Rowan Gate Primary
School Creative
Curriculum
Class Limes ________________
Term Autumn 2015
The stone age
Group 1-JH
To develop different painting and
printing techniques using paint and
natural objects.
To begin to understand the history of
cave paintings.
Group 2- BS,JM,CT,SM
To begin to develop control and
creativity when using different
painting and printing techniques
using paint and natural objects.
To identify animals/events in and
recreate cave paintings.
To create simple designs, and begin
To begin to say why they like
to evaluate/adapt their work with
something/how they will make
support. To use a variety of
something and use a variety of
resources and materials to shape
resources and techniques with
and combine materials to recreate
support.
tools and resources from the stone
age
TO identify homes and tools from the To begin to understand about life in
stone age and begin to say how life
the stone age and how it differs
was different.
from now days. To identify
resources from the stone age.
To identify different types of homes
and uses of land with support to
begin to use a map with support.
To begin to understand how people
used to live and how people
create settlements to make use
of the land. To use a map to
locate places with support.
To begin to learn a new song joining in
with repetitive parts.
To learn a new song and create a
performance with support. To use
texture and timbre in musical
activities
Group 3- CG, CH,CS
To develop control and creativity
when using different painting and
printing techniques using paint and
natural objects.
To identify animals/events in and
recreate cave paintings.
To design and begin to
adapt/evaluate their work. To
choose and use a variety of
resources and materials to shape and
combine materials to recreate tools
and resources from the stone age
To understand about life in the
stone age and how it differs from
now days. To ask and answer
questions about why and how things
happened and how people lived.
To understand how people used to
live and how people create
settlements to make use of the land.
To use a map to locate places.
To learn a new song and create a
performance To use texture and
timbre in musical activities
Key Skills Focus
Communication/
literacy focus
Application of
number
ICT focus
focus
Sharing Cave baby
story
Counting amount of
patterns needs
Working with
others
Improving own
performance focus
Problem solving
focus
Stating what they
could
change/improve on
next time when
designing and
making outfits.
Finding ways to
combine objects
with minimal
resources
focus
Use of espresso
clips you tube
videos and songs
Week 1 Theme: “Simply stone” What was the stone age?
Taking turns to
create cave
paintings sharing
resources
Geograph
y
Group
1
Group 2
Group 3
Childre
What type of places did people live in the stone age?
Childre
n to
choose
3
History
Read the cave baby by Julia Donaldson – do we still live like this? How do we live now? complete CIP sheet – adding
items to a cave in stone age. e.g. cave paintings, pots, animal skins label the pictures by dictating.
n to
write a
sentenc
picture
e about
s to
what is
stick.
in a
cave.
Stick
picture
over
pre
made
timelin
e
I can begin to understand when the stone age was and why it was called the stone age.
Whole class - watch video clip
https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/subject/module/video/item754163/grade2/module754159/i
ndex.htmlHow long ago was the stone age? Explain that it was called the stone age because most tools and
resources were made from stone.
Activity - plot on a timeline using CIP pictures - now, when born, parents/carers born, queen born, other events
(track back in 100s+) share timeline - https://schoolsprehistory.wordpress.com/tag/stone-age/ - Timelines for
Write
fact
about
why it’s
called
the
stone
age.
prehistory;
Art and
design
Design
Technolo
gy
Music
Suppor
I can begin to learn a song about a cave.
Childre
t to
n to
take
sing
turns
in
songs
Whole class introduction – use drum to sing who’s turn is it now, passing round for every child. Then nursery
rhymes from bag “let’s sing a song from the bag”
Listen to the cave baby song on you tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tZZwQfgno0 – Children attempt to
join in the chorus.
Week 2 Theme: “moving stone” What was land like in the stone age?
Geography
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Support to build with stones and rocks
I can understand what buildings used
What would it have been like to live in
to be made from.
the cave with no lights etc
Show pictures of caves, Stonehenge –
explain that most places were flat with
lots of rocks etc – create a cave using
rocks and stones. PHOTOGRAPH
History
2 pictures for each category
I can identify how items change and
develop over time. Share pictures of
what people used to do/make e.g.
hunting, tools, cave paintings, then
create a then/now collage children to
sort pictures of stone age/modern
Create a sentence about the items used
e.g. tools were made of stone.
along
with
song
items, how have they changed? Label
items in the collage
Art and
design
Design
Technology
Music
Support when to play the instrument.
I can add instruments to a song.
Introduction – drum and song bag as
Can children change their instrument
and still keep in time?
previous week then Revisit cave baby
song from last week, children to select
an instrument to accompany the song.
encourage to keep time with the song
Week 3 Theme: “ Flintstones fashion” What did people wear in the stone age?
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Pre cut shapes
I can collage an outfit for a stone age person.
Children to cut own pieces of paper for
their outfit.
Geography
History
Art and
design
Share pictures of stone age clothing – these were
made from plants and animals - children to use
appropriate coloured materials and paper to
collage an outfit for a stone age person.
Design
Technology
Children to select resources from a
choice sheet.
