junk Modelling day

Local shops

Core Text: Paddington in London

and Pop up Stuck by Oliver Jeffers

English:

Rosa Parks

Trip/Experience: Sufra

Core Text:

Farmer Duck by Martin Waddel

Rosa Parks: Non-fiction

(Little People, Big Dreams)

Britain as an Island

Trip/Experience: Science Museum

Core Text:

The Night Pirates by Peter Harris

The Black Hat-film unit

English: Letters

Buildings that Reach the Sky

Trip/Experience: The

Sky Garden

Core Text: Belonging by Jeannie

Baker

The Magic Paintbrush by Julia Donaldson

Living By The Sea

Trip/Experience: A trip to the beach

(Frensham)

Core Text:

Sally and the Limpet by Simon James

The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Dewalt

It’s My Favourite

Trip/Experience: Tate Britain

Core Text:

The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew

Dewalt Traditional Rhymes

4

Character description Short narrative-

repetitive structure Narrative-own version

of Stuck

Maths: Place value within 10

Addition and subtraction within 10

Geometry: Shape Place value within 20

Science: Animals including

humans

Seasonal Changes (1 week)

Computing:

We are Safe Online

History: landmarks

Geography:

Mapping landmarks

DT: Junk modelling of

landmarks

RE: Light

PSHE:

English: Narrative-re-telling the

life of Rosa Parks Re-telling Farmer Duck

with alternative characters/setting

Maths:

Place value within 10 Addition and

subtraction within 10 Geometry: Shape

Place value within 20

Science: Plants

Seasonal Changes

(1 week)

Computing: We are celebrating

History:

BHM (all aspects of BRAVE)

Life of Rosa Parks

Art: Portrait of Rosa Parks

(Portraits in realism-Rembrandt,

Gainsborough)

PSHE:

1st person narrative Character description

Maths:

Addition and subtraction (within 20) Place value (within 50) Measurement: length

and height Weight and volume

Science:

Plants


Computing:

We are treasure hunters

Geography: The seas around the UK

How water is used to help us in our daily lives.

Art:

Water paintings. Seascapes using wash techniques (Scenes of the Sea-Mary Cassatt,

Water Lilies-Claude Monet)

RE:

Food

PSHE:

English: Narrative

Stories from other cultures

Maths:

Addition and subtraction (within 20) Place value (within 50) Measurement: length

and height Weight and volume

Science: Everyday materials

Seasonal Changes

(1 week)

Computing: We are treasure hunters

History: Shard - Tallest Building

in Britain Time line of tall buildings

in the world.

DT: Build structures,

exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer, more stable

English:

Postcards Narrative

Maths:

Multiplication and division

Fractions Geometry: Position and

direction Place value (within 100)

Measurement: money and time

Science:

Everyday materials


Computing:

We are collectors

Geography: How the weather

changes our coastlines (e.g. White Cliffs of

Dover/Jurassic coast erosion)

How is sand made?

RE: Caring for our World

PSHE:

English: Letter Poetry

Maths:


Fractions Geometry: Position

and direction Place value (within

100) Measurement:

money and time


humans


Computing: We are painters

Art:

Abstract (Design inspired by Electric

Prisms-Sonia Delauny)

DT:

Making my own treasure box

RE:

5

The Niggle Healthy and Unhealthy

Foods

PE: Running

Music:

Musicianship 1

What does it mean to be brave?

RE:

Light (Temple visit)

PSHE: Planet Relationships

Planet Confidence Anti-bullying week

The Bully Using medication safely

PE:

Jumping

Music: Musicianship 1

How to play People and places that

make me feel safe

PE: Gymnastics and Dance

Music:

Musicianship 2

RE: Food

PSHE:

Good to be green How to keep safe at

home

PE: Sending and receiving

Music:

Musicianship 2

Money Week Hot and cold

Growing and changing since birth

PE:

Athletics


Caring for our World

PSHE:

What Sid did How to keep

ourselves clean Understanding

what 'bad' secrets are

PE:

Multi sports


2 Pudding Lane and The City of London

Trip/ experience: Monument

Core Text:

