Brooke VC Primary School - Curriculum Overview

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1 Brooke VC Primary School - Curriculum Overview As a small school we have not only mixed-age classes but split year-groups too. This makes teaching a year-specific curriculum a near impossibility. Over the years in both Key Stage 1 and 2 we have very successfully developed a topic-based rolling curriculum which covers all the requirements of the National Curriculum. The new national curriculum has given us the opportunity to refresh the program of study and incorporate learning from many curricular areas. Some aspects of the curriculum remain as discrete, while others are very heavily integrated. In all areas of the curriculum English and maths links are actively investigated and opportunities found to provide reasons for writing and real-world maths problem solving activities. Our Modern Languages program follows a two-year rolling course of study, with both French and taught for 2 years. This has shown to give continuity and to enable the children to become familiar with the distinctive sounds of different languages. The new computing curriculum reflects the increasing ability of children to make use of technology. Whilst only 20 years ago we were teaching what a mouse was, how to save work and how to resize text, for many children in our schools these have been daily activities long before attending school. The development of multi-touch devices and high speed internet has enabled a greater capacity and skill-set within the student body and changed the way in which we must teach. Thus it is that the emphasis in our teaching will be on programming; not that all the other aspects of the previous ICT curriculum are redundant, but that there no longer needs to be such an emphasis from an early age. Because of this we are now able to use the technology we have on a more regular basis right across the curriculum, from reception to Year 6 to support learning in the cross-curricular topics. Our RE curriculum follows much of the Norfolk Agreed Syllabus enabling us to enjoy being a Church of England school in a rural community where harvest, Easter, Remembrance and Christmas are still important opportunities to share together our heritage. David Robinson September 2014

2 EYFS / KS1 3-year program Year A Autumn Term (1 st half) Ourselves / Harvest The senses Autumn Sound Printing Cooking Where does our food come from? Compare Grandparents time & now How do we use IT? Games Express Year A Spring Term (1 st half) Castles / Chinese New Year / Easter Materials Spring 3D / Clay Catapult or drawbridge Preparing food for a royal feast Battle of Hastings Queen Elizabeth 1 st Queen Victoria Norwich Castle Castles in Great Britain How do we use IT? Dance for the medieval feast Express Year A Summer Term (1 st half) Mexico Plants Summer Frieda Kahlo (Mexican artist) Mexican masks Guacamole now Our local area compared with Mexico Gymnastics Express

3 Year A Autumn Term (2 nd half) Opposites light & dark, hot & cold etc. Light and dark Winter Animals in hot and cold places Painting Colour mixing hot and cold colours Clay Moving Christmas Card Guy Fawkes Hot and cold places Gymnastics Express Christmas Nativity Year A Summer Term (2 nd half) Under the sea Animals including humans Textiles Magnetic fishing rod Nelson Naming continents and Oceans Compare local seaside with seaside abroad Games Preparing for Sports Day Express

4 Year B Autumn Term (1 st half) Health & Growth / Harvest Human Growth Healthy Eating The Senses Autumn Printing Self portraits Making a healthy snack The history of exercise how has the Olympics changed? Where does food come from Food from different countries Harvest Games Express Christmas Nativity Year B Spring Term (1 st half) Houses and Homes Materials Spring Collage Make a room / home Comparing a Victorian home with our home today The history of technology in the home Compare homes in our local area with homes in a non-european country Dance Gymnastics Express Year B Summer Term (1 st half) Transport / Space Sound Space How things move on different surfaces Plants so they re ready for next ½ term Painting Jackson Pollock Space pictures Build a space rocket / vehicle The first aeroplane flights Christopher Columbus Neil Armstrong Games Express

5 Year B Autumn Term (2 nd half) Celebrations Light and dark Winter Drawing Clay Moving Puppets Rama and Sita How was Christmas celebrated in a Victorian home? Gymnastics Express Christmas Nativity Year B Summer Term (2 nd half) Animals and Plants Animals including humans Plants Animals and plant habitats Summer Textiles Camouflage Invent an animal Naming Continents Animals that live in different continents Games Preparing for Sports Day Express

