Penguins, Owls and Robins
Topic Plan 2016 - 2017
Term / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6Topic / On the Move! / Toys / Beside the Seaside
Outing / Bluebell Railway / Toy museum into school
Visit to village playground / Brighton Sealife Centre
Role Play / Travel Agents / Santa’s Grotto / Toy shop / Toy museum / Puppet show / Under the Sea
Stunning Start / Wheelie Day
PE focus of co-ordination, agility and healthy lifestyles
Science focus looking at forces and recognizing different modes of transport / Toy museum –Cuckfield Museum Loan Box
Illustrator visit – Ian Beck / Perform 4 Schools – Tea under the sea
Marvellous Middle / Vehicle Workshop
DT focus making junk models and models with moving parts / Playground Visit / Brighton Sealife Centre
Fabulous Finish / Bluebell Railway / Film Night – Toy Story/ Paddington / Pirate Week
Questions / How has transport changed the way we live? / What were toys like in the past?
How are they different to toys today?
How are teddies made? / What might you find beside and under the sea? How have holidays beside the seaside changed throughout history?
Key Texts / Man on the Moon
The Wright Brothers / The Railway Children
Trains / Paddington
Bear Hunt, Rainbow Bear, The Bear. Winnie the pooh
Goldilocks - fiction
Bear research – 100 facts about bears / History of games – non fiction
Please Mrs Butler – playground games / Light house keeper
Sea creatures – non-fiction
Tea under the sea – poetry
Commotion in the Ocean, Rainbow fish / Peter Pan
Victorian holidays
Science / Seasonal Changes Living things and their habitats / Animals including Humans / Everyday Materials / Everyday Materials / Plants / Plants
Animals including Humans
Computing / E Safety
Word processing and internet search in topic / E Safety
Coding – Bee bots
Font styles for railway poster in topic / E Safety
Coding - algorithms / E Safety
Coding - algorithms / E Safety
Coding - algorithms / E Safety
Powerpoint presentations
Art / Railway Posters – painting or drawing / Ian Beck - illustrator / Clay sculptures of ocean creatures / Sand sculptures
DT / Make a vehicle with moving wheels and axels / Make a piece for the playground – stronger, stiffer and stable / Puppet – Sewing
History / The first aeroplane flight – Wright Brothers / George Stephenson – Steam train
Impact of the steam train / Teddy Bear – Steiff Bear. / Changes in living memory – How toys have changed through the generations / Queen Victorian Victorian holidays
Impact of the steam train
Changes to holidays
Christopher Columbus – Explorers - Pirates
Geography / Locate the 7 continents and 5 oceans – travel
Use world maps and atlas
Weather watch – Seasonal changes / Weather watch – Seasonal changes / Weather watch – Seasonal changes / Map to playground
Simple compass directions
Directional language
Weather watch – Seasonal changes / Brighton and Hawaii – comparisons
Four countries of UK and their capital cities
Use world maps
Simple compass directions
Weather watch – Seasonal changes / Weather watch – Seasonal changes
PHSE / Health and wellbeing / Relationships / Living in the Wider world
SEAL / New Beginnings
Overview and blue set (KS1) / Getting on and falling out
Say no to Bullying / Good to be me / Going for Goals / Relationships / Changes
*Healthy Schools Week