Vlad and the Great Fire of London by Kate

Cunningham

Samuel Pepys by Peter Harrison

The Girl With The

Yellow Bag-film unit

English: Detailed diary

Nelson Mandela Trip/Experience:

African art workshop

Core Text: Grandad Mandela by

Zazi Ziwelene and Zindzi Mandela

Snow White in New

York by Fiona French

English: Character description

Setting description Narrative

Letter

Maths:

Oceans and Seas Trip/Experience: London Aquarium

Core Text:

The Big Book of the Blue by Yuval Zommer

The Lighthouse Keepers’

Catastrophe by Ronda and David Armitage

English:

Non-chronological report

Poetry (Including performance poems) Narrative-alternative

ending

The Seven Wonders Trip/Experience:

Workshop: Cartouche painting

Core Text:

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs By Jon

Scieszka

Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett

English:

Instructions Postcard

1st person narrative

Maths:

Frozen Lands Trip/Experience:

National Maritime Museum Greenwich

(Shackleton)

Core Text: Little Polar Bear by Lars

De Beer

A Cloudy Lesson-film unit

Something Fishy-film

unit

English: Diary

It’s in Fashion! Trip/Experience: V and A museum

(Discovering materials

workshop)

Core Text: Coco Chanel (Little people, big dreams)

The Sound

Collector by Roger McGough

Dirty Beasts by

Roald Dahl

English:

6

3rd person narrative Instructions

Maths: Place value

Addition and subtraction

Measurement: money Multiplication and

division


humans

Computing: We are safe online

History:

Great Fire of London

Geography: Mapping the route of

the fire (developing keys)

Art: Colour Mixing and silhouettes. Exploring

landscapes (Jan Griffier-Baroque)

RE: Caring for our world

PSHE:

The Niggle Healthy and

unhealthy foods

Place value Addition and subtraction

Measurement: money Multiplication and

division

Science: Plants

Computing:

We are researchers

History: BHM (all aspects of

BRAVE) Life of Nelson Mandela.

Art:

Tribal art (African dot painting)

Landscapes-John Ndamo

PSHE:

What does it mean to be brave?

RE: Caring for our world

PSHE: Anti-bullying week

The Bully Stay safe around

harmful substances

Maths:


Statistics Geometry: Properties of

shape Fractions

Science:

Living things and their habitats

Computing:

We are pirates

Geography:

World Oceans, habitats and human effects on

them.

Art: The Great Wave

(Hokusai)-Japanese block printing

RE:

Water

PSHE: Same but different

The importance of, and how to, maintain personal hygiene

Understanding life in different countries


Statistics Geometry: Properties of

shape Fractions

Science: Uses of everyday

materials.

Computing: We are pirates

History:

Changes in living memory – past and

present wonders of the world

DT:

Model of a wonder

RE: St Michael’s Church

(Water)

PSHE: The ball and the wall

How to stay safe around fire

PE:

Sending and receiving

Music: Recorder introduction.

Short narrative including setting description

Innovative narrative Maths:

Measurement: length and height

Geometry: position and direction

Consolidation and problem solving

Time Mass, capacity and

temperature

Science: Living things and their

habitats.

Computing: We are zoologists

Geography:

Ice caps are melting – what is the impact?

History:

Shackleton and the Antarctic

RE:

Caring for others

PSHE: Boys cry too

Money Week Differences between

males and females

Narrative Poetry Maths:

Measurement: length and height

Geometry: position and direction

Consolidation and problem solving

Time Mass, capacity and

temperature

Science: Uses of everyday

materials

Computing: We are

Photographers

Art: Look at repeating patterns. Textiles-

The Beauty of Flowers

DT:

Sew your own outfit using textiles (using

glue or stitches)

RE: Caring for others

PSHE:

7

PE: Running

Music:

Pitch and rhythm

PE: Jumping

Music:

Pitch and rhythm

PE:

Gymnastics Dance

Music:

Recorder Introduction

PE:

Athletics

Music: Recorder Development

Cat just sat Naming body parts Right to say no to unwanted touch

PE:

Multi sports

Music: Recorder

Development

3 Wembley (see sample unit guide)

Trip/ experience:

Wembley stadium

Core Text:

Olympig by Victoria Jameison

Until I Met Dudley by

Roger McGough

Marshmallow-film unit

English: Diary

Narrative

Maths: Place value


Mae C Jemison (Engineer and

Astronaut) Trip/Experience: VR Space/Online

planetarium show (Royal Observatory Greenwich)

Core Text:

Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed

The Children of Lir by

Sheila Macgill-Callahan

The Present-film unit

English: 1st person narrative

Story openings Newspaper

Maths:

Place value

The Water Cycle Trip/Experience:

London Museum of Water and Steam

Core Text:

The Rhythm of the Rain by Grahame Baker-

Smith

Flotsam by David Weisner

English:

Informal letter Character description

Persuasive advert Free verse poetry

Maths:

Multiplication and division Money

Statistics Length and perimeter

Tomb Raiders (Egyptians)

Trip/Experience: Saatchi Gallery:

Tutankhamun Exhibition

Core Text: How to Live Forever by

Colin Thomson

The Windmill Farmer-film unit

English:

Narrative Setting description

Instructions

Maths: Multiplication and

division Money

Statistics Length and perimeter

Fractions

Exploding Mountains Trips/Experience:

Freshwater Theatre Volcanoes Show

Core Text: Volcanoes

The Princesses’ Blanket

by Carol Ann Duffy

English: Non-chronological

report Persuasive letter

Diary

Maths: Fractions

Time Properties of shape Mass and capacity

Science:

Rocks

First Impressions

Trip/Experience: Coultard Institute

of Art in School workshop

(impressionism)

Core Text:

Poetry Unit A Kid in My Class by

Rachel Rooney

Baby Aliens Got My Teacher by Pamela

Butchart

English: Character

description Newspaper Argument

Performance poetry

8


Science:

Plants

Computing: We Are opinion pollsters

History: The development of

Wembley (stadium and high road)

Geography:

Mapping local area

Art: Portraits (famous

athletes and artists)

RE: Community

PSHE: Planet Wellbeing Planet Character

building Why democracy is important (School

council)

PE: Invasion Games



Science:

Forces and magnets

Computing: We Are vloggers

History: BHM. Famous black

female scientists (Mae C Jemison)

Art:

Class collage (The Journey into Space-Planets inspired by

Robert McColl)

RE: Community (Unity

Centre visit)

PSHE: Planet Relationships

Planet Confidence Anti-bullying week Understanding the effects of caffeine

PE:

Net and wall games

Fractions

Science: Light

Computing:

We Are programmers

Geography: Water cycle

Describe key aspects of physical geography

including rivers, mountains, volcanoes, earthquakes and the

water cycle.

Art: In the dark of the night. Starry Night (Van Gogh)

RE: sacred and special

books

PSHE: Planet Diversity

Understanding the rights of the child

PE:

Gymnastics

Music: Recorder, singing and

body percussion

Science: Light

Computing:

We Are Programmers

History: The Ancient Egyptians

DT:

Levers and linkages Design and make a

shaduf.

RE: sacred and special books

PSHE:

Planet Resilience Planet Happiness

Understanding who to trust online

PE:

Target and fielding games

Music:

Recorder, singing and body percussion

Spanish:

Food, drink and giving preferences

Computing:

We Are Communicators

Geography: Volcanoes

History: Stone Age and Bronze

Age

RE: Judaism (central London

Synagogue)

PSHE: Planet Heads up

Money Week Exploring different

types of families Exploring the difference

between wants and needs

PE:

Athletics

Music: Ensemble development

Spanish:

Family, stories and conversation

Maths:

Fractions Time

Properties of shape Mass and capacity


humans

Computing: We Are Presenters

Art:

Abstract art: Textiles

DT:

Clay: prints and impressions to

represent ourselves.