6 Year C Autumn Term (1 st half) Traditional Tales / Harvest The Senses Autumn Printing Cooking Gymnastics Express Year C Autumn Term (2 nd half) Toys Year C Spring Term (1 st half) Fire / People who help us Collage Moving Christmas Card Florence nightingale Edith Cavell Great Fire of London Gymnastics Express Year C Summer Term (1 st half) Jungle / Global Gardens Plants Drawing Design a garden Rainforests Compare rainforest plants with local plants Gymnastics Express Year C Summer Term (2 nd half) Pirates and islands

7 Materials Moving Christmas Card Gymnastics Express Christmas Nativity RE Christmas Animals including humans Textiles Design an island Build a Pirate Ship Famous Pirates Blackbeard, Islands What is life like on an island? Games Preparing for Sports Day Express

8 KS2 Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2 Year A Victorians Purpose & Aims focus: Understand the methods of historical enquiry (using primary and secondary sources of evidence, interpretation) -A study of an aspect or theme in British which extends chronological knowledge since Topic: Victorians -Theme: Industrial Revolution -Resources: See Woodlands Junior website -A local history study -Brooke village, Norwich and Gressenhall (visit?). - Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams -Teachers pack Tate gallery -Creating a moving toy, zoetropes and flip books. - Understand and use mechanical systems in their products eg gears, pulleys, cams, levers and linkages. - Understand how key events and individuals in design technology have helped shape the world (through study of inventions and the industrial revolution). Visit Britain Children will study Britain as a tourist destination and create Lonely Planet type tour guides. -Focus on and compare two contrasting regions: Lake District and Norfolk Broads (geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography). -Landscape art -Create products to sell to tourist that visit England. -Light up maps Mini-Topic: Geographical Skills/Knowledge (using maps, atlases, globes and computers to cover: -All: - 8 points of a compass, UK: name and locate counties, cities, rivers, mountains, coasts. -Land-use patterns. -Understand how some of the above aspects have changed over time. -4 and 6 figure grid references, symbols and keys (OS maps). Romans Purpose & Aims focus: Regularly address and sometimes devise historically valid questions. -Roman Empire and its impact on Britain. -Julius Caesar, Boudicca (local links), Claudius, Hadrian s Wall. -Roman baths see Bath website -A local history study -Roman site at Caister St Edmunds. -Create mini Roman catapults

9 Year B Anglo-Saxons Purpose & Aims focus: Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding. -Britain s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots. -Roman withdrawal, Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlement and kingdoms, place names and village life and Christian conversion (Canterbury, Iona and Lindisfarne). -Resources: Woodlands Junior website -Make an Anglo-Saxon brooch Spain -Rivers, mountains and coasts, focusing on the region of Castillary Leon - culture, including fiestas, food, drink, imports and exports (trade links) and compare to here. -Tourist industry -Flamenco music, eg. Rodrigo -Flamenco dance -Picasso, Salvador Dali Ancient Greece Purpose & Aims focus: Develop the appropriate use of historical terms. -Greek life, achievements, influence on Western world, democracy, Olympics, Gods, mythology, English words, Aristotle, Pythagoras, etymology (English words derived from Ancient Greek words). -Resources: BBC Primary website, Woodlands Junior website. -Make flat breads (see public) -Make castanets -Light up map Mini-Topic: Geographical Skills/Knowledge (using maps, atlases, globes and computers. -locate the world s countries, using maps to focus on Europe, concentrating on environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities. Geographical Field Trip (Possibly How Hill) - fieldwork to include observing, measuring and recording; the human and physical features in the local area using a range of methods including: sketch maps, plans, graphs and digital technologies.

