Year A
Literacy
Genres for
literacy
lessons
Survival/disasters Electricity
7 weeks 2 days
7 weeks
Adventure Story –
Narrative Letter
Escape from a
home from Titanic
disaster
Explanation Text
(Volcanoes)
Poetry - Acrostic
Maths
cross
curricula
Data handling:
Highest
mountains/ranges
and peaks (Geog)
Compass Points
ICT
Cross
curricula
Film volcano
experiment in slow
motion (Science)
English
cross
curricula
Diary entry from an
eruption/earthquake
Volcano writing
project on Purple
mash
What should go in a
survival backpack?
Disaster/Titanic
homework
Enrichment
Event
Art
AT 1, Sketch books,
AT 2c sculpture,
AT3 artist:
Make a 3D volcano
(chicken wire/clay or
other material)
Newspaper
recounts/interview
survivors/ships log?
Titanic
Romans
6 weeks
5 weeks
Stories with a
Play scripts
character from
history
Instructions
Discussion (balanced
argument) Should we
allow the Romans to
settle?
Rainforests
6 weeks
7 weeks 3 days
Descriptive writing
Diary of an explorer
Persuasive argument
deforestation
Information text on
an animal
Poetry – Rainforest
images
Data handling:
comparing the
average rainfall,
temperature etc
between the
rainforest and Earls
Colne.
Branching database
about rainforest
animals
Journalistic
presentation
Venn and Carroll
diagrams in science
lesson for sorting and
classifying
Measuring different
body parts and
comparing/looking
for similarities.
Investigations
(science)
Roman numerals:
cover the maths
objectives
Data handling:
Highest
mountains/ranges
and peaks (Geog)
Information poster
for KS1 chn; Dangers
of electrical safety
Adventure Romans:
carry out a virtual
archaeological dig
Publisher: create a
poster to advertise
the play
Drama: Role play the
meeting of Celts and
Romans eg Boudicca
on trial, followed by
storyboard/cartoon
Selling a Roman
house – Persuasive
writing
Write a rainforest
quiz or riddle
Science Poetry –
Rainforest images
Menu writing: using
descriptive language
Parents invited in for
the ‘switching on’ of
the Christmas lights
Colchester Castle trip
Parents viewing
Roman house open
day with children’s
specifications
River walk to
compare with
Amazon
Parent invited to
Rainforest café
Prepare and share
food
AT 1, sketch book,
AT 2b collage
AT 1, sketch book
AT 2 b painting
AT 3, artist – different
landscape artists incl.
Constable, Turner,
Rousseau.
Rainforest music:
create a piece of
rainforest music
Sketching of leaves
and seeds. Children
choose style to
emulate with own
Rainforest landscape
Computing
1 design, write and
debug programs
2 use sequence,
selection, and
repetition in
programs; work with
variables and various
forms of input and
output
3 use logical
reasoning to explain
how some simple
algorithms work and
to detect and correct
errors in algorithms
and programs
Espresso coding (Unit
3a, 4a)
Purple mash - 2 code
Scratch
AT 7
Internet safety
Broadband detectives
6 select, use and
combine a variety of
software (including
internet services) on
a range of digital
devices to design and
create a range of
programs, systems
and content that
accomplish given
goals, including
collecting, analysing,
evaluating and
presenting data and
information
4 understand
computer networks
including the
internet; how they
can provide multiple
services, such as the
world wide web; and
the opportunities
they offer for
communication and
collaboration
Sherston – Web
Detectives
Using Paint - Make
poster about Using
emails and internet
safety
1 design, write and
debug programs
2 use sequence,
selection, and
repetition in
programs; work with
variables and various
forms of input and
output
3 use logical
reasoning to explain
how some simple
algorithms work and
to detect and correct
errors in algorithms
and programs
Espresso coding (Unit
3b, 4b)
Purple mash - 2 code
Scratch
DT
Cross Curricular Links:
Art, D&T
AT 1a,b Design
AT 2a, b Make
AT 3a, b, c Evaluate
AT 4a, c stiffen
materials, electrical
systems
Make moving/lighting
up Christmas
decorations
Cross Curricular Links:
Literacy, Art
Data base – Purple
mash - 2investigate
Rainforest animals
Make graphs (AT6)
5 use search
technologies effectively,
appreciate how results
are selected and
