Topic name: Circle of Life 1. Identify and name a variety of common wild plants and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees. 2. Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants including trees. 3. Describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals. 4. Identify and name a variety of common animals that are birds, fish amphibians, reptiles, mammals and invertebrates. 5. To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space. 6. To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination. Engage: Escaped animal in school, children to investigate the missing animal. Develop: What s an animal s favourite habitat/food/place to live, explore the different types of plants animals eat or use for shelter. Innovate: Plant some of the plants that animals eat, and explore the habitats in the park. Attend a sparrow session in Lloyd s park. Express: Create their own animal habitats and present them including their reasoning for their choices in a year group assembly. Power of Reading Book: One day in our blue planet in the Savannah Instructions, Reports, Animal Poems Classroom jungles, safaris or savannahs, including animals, greenery and living plants. Trip options: Internal visits: Ranger stu, Night owls External Visits: LLoyd park, London Zoo, Willows Farm, Brooks Farm
Topic name: You are my sunshine! 1)Observe changes across 4 seasons 2) Use drawings, painting and sculptures to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination. 3) Observe and describe weather associated with the 4 seasons and how day length varies. 4) Using their observations to suggest answers to questions. Engage: Weather wow day- creating different weathers in the classrooms-wind tunnel/thunderstorm/snow- Weather soundscape Develop: Learn about the different seasons, the water cycle, different types of weather. Innovate: Make a rain gauge. Express: Become a weatherman/woman and present the weather news. Create a drawing/painting to show the 4 seasons. (Hockney) Trip options: Art gallery- weathery art Power of Reading Book: Lila and the secret of rain Weather poems, Recount, Story writing- Setting description. Rainbows down the corridor Umbrellas Storm clouds with rain drops hanging from the ceiling. Doorway could be a different weather.
Topic name: Celebrate good times! (please number) 1. Name, locate and identify characteristics of the four countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom and its surrounding areas. Power of Reading Book: The lonely beast Invitations, Story Writing Sequencing. 2. Events commemorated through festivals and anniversaries. 3. To develop a wide range of art design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space. 4. Use simple fieldwork and observations skills to study the geography of the school and its grounds and the key human and physical features of its surrounding environments. 5. To compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties. 6. Changes within living memory-communication, letters, emails, text. Engage: The Lonely Beast writes us a letter. Develop: Writing their own letter about their school and environment. Innovate: Write letters and postcards to countries around the world to find out about their beasts. Express: Have a lonely beast party where we invite the lonely beast to come and visit us, making sure to represent all of the countries to make him feel welcome. Trip options: Visit the airport. Party board, balloons and streamers. Postcards around a map of the world. Where s the Lonely Beast (like where s wally).
Topic name: This is me (please number) 1. Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination. 2. Identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part is associated with each sense. 3. To use a range of materials creatively to design and make products. 4. Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space. 5. Gathering and recording data to help in answering questions. Engage: Spaceship mysteriously appears in the playground and beegu is standing beside it. Make Beegu or design own alien out of yellow play dough. Use adjectives to descibe. (Look like, feel like, sound like) Develop: Story map followed by Beegu is coming to our World (describing feelings) Writing letters. Innovate: Design and make a space ship. Express: How to catch a star. Speech bubbles -We go to Beegus world (Space) Trip options: Science Museum space exhibition/ planetarium Science dome Greenwich Royal observatory Power of Reading Book: Beegu List, labels and captions. Stories with predictable and patterned language. Large yellow Beegu character Space scene all darkened with planet, stars etc. Stars above a city scape Yellow foot prints dusted on the carpet
Topic name: We could be heroes! (please number) 1)To use a range of materials creatively to design and make products. 2)Explore and use mechanisms in their products. 3)To evaluate their ideas and products against design criteria. 4)Look at work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers describing the differences and similarities between different practises and disciplines and making links to their own work. 5) To identify and name a variety of everyday materials including wood, plastic, glass, metal and rock. 6) Significant historical events people and places in their own locality Engage: Superhero day! Come in as your favourite hero. Superhero reading morning reading superhero books/comics. Develop: Testing out different materials and their properties-experiments Innovate: Designing and creating a superhero device to rescue endangered household objects. Express: Present their device to the superboard of superheros and explain their device and how it works. Superhero badge guaranteed. Trip options: Science museum-materials. Policeman school visit. Power of Reading Book: Traction Man Invitation and Reports Superhero city- superhero capes- heroes flying around the class-phonebox for the superheros to come out of Material station/ tactile wall. Feely boxes
Topic name: We re going on a gold hunt (please number) 1. Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination. 2. To distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made. 3. To use a range of materials creatively to design and make products. 4. To select and use a wide range of materials and components, including construction material, textiles according to their characteristics, explore, and evaluate a range of existing products. 5. To build structures exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer and more stable. 6. To explore and use mechanisms in their products. 7. To use aerial photographs and planned perspective to recognise landmarks and basic physical features; to devise a simple map; and use and construct basic symbols in a key. Engage: Treasure hunt- children are given a map of the playground and have to follow clues to find the treasure. Develop: To test material properties eg will it sink, is it waterproof, will it break etc. Innovate: Design, build and test a boat. Express: Make a treasure chest with paper hinges (mechanical) and fill with made and found objects (circle time about what is treasure/what is precious) Trip options: Greenwich Cutty Sark The Golden Hind trip Power of Reading Book: How to find Gold Explanation, Narrative. Waves/water Open treasure chest containing children s work/work spilling out of chest Tea-stained treasure map. Map tracking the children s learning journey through the topic.