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Mixed Year Group Overview

Class 2 - KS1 Year B 

ART

Van Gogh

David Hockney - Main Artist

Georgia O’Keefe

Faith Rinngold

Andy Goldsworthy

DT

Food: Preparing fruit and vegetables (including cooking and nutrition requirements for KS1):

EX: Fruit salads   

Structures: Freestanding structures:

EX: bridge across the water/crevasse

Food: Preparing food (including cooking and nutrition requirements for KS1)

Make a dip for celery sticks/carrot/tomatoes

Science

Animals including humans 1

Seasonal Change

Plants 1

Everyday materials 1

Uses of everyday materials 2

Living things and their habitats

Geography

The UK

  • A focus on the 4 countries that make up the United Kingdom

  • Human and Physical Features that can be found around places within the UK

  • Capital cities of the 4 countries and the flags.

Seas around the UK and their names.

Weather & Seasons

 

Months of the year and seasons.

Differences between the seasons.

Features of different seasons.

Clothing worn in different weather.

Weather types in the UK.

How the weather affects different jobs.

 

Mapping - school

 

use simple fieldwork and observational skills

use simple maps and atlas

use simple compass directions

use aerial photographs and plan perspective to identify landmarks and basic human and physical features 

History

Changes within living memory

Discovering History/Local history

1. What is the Past?

2. Family Trees

3. How do we know about history?

4. Our Local History - trade and industry (Wedgwood/Potteries/Salt mines/shoes factory)

The lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international events.

 

Engineer focus

Explorer focus

 

Events beyond living memory that are significant Nationally or Globally

 

The great fire of London - Samuel Pepys/Christopher Wren

PE

Invasion games 1

Invasion games 2

Dance - animals

Striking and fielding 1

Gymnastics – balancing and spinning

Gymnastics pathways – straight, zigzag and curving

Net and wall games skills 1

Net and wall games skills 2

Athletics

Computing

Online safety

 Spreadsheets

 

Creating pictures

Questioning

Effective searching

Coding

Making music

Presenting ideas

Music

How does music help us make friends?

 

How does music teach us about the past?

Exploring Feelings through music - How does music make the world a better place?

 

Inventing a Musical Story - How does music teach us about our neighbour?

 

How does music make us happy?

 

How does music teach us about looking after our planet?

Class 3 - KS2 Year B

ART

Monet

Stephen Wiltshire - Main Artist

Georgia O’Keefe

Shreve and Lamb

Henry Moore

DT

Mechanical systems – levers and linkages

Ex: books for younger children

 

 

Electrical Systems: Simple circuits and switches (including programming and control)

 

EX: Wind turbines/night light

Food: Healthy and varied diet (including cooking and nutrition requirements for KS2)

 

EX: Picnic

Science

Electricity

States of matter

Animals, including humans 1

Animals, including humans 2

 

 

Living things and their habitats  1

Living things and their habitats  2

 

Geography

UK

Locational Knowledge

 

Identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the Prime/Greenwich Meridian and time zones (including day and night)

Europe

Geographical skills and fieldwork

 

Use fieldwork to observe, measure, record and present the human and physical features in the local area using a range of methods, including sketch maps, plans and graphs, and digital technologies.

Geographical skills and fieldwork

Place Knowledge

Understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region of the United Kingdom,  and a region within North or South America

 

Use the eight points of a compass, four and six-figure grid references, symbols and key (including the use of Ordnance Survey maps) to build their knowledge of the United Kingdom and the wider world

History

Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots

 

Roman withdrawal from Britain in c. AD 410 and the fall of the western Roman Empire

Scots invasions from Ireland to north Britain (now Scotland)

Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life

Anglo-Saxon art and culture

Christian conversion – Canterbury, Iona and Lindisfarne

 

Monarchs – The Tudors

Life in Tudor England

Henry V111

The English Reformation

Edward V1 and Mary 1

Elizabeth 1

The Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor

 

Viking raids and invasion

resistance by Alfred the Great and Athelstan, first king of England

further Viking invasions and Danegeld

Anglo-Saxon laws and justice

Edward the Confessor and his death in 1066

PE

Swimming

Invasion games – Hockey

Gymnastics – arches and bridges/linking movements

Dance

Tag rugby

Football/netball

Cricket/Rounders

Athletics

Computing

Coding

 

Online Safety

Spreadsheets

Writing for Different Audiences

 

Logo

Animation

Effective search

Music

How does music bring us together?

 

How does music connect us with our past?

How does music make the world a better place?

 

How does music teach us about our community?

How does music shape our way of life?

MFL

Unit 1

Greetings & Introducing yourself

Simple greetings

Making simple statements (about name and age)

Asking simple questions (about name and age) Numbers 1-10

Unit 2

The Farmer’s in his den

Numbers 11 - 20

Favourite playground games

 

Unit 3

Look at me

Happy birthday (Months of the year)

Come to my party

Party Games

Unit 4

Parts of the body Colours

Descriptions of people

Making simple statements (about appearance)

Giving a simple description of a person

 

 Class 4 -  KS2 Year B

ART

Augustin Rodin

Leonardo Da Vinci - Main Artist

Chuck Close

Banksy

Henri Rousseau

DT

Food: Celebrating culture and seasonality:

EX: Bread

 

 

Electrical Systems: More complex switches and circuits (including programming, monitoring and control)

EX: Alarms for a mode of transport

Food:

EX: Celebration Cakes

Science

Light

Electricity

Living things and their habitats 1

Materials and their properties

Animals including humans

The sport of science

 

Geography

Biomes

Geographical skills and fieldwork

use fieldwork to observe, measure, record and present the human and physical features in the local area using a range of methods, including sketch maps, plans and graphs, and digital technologies.

 

Locational knowledge

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

 

South America

Geographical skills and fieldwork

use the eight points of a compass, four and six-figure grid references, symbols and key (including the use of Ordnance Survey maps) to build their knowledge of the United Kingdom and the wider world

 

History

The Tudors

A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066

 

WW11 – The Home Front

A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066

 

changes in an aspect of social history, such as crime and punishment from the Anglo-Saxons to the present or leisure and entertainment in the 20th Century

PE

Invasion games – Hockey

Handball/Dodgeball

Gymnastics – matching mirroring and contrast

Tag Rugby

Net and wall - Football/Netball

Striking and fielding - Cricket/rounding

Athletics

Computing

Online safety

Coding

Spreadsheets

Blogging

 

Text Adventure

Networks

Quizzing

Music

How does music bring us together?

How does music connect us with the past?

Gaining confidence through performing

Exploring notation further

How does music shape our way of life?

How does music connect us with the environment?

MFL

Unit 15

Our school

Places around school

School subjects

Telling the time

Making statements about the school environment

Telling time using half hours, quarter hours and 24hr clock notation.

Unit 16

Places in town

Places in town (sentence building)

That’s a date (Part A)

That’s a date (Part B)

Then and now

A guide for tourists

Unit 17

Monter un café- creating a café

Drinks snacks and icecreams quantities of food Transactional language for a café

Seeking clarification of meaning

 

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