ranked, and be
discerning in evaluating
digital content
Cross Curricular Links:
Maths,
Research animals in
rainforest
Cross Curricular Links:
Literacy, Geography,
Maths
AT 1a,b Design
AT 2a, b Make
AT 3a, b Evaluate
AT 4a, b, mechanical
systems
Building
catapults/ballista/cha
riots/boats, use
pulleys etc
AT 1a,b Design
AT 2a, b Make
AT 3a, b Evaluate
AT 5 Cooking and
nutrition
Do a ‘Rainforest Café’
for parents, design
and make own fruit
drink and snack bar
Animation – Zu3D
Cross Curricular Links:
Maths, Science, Art
4 understand computer
networks including the
internet; how they can
provide multiple
services, such as the
world wide web; and
the opportunities they
offer for
communication and
collaboration
AT 6 select, use and
combine a variety of
software (including
internet services) on
a range of digital
devices to design and
create a range of
programs, systems
and content that
accomplish given
goals, including
collecting, analysing,
evaluating and
presenting data and
information
Operation Minibeast
Cross Curricular Links:
Science,
Geography
History
Music
AT 3d, e Mountains,
Volcanoes and
earthquakes
Compare mountain
ranges, how
volcanoes work, San
Andreas fault, Look at
weather mapping,
AT 4 a, b, Use
compass points
Covered in PE
AT 1a locate North
America
4a, use maps/atlases
AT 4a maps and
atlases, including
digital
Map the spread of
the Empire
AT1 Changes in
Britain from Stone
Age to Iron Age
How was Stone
Henge built? (link to
forces)
AT1 Solo and
ensemble
performance (singing)
Songs for the play
AT2 Improvise and
compose
AT3 Listen with detail
AT4 musical notation
Holst: Mars to use the
‘eruption‘ sounds as a
stimulus, use own
notation
AT3 Listen with detail- start of every lesson, eg clap back rhythms
AT1 Solo and ensemble performance (singing) ongoing singing assemblies
PE
AT 2 Badminton
AT3, 4 Dance
A3, 4 Gymnastics
Indoor
LCP 2 KS2 3/4 Unit
Escape/Shape
Stretching, curling,
13:
symmetry,
Net Wall Games (1)
asymmetry : Sabin Y3
L&M
PE
AT 5 adventurous
AT 1, 2 creating and
AT 1, 2 hockey
Outdoor
team challenges
making games
LCP 2 KS2 3/4 Unit
Team games and
Val Sabin – Primary
10: Invasion Games
challenges based on
School Games: Year 3 (1)
survival eg how can a Unit 2
group of you get from
A-B using only..?
AT 2, place
knowledge
AT 3a, b, c climate
zones, biomes, rivers
AT 4c Field work look
at the river in the
village
Where are the
rainforests? What do
they contain?
AT2 The Roman
Empire and its impact
on Britain
AT3, 4 Dance
Dance at the movies:
Bollywood, Fred
Astaire,
AT 1 C identify areas
of the globe
The lost tribes of the
Amazon compare
their way of life to
ours.
AT6 History of music
AT3 Listen with detail
Paul Simon Rhythm of
the Saints
AT5 Live music Samba
band
(rainforest music ICT
link AT6)
At 3, 4 Gymnastics
Pathways and travel
Sabin Y3 N&O
AT6 Swimming
AT 1, 2 football
AT 1, 2 cricket
LCP 2 KS2 3/4 Unit 10: LCP 2 KS2 3/4 Unit
Invasion Games (2)
12:
Striking and Fielding
Games (1)
AT1, 3 Athletics
LCP 2 KS2 3/4 Unit 17:
Athletics Activities (1)
Science
AT9 States of matter
Link to lava and
volcanoes
AT 1 Working scientifically in all topics
RE
The Buddah’s Life
Story (Buddhism)
PSHE
FRENCH
New Beginnings 3
Rigolo 1 Unit 10
Où vas-tu?
AT 11 Electricity
assess competence
with circuits before
beginning DT project
AT 3 Animals
including humans
What does the
Roman army need to
keep them on the
move?
AT6 Forces and
magnets
The Local Anglican
Parish Church
(Christianity)
Guru Nanak, Guru
Gobind Singh and the
Khalsa (Sikhism)
Jesus’ Baptism and
the beginning of his
Ministry (Christianity)
Hindu Gods and
Goddesses
(Hinduism)
The Mosque Prayer
Going for Goals 3
Getting on and Falling
Out 3
Say No to bullying 3
Preparing to play an
active role as citizens
Good to be me 3/4
Changes 3
First Aid
Rigolo 1 Unit 8
Quelle heure est-il?
Rigolo 1 Unit 6
Bon Anniversaire!
Rigolo 1 Unit 2
En Classe
AT 2 Plants
Use Rainforest plants
as the context
Art linkobservational
drawing
Rigolo 1 Unit 4
Les Animaux
AT 7 Living things and
their habitats
Classify/ group
Rainforest
animals/plants and
change in that
environment
Rigolo 1 Unit 11
En Mange!
