Our Curriculum.

A cross curricular approach to learning.

Topics are identified to enable cross curricular opportunities to learn knowledge and skills from National Curriculum content.

An overview of the topics planned for the year can be found here

 

 Autumn 1

 

Autumn 2Spring TermSummer 1Summer 2
EYFS

Cycle A

My Busy Body

Visual stimulus:

Funnybones

 

Core Texts:

Titch

Super Duper You!

Everybody Has A Body

Can I build another me?

The Colour Monster

Worlds Apart

Visual stimulus:

 

 

Core Texts:

Rainbow Bear

The Snowflake Mistake

The Great Explorer

Poles Apart

Gung Hay Fat Choi!

Visual stimulus:

Let’s Celebrate Chinese New Year (CBeebies)

 

Core Texts:

Lanterns and Firecrackers: A Chinese New Year Story

 

Wake Up World!

Visual stimulus:

Mr Bloom’s Nursery (CBeebies)

 

Core Texts:

Jack and the Beanstalk

Ten Seeds

The Extraordinary Gardener

Oliver’s Vegetables

Roots, Stems, Leaves and flowers

Globe Trotting

Visual stimulus:

Go Jetters

(CBeebies)

 

Core Texts:

Here We Are

My Friend Earth

Cars and Trucks and Things that Go

A World Full of Journeys & Migrations

Yellow Submarine

Visual stimulus:

The Octonauts

(CBeebies)

 

Core Texts:

Commotion in the Ocean

Tiddler

A First Book of the Sea

 

EYFS

Cycle B

Who do you think you are?

Visual stimulus:

Funnybones

 

Core Texts:

Titch

Super Duper You!

Only One You

Can I build another me?

Destination: Earth

Visual stimulus:

Messy goes to Okido (series 1.1. Moon Landing)

 

Core Texts:

Whatever Next!

Planet Awesome!

Look up!

Astro Girl

Living it up in London!

Visual stimulus:

Me Too! – Touring London

 

Core Texts:

London Calls!

Peppa Goes to London

The Queens Hat

Marvellous Minibeasts

Visual stimulus:

Minibeast adventures with Jess

(CBeebies)

Core Texts:

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

What the Ladybird Heard

Mad About Minibeasts!

Welcome to the Jungle!

Visual stimulus:

Go Jetters

(CBeebies)

 

Core Texts:

Rumble in the Jungle

 

Jolly Summer Holiday

Visual stimulus:

Mary Poppins

 

Core Texts:

The Coral Kingdom

At the Beach

A First Book of the Sea

 

Year 1Marvelous Me!

 

Visual stimulus:

Inside Out

 

Core Texts:

Hair Love

Super Duper You!

You Matter

The Ugly Duckling

The Human Body

Going Green

 

Visual stimulus:

Peter rabbit (PG) needs consent.

 

Core Texts:

Somebody swallowed Stanley

 

Instructional writing

 

Persuasive writing – recycling

Exploring China

 

Visual stimulus:

Documentary about China.

 

Core Texts:

Living in China

Fact files.

 

 

London’s Burning

 

Visual stimulus:

Samuel Peeps diaries video reading.

 

Core Texts:

Samuel Peeps diaries.

 

Plants and animals

(Amazing animals and pretty plants)

 

Visual stimulus:

The Secret Life of Pets

 

Core Texts:

Three Billy Goats Gruff

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

All about plants

Looking after plants

 

Oh we do like to be beside the seaside.

 

Visual stimulus:

Moana (PG)
needs consent.

 

Core Texts:

At the beach – R

oland Harvey

 

Scaredy Squirrel at the beach

 

Listen – poem

 

Postcards.

 

 

Year 2Who lives in a house like this?

 

Visual stimulus:

Our planet (U).

 

Core Texts:

Narrative about our homes.

The three little pigs.

.

New York

 

Visual stimulus:

Annie.

 

Core Texts:

Snow White in New York.

Poetry- This Christmas.

 

Winter Wonderland

 

Visual stimulus:

Our Planet (U).

 

Core Texts:

Polar bears non chronological report.

Polar babies.

 

 

Castles

 

Visual stimulus:

Tangled.

 

Core Texts:

Living in a castle- persuasive.

Letter writing to a Lord or a Lady.

 

Time Travellers

 

Visual stimulus:

Free birds.

 

Core Texts:

Man on the moon.

Poetry- Dear Summer.

Growing Green

 

Visual stimulus:

It’s a Bug’s Life.

 

Core Texts:

Barn Owls.

Instruction writing- how to grow a plan.

 

Year 3Rock of Ages

 

Visual stimulus: Early Man

 

Core Text:

Stone Age boy

The simple science of Rocks

Lights, Camera, Action!

 

Visual stimulus: Muppets Christmas Carol

 

Core Text:

Hari and His Electric Feet

Light

 

Vicious Vikings  – change

 

Visual stimulus:

 

Core Text:

 

United Together!

 

Visual stimulus:

Paddington

 

Core Text:

The BFG

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

 

Information text about Britain

 

Circle of Life

 

Visual stimulus:

The Lion King

 

Core Text:

The White Giraffe

Kings of the mountains

 

Year 4Rotten Romans

 

 

 

Core Text:

Stig of The Dump

 

You are what you eat.

 

 

 

Core Text:

The Twits

Making Connections – Local Study

 

 

 

Core Text:

Shakespeare Week

Poetry

 

Rainforests (Habitats and Living Things)

 

 

 

 

Core Text

 

The Iron Man

 

Ancient Egyptians

 

 

 

Core Text:

The Egyptian Cinderella

 

 

Switched On

(Electricity)

 

 

 

Core Text:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

 

 

Year 5To infinity and beyond !

Science

Core text Memoir of neil Armstrong

Space poetry

 

 

Extreme Earth

Geography

Core text: Non fiction – instructions

Story writing The game

 

Vicious Vikings

History

Core text: How to train your dragon

Narrative

What am i?

Science

 

Core text: Storm breaker

narrative

Persuasive

 

Route ‘66

North America

Geography

Core text:

 

 

 

Victorious Victorians

History

Core text: Street child

 

Year 6World War One

 

Visual stimulus: War Horse

 

Core Text:

War Horse

Dulce et Decorum Est – Wilfred Owen

The Story of World War I

World War Two

 

Visual stimulus:

Carrie’s War

 

Core Text:

Carries War

T’was the Night before Xmas

 

 

Make your Mark

 

Visual stimulus:

Macbeth

 

Core Text:

Macbeth

Shakespeare week – Shakespeare story of choice

 

Groovy Greeks

 

Visual stimulus:

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief!

 

Core Text:

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Me, myself and I

 

Visual stimulus: Wonder

 

Core Text:

Wonder

I Am Not a Label

 

Darwins Dragons

 

Core Text:

End of Year Playscript

Darwin’s Dragons

 

This is a start point and is subject to change in response to the pupil’s interests identified throughout the year where appropriate.  In Early Years in particular, our use of “In The Moment Planning” will make every interaction with pupils bespoke to their individual interests, rather than tied to a theme.

Progression Statements.

We have developed progression statements from Early Years through to year 6 across all subjects, from Development Matters (EYFS) and the National Curriculum.  A progression of skills and knowledge results as each year, previous learning is revisited and built upon with new learning across the curriculum.

Into the classroom.

Teachers plan lessons, activities and enrichment incorporating opportunities to talk (to promote CLL across the school), the trust values (to create character and promote PSED across the school), and to identify opportunities to enrich the learning of pupils regularly as well as celebrate the successes of learning through celebration events.