10 Year C Stone Age to Iron Age Purpose & Aims focus: Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding. -Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. -Late Neolithic hunter gatherers and early farmers eg. Skara Brae. -Bronze Age, religion, technology and travel, eg. Stonehenge. -Iron Age hill forts: tribal kingdoms, farming, art and culture. Islamic Civilisation Purpose & Aims focus: Frame historically valid questions and create their own structured accounts. -A non-european society. -Islamic civilisation, c. AD See keystagehistory.co.uk (for a fee). Save Our Planet -Distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water. Mini-Topic: Geographical Skills/Knowledge (using maps, atlases, globes and computers. -ALL - Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle, latitude, longitude, Equator, Southern/Northern Hemispheres, the Prime/Greenwich Meridian and time zones (including day and night) Understand seasonality and know where, and how, a variety of ingredients are grown, reared, caught and processed. See Tesco website Farm to Fork Vikings Purpose & Aims focus: Consider questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance. -Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor. -Viking raids and invasion, resistance by Alfred the Great and Athelstan, first King of England, Danegeld, Anglo-Saxon laws and justice, Edward the confessor and his death. Resources: Woodland Junior website

11 Year D South America -Times zones, climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts. -Focus on Peru: Volcanoes and earthquakes and rainforest (biomes). Mini-Topic: Geographical Skills/Knowledge (using maps, atlases, globes and computers. -locate the world s countries, using maps to focus on North and South America, concentrating on environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities. -Light up map -Chilean food: Make salsa and experiment by making your own, potato omelette France -Rivers, mountains and coasts, focusing on the region of Provence Alpes Cote D Azur -French culture, including food, farming, imports and exports (trade links) and compare to here. -Tourist industry - of famous French composers: eg. Debussy, Ravel -French country dancing -Monet, Matisse -Light up map Mini-Topic: Geographical Skills/Knowledge (using maps, atlases, globes and computers. -locate the world s countries, using maps to focus on Europe, concentrating on environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities. Ancient Egypt Purpose & Aims focus: Construct informed responses that involve thoughtful selection and organisation of relevant historical information. -The achievements of the earliest civilisations. -Overview of where and when the first civilisations appeared: Ancient Sumer; The Indus Valley; Ancient Eygpt, The Shang Dynasty of Ancient China. -In depth topic: Ancient Egypt -River Nile, Tutankhamen, Pyramids, Egyptian Gods, Egypt and the Bible, mummification. -Resources: bbc primary history, Woodland Junior website -Sculptures -Make a shaduf Colour key: & Design Modern Languages R E DT

12 Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term Year A 2014/15 Electricity (A) Light A Year B 2015/16 Year C 2016/17 Year D 2017/18 Animals (yr3) Nutrition Muscles and skeleton Animals (yr 4) Digestive system Teeth Food chains Animals (yr 6) Circulatory system Diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle Living things in their habitats (yr4) Grouping living things Classification trees Effects of environmental change. Evolution and inheritance (yr6) How things change over time Fossils Producing offspring Adaptation Earth and Space (yr5) Sun, earth, moon Relation of earth and other planets to the sun Rotation of Earth Properties and changes in materials (yr5) Comparing and grouping materials Dissolving Reversible and irreversible changes Properties. Living things in their habitats (yr5) Life cycles of mammal, amphibian, insect and birds Reproduction in some plants and animals Rocks (yr3) Comparing and grouping rocks based on physical properties. Living things in their habitats (yr 6) Classifying living things Plants (yr3) Functions and parts Requirements for growth Water transportation in plants Life cycles Light B Forces B Electricity (B) Sounds (yr4) How sounds are made How sounds travel Pitch Volume Forces A States of matter (yr4) Solids, liquids and gases Changes of state Water cycle Evaporation Animals including humans (yr5) Describe the changes as humans develop to old age. Scientific enquiry skills and investigations Scientific enquiry skills and investigations Scientific enquiry skills and investigations Scientific enquiry skills and investigations

13 Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term EYFS / Games Gymnastics Dance Gymnastics Games Games KS1 Sports Day Lower KS2 Tag Rugby Gymnastics Swimming Orienteering Athletics Tennis Sports Day Upper KS2 Tag Rugby Netball Gymnastics Dance Orienteering Athletics Tennis Sports Day