Year B
Length
Literacy
Genres for
literacy
lessons
(Dr) Who do I think I am?
7 weeks 2 days
7 weeks
Stories with a familiar
Mystery Story
setting
Report
Magazine article
about their family
Instructions for a
favourite recipe
At the movies
6 weeks
5 weeks
Playscript - Turning a
Turning a play into a
film into a play script
story (Based on our
play)
Report
Film review
To write a persuasive
letter to a film star
Poetry – Cinquain
poems
Maths
cross
curricula
Distance: how far
away do children’s
relatives live
Using a pedometer to
measure distance
travelled
Website, search
engines to discover
where in the country
their relatives come
from
Explanation: journey
of food during
digestion (science)
Making codes that
can link to the
mystery story: Extra
maths
Database – Distances
travelled around the
world by a character
Choose own software
to make a timeline of
family tree (link to
extended homework)
Black and white silent
movie: filming
Poetry: Earls Colne
version of ‘If you’re
not from the prairie’
Black and white silent
movie: using facial
expressions, gestures.
S&L focus with
direction
Enrichment
Event
Parent to share family
history at beginning
of unit
Visit from a dentist
Village history walk
including
geographical features
Village museum: joint
topic/display
Art
AT 1 Sketch books
Create a family/class
An Oscar style awards
ceremony based on
children’s choice of
own writing that they
have nominated:
children to have an
acceptance speech
ready
AT 1 Sketch books
ICT
Cross
curricula
English
cross
curricula
Top Trumps Disney
characters /locations
around the world
Ancient Egypt
7 weeks
7 weeks
Fictional biography –
Myths and legends linked to an Egyptian
The story of an
God
Egyptian Mummy or
God
Report travel
guide/brochure for an
Explanation –
Egyptian Tomb
Encyclopaedia
Cleopatra or
Tutankhamun
Shape and space:
building a modern
pyramid. Nets, shape
based on new
buildings.
Adventure Egyptians:
carry out a virtual
archaeological dig
Power point
/publisher: map of
Tutankhamun’s tomb
Science link: Letter to
Darius about which
rock should be used
to build the pyramid
Personification of
rocks
Diary of a tomb raider
Artefact museum:
children act as tour
guides
AT 1 Sketch books
AT 2a Drawing (use
different media)
Observational
drawings of fruit (still
life) (which fruit
symbolises them)
AT 3 Great artists
Look at portraits: eg
Da Vinci, Van Gough,
Computing
Children choose own
media to draw a
portrait
1 design, write and
debug programs
2 use sequence,
selection, and
repetition in
programs; work with
variables and various
forms of input and
output
3 use logical
reasoning to explain
how some simple
algorithms work and
to detect and correct
errors in algorithms
and programs
Espresso coding (Unit
3a, 4a)
Purple mash - 2 code
Scratch
Cross Curricular Links:
Maths
DT
montage (homework)
AT 2c printing
Simple print of
Hollywood star to
layer colour
AT 2b textiles
Cross stitch of a
hieroglyph
Cut and sew to create
simple bag and then
attach hieroglyph
Coiled string printing
block possibly of a
favourite
film/cartoon
character (black print
on colours)
AT 7
Internet safety
Think you know?
6 select, use and
combine a variety of
software (including
internet services) on a
range of digital devices
to design and create a
range of programs,
systems and content
that accomplish given
goals, including
collecting, analysing,
evaluating and
presenting data and
information
Purple Mash - 2
investigate – make a
database
(collaborative- link
with AT4)
Cross Curricular Links:
Art, Maths
AT 1a,b Design
AT 2a, b Make
4 understand
computer networks
including the
internet; how they
can provide multiple
services, such as the
world wide web; and
the opportunities
they offer for
communication and
collaboration
Sherston – Web
detectives
Cross Curricular Links:
Literacy
Using Paint - Make
poster about Using
emails and internet
safety
Cross Curricular Links:
Art, Literacy
Link to DT
6 select, use and
combine a variety of
software (including
internet services) on
a range of digital
devices to design and
create a range of
programs, systems
and content that
accomplish given
goals, including
collecting, analysing,
evaluating and
presenting data and
information
Animation linked to
places around the
world (stop/go
animation)
Cross Curricular Links:
Literacy, Art, D&T
1 design, write and
debug programs
2 use sequence,
selection, and
repetition in
programs; work with
variables and various
forms of input and
output
3 use logical
reasoning to explain
how some simple
algorithms work and
to detect and correct
errors in algorithms
and programs
Espresso coding (Unit
3b, 4b)
Purple mash - 2 code
Scratch
5 use search technologies
effectively, appreciate
how results are selected
and ranked, and be
discerning in evaluating
digital content
6 select, use and combine
a variety of software
(including internet
services) on a range of
digital devices to design
and create a range of
programs, systems and
content that accomplish
given goals, including
collecting, analysing,
evaluating and presenting
data and information
Cross Curricular Links:
Cross Curricular Links:
History, Literacy
AT 1a,b Design
AT 2a, b Make
Research (Link AT4
Spring 1) effectively,
Ancient Egyptians.