I can design an outfit for a stone age person
Using a clip of the Flintstones TV programme,
Write a sentence about their design e.g.
I will make …and use..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKiZm9RzO24
look at the types of clothes they are wearing and
the colours. Explain that people couldn’t go to
shops to buy clothes in the stone age and had to
make their own clothes from plants and animals.
Design a piece of clothing using an outline and
coloured pencils, label/dictate what they will use
to make the clothing.
Music
Support to create props
I can create props to accompany a song.
Drum and song bag to start with then children to
use leaves to create props for the chorus of the
song – hold up at appropriate time during song.
Week 4 Theme: “ Flintstones fashion” What did people wear in the stone age? (continued)
Group 1
Geography
History
Group 2
Group 3
Can children think of other props to
use?
Art and
design
Support children to place finger in a
dot/stripe
I can use finger painting to create
spots and stripes on material.
Children to create a pattern whilst
printing.
Share pictures of stone age clothing –
talk about the patterns they can see and
explain that these are from the coats of
animals. Children then create patterns
On pieces of white material cut into
clothing shapes using fingers to print
dots and lines.
Design
Technology
Support to follow design and cut/sew
fabric – add holes for children to
follow
I can follow my design to create an
outfit for a stone age person
Children to refer to their Design of a
Children to adapt their design where
necessary and write what they like
about it once made.
piece of clothing and begin to make it
using their chosen materials – children
will need to “sew” their fabric together.
This may need to take 2 sessions
Music
Support to take turns and use props
I can begin to create a performance
Children to say how they can improve
of a song.
the performance.
Warm up as previous weeks
Children to work in small groups to add
actions to the cave baby song and use
previous made props.
Week 5 Theme: “tool time” How did people make things in the stone age?
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
3 tools in each column
I understand how tools used to be made
Write a sentence about what tools used
to be made from
Geography
History
http://youtu.be/sT99CvsSt1Q - Extract from Time
Team comparing how a flint axe and a ground stone
axe chops a tree.
Share pictures of, hafted arrowheads and stone
age hammer, how are they different from tools we
use now? create a tools now and then sorting
picture – children to sort tools into correct places
and explain how they know.
Art and
design
Design
Technology
Children to circle red/green face to
show how easy/hard it was to make.
I can create a stone age hammer
Share pictures previously seen in history and
share clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG7QpXM170I
Children to use sticks,stones and string to create
their own stone age hammers. children to rate
task as easy/hard
Children to write how easy/hard it was
when they made their hammer
Music
Support with instruments to keep in
time.
I can begin to keep the beat in a song.
Warm up as in all weeks.
Children to video each other and
suggest changes to make.
Children to continue their practises and
performances adding instruments into their ideas
Week 6 Theme: “you gotta eat!” How did people get food in the stone age?
Geography
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Pre cut pictures
I can understand how people had to use meat
and plants around them to eat.
Children to label the foods in their
picture
share video explaining different foods/farming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv4EyoW0OCE
people couldn’t go shopping for food and had to
eat what they found on land. Children to create a
collage of types of plants, berries, nuts and meat
eaten from land.
History
Art and
design
Support to hold and print with fruit.
I can create pictures by printing with food.
Children to use cut up fruit and veg to print with
and create a picture, discuss the patterns inside.
Design
Technology
Experience printing with different
sides of the fruit/veg.
Music
Support to structure performance.
I can perform a song
Children to put together their actions, props and
Children to say what they like/dislike
about the performance.
instruments for the cave baby song and video
their performance.
Week 7 Theme: “ A mammoth meal” What did people eat in the stone age?
Geography
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Circle foods found on a sheet
I can gather/locate possible food
Write foods found
sources.
Recap that during the stone age people
had to gather their own food, visit
Irchester country park/a local park and
gather berries – this is what people
would eat in the stone age. Explain that
we now know it’s important to not eat
something unless we know it’s safe. If a
trip is not possible plant some
lettuce/cress/potato seeds and set up a
veg growing area. (to refer to later in
topic when looking at village
settlements)
Create a tick list of foods found
History
3 pictures, dictate and copy write.
I know how diets have changed over
the years.
Write sentences under pictures.
Explain/recap that People were still
hunter-gatherers and some people lived in
rock shelters and caves, as well as in tents.
People hunted horses, reindeer, bison and
mammoth. Make a stone age menu using
pictures to cut, stick and label
Art and
design
Design
Support with cutting – stick
Technology
like/dislike next to foods.
I can make a snack using natural food
Children to use fruit and veg to make a
Write food they tasted in like/dislike
boxes
snack - this is easier as we don’t have
to grow the fruit and veg like they did in
the stone age. complete a like/dislike
sheet for food used – colour green for
like, red for dislike
Music
Week 8 Theme: “pretty paintings” What do cave paintings tell us about life in the stone age?
Group 1
Geography
Group 2
Group 3
History
3 pics in each column
I can identify old and new types of art work.
Label the resources
Show pics of paintings – then and now types of animals etc
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/chauvet/chauvet_cave_art.php
- what different resources did they use to paint with in the stone age?
create a table of stone age resources modern day resources.
