St. Felix Key Stage 2 Long Term Planning Overview of Themes Year 3/4 Year 5/6 Year A Mysteries Digital Technology (mini) Eat Well Carry on (mini) Feel the Force Natural Disasters *The Light of Christmas (mini) Stone, Bronze Iron Ages Local Geography History *Shoes on the Danube WWII Ancient Mayans *Chocolate The Entertainer Year A Trip / Extra Learning Opportunities Year 3/4 Colchester Castle History off the page (Stone Age) Local walk Haverhill History Group Year 5/6 Duxford Chocolate Welding Circus skills group Year B The Anglo Saxon Chronicles *Save the Rainforests Ancient Greeks Year 3/4 *Current Event (e.g. 40 a topic on Lent, Film led Here come the longboats! topic or Art led topic) Olympics Year 5/6 Victorians Time for a Change Life on the Nile Victorian Christmas (life cycles, inventors, influence significant people) Egyptology Year A Trip / Extra Learning Opportunities Year 3/4 West Stow Cambridge Botanical Gardens History off the Page (Ancient Greeks) (Rainforest Hot houses) Year 5/6 History off the Page (Victorians) Victorian Christmas celebration Fitzwilliam Museum NB Y3/4: For 2016, 2020, 2024 The Olympics Greeks are to be studied during the Summer (alongside Summer Olympics) NB Y3/4: For 2018, 2022, 2026 The Olympics Greeks are to be studied during the Spring (alongside Winter Olympics) Key History led Geography led Science led led or Current event led Computing led Open theme *Includes enterprise idea
Year 3/4 Long Term Planning Overview of Curriculum: Year A Autumn Mysteries links (Y3) to the Mysteries series (possible play scripts, dilemmas) Teeth Ancient Rome, Britain (Local: battle nr Sturmer) European Map work: Empire Mosaics Drill, Marching, Soldiers fortnight (personal information, cyber bullying, spreading the word) Designing a house (invention technology) music Natural Disasters links (Y3) to the events of Pompeii (diaries, adventure, recounts) Rocks & Fossils Pompeii Volcanoes, Earthquakes Mountains Using charcoal Responsible research (search engines, trustable sources) Investigating materials adhesives to create a model volcano Dynami cs (Y3) Charity link to text Samaritans Advent Christmas links with topic The Light of Christmas (mini) links Text: The Light Light: Possible Pencil Photography Design, of Christmas Sources, Christmas shading, (additional to create by Richard Paul reflections through the shadows new curriculum) evaluate Carols Evans ages tone shadow (descriptive shadows puppets writing, poetry)
Year 3/4 Long Term Planning Overview of Curriculum: Year A Spring Digital Technology (mini): Partnership Day? Chronological Recent Cyber reports (CC history of week bullying History) technology (CC Comp) Circuits (additional to new curriculum) Digital Art (paint packages, manipulating photographs from last term) Dance (Replicating technology through movement robots, machines ) Networks the Internet Writing simple programs Eat Well Carry on (mini): Healthy Eating Partnership Day? Adverts for Archimboldo Energy, : Food Healthy food product (planning fitness Safer Internet technology: Eating (CC D&T) Collage) stamina Day healthy persuasion product project Lent Easter Healthy Eating (nutrition & water in the body, digestive system) Stone, Bronze Iron Ages Evolution of ing Stone, Settlements Stone Age Animation by writing, oral Bronze Water cave coding culture, folk Iron ages supplies paintings (Scratch) Singing tales, poetry (Local link: artefacts found) Global issue of water usage. Bronze age pottery (patterns, clay) Design, make evaluate Iron age cloak brooches Tools materials Digital sounds
Year 3/4 Long Term Planning Overview of Curriculum: Year A Summer CC D&T Superheroes comics Emails, Letters, Stories in familiar settings, Information texts (about Haverhill: persuasion) Feel the Force Forces Magnets Magnetism of the earth, compasses. The Great Wave, Hokusai (Printing skills ink blowing) Gymnastics (focus on balances) week (Spreading the word) Design, make evaluate pop- up books Local Geography History (Haverhill, Suffolk East Anglia) Groups of instruments History of Haverhill (linking to Iron age topics) Local map studies Environmental Art : Sculpture (Environmental artists use of natural materials forest school) Athletics Multimedia (Haverhill brochure project) St Felix Church glass hanging Create a Holy Spirit mobile (CC Art)
Year 5/6 Long Term Planning Overview of Curriculum: Year A Autumn Shoes on the Danube: Raise money for Holocaust victims Shoes on the Danube Story of Forces Shoes on Rivers Pneumatics Shoes on the Magnets the fortnight (CC Forces) Danube. Danube, (personal Questions, WWII information, persuasion, cyber description, bullying, recount spreading (diary) the word) Picasso, Matisse, Painting, shoes focus for project (observing replicating form, shape, tone) WWII CC D&T Numerous related texts (Goodnight Mr. Tom,) Non chronological report, WWII poetry Electricity WWII Europe (maps) Propaga posters: Mixed media Animation by coding (Scratch or Kodu) Rationing: Planning meals.
Year 5/6 Long Term Planning Overview of Curriculum: Year A Spring Ancient Mayans Folk Tales, Inheritance Mayan Human Mural painting : Codex Cyber Geographical, Civilization Safer Ceramics bullying historical Adaptation Physical Mayan Internet (clay vessel context, oral Timelines features of Sculpture Day; Cyber including culture South carving (soap) bullying Mayan America hieroglyphics) Lent & Easter celebration of Easter Chocolate Responsible research (search engines, trustable sources) Masks Headdresses Chocolate Changes of Mayan Maps of Experimenting Developing Creating a Fairtrade related texts State, Civilization the world with media: packaging chocolate- e.g. Charlie including continued (cocoa using based the gases producing Photography multimedia product Chocolate countries) of portrait, Factory then painting graphics Chocolate (Significant Trade with chocolate skills welding Authors) demonstration Chocolate Fairtrade poetry, Adverts for chocolate product
Year 5/6 Long Term Planning Overview of Curriculum: Year A Summer Poetry, instructions Silent films, Play Scripts, Graphic comic style storyboard using black white photography captions. Biographies (Laurel Hardy, Charlie Chaplain Disney) The Entertainer: Circus Focus Light History of the Circus Human Physical features of North America Sketching with proportion, colour movement. (sketching circus scenes) Gymnastics: Circus The Entertainer: Silent Films Focus week (Spreading the word) Circus Animations Fashion Textiles: Circus costume Sound History of Film North America Film Art (posters, adverts, billboards) Athletics Videography video editing (additional to new curriculum) Cams (Woodwork silent film themed cams that have a caption like the silent films) Athletics