Create Power point
about information
found.
Geography
AT 1b name counties
and cities of UK
AT 4b, Use compass
points Covered in PE
History
AT 5 Local history
Travel back in time to
see what the village
was like at different
times in history
Use the village
museum and try to
set up a joint
exhibition
Music
AT6 History of music
AT 3 Listen in detail
Listen to different
pieces of music from
different periods and
create a timeline, link
the mood of music to
that time in history.
Children bring in their
own favourite songs
AT 3a, b, c Evaluate
At 4 Use of computer
control
Make Earls Colne
monopoly
AT 4a, b, c
geographical skills
and fieldwork map
the village in
preparation for DT
Visit WW2, Hunt
(industrial
revolution), Civil War,
Dissolution of
monasteries, the De
Veres (Link with diet
and science so
include what did
people eat at that
time)
AT 3a, b Evaluate
Materials and
Textiles: cut and
measure accurately,
attach
AT 1a , c countries in
Europe and North
and South America
AT 2 Place knowledge
Have a film character
visit the locations eg
Sully, James Bond,
Spy Kids or have
Wallace and Gromit
having A Grand Day
Out to visit Earls
Colne and then an
area of Europe and
North/South America
How have films
changed. Look at
silent films (music
link), different styles
of animation
AT2 Improvise and
compose
AT 4 use simple
notation
Compose music for a
silent film
AT 3c, F Rivers, water
cycle
Importance of the
Nile and the water
cycle
AT 7 Egypt
Help Professor
Knowitall find out the
truth about the
Egyptians
AT 1 solo and
ensemble
performance
Songs for the play
AT 1 solo and
ensemble
performance
African drumming
compose a beat for
the slaves to work too
(make a class
CD/playlist)
AT3 Listen with detail- start of every lesson, eg clap back rhythms
AT1 solo and ensemble performance (singing) ongoing singing assemblies
PE
AT 3, 4 Dance
AT 3, 4 Gymnastics
AT2 Basketball
indoor
Divali Dance: LCP KS2 Balance and body
LCP 2 KS2 3/4 Unit
Y3/4 (LINK TO RE)
weight: Sabin Y4 P&Q 11:
Invasion Games (2)
PE
outdoor
AT 5 Outdoor
activities
Orienteering
LCP 2 KS2 3/4 Unit
19:
Outdoor
Adventurous
Activities (1)
Science
AT 8 Animals
including humans
RE
PSHE
FRENCH
AT 1, 2 netball
Val Sabin: Primary
School Games; Year 3
Unit 1. Passing and
receiving.
AT 1 Working scientifically in all topics
Worshipping and
Living as a Christian;
celebrating in the
The Bible and prayer
home; Puja and Divali
(Christianity)
(Hindusism)
Relationships 3/4
Rigolo 1 Unit 5
Ma Famille
AT 3, 4 Gymnastics
Balance, change of
direction and rolling:
Sabin Y4 R&S
AT 3, 4 Dance
LCP: Life on the Nile
AT6 Swimming
AT 1, 2 hockey
LCP 2 KS2 3/4 Unit
17:
Invasion Games (2)
AT 1, 2 football
AT 1, 2 rounders
LCP 2 KS2 3/4 Unit 10: LCP 2 KS2 3/4 Unit
Invasion Games (1)
12:
Striking and Fielding
Games (1)
AT1, 3 Athletics
LCP 2 KS2 3/4 Unit 18:
Athletics Activities (2)
AT 5 Light
How light is used to
illuminate the stage
AT 10 Sound
How sound travels
and how we need to
make ourselves heard
in the play
AT 6 Forces and
magnets
Forces, moving the
stone for the
pyramids
AT4 Rocks
Decide what rock
would be best to
build a pyramid out
of.
Moses, the Exodus
and Pessach
(Judaism)
Journey to the
Promised Land
(Judaism)
Muhammed and the
Qur’an (Islam)
Jesus’ teaching and
example.
Changes 4
New Beginnings 4
Safety
Getting on and Falling
Out 4
Going For Goals 4
Healthy Lifestyle
Say No to bullying 4
Rigolo 1 Unit 3
Mon Corps
Rigolo 1 Unit 1
Bonjour!
Rigolo 1 Unit 12
Le Cirque
Rigolo 1 Unit 7
Encore!
Rigolo 1 Unit 9
Les Fêtes