Cycle A
Topic / Literacy / SPAG / Numeracy / Science / Art Design / Design Technology / Geography / History / Music / Computing / Religious Education / PE / Trips etcPirates / Focus texts:
4 x Pirate Pete
Pirates love underpants
Main text types: stories / See whole school SPAG planning to see year group termly planning / Following the Derbyshire Syllabus mixed age planning using nctem mastery documents to support / Y1: Animals including humans
Y2: Animals including humans / to develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space
Sketching portraits, ships etc / Use directions on a compass N,E,S,W and locational and direction language e.g. near, far, left and right to describe the location of features and routes on a map / The lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievement (comparing lives in different periods)
Black Beard
Anne Bonny
Edward Teach
Calico Jack Rackham / Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
A pirate went to sea
We are the pirates / Use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private: identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies / R1: Special people. Which people are special and why?
1.3 Who is an inspiring person and why? / Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing, catching as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination and begin to apply these in a range of activities
Ball Skills unit / In school pirate dress up day
Under the Sea / Focus texts:
Tiddler
The fish who could wish
Main text types:
Non-fiction, poetry / Y1: Plants
Y2: Plants / To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
Animal scenes, animal clay models / Name and locate the world’s 7 continents and 5 oceans / Events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally
The titanic / Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high quality live and recorded music
Little mermaid
Under the Sea
The fish in the ocean / Use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content / R2: Special stories. Which stories are special and why?
1.1.a who is a Christian and what do they believe? Who is a Muslim and what do they believe? / Perform dances using simple movement patterns
Christmas themed repetitive dances / Beaumont Manor Leicester – Pirate day
Space / Focus texts:
Aliens love underpants
Whatever next
Main text types:
stories / Y2: Living things and their habitats / Use a range of materials creatively to design and create products
Planet paper mache / Design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves and other users based on design criteria
Select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks
Explore and use mechanisms in their products
Evaluate their ideas and products against design criteria
Moon buggies / use aerial photographs and plan perspectives to recognise landmarks and basic human and physical features.
Devise a simple map.
Use and construct basic symbols in a key. / The lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievement (comparing lives in different periods)
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
Tim Peake
Events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally
First plane flight
Flight time line / Play tuned and un-tuned instruments musically
Introducing yellow, red, rat and scores / Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school / R3: Special Places. What places and special and why?
1.5 In what ways is a church / mosque / synagogue important to believers? / Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing, catching as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination and begin to apply these in a range of activities
Participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending
football / National Space Centre
Space / Our World / Focus texts:
Winnie in space
Space dog
Main text types:
Non-fiction, stories, poetry / Y1: Seasonal Changes / Learn about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing their difference and similarities between different practices and disciplines and making links to their own work
Peter Thorpe, David Hardy / identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in relation to place / equator / North and South Poles
use simple fieldwork and observations skills to study schools grounds and the key human and physical features of its surrounding environment / Changes within living memory (reveal aspects of national life)
Changes in cars
Changes in mobiles / computers
Satellites / Understand what algorithms are, how they are implemented as programs on digital devices and that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions / R4. Special times: what times are special and why?
1.6 How and why do we celebrate special times / Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing, catching as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination and begin to apply these in a range of activities
Yoga / Nature walk – local area
Castles / Knights / Focus texts:
Mike the knight
The knight and the dragon
Small knight and George
The knight who wouldn’t fight
Main texts types:
Stories, non-fiction, poetry. / Y1: Materials
Y2: Use of everyday materials / Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space
Clay Castles
Queen / King portaits / Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, drawing, templates, mock ups and where appropriate information and communication technology
Build structures, exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer and more stable.
Evaluate their ideas and products against design criteria
Make a castle / drawbridge / use basic geographical vocab: beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather
use key human features: city, town, village, factory, farm, house, office, port, harbour, shop
name and locate and identify characteristics of the four countries and capital cities of the UK and its surrounding seas
use world maps, atlases and globes to identify the UK and its countries as well as the countries , continents and oceans studied at this KS / Events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally
-1066
Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality
-local battle of Stoke Field
Possible links to fire of London – house materials etc / Use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs / R5: Being special where do we belong?
1.4 what do stories of Jesus tell Christians about how to live / Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing, catching as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination and begin to apply these in a range of activities
Participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending
Dodgeball / Warwick Castle
Fairy tales / Focus texts:
Little red riding hood
Gingerbread man
Rapunzel
Sleeping beauty
Three little pigs
Beauty and the beast
Focussing on alternative versions
Main texts types:
Stories, non-fiction, poetry. / Y1/2: Extra practise and evidence of ‘working scientifically’ / To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
Drawings linked to animation
Puppet theatres / Explore and evaluate a range of existing products
Explore photo frames / past / present and make own fitting fairy tale queen criteria. / Understand geographical similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of a small area of the UK and of a small area of a contrasting non-European country. / Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality
-Robin Hood / Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using interrelated dimensions of music
Pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations / Create and debug simple programs / R6: Special World: What is special about our world and why?
