1. science
2. mathematics
3. algebra

Danehill Church of England Primary School – Yearly Curriculum Overview A
Subject
Title
Topic
and Stunning Start Suggestion
Term 1
How We Used To Live
SS: I Believe in Unicorns
hotseating one of the
characters.
Term 2
TO 1: Newspaper article
reporting on bombing of a town.
TO 1: Be able to recognise major
European countries on a map of
the world.
España
SS: Learning Platform Art Critics:
Giving reviews of Picasso/Britto
artwork using Learning Platform.
Topic outcomes
TO 2: Diary entry of a civilian in
a war-torn town.
TO 3: Letters home written as if
by a soldier on the front-line.
FF: Visit to Danehill War
Memorial & Graveyard to visit
military graves. Edu visit from
local historian Terry Denham.
TO 2: Create a class information
book about Spain.
TO 3: Be able to compare two
contrasting areas within a
country.
FF: Spanish food tasting.
Year Group: Badgers, Year 3/4
Term 3
Hunters and the Hunted
SS: Papier-Mache Cave in
playground. Chn to collect sticks
and leaves to line the ground.
Look at cave paintings and
create own on cave walls.
Term 4
Welcome to the Jungle!
SS:
TO 1: Short video clip about
Stone Age animal in the style of
Deadly 60.
TO 2: Create a rainforest
environment in the school.
TO 2: Write a story set during
the Stone Age.
TO 3: Create a sales pitch to
persuade a person from the
Stone Age to start brushing their
teeth.
TO 1: Write a story about how
an animal got its prominent
feature. (Just So Stories)
Term 5
Walk Like an Egyptian
SS: ‘Egyptian Day’. Traditional
Egyptian clothes, eating
Egyptian foods, making clay
scarab beetles, making own
papyrus paper.
TO 1: Know how life in Ancient
Egyptian times was different to
our lives today.
TO 3: Consider two sides of an
argument on a controversial
topic (deforestation).
TO 2: Create artwork
representing Egyptian artefacts.
FF: Perform a play set in a
rainforest.
TO 3: Write a recount of visit to
the British Museum.
FF: Visit to British Museum, ‘Life
In Ancient Egypt’ exhibits/tour.
FF: Look into local examples of
Stone Age artefacts/sites for
potential trip?
English
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Spelling and Grammar
Read ‘I Believe in
Unicorns’ by Michael
Morpurgo.
Character profiles and
descriptive writing of
settings.
Newspaper articles
relating to an event
from the story.
Diary writing as Tomas
from the story
differentiated by event
coverage.
Letters home from
trenches, linked to ‘The
War Game’ by Terry
Deary.
Begin ‘Diary of a Wimpy
Kid’ to follow on from
diary writing task.
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Continue ‘Diary of a
Wimpy Kid’.
Non-chronological
reports: Look at a range
of examples for
features, reading
comprehension based
around N-C reports.
Write own N-C report in
groups to make a class
book about Spain.
Independent N-C report
writing as Mighty
Writing.
‘Lonely Planet’ style
tourist guide to Spanish
cities using Trip Advisor
for reviews.
Travel Agency role-play.
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‘Stone Age Boy’ by
Satoshi Kitamura.
‘Ug’ by Raymond Briggs.
‘Stig of the Dump’ by
Clive King.
Story Writing – Imagine
you fell down a hole and
found yourself in the
Stone Age…
Persuasive writing –
Why it’s important to
brush teeth regularly,
target audience: Stone
Age man.
Performance Poetry –
onomatopoeia etc.
Spellings
- Double Consonants
- Words ending –y
- Adding –ing, -ed and –er
- Adding –es
- -tch
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Story Writing – ‘How
the … Got Its …’
 Rudyard Kipling ‘Just So
Stories’
 Debate – Should we
continue to cut down
rainforests to use the
wood and to make way
for towns?
 ‘Journey Into The
Jungle’ Information
Text.
 ‘Window’ Jeannie Baker.
 Persuasive Writing –
Letter to logging
company highlighting
the problems with
deforestation.
 Playwriting – Create a
script for end of term
performance.
Spellings
- Homophones and nearhomophones
- Adding suffixes
- Possessive apostrophe
Grammar
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‘Girl Pie’ independent
writing task based
around a recipe in
‘Beware of Boys’ –
Instructional Writing.
Group writing task:
Instructions – How to
Make a Mummy.
Write a Recount of visit
to British Museum.
Spellings
- Homophones and nearhomophones
- Prefixes
Grammar
- Plural and possessive ‘s’
Term 6
Healthy Living
SS: 80s-themed Fitness DVD
workout (Mr. Motivator) –
children and parents in 80s
neon work-out gear.
TO 1: Healthy living posters
aimed at Year 1/2/3 or 4/5/6 to
be displayed around school.
TO 2: Present data in a range of
ways to show how body changes
during exercise.
TO 3: Create a Warm-up routine
for a fitness DVD, recorded using
iPads and edited using iMovie.
FF: Badgers Olympic Games
A range of sports and activities
completed where chn have to
better their own scores rather
than competing against each
other.
 Danehill 150th
Anniversary
 Alice in Wonderland
150th anniversary. Story
writing.
 ‘George’s Marvellous
Medicine’ by Roald
Dahl.