RE:

Judaism

PSHE: Planet Physical Understanding

what dementia Is and how it is related

to memory

PE: Multi-sports

9


moving

Spanish: Greetings and numbers


moving

Spanish: Colours and animals

Spanish: Days, months, seasons

and fruit

Music:

Ensemble development

Spanish:

Cultural diversity

4 The Thames

Trip/ Experience:

Tower of London

Core Text: My Friend Walter by

Michael Morpurgo

The Dream Giver-film unit

English:

Virtual information leaflet Letter

Fantasy narrative Setting/character

description

Maths: Place value


Length and perimeter Multiplication and

division

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (The first female elected head of state in Africa)

Trip/Experience: Art Workshop

Core Text:

The Journey by Francesca Senna

The Spiderwick

Chronicles (The Field Guide) by Holly Black

and Tony DiTerlizzi

English: Diary

Blog-balanced argument Non-chronological

report Setting description in a

short narrative.

Maths: Place value


Rivers

Trip/Experience: Science Museum

Core Text:

The Village That Vanished by Ann

Grifalconi, Kadir Nelson

Oliver and the Seawigs

English: Scripted dialogue

Instructions Argument/persuasion

Poetry


division Area

Fractions Decimals

Science:

States of matter

Computing:

Eureka!

Trip/Experience: British Museum

Core Text:

The Orchard Book of Greek Myths by

Geraldine McCaughrean

English: Newspaper report

Diary Short narrative

Persuasive article


division Area

Fractions Decimals

Science: Sound

Computing:

Shaken Earth

Trip/Experience: Shinto Shrine

Core Text:

Earthquakes: Non-fiction

The Firework Makers

Daughter

English: Discussion/explanation

Narrative Letter

Maths:

Decimals Money

Time Statistics

Properties of shape Position and direction

Science:

Electricity

Computing:

Who Am I?

Trip/Experience National Portrait

Gallery (How do we see ourselves

workshop?)

Core Text: The Boy in a Dress by David Walliams

I Don’t Like Poetry-

Joshua Siegal

English: Magazine article

Character synopsis Performance

poetry Poems with a

structure

Maths: Decimals

Money Time

Statistics Properties of shape

10


habitats

Computing: We Are Photographers

History: Tudor London

Geography:

Rivers

DT: Food technology-a

Tudor meal

RE: Christianity

PSHE:

Planet Wellbeing Planet Character

building Critically thinking about

information available online

PE:

Invasion Games

Music: Recorder skills/Tamboo

Bamboo

Length and perimeter Multiplication and

division


humans

Computing: We are Co-Authors

History:

BHM and Benin

Art: African Prints (Adire

Aleko resist dyeing to make African prints)

RE:

Christianity (Church visit)

PSHE:

Planet Relationships Planet Confidence Anti-bullying week

Explain the risks associated with alcohol

PE:

Net and wall games

Music: Recorder skills/Tamboo

Bamboo

We Are Software Developers

Geography: Comparative study of

the Thames (studied in Autumn) and another

significant river

Art: River art-Kandynsky

RE: Rules for Living

PSHE:

Planet Diversity Understand the water crisis around the world

PE:

Gymnastics

Music: Body percussion –group

composition

Spanish: New foods and drink

We Are software developers

History:

Ancient Greece

DT: Design and make

sandals.

RE: Rules for Living

PSHE: Planet Resilience Planet Happiness

How to stay safe around water

PE:


Music:

Body percussion –group composition

Spanish:

Likes and dislikes

We Are Meteorologists

Geography: Earthquakes

History: Iron Age

RE: Shinto Shrine visit

Places of Worship


Money Week Basic facts about

puberty and change How to save

PE:

Athletics

Music: Ukulele Introduction

Spanish:

Weather and transport

Position and direction

Science:

Electricity

Computing: We Are Bloggers

Art:

Sculpture inspired by Mondrian

(Cubism)

DT: Design and make wooden picture

frames to display portraits.

RE: Places of

worship

PSHE: Planet Physical

Explore how dementia affects the whole family

PE:

Multi-sports

Music: Ukulele

Introduction

11

Spanish: Revising numbers and

telling the time

Spanish: Parts of the body and

feeling unwell.