14 Foreign Languages Year A French Year B French Year C Year D Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term Unit 1 Bonjour Unit 7 Encore! Unit 1 Hola Unit 7 Cuantos anos tienes? Unit 2 En classe Unit 8 Quelle heure est-il? Unit 2 Adios Unit 8 Los mesos del ano Unit 3 Mon corps Unit 9 Les fetes Unit 3 Que tal? Unit 9 Los numerous Unit 4 Les animaux Unit 10 Ou vas-tu? Unit 4 Como te llamas? Unit 10 Cuando es tu cumpleanos? Unit 5 Ma famille Unit 11 On mange! Unit 5 Los colores Unit 11 Los dias de la semana Unit 6 Bon anniversaire! Unit 12 Le cirque Unit 6 Los numerous 1-12 Unit 12 Que dia es hoy?

15 Religious Education AUTUMN TERM SPRING TERM SUMMER TERM Year A EYFS/KS1 Why is saying sorry important to Jews? Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Concept: Atonement What does the cross mean to Christians? (exemplar in syllabus booklet) Concept: salvation How do Christians show they belong to their faith family? Worship, Baptism, Marriage, reading the bible. Church visit. Concept; Church/sacrament KS2 What do Christians mean when they say, blessed are the peace makers? (Matt5v9) Concept: Kingdom of God How does Muhammad inspire Muslims? Concept: revelation How do Muslims show they belong to their faith family? Ummah community/brotherhood Year B EYFS/KS1 How do Christians and Jews thanks God for being a provider? Harvest, Succot, Creation, Psalms Concept: Creation KS2 How do Christians express their thankfulness to God? Eucharist, Harvest, Praise, giving back Concept: sacrament/creation How did Jesus show God s love to people? Healings, Easter, the Cross. Concept: Incarnation, salvation How have people today been inspired to live out God s love? Key figures and founders. Concept: ahimsa and dharma( Hindu and Gandhi), ibadah ( Islam) Our school, our world a Christian perspective. Why do Christians care for the world? (use plan in book- Eco RE) Concept: Creation Islam How do people of faith put their belief in stewardship into practice, and what difference does it make? Multi faith Concept: stewardship, creation, khalifa, ahimsa Year C EYFS/KS1 What does it mean to be a disciple/follower of Jesus? Concept: discipleship, How and why do some people pray? Jewish and Christian prayer. Lord s prayer Concept: God/Trinity, Yahweh, forgiveness, prayer What can we learn from the stories Jesus told. Parables Concept: Kingdom of God

16 KS2 What does the bible teach us about friendship and what difference does it make to believers? Proverbs, David and Jonathan, Abraham, Mary, Martha and Lazarus. Concept: word of God, Year D EYFS/KS1 How and why do Jewish people worship? Shabbat Look at a celebration Concept: covenant KS2 What do the people believe about God? Do all religions believe the same ideas about God? Multi religion Christian, Hindu Burning Bush Focus on Christian and Hindu I think as you do not have much Hinduism! Concept: Avatar, Brahman,Trinity What does it mean to forgive? Islam eight names of Allah and the nature of God. Examples of people who have forgiven Concept: Forgiveness, Are angels messengers of hope? Concept: hope Where do religious people look for hope? Heaven and hell Islam paradise Hinduism reincarnation Concept: hope, eternal life, reincarnation What does it mean to be wise? Buddhism Concept: Buddha dharma, metta What is Sewa ( service) How do Sikhs put it into practice? Ist few weeks find out about Sikhs. Concept: sewa What is Ahisma and How does it influence Hindus? Concept: Ahimsa

17 Computer Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term Reception Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Getting Up Algorithm design Branching Adventure stories Using loops Logo Designing a font Scratch music Sandwich making Scratch How the internet works Web research Scratch Web Research Class Website Scratch Car Drive General ICT Skills Word Processing Word Processing Presentation Media Desktop Publishing Scratch Spreadsheets Powerpoint Scratch Spreadsheets Class Website Presentation Media Desktop Publishing Web Research Web Research Introduction to Gmail Class Comic Scratch Movie Maker Scratch Animation Class Website