Oulton First School

Class 3: Key stage 2 Rolling Programme Cycle A (2020/21)

Subject Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer

Topic:

cross

curricular

Home

Here be Dragons

The Greeks

History:

The Home Front/ Evacuees

World War 2

Geography:

European Geography- locate the world’s

countries, using maps to focus on Europe

(including the location of Russia) and North

and South America, concentrating on their

environmental regions, key physical and

human characteristics, countries, and major

cities- link to war

Environment day

History:

Settlers: Anglo Saxon/ Vikings

Staffordshire Hoard.

Geography:

Settlements & mapping skills.

History:

Greeks

Geography:

Greece

Possible

Trips/

visitors

Harvest Festival

Churnet Valley/

Tatton Park

SID

Theatre visit

pantomime

Hanley Museum

visit:

Staffordshire

Hoard/ Anglo

Saxons & Rocks &

Soils workshops.

English

Focus Texts:

Transition text:

Focus Texts:

War Boy Michael

Foreman

Focus Texts:

Voyage of the Dawntreader.

How to Train Your Dragon

Focus Texts:

Stories from a Variety of Cultures.

Greek Myths

Oulton First School

The Proudest Blue

by Ibtihaj

Muhammed

Growth Mindset:

The Most

Magnificent Thing

Beautiful Oops.

This Moose Belongs

To Me by Oliver

Jeffers

Poetry:

Themes in Poetry

National Poetry

Day

Where my Wellies

Take Me.

The Lost Words

(Forest Schools

link)

The Lion and the

Unicorn Shirley

Hughes.

My Secret War Diary

Marcia Williams

Performance Skills:

Christmas Play

Poetry:

Home by Michael

Morpurgo

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

Poetry:

Tell me a Dragon

Evidence of Dragons

“The Dragon Who Ate our School”

Legends

The Hunter

Poetry:

Children’s Choice Poetry

Text Types

Pet Stories

Growth Mindset

Story

Stories with a

historical setting.

Diary entry

Fantasy Stories

Descriptive Writing Focus

Explanation Text

Message in a bottle

Myths

Greek myths

Playscripts

Oulton First School

Persuasive letter

Persuasive poster

Non-chronological

report (Science

link)

Discussion text

Story (Based on

Moose Book)

Poem (National

Poetry Day link,

poet focus)

Poem

(Science/nature

link)

Descriptive writing

based on “War Boy”

Christmas Playscript

Narrative Poetry.

Job application/ advert

Faith fact sheet ( RE link)

Annotated diagram

Letter to grandparent about residential/

day visit

Biography (Anglo Saxon link)

Explanations: Science link

Assessed

Writing

Chronological

Report

(Tatton

Park/Churnet

Valley visit)

Story with a historical

setting

“Where the Poppies

Now Grow”

Poems based on Evidence of Dragons &

Tell me a Dragon

Fantasy Story

Instructions

Story based on The Hunter

Explanation

Maths

Place Value

Addition & subtraction

Multiplication & Division

Multiplication & Division

Fractions

Decimals

Measurement, area & perimeter

Fractions

Geometry of shape

Statistics

Measurement: time, capacity.

Oulton First School

Science

Living Things And

Their Habitats.

Autumn plant focus

Scientist:

Jane Goodall

Living Things And

Their Habitats.

Scientist:

Seirian Sumner

Rocks & fossils

Electricity.

Spring plant focus

Scientist:

Thomas Edison

Mary Anning

How does my body work? Digestive System

Summer plant focus

Scientist: William Beaumont

Oulton First School

Computing Cycle A

Purple Mash – Unit 4.4 Writing for different audiences (5 week unit)

Purple Mash – Unit 4.3 Spreadsheets (3 week unit)

Touch Typing Purple Mash – Unit 3.4 (4 week unit) Online Safety Purple Mash – Unit 3.2 (3 week unit)

Email - including email safety Purple Mash – Unit 3.5 (6 week unit)

Branching databases Purple Mash – Unit 3.6 (4 week unit) Simulations Purple Mash – Unit 3.7 (3 week unit)

Graphing Purple Mash – Unit 3.8 (3 week unit)

E-Safety Focus

Kara and the smart crew 4 – Childnet Research skill Key Vocab: reliability, domain names My Online Community What is the internet film - www.commonsensemedia.org Anti-Bullying Week link

Safer Internet Day Kara and the smart crew 5 - Childnet Kara and the smart crew 6

Powerful Passwords - www.commonsensemedia.org

Oulton First School

Music

Violins

Composition focus:

environment

Creating

Soundscapes:

village/ town.

