Light Oaks Junior School Curriculum

Area of the Curriculum / Year 3 / Year 4 / Year 5 / Year 6
ENGLISH
English Writing / Writing focus: Setting, character and plot / Writing focus: Dialogue & atmosphere, level of formality, impersonal writing
Narrative:
Write your own fairy story, an Egyptian adventure
Non Narrative:
Reports: trolls, Ancient Egypt, Salford
Recount: A stone age diary, letters to a teacher.
Instructions: a museum timetable, how to make a mummy / Narrative:
adventure stories
fantasy stories
Play scripts: conventions & layout
Non-Narrative:
Reports: myths
Recounts: newspapers & magazines, diaries
Persuasion: advert, persuasive techniques / Narrative:
Science Fiction
Mystery
Plays: play scripts-moving on using speech
Non-Narrative:
Report: Out of this World
Recount: formal police mystery, Macbeth diary entry
Instructions: “how to use”: warnings and advice
Explanations: forces
persuasive writing: holiday in space brochure, Lady Macbeth letter, ‘whodunnit’ speech,
Shakespeare (Macbeth)
read with justifications
provide reasoned for their views. / Narrative:
stories with non linear chronology e.g .flashbacks
Points of view
The basic plots
Non Narrative:
Recount: autobiography, newspaper report
MYST: a game theme;
Report: Formal/impersonal reports: police report, the Squee
Recount: Biography, diary
Persuasion: estate agent’s advert, letter to the Head
Explanation: The Glop Machine
Discussion: Using computer games
Instructions: how to make a flying machine
Poetry: The Mad Professor’s Daughter (focus for writing)
English Reading / Retell stories.
Identify main ideas from more than one paragraph & summarise.
Retrieve and record information.
Use simple inference and predict.
Discuss simple imagery.
Identify simple text layout & other features.
Discuss & ask questions about a text. / Retell stories accurately.
Identify main ideas from more than one paragraph & summarise.
Retrieve and record information concisely.
Use more complex inference and predict, suggesting motive.
Discuss more complex imagery.
Identify themes & conventions and identify layout & structure.
Discuss & ask more searching questions about a text. / Distinguish between fact opinion
Explain discuss what they have read.
Identify main ideas and key details.
Use deduction and inference to predict outcomes or motives.
Recognise how authors use particular language.
Comment on how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning.
Recommend & compare books.
Ask searching questions about a text. / Distinguish between fact opinion and recognise viewpoint.
Explain discuss what they have read with reasoned arguments.
Identify main ideas and key details.
Use deduction and inference to predict outcomes or motives with explanations.
Recognise how and why authors use particular language.
Comment on how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning with examples from a text.
Recommend & compare books. Ask searching questions about a text, including those based on inference & deduction.
English
Authors / Tony Bradman, Laurence Anholt,
Jonathan Long, Pie Corbett, Ruth Symes, Tony Mitton, June Counsel, Dick King-Smith, Jeff brown, Anne Fine, Eion Colfer, Roald Dahl / Jenny Oldfield, Michael Morpurgo, Malory Blackman, Harry Horse, Katie Davies, Ann Jungman, Alexander McCall Smith, Robina Beckles-Wilson, Anthony Masters, Gary Jeffrey, Caroline Lawrence / Rob Childs, Jeremy Strong,Lynn Benton, Michael Morpurgo, Narinder Dhami, Jon Sciezcka, Ted Hughes
Michael Foreman, Philip Pullman, Anthony Horowitz, Neil Gaiman, Chris Bradford / Dav Pilkey, Cressida Cowell, George Layton, Eion Colfer, Anthony Horowitz,
Joseph Delaney, Geraldine McCoughrean, Beverley Naidoo
Charlie Fish, David Almond, H G Wells, Charles Dickens
English
Class Novel / Stig of the DumpClive King
George’s Marvellous Medicine Roald Dahl
Cliffhanger Jacqueline Wilson
Littlenose the Joker John Grant
Little Wolf’s Book of Badness Ian Whybrow
The Tempest Shakespeare Stories / The Giggler Treatment Roddy Doyle
The Boy in the Dress David Walliams
The Snow Maze Jan Mark
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C S Lewis
Charlotte’s Web E B White
Julius Caesar Shakespeare Stories / James and the Giant Peach Roald
Dahl
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lemony Snicket
Fortunately the Milk – Neil Gaman
The Phantom Tollbooth Norton
Juster
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare Stories / SkelligDavid Almond
Journey to the River Sea Eva Ibbotson
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Robert C. O'Brien
13 Unpredictable TalesPaul Jennings (short stories)
Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare Stories
English
Learned Poetry / On the Ning Nang Nong – Spike Milligan
Simple Simon – traditional
The Owl & The Pussycat – Edward Lear / The Crocodile – Lewis Carroll
The King’s Breakfast – A A Milne
Matilda – Hillaire Belloc / Daffodils – William Wordsworth
The Witches’ Chant from Macbeth – William Shakespeare
The Listeners – Walter de la Mare
Leisure – W H Davies / Tyger – William Blake
If – Rudyard Kipling
Macavity the Mystery Cat – T S Eliot
If Pigs Could Fly – James Reeves
English Grammar / A range of vocabulary, grammar and punctuation is taught across Key Stage 2. A more detailed breakdown is available on the Writing curriculum document for each year group.
