Sycamore Class Cycle 1
Subject / Term 1 / Term 2 / Term 3 / Term 4 / Term 5 / Term 6
Topic / Stone Age to Iron Age / The Norse men Cometh!
Vikings and Anglo Saxons / Parliament and Power! / Diversity and Difference / The Power of Writing / All over the UK…
Trips/Special Events / Team Building events / Trip: Kent Life? / A trip to London – Houses of Parliament/Big Ben / Theatre trip
Ashdown Forest for mapping and fieldwork
Literacy – suggested key texts
narrative and nonfiction focus each term – link to genres, talk for writing and SPAG / Wolf Brother – Michelle Paver
Ug Raymond Briggs / Viking Slave – Griff Hosker
Beowulf
Viking legends – the Norse Myths
The 10 best Viking legends ever!
Cressida Cowell novels – How to train your dragon / Narrative text skills –
Stormbreaker – Anthony Horrowitz
Introduction to series / Select – eg Journey to Jo’berg or Wonder
South Africa – apartheid, Nelson Mandela
PSHE focus / Selection of short stories / ‘Macbeth’ Shakespeare for kids project
Play writing
Performance poetry Poetry
Reflections of my time in Primary school
Letters of thanks
Writing my own report
Mathematics Links / Time 12hr/24hr clock
Reflection/rotation/
transition / Numbers patterns and algebra
Code breaking activities / Working with big population figures.
Statistics. / Link to DT project.
Statistics / Co-ordinates. Translation, reflection, rotation
History / History of from Stone age, bronze age and iron age. / Review the Timeline of KS1 KS2 history studies , where do the Vikings and Anglo Saxons fit in? / Extended period of time: Exploring British Values – Democracy now and then
How our laws are made? The process
The Empire and how things have changed / Who was William Shakespeare, when and where did he live?
Geography / Looking at a map of London compare with local map / Mapping and fieldwork
Science / Evolution and inheritance / Changes of materials / Living things and their habitats
SRE
ICT / Using the internet
E safety
Communicating skills – email,text, using the IWB skills / Heros and villians – creating a game using Scratch / Code breakers / NewsRoom / Young Authors – Creating an e-book. / Web designers
Art/DT / DT – frame structures / Viking brooches/art / Cityscapes - perspective / Digital art - portraits / DT – Food project / Art and Dt using the natural environment and /or recycled things
A fashion show!
Whole School links/BV / Citizenship & pupil voice led by 5/6
School Council Elections
Rights, responsibilities and rules. Learning to Learn Skills / Citizenship
Remembrance Day (Nov)
Being healthy and keeping safe
Anti Bullying Week(Nov) / Keeping safe
Safer Internet Day ?
Using the internet as a research tool safely / Environment
Tidy School Week(Apr) / Keeping Safe
Sun and water safety / Citizenship
Looking after those in our community – a grandparents tea party?
PSHEe / Health and Wellbeing.
· Anti-Bullying week
· What is a healthy lifestyle (DATE)
· Maintaining mental, physical and emotional wellbeing.
· Managing risks and influences to wellbeing
· Ways of keeping emotionally and physically safe.
· Managing change – transition
How to respond in an emergency / Relationships
· Developing and maintaining healthy relationships
· Recognise and manage emotions
· Recognise risky or negative relationships
· Asking for help
· Respect equality and diversity in relationships
· Ways of keeping emotionally and physically safe. (SRE)
Managing change – puberty and loss
New beginnings
Behaviour policy- revisit with children
- rights and responsibilities – UNICEF Bk / Getting on and Falling out
Say no to bullying
Anti-Bullying Week / Going for goals Celebrate achievements in the face of adversity / Good to be me
Identifying our similarities and differences / Relationships Language of feelings / Changes
Transition
RE / Salah / Muslim Prayer (Yr 6 East Sussex Syllabus) / The Advent Ring
Mary the mother of Jesus (Yr 5 East Sussex Syllabus) / The prophet Muhammad (pbuh)/
The Qur’an (Yr 5/6 East Sussex Syllabus) / Good Friday (Yr 5 East Sussex Syllabus) / Shavuot and Pentecost (Yr 5 East Sussex Syllabus) / Sikhism transition unit
PE / Outdoor games?
Gymnastics/Dance / Swimming / Outdoor games
Drama? / Rounders
Athletics / Athletics
Music / Songs to celebrate me!
using our voices in creative ways/ harmonies/parts / Music for the Christmas Celebrations
Music improvising and composing http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/
subjects/music/Vikings
use the bbc resources to follow a Viking story saga, learning songs and listening to Viking music / Music from around the world / Music to accompany writing / Leaver’s performance?
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