Spanish: Clothing and shops

5 Docklands

Trip/ experience:

Museum of the Docklands

Core Text:

Street Child by Berlie Doherty

The Tale of Three Brothers-film unit

English:

Setting description Diary

Non-chronological report

Poems with a structure Film scripts

Maths:

Place value Addition and subtraction

Statistics Multiplication and

division Perimeter and area

Ida B Wells (African-American investigative

journalist, educator, and an early leader in the

Civil Rights Movement)

Trip/Experience: Divergent drama

workshop

Core Text: The boy at the back of

the class

The Butterfly Lion

English: Persuasive letter

Narrative Diary

Balanced argument

Maths: Place value


Statistics Multiplication and

division Perimeter and area

The Changing Amazon

Trip/Experience: Kew Gardens

Core Text:

Journey to the River Sea by Eve Ibbottson.

Lighthouse-film unit

English:

Adventure narrative Character description

Newspaper report


division Fractions

Decimals and percentages

Science:


Computing:

We Are Travel Writers

Geography:

Ancient Islamic Civilization

Trip/Experience:

Central London Mosque

Core Text: Rain Player

1001 Arabian Nights

English: Narrative-traditional

tales Instructions Newspaper

Maths:


Fractions Decimals and percentages

Science:

Earth and space

Computing: We Are web developers

History:

Early Islamic Civilization

Our Changing World

Trips/Experience: FSC Amersham

Core Text:

The Last Wild by Piers Torday

Treasure-film unit

English:

Setting description Persuasive magazine

article Narrative poetry-1st

person

Maths: Decimals

Properties of shape Position and direction

Converting units Volume

Science:


Computing:

We Are musicians

My Dream Self

Trip/Experience: Tate Modern

Core Text:

The Goldfish Boy

Lady of Shallot-Tennyson

English:

Blog-report/discussion Narrative poetry

Maths:

Decimals Properties of shape


Converting units Volume


humans

Computing:

12

Science: Properties and changes

in materials.

Computing: We Are Toy Designers

History:

The Victorians

Geography: Trade routes (continents)

DT:

Tea Caddies and Spice jars (Clay)

RE: Hinduism

PSHE:


building Interpret and

understand information of food labels

PE:

Invasion Games

Music: Ukulele Skill

Development

Spanish: Verbs and questions

Science: Forces

Computing:

We Are toy designers

History: BHM The change in the lives of Black Americans in the Civil rights era and its connection to the rest

of the world.

Art: Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat-Who

changed the art world? (Protest posters and pop

art)

RE: Hinduism (temple visit)

PSHE:

Planet Relationships Planet Confidence Anti-bullying week

Explore the risks associated with drug use

PE:

Net and wall games

Music: Ukulele Skill

Development

The Amazon: how locations around the world are changing.

Settlements, land use, economic activity

including trade links and the distribution of natural resources

including energy, food, minerals and water

supplies.

Art: Art Deco (rainforest

prints in Art Deco designs)

Henri Rousseau

RE: Islam

PSHE: Planet Diversity

Explain what migration is and why people need

to migrate

PE: Gymnastics

Music: Melodic Composition

Spanish:

Familiar places

DT:

Textiles: Islamic Weaving

RE: Islam

(Central London Mosque)

PSHE:

Planet Resilience Planet Happiness

How to stay safe when cycling

PE:


Music:

Melodic Composition

Spanish: Food and eating out

Geography: Climate Change

History:

Anglo-Saxons

RE: Symbols


Money Week Explore emotional and

physical changes during puberty

Understand budgeting and deductions from

payslips

PE: Athletics

Music:

African Drumming

Spanish: Leisure, sports and time

We Are Artists

Art: Frida Kahlo: textiles

A study of Surrealism

DT:

Design and make shadow boxes

RE: Symbols

PSHE:

Planet Physical Explore impact of

puberty and importance for

personal hygiene

PE: Multi-sports

Music:

African Drumming

Spanish: Friendships and

personalities

13

Spanish:

TV, music and movies

6

Brick Lane

Trip/Experience: Brick Lane Visit

Core Text:

The Tale of Desperaux

The Ridge-film unit

English: Balanced argument

Diary Biography

Short narrative Free verse poetry with

Imagery

Maths: Place value

Addition, subtraction, multiplication and

division Fractions


Science: Electricity

Computing:

We Are Travel Writers

History:

Malala Yousafzai

Trip/Experience: Museum of London

interactive session: A Suffragette Story

Core Text:

Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls'

Rights by Malala Yousafzai

Wonder by RJ Palacio

English:

Blog-balanced argument Website article-

persuasive Formal letter

Narrative

Maths: Place value

Addition, subtraction, multiplication and

division Fractions


Science: Light

Computing:

Natural Disasters: Flood and famine

Trip/Experience:

Gurdwara

Core Text: Floodland by Marcus

Sedgwick

Ruin-film unit

English: Diary

Film script Flashback narrative

Character monologue

Maths: Decimals

Percentages Algebra

Converting units Perimeter, area and

volume Ratio

Statistics


environment.

Computing: We Are architects

When in Rome

Trip/Experience: Verulamium Museum-St

Albans

Core Text: Julius Caesar

Beowulf (Anglo Saxons)

English: Letter

Newspaper Description

Maths:

Decimals Percentages

Algebra Converting units

Perimeter, area and volume

Ratio Statistics

Science: Evolution and

inheritance

Computing: We Are Reporters

Damaged Earth

Trip/Experience: Natural History

Museum: The Variety Show

Core Text:

The Iron Woman by Ted Hughes

The Jabberwocky

English: Letter

Campaign leaflet-persuasion

Narrative poetry Short story

Maths:

Geometry and properties of shape Consolidation, and

preparation for SATs


environment

Computing: We are Adventure

Gamers

Where next? (Transition)

Trip/Experience:

Residential Theatre trip

Core Text:

Cosmic

Year 6 Production writing

English:

Description Biographical writing

Advice writing Recount

Play script

Maths: Geometry and

properties of shape Consolidation,

investigations and preparation for KS3


humans

Computing:

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Community, immigration and trading across the ages in Brick

Lane and Spitalfields

Geography: Migration

Art:

Murals and street art Cityscapes

RE: Buddhism

PSHE:


building Understand how a

parliamentary debate occurs

School Council

PE: Invasion Games

Music:

Beatbox/Rap and Ukulele

Spanish:

Verbs and questions

We Are cryptographers

History:

Development of women’s rights globally

including the suffragettes.

Art: Portraits-Art Deco

using collage

RE: Buddhism

(London Buddhist Centre visit)

PSHE:

Planet Relationships Planet Confidence Anti-bullying week Understand risks

associated with cannabis and volatile substance

abuse

PE: Net and wall games

Music:

Beatbox/Rap and Ukulele

Spanish:

TV, music and movies

Geography: Impact of flood and

famine on communities and countries.

DT:

Design and make a house to stand up to

extreme flooding.

RE: Sikhism (Gurdwara visit)

PSHE:

Planet Diversity Understand

homelessness and reasons for it

PE:

Gymnastics

Music: Samba

Spanish:

Familiar places

History:

The Romans

DT: Build an aqua duct using

practical skills such as cutting, drilling,

screwing, nailing, gluing).

RE: Sikhism

PSHE: Planet Resilience Planet Happiness

Understand what risky behaviours are

PE:


Music: Samba

Spanish:

Food and eating out

Geography:

Reefs and Atolls.

History:

The Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the

Kingdom of England to the time of Edward

the Confessor

RE: People of faith


Money Week Consider physical and

emotional behaviour in relationships

Understand different jobs have different

salaries and what value for money means

PE:

Athletics

Music: Class Performance

Project

Spanish: Leisure, sport and time

We Are Adventure Gamers

Art:

Abstract expressionist

sculpture: Feelings and emotions-Dali,

Jackson Pollock

DT: Textiles-design and

make a flag or banner to represent

your journey through primary

school.

RE: People of faith

PSHE: Planet Physical

Explore process of pregnancy and

conception

PE: Multi-sports

Music:

Class Performance Project

Spanish:

Friendship and personalities

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