English Spelling /
  • Revision/investigations:
  • Plurals – s/es
  • Silent letters
  • Adding –ing, -ed, -er, -est, -y
  • Contractions
  • Singular possessive apostrophes
  • Words ending in -tion
  • Consonant, letter, vowel
  • A/an
  • Word families – solve, solution, dissolve etc.
  • Nouns using prefixes e.g. super, anti, auto
  • Using a dictionary – using the first 2/3 letters using headword, first and last entry on a page.
  • Dictation: simple sentences
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  • Revision/investigations:
  • Nouns can be made by adding a suffix e.g. add –ness
  • Adjectives can be made from nouns and verbs using suffixes e.g. add –ful, – less
  • plural/possessive suffix – s with correct use of apostrophe
  • Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable.
  • Prefi xes: in-, il-, ir-, sub-, inter-, super-, anti-, auto-
  • Suffixes: -ous
  • Words ending –tion, -sion,-cian
  • Words ending –sure or -ture
  • Using a dictionary – using the first 2/3 letters using headword, first and last entry on a page.
  • Dictation: simple senteces
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  • Revision/investigations:
•Nouns and adjectives can be turned into verbs by adding suffixes e.g. –ise, -ate, -ify.
•Prefixes are used to change the meanings of root words.
•Comparatives and superlatives can be made by adding suffixes to adjectives – adj + er, est, -ly
• -tial and –cial
• -ant and –ent -fer- (when to double the r)
•The letter string –ough
•Silent letters
•Use morphology (how a word is made up from root word, prefixes and suffixes) and etymology ( the word’s history and origins) to spell
•Dictionaries & Thesauruses: use these efficiently and independently in everyday situations. /
  • Revision/investigations:
  • Nouns and adjectives can be turned into verbs by adding suffixes e.g. –ise, -ate, -ify.
  • Formal & informal vocabulary e.g. ask for – request, go in – enter & using the subjunctive.
  • Revision of spelling rules and features from Y3 to Y5
  • Homophones: nouns end –ce and verbs end –se.
  • Endings spelt –cious or –tious.
  • Words ending in –able & -ible
  • Use of the hyphen
  • Words with the /i:/ sound spelt ei after c
  • Use morphology (how a word is made up from root word, prefixes and suffixes) and etymology ( the word’s history and origins) to spell
  • Dictionaries & Thesauruses: use these efficiently and independently in everyday situations.

MATHEMATICS
Problem solving / Worded problems and investigations are used throughout the maths curriculum to enable consolidation of skills and knowledge.
The Singapore bar method is used as a visual aid across the school.
Maths Number
Place value / Find 10 or 100 more or less.
Recognise the place value of each digit in a three-digit number.
Compare & order numbers to 1000.
Read and write numbers up to 1000 in numerals and in words.
Solve number and practical problems involving the above. / Find 1000 more or less than a given number.
Recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number.
Order and compare numbers beyond 1000.
Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000.
Solve number and practical problems that involve all of the above and with increasingly large positive numbers.
Read Roman numerals to 100. / Read, write, order and compare numbers to at least 1 000 000 and know the value of each digit.
Negative numbers in context.
Round any number up to 1 000 000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10 000 and 100 000.
Solve number problems and practical problems that involve all of the above.
Read Roman numerals to 1000 (M) and recognise years written in Roman numerals. / Read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10 000 000 & three decimal places and know the value of each digit.
Multiply and divide numbers by 10, 100 and 1000 giving answers up to three decimal places.
Round any whole number.
Negative numbers in context, and calculate intervals across zero.
Number and practical problems that involve all of the above.
Algebra:
Use simple formulae.
Generate and describe linear number sequences.
Express missing number problems algebraically.
Find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with two unknowns.
Maths Number
Calculations (written) / Addition & Subtraction:
Add & subtract numbers up to three digits, using column method
Estimate answers & use inverse operations to check answers
Solve problems, including missing number problems, using number facts, place value, and more complex addition and subtraction
Multiplication & Division:
Know multiplication & division facts for the 3, 4 & 8 times tables
Calculate two-digit numbers times one-digit numbers using formal written methods
Solve problems, including missing number problems, involving multiplication & division / Addition & Subtraction:
Add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the column method.
Estimate and use inverse operations to check answers.
Solve addition and subtraction two-step problems.
Multiplication & Division:
Know multiplication and division facts for times tables up to 12 × 12.
Multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number using formal written layout.
Solve problems involving multiplying and adding.
Use the distributive law (2 x 1). / Addition & Subtraction:
Add and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods.
Use rounding to check answers and accuracy.
Solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems.
Multiplication & Division:
Multiples, factors, factor pairs & common factors.
Prime numbers, prime factors and composite (non-prime) numbers.
Long &short multiplication up to 4d x 2d.
Use short division (up to 4 digits by a one-digit number) with remainders.
Multiply and divide whole numbers and those involving decimals by 10, 100 and 1000 / All Operations
Long multiplication(4 digits by two-digits)
Short & Long division (4 digits by two-digit whole numbers).
