Yr
Subject
Autumn
Spring
Summer
3
History
Late Neolithic Hunter-Gatherers
Skara Brae
Iron Age hill forts
Tribal kingdoms, farming, art and culture
Geography
Focus on UK (British Week)
Name and locate counties and cities
Identify human and physical characteristics, key topographical features and land-use
patterns
Understand how they have changed over time
Bronze Age
Religion, technology, travel
Stonehenge
Human Geography
Types of settlement and land use (link to history)
Physical Geography
Volcanoes and Earthquakes
Science
Forces & Magnets
Rocks
Light
Plants
Animals including humans
History
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Greece
The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain
Geography
Focus on Europe, including Russia
Locate Europe’s countries, using maps
Concentrate on environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries,
and major cities
Human Geography
Types of settlement and land use
Understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical
geography comparing a region of Europe with a region of the United Kingdom
Fieldwork
Science
Sound
Electricity
States of matter
Living things and their habitats
Animals including humans
History
Local History study
Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots
Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the
Confessor
Geography
Focus on North and South America
Locate N/ S America’s countries using maps
Concentrate on environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries,
and major cities
Human Geography
Economic activity including trade links
Physical Geography
Coasts and weather
Understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical
geography comparing a region of North America with a region of the United Kingdom
Fieldwork
Science
Earth and Space
Forces
Properties of materials
Living things and their habitats
Animals including humans
History
Children will review British History and create a timeline considering significant turning
points in British history and how people from the past have shaped the nation.
Crime and Punishment from Anglo-Saxons to the present day
Study of non- European society
Early Islamic civilisation including a study of Bagdad c.AD 900
Geography
World Geography
Latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of
Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the Prime/Greenwich Meridian and time
zones
Human Geography
Distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and
water
Physical Geography
Climate zones, biomes, vegetation belts
Understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical
geography comparing a region of South America with a region of the United Kingdom
Fieldwork
Science
Evolution and Inheritance
Light
Electricity
Living things and their habitats
Animals including humans
4
5
6
Understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical
geography of a region of the United Kingdom
Fieldwork
Physical Geography
Rivers, Mountains, Water cycle