Curriculum Overview for Summer 1 2017


  • Poems – the Poetic Styles of Michael Rosen and Roger McGough
  • Daily SPAG lessons
  • Spelling homework sent home
/ English
  • Drama – Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth by William Shakespeare
/
  • Persuasive Writing –Parent’s Versus Children
/ Art & Design
  • Painting involving symbols ( Cave style art which tells of an event or story)Map making
Design & Technology
  • Making stone tools ( With Stone age man visit)
  • Make sap lamps
  • Den building day
/ Computing
  • Starlings
Digital Research – Food in the Iron Age
E-Safety: To understand the meaning of ‘copyright’, and how this should be used responsibly
  • Kingfishers
CS – programming (Purple Mash, Flowol and Scratch taster sessions)
E-Safety: To prepare an eSafety portfolio
JUNIOR SUMMER TERM TOPIC
Stone Age to Iron Age!
/ Geography
  • human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water.
  • 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

  • Topics covered this term will include: Mental arithmetic and problem solving/reasoning, SAT’s revision, place value, decimals and fractions, mental and written calculations, calculating fractions, ratio and proportion, coordinates, translation and reflection, algebra and sequences, measurement (length and time) and statistics – mean.
/ Mathematics
  • Children will also use Mathletics and be given maths challenges to give their understanding greater depth.

Modern Languages
  • Starlings and Kingfishers – Telling the time in French
/ Music
  • Food and Drink – a musical feast culminating in a song performance
  • Hymn practice
  • Performance at the Guild hall for the Music festival

Science
Starlings: Sound
Kingfishers: Earth and Space
Life bus day visit to school. / History
  • Stone Age to Iron Age
Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. This includes:
  • late Neolithic hunter-gatherers and early farmers, for example, Skara Brae
  • Bronze Age religion, technology and travel, for example, Stonehenge
  • Iron Age hill forts: tribal kingdoms, farming, art and culture
  • Day workshop with a stone age man visiting school

Physical Education
  • Catching and fielding skills culminating in cricket and rounders games
  • Exercise wearing pedometers and recording results
  • After school football coaching with Fleetwood Town FC coaches
/ ReligiousEducation
  • Starlings - People of Faith
  • Kingfishers - God, David and the Psalms
  • Christian value this half-term - Responsibility