KS2 Cycle A 2014-15
Long Term Planning
Subject
Autumn
1
Autumn
2
Theme
Long, long ago
Our World
Trips/ Workshops
Role Play
Maths
Abacus scheme
Portals to the Past –
Celtic Workshop 2.10.14
Celtic roundhouse
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer
1
Summer
2
The Romans
Where we live
Water, water
everywhere
Welwyn Roman Baths & Mill Green Museum 23.4.2015
Buntingford Trail/ local historian
talk TBC
Yr 4 Lincolnsfields Residential
10.6.15-12.6.15
Tourist information shop
Roman market
Pond dipping TBC
Weather station
Y3- Number and place value (including mental strategies), addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions, measurement, geometry-properties of shapes, statistics, problem
solving.
Y4- Number and place value (including mental strategies), addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions (including decimals), measurement, geometry-properties of
shapes, geometry- position and direction, statistics, problem solving.
English
Y3 Recounts (Y4 revision)
Y3&4- Reports
F & NF – Y3 Big Writing
Mission
5 The Mystery Cave
(chronological report /
legends)
P- Vocabulary
Building – Animal poems/
Celtic poetry
NF- Y3 Instructions
Stone Age Boy by Satoshi
Kitamura (Focus
Education)
F- Y3&4 Escape from
Pompeii by Christina Ballit
(Focus Education)
Y4-focus on
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/library/books/stoneageboy.htm
Story Settings
Write a section of a
narrative (or several
narratives) focusing on
setting
Write and evaluate a range of
instructions, including directions
e.g. a treasure hunt
(Recipes e.g. linked to D&T
cooking)
F- Y4- A story/stories with
a theme
Relate the theme of the story to
personal experience and write
an autobiographical
story/account reflecting that
theme.
Y3 Traditional Tales – The
Very Best of Aesop’s
Fables by Margaret Clarke
P- Vocabulary
building –
Christmas/Winter poetry
(Haiku, acrostic)
NF- Non-Chron Report
Rome & Romans (The
Usbourne Time Travellers)
The Roman Chronicle
P- Structure –
Y3, tanka and
kennings 1 week
Y4 Structure- narrative
poetry
F- Y3 Traditional Tales –
fairy tales
(alternative versions) The
Lost Happy Endings by
Carol Ann Duffy
F-Y4
Traditional Tales - Myths
–The orchard book of
Roman Myths
NF- Big Writing
Adventures Mission 1
Recount Yr3 /Yr4
P- Vocabulary
Building
F- Y3 Adventure storiesFantastic Mr Fox - Roald
Dahl
Y4-Discussion
Consider different sides of an
argument and decide on a course of
action, summarising your reasons in a
letter. Big Writing Yr4 Mission 5
NF- Y3&4 Persuasion persuasive letter
writing
Write to MP for/ against the
development of Buntingford
P- Structure –
Y3 Limericks
Y4 – riddles
F- Y3 & 4 The Witches: A set
of Plays for Children by Roald
Dahl (Literacy Matters
website)
Writing and performing a
Play
NF – Y3&4 Explanations
(water cycle)
Create and use a flowchart
to write an explanation of a
process, ensuring relevant
details are included and
accounts ended effectively
P- Take
one poet
– poetry
appreciation (Michael
Rosen/Allan
Ahlberg Please Mrs Butler)
Science
History
Geography
Computing
(Herts Scheme of
Work –version 3)
RE
(Herts scheme of
work)
Animals including humans
Light
Bronze Age and Iron Age religion, technology & travel
(Place Knowledge) Alps & Fens comparison Continents,
Europe, British isles, equator, rivers, deserts, mountains,
compare with UK
Human Geography inc. trade links in pre-Roman and
Roman times
Ways of describing
God
Christmas
Events in the life of Jesus
(parables)
Lent and Easter
Clay – Learn about Henry
Moore’s sculpture
techniques then make
Roman busts
D&T
Sheet materials - building a Celtic roundhouse
Food-Cooking lamb stew
Christmas cards – pop up
Construction/textiles – Make a
Roman sandal
Construct mosaic tiles
Food- Cooking –mosaic pizza pittas
Music
Football
Tag Rugby
Gymnastics
Lacrosse
Basketball
Tri-golf
French
International
(Physical Geography
knowledge) Rivers and the
water cycle
Keeping informed
Yr3 Printing Pop Art –
Daisies etc to rep.
natural environment
Collage
Andy Warhol
Badminton/Tennis
Tri-golf
Special places, sacred spaces
Tie-dye Painting –
(impressionism) Monet water
scenes/ reflection
Water effects – marbling inks,
colour mixing
Construction/sheet materials Make mini models of
Buntingford
Rounders
Cricket
Athletics
Dance
Ash swimming
Willow swimming
Rowan swimming
Play it again
Class orchestra (composers and instruments through
time)
Painting with Sound (rivers)
Y3-Recorder lessons
(West Sussex scheme of
work Year A)
Early settlements- New town
movement
Geographical skills & FieldworkBuntingford
Rules and how they influence
actions
Lowry-stick men (mark making with charcoal/felt/chalks)
Celtic illuminated letters/ ogham signs/
( 3D collage of a mountain range/river/ desert) Look at
Constable’s landscapes
States of Matter
Local history study of Buntingford
Bringing images to life
Art
PE and Games
Forces and Magnets
The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain
Programming and Games
Islam - Stories of key
religious leaders
Plants
Greetings Numbers to 20 &
age
France
Classroom instructions
Christmas
Harvest – Water Aid
International artists
hall display
Christmas around the
world
Colours
Feelings
Y4- Ukulele lessons (Herts Music Service)
Parts of body Easter
Easter around the world
NB: This is a working document and is subject to change.
Transport
Numbers beyond 20
Pets
French traditional tales