Long Term curriculum plan 2016-17
Autumn: Belonging
Topic Titles/sub
topics for each half
term
Topic Question
Trip ideas
Events/Festivals
English
Book title:
Movie theme:
Topic maths
In addition to daily
maths in line with
school policy.
Science
History
TUDORS & STUARTS
Wars of the Roses
What makes a good
king or Queen?
Gainsborough old
hall/ Bishops House
Harvest
The Gunpowder Plot
Should we have the
right to protest?
Town Hall/ Court
House
Winter wonderland
Bonfire Night
Spring: Community
Summer: Our World
RUTHLESS ROMANS
Ancient Rome
What makes a
civilisation?
Portals to the Past
visitor
Lent
Roman Britain
Is it Right to invade
another land?
Murton Park
GREEN PEACE
This is Our World
Are we stewards or
masters of the world?
Yorkshire Wildlife
Park/ Tropical world
Mini Market
Easter
Reduce Reuse Recyle
Should we preserve
the planet for future
generations?
Recycling centre /
windfarm
Pentecost
Sports Day
The Shakespeare
stories : Midsummer
Night’s Dream
The Shakespeare
stories : Romeo and
Juliet
You wouldn’t want to
be a Roman Gladiator
Roman Diary: the
journal of Iliona; a
young slave
The Lorax
Flood Child
Horrible histories
clips
Horrible histories
clips
Horrible histories
clips
Horrible histories
clips
The Lorax - UNIVERSAL
WALL E - UNIVERSAL
Midsummer Night’s
Dream PG - clips
Tudor Money
Romeo and Juliet PG –
clips
Budgets
Taxes
Gladiators of Rome PG
- clips
Design a Roman
Maths Game
If the World were a
Village of 100 people.
Themed thinking
skills Puzzles
ANIMALS INC
HUMANS: digestive
system and teeth
food chains
Tudor diet and
dental hygiene
Wars of the roses,
Themed thinking skills
Puzzles
SOUND: creating,
travelling, changing
pitch and distance =
volume.
Sounds of bonfire night
Gladiators of Rome
PG - clips
Roman Arithmetic
Crack the code using
Roman Numerals.
Themed thinking
skills Puzzles
PLANETS: Names,
order, distance – not
Y4 curriculum.
Roman Gods and
astronomy
Money comparisons:
Fairtrade industry
Alternative power
sources
Civil War, Monarchy,
Ancient timeline:
Themed thinking skills
Puzzles
STATES OF MATTER:
solid/liquid/gas
changes, evaporation
condensation & water
cycle. Settlements
around water
Julius Caesar attempt,
Deforestation and
Pollution - quantities
LIVING THINGS AND
THEIR HABITATS:
grouping, keys,
environmental change.
Stewardship
NA
ELECTRICITY:
appliances, circuits,
conductors and
insulators.
Saving energy
NA
Geography
D&T
Art
Computing
Use school SOW
Music
PE
SEAL
PSHE
JOURNEY IN LOVE
Richard III, Tudor
monarchs, homes,
clothes, rich and
poor & culture
HUMAN
Tudor architecture,
black and white
houses, the globe,
palaces etc.
HEALTHY EATING
Prepare and cook
Bread
Design and make a
frame for portraits
James Burbage
The Globe Theatre
Portraits
gunpowder plot, crime
and punishment,
traditions.
MOVIE TRAILERS
Midsummer Night’s
Dream
Henry VIII and his six
wives
Green Sleeves
Mendelssohn - MND
Wedding March
SCRATCH
Tudor dancing.
Tudor Games:
Tennis, Football
NEW BEGINNINGS
Rights and
responsibilities
GOD LOVES US IN
OUR DIFFERENCES
Fireworks dance/
movement
HUMAN
Houses of Parliament
Anstone used to build
Sumar, IndusValley
etc, Roman empire,
soldiers, religion,
advancements.
LOCATIONAL
6 figure grid
reference
8 points of position
Architecture – Houses
of Parliament – plot to
destroy from
underneath.
Prepare and cook a
pizza
Crispijn de Passe
The Gunpowder Plot
conspirators
Draw, paint and make
a Roman coin/ brooch
Design and make a
mosaic
HOW THE INTERNET
WORKS
SEARCHING THE
INTERNET
Rome: fact or fiction?
Jacopo Peri - Dafne
Mozart – The barber
of Seville
Puccini-NessumDoma
+ Si mi chiamano
Roman sports:
Gymnastics, Running
Jumping, Javelin
GOING FOR GOALS
Roles in society
HOW DO I CELEBRATE
WHO I AM?
Gun powder plot game
Prokofiev –Dance of
the Knights
Bonfire night chants
GETTING ON AND
FALLING OUT
Protesting peacefully
HOW ARE WE
DIFFERENT?
Claudius conquest,
Boudicca,
Romanisation &
withdrawal
HUMAN
Types of settlements
& Mapwork focus –
Europe esp Britain +
Romans’ journey.
Study architecture:
colosseum, pantheon,
amphitheatre, arch,
aqueduct, basilica etc.
PHYSICAL – WORLD
climate zones, biomes
etc
LOCATIONAL - WORLD
Longitude Latitude etc
BUILDING A SHELTER
PHYSICAL – WORLD
Climate change
Ozone and
conservation
Pen and Inc Roman
Architecture
Henri Rousseau
Animals in the
Rainforest
Paul Bonomin
WEEE Man
STAYING SAFE ONLINE
WEB DESIGN
ALGORITHMS
HUMAN CRANE
CYBERBULLYING
Design a page for
Greenpeace
Traditional Celtic and
Pagan Music
Grieg – Morning
Prokofiev – Peter and
the Wolf
Ball Games: Pila:
Trigon, Expulsim
ludere, platanistas
SAY NO TO BULLYING
Is it good to have an
empire?
I AM UNIQUE
Team building skills
GOOD TO BE ME
What rights do animals
have?
EMOTIONS I FEEL
FOOD IS FARMED OR
GROWN
WHY FARMING
MATTERS
Design an algorithm
for a circuit.
Micheal Jackson –
Man in the Mirror
Earth song
Mechanical
movements build
one long machine.
Global Citizenship:
What does the world
do for us?
LOVE IS…
Extras
Violins
Participate in a debate
Live like a Roman
Live like a Briton
SEAL - http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110809101133/http://nsonline.org.uk/node/87009?uc=force_uj
PSHE – Topic- related, ethical question – suggestion.
JOURNEY IN LOVE - http://www.goodshepherd.lewisham.sch.uk/Journey-in-Love/index.asp
Raise money for charity
Partake in a
conservation week