1.2 What can we learn from creation stories. / Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing, catching as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination and begin to apply these in a range of activities
Participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending
Basketball / Dress up fairy tale drama day
Whole school seaside trip
Cycle B
Topic / Literacy / SPAG / Numeracy / Science / Art Design / Design Technology / Geography / History / Music / Computing / Religious Education / PE / Trips etcLand Before time
(dinosaurs) / Harry and the dinosaurs go to school.
Dinosaur roar.
The super hungry dinosaur
Dazzle the dinosaur / See whole school SPAG planning to see year group termly planning / Following the Derbyshire Syllabus mixed age planning using nctem mastery documents to support / Y1: Plants
Y2: plants / To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share ideas, experiences and imagination
Dinosaur art, sculptures / How has the world changed over time?
Use aerial photographs and plan perspectives to recognise landmark and basic human and physical characteristics; devise a simple map; use and construct basic symbols in a map
Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of their grounds and the key human and physical features of its surrounding areas. / Events beyond living memory. Life before humans. Different eras. / Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
A pirate went to sea
We are the pirates / Use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private: identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies / 1.7 how do we show that we care for each other? / Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing, catching as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination and begin to apply these in a range of activities
Ball Skills unit / Land of the dinosaur – west midland safari park
Poole’s Cavern Buxton
In school workshop
Ice Age
(North and South Poles) / Lost and Found
Ice age
Ernest Shackleton
Ice is Nice / Y1: everyday materials
Y2: uses of everyday materials / To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, shape, form and space
Lino printing, marbling, ice painting / Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, drawing, template, mock ups and, where appropriate, information and communication technology
Evaluate their ideas and products against design criteria
Design and make a bauble to sell / Name and locate the world’s 7 continents and 5 oceans
Name, locate and identify characteristics of the 4 countries and capital cities of the UK and its surrounding areas.
Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify the UK and its countries as well as the countries, continent and oceans studied at this stage / The lives of significant individuals nationally or globally
Ernest Shackleton
Race to poles / Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high quality live and recorded music
Little mermaid
Under the Sea
The fish in the ocean / Use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content / 1.8 what does it mean to belong? / Perform dances using simple movement patterns
Christmas themed repetitive dances / The Tamworth Snow Dome Santa experience
Ice skating Nottingham
Superheroes / Supertato
Superkid
My brother is a superhero
Charlie’s superhero underpants
George saves the world by lunchtime / Y1: animals including humans
Y2: animals including humans / Learn about artists , craft makers and designers describing the similarities and differences between different practice and disciplines, and making links to their own work
Pop art
Etsy / The lives of significant individuals nationally or locally.
Florence Nightingale
Mary Seacole
Christopher
Columbus etc / Play tuned and un-tuned instruments musically
Introducing yellow, red, rat and scores / Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school / Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing, catching as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination and begin to apply these in a range of activities
Participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending
football / In school superhero challenge day
Common Wealth Games 2018 / Real life super heroes / Y1: seasonal changes / Identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the UK and in the location of hot / cold countries in relation to the equator and south and north pole / Significant historical events
CommonHealth history e.g. ladies allowed.
Significant individuals – famous athletes / Understand what algorithms are, how they are implemented as programs on digital devices and that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions / Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing, catching as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination and begin to apply these in a range of activities
Yoga / Derby arena – Velodrome
Derby university
Animals of the world.
Focussing most on - Down Under
Australia / How the kangaroos got their tails
Kangaroos’ lucky escape
Diary of a wombat
Wombat goes walkabout / Y2: living things and their habitats / To use a range of materials creatively to design and make an animal
Modrock, paper mache, clay / Use basic geographical vocab to refer to eg physical features: beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather
Human: city, town, village, factory, farm, house, office, port, harbour, shop
Use simple compass reference and locational and directional language to describe location of features on the route on a map / Use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs / Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing, catching as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination and begin to apply these in a range of activities
Participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending
Dodgeball / Twycross Zoo
Chatsworth Farm
Bluebell Farm Spondon
Risley Farm
White post farm
People of the World / Handa’s surprise
Handa’hen
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
Mam Panya’s pancakes
We’re going on a lion hunt / Y1/2: Extra practise and evidence of ‘working scientifically’ / Design purposeful, functional, appealing product for themselves and others based on a design criteria.
Design an outfit suitable for weather and in keeping with culture / Build structures, exploring how they can be made stronger, stuffer and more stable
Explore and use mechanisms in their products
Evaluate their ideas and products against a design criteria
Select from a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks eg cutting, shaping, joining and finishing
Design and make a well that collects water on a pulley / Understand geographical similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of a small area of the UK and a small area of a contrasting non-European country / Changes within living memory e.g. world travel, houses, toys etc. / Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using interrelated dimensions of music
Pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations / Create and debug simple programs / Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing, catching as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination and begin to apply these in a range of activities
Participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending
Basketball
Extra Topic options: Skeletons, Wizards, potions, Chinese new year