OVPA Whole School Curriculum Map Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Term 5 Term 6 EYFS Amazing me What's special about me? How do we make new friends? What's special about where we live? What makes a good friend? First term at new school making new friends What s in the toy box? Which toys are special to me? How do our toys move/make sounds? Visit the library Puppet show visiting and puppet making From Ant to Elephant How do animals choose where to live? What are they like? What do they eat? What do they look like? What is the same? What is different? Visit from a local Vet Pets at home Spring to life! Do all creatures grow to look like the adult? What is inside an egg? What animals have eggs? What is the same/ different about eggs? Visit to Rare Breed Farm Having an incubator with chicks Growing caterpillars/ looking at tadpoles From Farm To Plate How does our food get from the farms to our plates? Are all fruits fruit? Which is better for you fruit or vegetables? Pizza Making Beyond the reef How can we keep the sea clean? What lives under the sea? Transition activities Sport s day Shore Academy Pass the jam Jim/ Umansky & Chamberlain I am too absolutely small for school / Lauren Child Dogger / Shirley Hughes Old Bear / Jane Hissey Bog Baby Dear Zoo / Rod Campbell Elmer / David McKee Giraffe can't dance / Giles Andreae The Egg by M P Robertson The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle Supertato by Sue Hendra The Snail and the Whale / Julia Donaldson Billy's Bucket / Kes Gray
Year 1 I m alive How do we know we are alive? School nurse visit Forest school relating to living things Superworm / Julia Donaldson Monkey Puzzle / Julia Donaldson Space Why don t we go on holiday to the Moon? Design and build a planet. Design and build an alien. Try space food. Link to Hastings museum box or visit. Beegu / Alexis Deacon Man on the Moon The darkest dark Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover Chris Hadfield Dinosaurs What could have saved the dinosaurs? Visit to Pett Level to see the dinosaur /fossil man Dinosaur footprints Dinosaur Bones If I had a dinosaur Katie and the Dinosaurs How the dinosaurs got to the museum Gigantosaurus Life on Earth: DInosaurs Castles and Kings Would you rather live in a house or a castle? Bodiam Castle trip Castle role play area Traditional Fairytales and short stories Smugglers Is it ever right to break the law? Smugglers Adventure trip The pirates next door / Johnny Duddle Native Americans What if the Native Americans had fought back? Who were the savages? Grey Owl hero or fraud? Visit to Local Museum Native American dancing and food Grey Owl local man called Archibald Belaney who chose to become a Native American Year 2 On our doorstep I wish it could be Christmas everyday 1660 s Mythical beasts The Greater Good Ice Cream vs Blissymbol printer Beach combers (Female inventors Nancy Johnson inventor of Ice Cream maker and Rachel Zimmerman inventor of the Blissymbol
printer) Why is Ore called Ore? Raising money to improve our school community 2018 Mud Kitchen What if it was Christmas every day? What are the similarities and differences between Hannukah and Christmas? Can you celebrate Christmas without presents? Which event in 1660s had the most impact on current society? How does the Great Plague link to the Great Fire London? How do diaries and journels help us understand the past? Explore The Great Fire of London Who is the King of the beasts? Which invention has the biggest impact on the greater good? Debate on which inventor changed the world the most. Make Ice cream Create own Blissymbol symbols. Do Seagulls have a place in Hastings? Why are there so many crab legs on a beach? How does fishing affect the coastline? Debate on Seagulls and whether they should continue to live in Hastings? Seaside visit Way back home and Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers Traditional and nontraditional Christmas Stories Samuel Peypes Diary MP Robertson stories. Traditional tales/legends. Non-Fiction writing. Ava Twist Scientist The Whale Song LKS2 Myths & Legends Myths & Legends: Fact or Fiction? Story telling Saving Lives (The Mary Stanford Disaster) Are there any positives when lives are lost? Rye lifeboat Hastings RNLI Explorers Cook; Explorer or Invader Explorer day Vikings Were the Vikings ever really successful? Viking celebration 1066 Did England really loose? Battle Abbey Egyptians Should pyramids really be considered a wonder of the world? Hastings Museum
The Water Horse Dick King-Smith Riders of the Storm: The story of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution The finest Hours (Young Readers Edition): The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue (True Storm Rescues) Meet Captain Cook by Rae Murdie, Chris Nixon. The Rabbits Shaun Tan Viking Boy by Tony Bradman Battle Book Hastings by Gary Smailes Ancient Egypt: Tales of Gods and Pharaohs by Marcia Williams UKS2 Apartheid Nelson Mandela- Terrorist or freedom fighter? Is any human superior to another? Greek Philosophy Awe and Wonder What is wisdom? What is beauty? What is the right thing to do? What is love? Space What if Earth wasn t our first home? Is there always life where there s water? Does space ever end? Street Art. Grafitti; art or vandalism? What defines art? Should we have to pay to see art? Who decides whether something is art or not? Feminism Equality; Does it exist? Can you positively discriminate? Is positive discrimination fair? Nature v Nurture If you were raised by a pack of wolves, would that make you a human or a wolf? Is gene editing ethical? Segregation class experience Greek day Herstmonceux Street artist to create an OVPA Mural Challenging gender stereotypes and roles Natural History museum Journey to J berg Beverley Naidoo Philosophies of Nelson Mandel Republic / Plato School of Athens Socrates Aristotle Moonrise- Sarah Crossan Cosmic- Frank Boyce Graffti Hack- Elen Gluti Graffti Moon Cath Crowle Twelfth night The Promise- Nicola Davies The Island- Armin Greder Albert Camus- The Stranger
Properties and changes of materials. Animals including humans Earth and space Living things and their habitats Forces Evolution