Curriculum Overview Autumn 2019/20 – Let’s Celebrate

English
Write to Entertain (6 weeks),
Write to Inform (7 weeks)
  • Use full stops and capital letters (consistently accurately)
  • Write clearly neatly (join accurately)
  • Spell target words (Y2,3,4,5,6)
  • Use a dictionary (meaning, spelling)
  • Use commas in list
  • Use conjunctions (range)
  • Use pronouns (avoid repetition)
  • Use expanded noun phrases (precisely)
  • Use fronted adverbials (comma)
  • Use a consistent tense
  • Use a thesaurus (vocabulary)
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  • Vary sentence structure
  • Use apostrophes
  • Use paragraphs (time, place, action)
  • Describe setting & character
  • Incorporate dialogue (apply rules, convey character, advance action)
  • Build cohesion (adverbials)
  • Use modal verbs (detail, possibility)
  • Use parenthesis (extra information)
  • Use passive verbs
  • Use commas for clarity
  • Use colons
  • Use semi-colons
  • Use hyphens
  • Assess and edit to improve
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  • Read new words
  • Explore meaning of new words
  • Discuss structure
  • Read a range of text types
  • Ask questions to understand
  • Explain & summarise content
  • Infer feelings, make predictions
  • Discuss how language, structure and presentation effect meaning
  • Find and record information (NF)
  • Read a variety of genres
  • Make & explain recommendation
  • Discuss how author impacts
  • Understand literary devices
  • Make presentations
  • Provide reasoned justifications
/ Art & Design
  • Learn about great artists, architects and designers in history
  • record observations and use them to review and revisit ideas
  • improve mastery of art and design techniques
North American Artists: John Sargent, Ansel
Adams, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Lloyd Wright,
Jean-Michel Basquait, Mary Cassatt / Computing
  • understand computer networks including the internet; how they can provide multiple services, such as the world wide web; and the opportunities they offer for communication and collaboration
Barefoot Computing:
  • Modelling the internet
  • Introduction to HTML

Design & Technology
  • design purposeful, functional, appealing products based on design criteria
  • generate, develop, model and communicate ideas
  • select from and use a range of equipment
  • evaluate ideas and products against criteria
Food fit for Spaceflight
  • design a five-day menu for astronauts on the next space mission
  • design a label for food packaging
/ Geography
Can you come on a great American road trip?
  • Enhance their locational and place knowledge
  • Focus on North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities
  • Understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of a region in North and South America
  • Use maps, atlases, globes and digital mapping
  • Learn to use the eight points of a compass

Mathematics (Y3,4,5,6)
  • Place Value
Learn 3, 4 and 8 x tables, secure PV to 100
  • Addition and subtraction
+/- mentally, begin to use columns to +/- (up to 3 digits)
  • Multiplication and division
Use x and ÷facts (x3,4,8), write/calculate x and ÷statements
  • Place Value
Secure PV to 1000, round to 10/100/1000, use negative numbers, use Roman Numerals (to 100)
  • Addition and subtraction
use columns to +/- (up to 4 digits)
  • Multiplication and division
x and ÷mentally, use standard short multiplication /
  • Place Value
Secure PV to 1000000, use negative whole numbers in context, use Roman Numerals to 1000
  • Addition and subtraction
Use standard written methods to + and -
  • Multiplication and division
Use written methods to x ÷, recognise and use factors, multiples, prime, square cube, x & ÷by powers of 10
  • Place Value
Secure PV and rounding to 10000000, inc. negatives
  • Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
Use written methods, use order of operations, solve multi-step problems, identify factors, multiples and primes
  • Fractions: Compare and simplify,+/- using equivalents, x simple fractions and ÷by whole numbers

Modern Languages Spanish
  • Say and recognise the days of the week
  • Join in with the repeated sections of “La orugamuyhambrienta”
  • Count from 16-31 with confidence
  • Make plurals of regular , simple nouns
/ Music Charanga: Bel Air
  • play and perform using voices and instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency and control
  • improvise and compose
  • listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing memory
  • appreciate and understand a range of music
  • develop an understanding of music history

Science
Animals (inc. Humans)
  • describe the changes as humans develop to old age (timeline to indicate stages in growth development of humans; research the gestation periods of other animals & compare them with humans; record the length mass of a baby as it grows)
  • identify the need for the right types and amount of nutrition, and that nutrition comesfrom what is eaten
  • recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on how bodies function
  • describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans.
/ History
  • understand changes in Britain from the
Stone Age to the Iron Age
How unpleasant were the
Bronze and Iron Ages?
  • understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference
  • understand the methods of historical enquiry.

PE
  • throw & catch tennis ball (then alternate hands) with then without bounce
  • strike a large, soft ball along the ground in a rally
  • kick a ball with the same / alternate feet
  • compare movements & skills with others
  • make up rules & versions of activities
  • recognise similarities & differences in movements
  • link movements / sequences to fit a theme
REAL PE (Creative Skills), Football / Cross Country / RE Judaism
  • Explain: who founded Judaism and where; the main beliefs held; which places are special; special festivals; what the Holy Book is and how it
is used; the meaning of symbols
Christianity
  • The Christmas Story: recall the key events, explain interpretation, investigate the nativity, explain the key truth in the Gospels, explain the meaning of Advent, explain global differences in celebrations

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