St. Michael’s Academy Rolling Programme (Lower School)
Autumn A
NAF = Not A Focus
Science
Lessons planned by individual Class Teachers, to include a
range of subject areas. See individual plans.
Chocolate
Changing materials
Circuits and
Switches
(incubators)
Christmas
Spring A
Water,
Water
Everywhere
Do you Live
Around
Here?
Separating
materials
Habitats and food
chains
Authors
Location of Cocoa
bean
ICT
Art
Writing For Different Purposes
to happen within each Topic.
Observational drawing in
each terms work. Keeping a
sketchbook to record ideas.
ICT Basic Skills
Author Display Work
Internet Safety
Clay Mug Making – 3D
Designing chocolate
wrappers.
Paint Mixing.
NAF
DT
-Taste Testing
& Making own
chocolate.
-Packaging
Growing and
Making food of
your own.
Anglo
Saxons /
Romans
Nativity
Story
Settlements
(Anglo Saxon words)
Research
Where is Israel?
Cards – pop-ups/
collage/cuts outs
NAF
Research about
continents and
oceans
Combining text and graphics
– Christmas Cards
Repeating Patterns (Fresco)
Branching databases 7.6
(Geography/Science)
Exchanging Information:
E-mail people to find out
information about subject
Watercolours
Landscapes
Google Maps – Street Views
Observational drawings
(Artefacts)
Forest School
– Shelter
Building
(Ninesprings)
Design and make an
Easter Card
Making Hats
for Easter
Bonnet Parade
Designing,
making and
painting a
Greek Pot
Local
History
Weather (conditions
people live in)
Using water colours to
mix paints
Research of Local History
Ancient
Greeks
Water clock
(Linked to
Forest School)
RE / SEAL
PE
Successful
Learning:
Class Rules agreed
by Pupils
Helpful & Unhelpful
Talk in the
Classroom
Festivals of Light
Team Building
New Beginnings
Swimming
Swimming
Gymnastics
Invasion Games –
Tag Rugby
Swimming
Multi Skills
Getting on and
Falling Out
Discussions on
topical social,
emotional and moral
issues - Newsround
Swimming
Gymnastics
Invasion Games –
Netball/ Basket
Ball
Swimming
Athletics
Multi-Skills
PowerPoint of the local area
Easter
Story
Friction
Going for
Gold
Aztecs
Walk
around
Town
Centre
Easter
Summer A
Geog
Authors
Survival
Autumn B
History
Modern Greece
Study
Magnets
Lessons planned by individual Class Teachers, to include a
range of subject areas
Mutli media – music making,
picture making, video and
PowerPoints
ICT Basic Skills
Mask Making
Observational drawing
Author Display Work
Being an active
Citizen
Discussions on
topical social,
emotional and moral
issues - Newsround
Successful
Learning:
Class Rules agreed
by Pupils
Helpful & Unhelpful
Talk in the
Swimming
Athletics
Rounders and
Cricket
Sports Day
Team Building
Swimming
Science
History
Geog
ICT
Art
Writing For Different Purposes
to happen within each Topic.
Observational drawing in
each terms work. Keeping a
sketchbook to record ideas.
DT
RE / SEAL
PE
Classroom
Saving the
World
Green Plants
Sounds of the
Rainforest
NAF
Rainforest Locations
Layers of the
Rainforest
Collecting and presenting
information on Rainforests.
Observational Drawing
for class Rainforest
Display
Designing Topic Front Cover
Christmas
Explorers
Nativity
Story
Characteristics of
materials
Tudors
N/A
Designing wrapping paper –
Repeating patterns
Winter Sports Displays
Research Explorers
Portraits and famous
explorers
Spring B
PowerPoint on Tudor Life
Time and
place
Sun, Earth and
Moon
NAF
Time Zones around
the world
Light and shadow
Summer B
Easter
They made
a
difference
Active
Planet
Live Webcams around the
World
Rainforest
Destruction – Moral
Issues
New Beginnings.
Fabric
Container for
explorer to
keep
something
special (linked
to Science)
Getting on and
Falling Out.
Florence
Nightingale
Discussions on
topical social,
emotional and moral
issues - Newsround
Printing – showing
movement of shadows
NAF
Swimming
Invasion Games –
Netball/ Basket
Ball
Swimming
Athletics
Invasion Games Football
Cards – collage /
weaving
NAF
Internet Safety
The Work of William
Turner
Pop-up books –
Moving parts
Being an active
Citizen
Skeletons & muscle
Rock and soils
Dance
Invasion Games
Gymnastics
Multi Skills
Writing for different
purposes
Easter
Story
Human needs
(MRS NERG)
Pneumatic
Systems –
Making
Rainforest
animals.
Pop Up Cards
Location of
volcanoes
Branching databases
Making a volcano –
papier mache – 3D
Discussions on any
topical social,
emotional and moral
issues – Newsround
Swimming
Athletics
Rounders and
Cricket
Sports Day