 Shape Poetry –
Calligrams and shape
poetry about
fruit/veg/fitness/sport
etc.
Spellings
- Homophones and nearhomophones
- Endings which sound
like /ʃən/
- Suffix –ation
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Danehill Church of England Primary School – Yearly Curriculum Overview A
Grammar
- Indefinite article (a/an)
- Word families based on
common words, e.g.
solve, solution, solver,
solved, dissolve,
insoluble etc.)
Maths
History/
Geography
Science
Representing numbers, place
value.
+/-/x/÷ mental, practical,
written methods and problem
solving.
Recognising fractions and
counting in fractional amounts.
Shapes and their properties.
Comparing and classifying
shapes.
Angles.
Drawing and constructing
shapes.
Angles, turns and lines.
Representing numbers, place
value.
+/-/x/÷ mental, practical,
written methods and properties
of number.
Rounding.
Inverse operations, estimating
and checking answers.
Comparing, converting and
estimating units of distance.
Measuring and calculating.
Time, inc. conversions.
Money (OM starters).
Co-ordinates.
Bar charts, pictograms and
tables.
Collecting and recording data.
World War I
Regional Comparisons: Spain
Sound
Pitch & Vibration
Representing numbers, place
value.
+/-/x/÷ mental, practical and
written methods. Problem
solving.
Properties of number.
Fractions, decimals and
percentages.
Counting in fractional amounts
(Y3)
+/- fractions (Y3)
x/÷ decimals (Y4)
Measuring and calculating
(recap perimeter, teach area)
Time inc. conversion and
problem solving.
Drawing and constructing
shapes.
Comparing and classifying
shapes.
Angles/Turns/Lines.
Stone Age to Iron Age
Animals & Humans:
The Digestive System, Teeth,
Predators & Prey.
Year Group: Badgers, Year 3/4
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Expanded noun-phrases
Fronted adverbials
Plural possessive
apostrophe
Speech punctuation
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Standard English verb
inflections
Time/Place/Cause using
conjunctions
Time/Place/Cause using
adverbs
Time/Place/Cause using
prepositions
Representing numbers, place
value.
+/-/x/÷ mental, practical and
written methods. Problem
solving.
Inverse operations, estimating
and checking answers.
Converting measures (Mass)
Solving problems involving
measures.
Money.
Translation of shapes.
Solving shape problems.
Interpreting, constructing and
presenting (discrete) data.
Representing numbers, place
value.
+/-/x/÷ mental, practical and
written methods. Problem
solving.
Properties of number.
Equivalent Fractions.
+/- fractions and other problems
involving fractions.
2D and 3D shapes.
Angles.
Drawing and constructing
shapes.
Rainforests
(South America)
Ancient Egyptians
Rivers
Light (Reflections & Shadows)
Animals & Humans:
Movement & Nutrition,
Skeletons & Muscles.
Design and make a speaker for
an iPhone.
Computing
Art/DT
Digital Literacy:
E-Safety
Design and make a speaker for
an iPhone.
Programming:
(Creating a game using Scratch)
Programming:
(Bug Fixing and Improving using
Scratch)
Multimedia:
Stop-motion animation
Multimedia:
App development using Keynote
Artist Study:
Britto & Picasso
Painting: Cave Paintings
Printing: Leaves using Polytiles &
String
Drawing: Sketching Artefacts
Modelling: Create models using
clay.
- Suffix –ly
- Suffix –ous
Grammar
- Nouns using prefixes
super-, anti-, auto- Word families based on
common words
- Noun and pronoun
variation within and
across sentences
- Fronted adverbials
- Expanded noun phrases
Representing numbers, place
value.
+/-/x/÷ mental, practical and
written methods.
+/- Fractions and problem
solving involving fractions.
x/÷ decimals
Capacity linked to George’s
Marvellous Medicine.
Data handling linked to
distances, timings and heart
rate.
Keep a food diary for a week.
Highlight the different food
groups to show excesses and
lack of certain areas.
Multimedia:
Shooting & Editing Video
Using iMovie to create a warmup for a fitness DVD.
Food Tech – Design and Make a
balanced meal?
Structures: Create and
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Danehill Church of England Primary School – Yearly Curriculum Overview A
PSHE
Pupil Voice
SEAL – New Beginnings
Anti-Bullying Week (17th-21st
November)
SEAL – Anti-Bullying, Getting On
and Falling Out
SEAL – Going for Goals
Consider social roles within
Stone Age society. What roles
would chn in the class fit into
and why? What roles would
they want to be in and what
qualities would they have to
demonstrate to fit into these
roles.
Hockey
Basketball
Year Group: Badgers, Year 3/4
strengthen a structure (a bridge
over the Amazon)
SRE
PE
Netball
Gymnastics
Country Dancing
Football
RE
Jewish Festivals
What do we know about Jesus? Easter
The life of Jesus Christ.
Maundy Thursday
Music
Recorders
Christmas
Characters in the Christmas
story.
Recorders
Languages
French
Spanish
Answering the register in
Spanish. Learning basic
conversational phrases.
French
Citizenship, Diversity
SEAL – Good to be Me
Drug & Tobacco Education
SEAL - Changes
Swimming
Field Athletics
Swimming
Track Athletics
Passover
Jesus’ Miracles
French
French
Recorders
French
French – Characters in the
Christmas story.
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