Grange Community Primary School

Creative curriculum Overview 2015/16

Year 1 of 2 year cycle

Year 5/6 / Autumn / Spring / Summer
Theme title / Who caused toil and trouble for Macbeth? / Are mountains important to humans? / Why were the Victorians so important?
Science
Chemistry:
Light and shadows
Properties and changes of materials / Biology:
Life cycles
Classification/microorganisms. / Biology:
Health and lifestyles
Physics:
Mechanical forces
History / History of castles
The changing power of Monarchs / Study of Mountaineer, Edmund Hilary.
Types of settlement – tribes and mountain people from the past and present day / The changing power of monarchs using Queen Victoria as a study
A significant turning point in British history - Industrial revolution
Crime and punishment - Workhouses
Geography / Visit to a castle
Finding on OS maps.
Use maps, atlases, globes and digital computer mapping to locate countries. / Name and locate important mountains within the UK.
Focus on Snowdonia.
Geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography in a European country - Alps / A study of a site dating from a period beyond 1066 - Style Mill
Art / Fabric banners
Improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and
sculpture with a range of materials / Mountain images
Artist focus: David Hockney / William Morris
Great artists, architects and designers in history.
Decoupage
Music / To develop an understanding of the history of music / To play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical
instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression / To improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related
dimensions of music
Computing / Programming / Computer science / Functional thinking
DT / Fabric banners / Shelters (Delamere) / Bridges Iron bridge
ICT / Internet research / Spread sheets/graphs.
Multi-media / Internet Research
Word processing.
WOW factor / Shakespeare company.
Visit to Beeston Castle. / Snowdonia
Delamere. / Style Mill
Year 3/4 / Autumn / Spring / Summer
Theme title / William Shakespeare: Who was he? / What makes Rainforests so important? / What was the Stone Age?
Science
Physics:
Sources of light
Sound (weather) / Biology:
Classifying living things and food chains.
Plants / Biology:
Animals/skeletons/nutrition
Chemistry:
Rock types/fossilisation
History / Tudor/Elizabethan history
Changing power of Monarchs – Henry VIII / Elizabeth I
Crime and punishment – treason
Everyday life – poor/rich / History of the rainforest – compare then to now
History of tribes in the rainforest / Changes in Britain from Stone Age to the Iron Age:
Hunter gatherers
Early Farmers
Study of Stonehenge
Iron Age hill forts
Bronze Age religion
Geography / Compare and contrast Winsford to Stratford
Name and locate counties and cities of the UK / Focus on Brazil and the worlds rainforests and Amazon River
Locate the worlds countries using maps to focus on South America
Identify the position and significance of Equator, Northern and Southern Hemisphere, Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn
Climate zones and the water cycle within the rainforest
Use maps, atlases, globes and digital computer mapping to locate countries. / Natural geographical feature.
Use maps, atlases, globes and digital computer mapping to locate countries.
Blue John Cavern (TBC)
Art / To create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit
ideas
Holbein Portraits
About great artists, architects and designers in history. / To improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and
sculpture with a range of materials
Henri Rousseau / Delve into the stone age
Stone age art.
Cave drawings
DT / Tudor houses
To select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks
[for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing], accurately / Rainforest applique
Bean bag frogs?
To select from and use a wider range of materials and components, including construction
materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their functional properties and aesthetic qualities / Creating Cavemen Tools (what can we use to eat with?)
To prepare and cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes using a range of cooking
techniques
Music / Boomwhackers! / Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical
instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
Composing rainforest sounds – Garage bands / To develop an understanding of the history of music.
Computing / E-Safety
Adv Code Breakers / Control
Computer Science / Sequence
E-Safety
ICT / Internet research (using internet safely)
Multi-media presentations. / Use internet safely.
Word processing / Multi-media presentations.
WOW factor / Shakespeare for Kids Theatre
Stratford Upon Avon / Rainforest Chester Zoo visit / Blue John Cavern TBC
Visitors (artist/archaeological dig)