Vivaldi’s four

Seasons

Harvest.

Performance focus:

poems.

WW2 songs

Spirituals

Pitch & Beat: Chinese New Year link

Composing: ringtones/ games.

Easter songs.

Anglo-Saxon instruments & musical

traditions.

Structure: Ancient Worlds. Greek music.

Pitch: French raps.

Music from around the world: Pentatonic

melodies & syncopated rhythms

Our favourite Music.

RE(Staffs

RE

syllabus)

Trinity Festivals of Light Islam Good Friday Faith in Action- Christianity

RSE Me and my school Me and My Safety Happy and Healthy

Me

Me and My

Relationships

Me and Other

People

Me in the World

PE Dance

multi skills

fitness

Gymnastics

swimming

Playground Games

Physical challenges and Personal Bests

Athletics

Outdoor adventure activities- team work

and orienteering Rounders cricket football Tri golf

Languages Le Pêcheur : make own picture book/

animation

Je trie les déchets: recycling.

J’ai un Sac d’Ecole Ecoloqique

Myself, my home and my family.

Pets

Our bodies:

French poems & tongue twisters

Morocco

French & African playground games

Weather

Art Introduction to

sketchbooks.

Beautiful Oops link.

Landscape

Collage

Line, shade,

watercolour

Persuasive posters

Natural sculpture

Artists:

Sculpture:

Metal

Paper

Modroc

Large scale sculpture linked to Saxon

Warrior. Andy Edwards)

Artists:

Patterns and symbols: Greek & Islamic.

Greek pottery designs.

3-d digestive system

Silhouette & African landscape.

Artists:

Oulton First School

Recycled materials.

Artists:

Oliver Jeffers

artist. Landscape

and drawing.

Micheal Pritchard:

photography/

pastels.

Tony Cragg/ David

Kemp: sculpture

from

recycled materials.

Henry Moore

Edward Bawden

Andy Goldsworthy

(Forest School Art)

Giacometti

Barbara Hepworth

Henry Moore

Andy Goldsworthy

Eva Hild.

Paul Gerahty

Traditional Greek & Islamic

D&T Food from History:

how did a Victoria

Sandwich turn into a

cup cake?

Local specialities:

oatcakes.

Skills: Measuring,

whisking, beating,

slicing, timing,

Make do & Mend:

adapting clothes.

Making an air raid

shelter/ gas mask.

Cooking a healthy

meal on a budget.-

Forest School

FS Natural dyes

Jitterbugs

Circuit Dragons

Greek food,

Town/ home models Group Project:

Greece/ France/ Morocco

Oulton First School

design choices and

evaluation.

Build a model biome/

habitat.

Tie-dying

Environment

al links

7.9. Threatened

Species Day

12-18th Nov National

Recycling Week

22.3 World Water Day

5.6 World Environmental Day

Oulton First School

Keystage 2 Rolling Programme B cycle (2021/22)

Subject Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer

Topic

Romans Water, sound and light Traditions

History: Romans

Geography: UK Counties & cities.

Geographical regions and their

identifying human and physical

characteristics, key topographical

features and land use patterns.

Geography: Oceans and Seas

Environmental

History: Group research topic

History: Oulton village & link to the Potteries.

Geography Local Study: Physical geography of

locality, human & physical features in local area

& maintenance (eg Downs Banks), canals, Stone.

Old fashioned PE

Possible

Trips/visitors

Ceramics

Biennial

Alex Yendole:

Gambia link

Chester

Y3: Kibblestone

Y4: Stanley Head

United Christian Broadcast & Trentham

Lake

Kibblestone Science Day

Oulton residents

Walk round village

Derby Faith Trail visit: places of worship;

Mosque, Gurdwara, Hindu Mandir.

English

Focus Texts

Rosie Revere, Engineer (Inventors/

Growth Mindset)

The Shape Game Anthony Browne

Escape From Pompeii

Leon and the Place Between.

(Fantasy)

The Snowman

Poetry

National Poetry Day Focus Poet

Quentin Blake: A Sailing Boat in the

Sky

David Weisner: Flotsam & other books.

World Book Day Focus Author

500 Words Competition

The Little Boat: Henderson

Boat video: Literacy Shed resource

The Mousehole Cat: Barber & Bailey

Poetry

Haiku

Legends and Traditional Tales.

Stories from other cultures.

