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
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 | ElectricityStates of matter | Animals, including humans 1 Animals, including humans 2
| Living things and their habitats 1 Living things and their habitats 2
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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) | EuropeGeographical 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
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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
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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 |