Remainders as whole numbers, fractions, or by rounding, as appropriate for the context.
Common factors, common multiples and prime numbers.
Order of operations.
Solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why.
Use estimation to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, an appropriate degree of accuracy.
Maths Number
fractions / Recognise & understand tenths of a whole and tenths of a number.
Recognise, find and write unit non-unit fractions with small denominators.
Find fractions of a small set of objects.
Find & explain equivalent fractions with small denominators.
Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator within one whole.
Compare and order unit fractions, and fractions with the same denominators.
Solve problems that involve all of the above. / Recognise common equivalent fractions.
Recognise that hundredths = ÷ 10 & = tenths ÷ 10.
Solve problems involving increasingly harder fractions.
Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator.
Recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths.
Recognise and write decimal equivalents.
Divide a one or two-digit number by 10 and 100.
Round decimals with one decimal place to the nearest whole number.
Compare numbers with the same number of decimal places up to two decimal places.
Solve simple measure and money problems involving fractions and decimals to two decimal places. / Compare and order fractions whose denominators are all multiples of the same number.
Equivalent fractions including tenths and hundredths.
Convert mixed numbers and improper fractions and convert.
Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator and denominators that are multiples of the same number.
Multiply proper fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers.
Read and write decimal numbers as fractions.
Relate thousandths to tenths, hundredths and decimals.
Round decimals with two decimal places to the nearest whole number and to one decimal place
Read, write, order and compare numbers with up to three decimal places
Solve problems involving number up to three decimal places
Percentages, fractions and decimals.
Solve problems which require knowing percentage, fraction and decimal equivalents. / Use common factors to simplify fractions; use common multiples to express fractions in the same denomination.
Compare and order fractions, including fractions > 1.
Add and subtract fractions with different denominators and mixed numbers, using the concept of equivalent fractions.
Multiply simple pairs of proper fractions, writing the answer in its simplest form.
Divide proper fractions by whole numbers.
Associate a fraction with division and calculate decimal fraction equivalents.
Multiply one-digit numbers with up to two decimal places by whole numbers.
Division up to two decimal places.
Solve problems which require answers to be rounded.
Equivalences between simple fractions, decimals percentages.
Ratio & Proportion problems
Ratio & proportion problems.
Percentages of a number.
Scale factors.
Maths Measurement / Measure, compare, add & subtract: lengths (m/cm/mm); mass (kg/g); volume/capacity (l/ml).
Measure the perimeter of simple 2-D shapes.
Add & subtract amounts of money to give change, using both £ and p.
Tell & write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12-hour and 24-hour clocks.
Estimate and read time to the nearest minute
Understand & use seconds, minutes and hours; o’clock, a.m./p.m., morning, afternoon, noon and midnight
Know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year and leap year
Compare duration. / Convert between different units of measure e.g. km to m, hr to minute.
Perimeters of rectangles.
Find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares.
Estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money in pounds and pence.
Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12- and 24-hour clocks.
Solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes; minutes to seconds; years to months; weeks to days. / Convert between different units of metric measure.
Common imperial units such as inches, pounds and pints with metric equivalences.
Measure and calculate the perimeter of composite rectilinear shapes.
Calculate the area of rectangles.
Estimate volume and capacity.
Solve problems involving converting between units of time.
Use all four operations to solve problems involving measure. / Conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation up to three decimal places.
Convert between miles and kilometres.
Recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa.
Use formulae for area and volume of shapes.
Area of triangles & parallelograms.
Volume of cubes and cuboids.
Maths
Geometry / Draw 2-D shapes; recognise 3-D shapes & describe them.
Recognise angles.
Identify right angles, recognise that two right angles make a half-turn, three make three quarters of a turn and four a complete turn; identify whether angles are greater than or less than a right angle.
Identify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines. / Properties of Shapes
Compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles, based on their properties and sizes.
Identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles up to two right angles by size.
Identify lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes.
Complete a simple symmetric figure.
Position & direction
Describe positions on a 2-D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant.
Describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left/right and up/down.
Plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon. / Properties of Shapes
Identify 3-D shapes, from 2-D representations.
Estimate and compare acute, obtuse and reflex angles.
Draw & measure angles.
Angles at a point and one whole turn totals 360o
Angles at a point on a straight line and a half turn total 180o
Find missing lengths and angles in rectangles.
Regular and irregular polygons.
Position & direction
Reflection and translation. / Properties of Shapes
Draw 2-D shapes using given dimensions and angles.
Recognise, describe and build simple 3-D shapes, including nets.
Compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes.
Find unknown angles in triangles, quadrilaterals regular polygons.
Circles: radius, diameter circumference. D = 2r.
Angles at a point, on a straight line, or vertically opposite and find missing angles.
Position & direction
Positions in all four quadrants.
Draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes.
Maths
Statistics / Interpret and present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables.
Solve one & two-step questions. / Interpret and present discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical methods, including bar charts and time graphs.
Solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in bar charts, pictograms, tables and other graphs. / Line graphs.
Complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables. / Pie charts and line graphs.