Lost Happy Endings

Nursery Rhymes

Cendrillon, Cinderella and The Egyptian

Cinderella

Transition text: Way Home

Oulton School Diaries

Poetry

narrative

Writing Text

Types

Growth Mindset story

Diary entry

Creating tension

News Report

News Report

Fairy Tale

Oulton First School

Class Visit recount

Story with a historical setting

Instructions (D&T ink)

Annotated drawings (Science,

History & DT link)

Question types

Note-taking

Playscripts

News Reports (Snowman)

Poetry

Performance poetry

Narrative poetry, Shape poems &

list poems

National Poetry Day

Class list poem based on Pie

Corbett’s “There is so much to do”

Recipes

Poetry

Haiku

Performance poetry: Rap

Playscripts

Invitations

Survival guide

Lists

Emails

Poetry

Traditional Verse

Performance Poetry

Assessed

Writing

Portal Story

Information leaflet: Romans

Journey Story

News Report

Fairy Tale

Transition text: Way Home story

Survival Guide

Maths

Place Value

Addition & subtraction

Multiplication & Division

Multiplication & Division

Fractions

Decimals

Measurement, area & perimeter

Fractions

Geometry of shape

Statistics

Measurement :time, capacity.

Science

Forces & Magnets

States of Matter

Autumn plant focus

Scientist: Brian Cox

Sound and Light

Spring plant focus

Scientist: Galileo

Animals including Humans (skeleton & muscles)

Summer plant focus

Scientist: Rosalind Franklin

Oulton First School

ICT

Coding

(6 week unit)

Purple Mash

Crash course

y3

Coding

(6 week unit)

Purple Mash

Crash course y4

Online Safety

(4 week unit)

Purple Mash –

Unit 4.2

Purple Mash –

Unit 4.3

Spreadsheets

(6 week unit)

Spreadsheets

Continued

Logo

Purple Mash –

Unit 4.5

(4 week unit)

Animation

(3 week unit)

Purple Mash – Unit

4.6

Effective Search

Purple Mash – Unit

4.7

(3 week unit)

Hardware

Investigators

(2 Week unit)

Purple Mash – Unit 4.8

Possible project:

*Create a keep fit

video

Animation, stop motion

animation

E-Safety Focus

Kara and the smart crew 1 -

Childnet

The Power of words

Cyberbullying/Anti-bullying week

E-Safety Focus - Safer Internet

Day

Kara and smart crew 2 – Childnet

Show respect online -

www.commonsensemedia.org

E-Safety Focus

Kara and the smart crew 3 – Childnet

E-Safety Questionnaire – Entrust

Writing good emails/effective communications -

www.commonsensemedia.org

Music

Music associated with special

places.

Time: Beat.

Performance Poetry.

Viking Music

Exploring Sounds: Jazz & Bhangra

Easter songs.

Bransle: medieval dance

News music.

Performance: songs for leavers’ concert.

Food & Drink

Oulton First School

Living Symphonies

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/INFD-

96VMJG

RE (Staffs RE

syllabus)

Mission: Gambia

Creation : Trinity

Mothers’ Day Easter Faith in Action- other faiths

Judaism

PSHE Me and My School

Me and Safety

Happy and Healthy Me

Me and My Relationships

Me and Other People

Me in the World

PE Dance

multi skills

fitness

Gymnastics

swimming

Playground Games

Physical challenges and Personal Bests

Athletics

Outdoor adventure activities- team work and

orienteering Rounders cricket football Tri golf

Languages Ourselves

Pastimes & hobbies

School

Likes & dislikes

Food

Shopping

Transport

Geographical features.

Visiting a theme Park (animal connection)

Art & Design Clay Focus

Ceramic Biennial Stoke on Trent

Visit & follow-up ceramics work.

Christmas clay models: glazing

Pastels: Snowman link

Mosaics. (Romans)-Christmas card

Artists

Contemporary from Biennial.

Raymond Briggs

Paint & Charcoal Focus

Images of water: marbling.

Watercolour techniques.

Charcoal & paint: blossom images

Artists

Traditional Chinese artists

Texture & Shading

Pastels

Printing

Artists/Illustrators

Brian Pinkney

Gregory Rogers

Printing.

Oulton First School

D&T Catapults design, make test

Fridge magnets

Sewing Christmas presents

Design container for Christmas

clay work. (Link to Maths shape

nets)

Sawing & joining: make a model village

based on Mousehole.

Chopping, peeling, grating & presentation skills.

Healthy varied diets

Seasonal foods

Environmental

links

21.9 Zero

Emissions Day

12-18th Nov

National

Recycling

Week

22.4 World Earth Day 8.6 World Oceans Day