Art and
design
Support to collect and
squash objects, provide an
outline to “paint” over.
Begin to draw some paintings by mixing natural objects and
colours
Mix more than 2 items to
create different shades
Explain that cave paintings were created with natural objects and
then gather stones, leaves, plants etc from outside, attempt to
“squash” and create line/dot/animal drawings with them.
Design
Technology
Music
Support to follow activities
See music express planning “our land”
Extend with solo performances
Week 9 Theme: “creative caves” How did people make and decorate their caves in the stone age?
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Outline to trace over.
I can mix colours and create a
cave painting
Possible websites - Gallery of images of cave paintings of
Chauvet Cave in France;
Geography
History
Art and
design
Children to use primary colours to
mix and create cave paintings by
following examples (see websites for
ideas) use fingers to paint animals
with.
Design
Technology
Support to curve and combine
paper
I can combine and join resources
together.
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/niaux/index.php Images and information about the cave paintings at Niaux
in France;
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/cosquer/index.php
- Images and information about the cave paintings at
Cosquer cave off the coast of France;
http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/index.php#/en/02_00.xml Virtual tour of the cave paintings
What resources make the best caves?
Share pictures of the shapes of
caves and then attempt to Create a
curved cave using boxes and paper.
Once dry and made put cave
paintings made in art inside the caves
and use for a display. (see next
week)
Music
Support as necessary
See music express planning – “our
How else can we do this?
land”
Week 10 Theme: “creative caves” How did people make and decorate their caves in the stone age?
Group 1
Geography
Group 2
Group 3
History
Support to identify pictures
I can identify how our own homes
changed since the stone age caves.
Write a sentence about how life is
different from stone age.
Revisit Pics of cave paintings/caves and
what this tells us – then and now pics to
sort – things in homes
Art and
Support to combine model
design
I can create a model
How else can we join the resources?
Children to use the cave paintings and
caves to create their own caves, display
together – this is how people began to
live
Design
Technology
Music
Support to carry out task
See music express planning – “our land”
Extend through activity
Week 11 Theme: “look what we’ve found” Where is Skara brae?
Geography
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Support to use map
I can identify the location of Skara brae on map
Write a sentence about items
Watch clip on BBC website of how and when Skara Brae was
discovered.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/8181061.stm
found at Skara Brae
Children to then use map of UK/Surrounding islands to locate
the area. (google maps/earth)
History
Choose 1 fact to copy write.
I can find out some facts about Skara brae.
Using bbc website children to identify facts about Skara
Brae - http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/learning/
primary/skarabrae/content/what/index.shtml
Skara Brae is situated on the very edge of the bay of
Skaill on the west coast of Mainland in Orkney. Mainland
is the biggest island in Orkney, which lies off the north
coast of Scotland.
Skara Brae is a village made up of very ancient single
room houses, which was discovered just over 150 years
ago. The houses are built from stone and were originally
all free standing but some are now partly underground
Draw/colour and label pictures of Skara Brae
Art and
design
Design
Technology
Music
See music express planning – “our land”
Week 12 Theme: “home sweet home” (settlements)
Identify 3 facts to record on a
fact sheet
Geography
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Support to create collage.
I can understand how people can make use of land to
Create a simple fact sheet using the
settle and create villages and communities
pictures and 3 sentences.
Share video - https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso
/primary_uk/subject/module/video/item754167/grade2
/module754159/index.html
Children to create a collage of how people began to use
other resources form land to live from.
History
Support to identify then/now
I can understand how people developed new skills.
Sentence about differences.
Recap video from Geography how else do we now use our
land?buildings etc? – create a then/now board of how
we build and develop new skills.
Art and
design
Support to create
I can create a replica of a village.
Writing labels for shops etc
Children to create junk model buildings for a modern
model village – shops, school,homes and a field.
Design
Technology
Music
Week 13 Theme: Celebrate – look at what we’ve learnt
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Geography
History
I can understand why we have advent.
Linked to R.E. work children to watch
espresso advent video and then create
on advent calendar using pictures of
different stone age resources as the
numbers to open.
Art and
design
Support to press hand/fingers down
I can use my hands/fingers to print
Children to use detailed patterns
Recap finger printing – children to
create different patterns on sheets of
paper.
Design
Technology
Music
Support to make
I can create my own musical
instrument.
Can children play in time with
instrument?
Children to use containers and decorate
with the printed paper from art and
design.fill with rice/lentils
Week 14 Theme: Christmas craft – Handmade resources
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Geography
History
Art and
I Can use my hands/fingers to create
design
a picture.
children to create a reindeer Christmas
card using hand print and finger print.
Design
Support to thread needle through
Technology
holes.
I can combine objects by sewing.
Can children sew a pattern?
Children to “sew” together pre cut
stocking shapes and fill with Christmas
biscuit made in week.
Music
Support to follow songs.
I can join in some Christmas songs.
Children to join in Christmas songs and
rhymes with resources.
Can children sing independently?