Danehill Church of England Primary School – Yearly Curriculum Overview A Year Group: Subject Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Term 5 Term 6 Title People Who Help Us Dark and Dangerous? India Eggstream growth! You are what you eat! Princesses and Knights (The Gruffalo) Core rich texts: Jamil’s Clever Cat, Lily’s Garden of India, The Runaway Chapatti, My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes SS: Decorate classroom with sounds Core rich text: The Egg, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Cow that Laid an Egg, The Odd Egg SS: Farm visit/Drusillas TO 1: Research using internet, lifecycles… Core rich text: Oliver’s Fruit, Oliver’s Vegetables, I Will Never Ever Never Eat a Tomato, Pass the Jam Jim SS: Party food for? I will not ever eat a tomato TO 1: Knowledge of food groups/food chain Core rich text: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Book, Beware of the Storybook Wolves, Paper Bag Princess SS: Dressing up day Fairy Tales (alternative versions) TO 1: Features of fairy tales/goodies/baddies Topic and Stunning Start Suggestion Topic outcomes SS: Visitsfrom Nurse/Policeman TO 1: Labelling TO 2: Experiment writing TO 3: Letter writing Literacy Information/Labelling and using an information text. Letter writing. Science writing SS: Forest Clues for Gruffalo TO 1: developing vocabulary: adjectives/similes TO 1: Language: onomatopoeia/alliteration TO 2: Story telling TO 2: Features of non-fiction TO 2: Perform a poem/dance TO 3: Story telling (own version) Book making Narrative Book Review Character Study Poetry TO 3: Persuasive writing, information poster/leaflet Poetry – onomatopoeia Persuasive writing Holiday/protecting environment Postcard Book Review TO 2: still drawing (use of pastels) TO 3: Fact file on a dinosaur/ narrative Recount Rap Poster Report writing TO 2: Research alternative versions. TO 3: Recount of visit/play script TO 3: instructions – writing/following a recipe Instruction writing Persuasive writing Letter writing Story writing Non fiction Poetry Recount Castle visit Non fiction Book Review (BOOK WEEK) SPAG Grammar; Write, leaving spaces between words Use a capital letter for the beginning of a name. Begin to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop. Grammar; Use capital letters for the beginnings of lines of poetry. Use exclamation marks and question marks at the end of a sentence. Use ‘because’ in simple explanations. Maths Number and calculations (addition/subtraction) Shape and pattern (2D/3D) Place value Money Grammar; Connectives and Openers Continuous provision; VCOP challenges Grammar; ‘Ly’ openers vocabulary Time Measure Number Grammar Prepositions Determiners, suffixes, prefixes Grammar; Alliteration, Grammar, Adjectives, Precise clear language Grammar, Consolidate Grammar Speech bubbles, Bullet points, Question Marks similes. Grammar; Consolidate Grammar; Story mountain, Adjectives, Adverbs, Nouns, Punctuation, Verbs, Grammar; Consolidate Data handling Operations (+ - / x) Number bonds Fractions Angles/Co-ordination Number and calculations (addition/subtraction) Shape and pattern (2D/3D) Time Measure Number Data handling Operations (+ - / x) Number bonds Fractions Angles/Co-ordination Place Value Money 1 Danehill Church of England Primary School – Yearly Curriculum Overview A History/ geography Great Fire of London (Foxes) Guy Fawkes. Florence Nightingale Remembrance Sunday Astronauts: Neil Armstrong. Locating India on map of the world. Name and locate the world’s seven continents and five oceans Year Group: Name, locate and identify characteristics of 4 countries and capital cities of the UK and it’s surrounding seas. Changes within living memory Contrasting locality in the UK. Great events, national or global. Significant people. Science Materials (uniform) Dark and Light Living things/habitats (year 2) Plants/seasonal growing/lifestyles Computing Keyboard skills/using websites and supporting programmes. E-safety Presenting ideas BBC Science clips/Bitesize Handling data Instruction 1 and 2 Digital Literacy Technology in our lives Art/DT Silhouettes (Great Fire of London) Textiles – making Christmas decorations Nick Gustafston art Collages Still life drawing Structures/Sculptures Christmas card Self portraits Henna designs Keeping healthy Medicines Materials (Year 2 revisit) Food Tile prints Christmas calendar Printing 2 Danehill Church of England Primary School – Yearly Curriculum Overview A PSHE Being healthy and keeping safe y1 Pupil voice y1 and 2 PE Playground games Ball skills Athletics RE Year Group: E-safety Environment y2 Recycle/Reuse/Reduce Similarities/Differences Lunches Moving on Dance – linked to Nativity Gymnastics Gymnastics Sports Day activities Parachute games Ball skills Dance Country dancing/maypole dancing Christmas –Christian beliefs The Easter story Team Games Sukkot Why we say thank you Music Action songs Nativity songs/Christmas carols Composing/making instruments Easter songs Languages 3