| Term | English | Maths | Science | Topic | Computing | Art / DT | PE | PSHE | SMSC | Music | Wow opportunities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autumn 1 | Fiction: Stories with familiar settings (The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch – seaside setting) Non-fiction: Recount of the trip to the Seaside Poetry: Patterned poetry (Seaside) | Number: Place value Number: Addition & subtraction | Take Care | Geography: Seaside | Online Safety & Effective Searching | D&T: Designing and making a sandwich | Improving co-ordination with objects, including bouncing, throwing and catching. Balance. Practicing jumps from equipment, rolls and balancing with a partner. Swimming | New Beginnings | What can we learn from sacred books? | The long and short of it (duration) ta, titi, to-ee layers of ostinati (patterns that repeat) Sing songs with a growing range of notes and more expression. | Trip to Weston-super-Mare |
| Autumn 2 | Fiction: Traditional tales (Jack & Beanstalk and Hansel & Gretel) Poetry: Diamante Poems (Winter) | Number: Addition & subtraction Geometry Poperties of common 2D and 3D shapes | Materials: Good Choices | History: Famous People (Samuel Pepys, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, George Stephenson, Charles Dickens) | Presenting Ideas | Art: Seascapes | Locomotion skills – Travelling at speed over objects. Swimming | Getting on | Who is Jewish and what do they believe? | Feel the pulse (what is the difference between a pulse and a rhythm) Notation/Rhythm reading. Memorising song lyrics and melodies. | Victorian workhouse afternoon (Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist) |
| Spring 1 | Non-fiction: Explanation texts (life cycles) Fiction: Stories by the same author (Francesca Simon – Famous People) | Measurement: Money Number: Multiplication & division | Growing Up | History: Famous people (Florence Nightingale, Queen Elizabeth II, The Prime Minister) | Spreadsheets/ Making Music | DT Designing and making a carry box for Nightingale | Object mastery – Co-ordination challenges with objects involving bouncing and striking an object. Stability – Working to create a small group routine to a familiar song. Swimming | Citizenship | Chinese New Year (assembly) | Taking off! (pitch) Solfege: Doh, Re, Mi, Fa, Soh, La, ti Stave/Staff pitch reading. | Trip to Ironbridge Blists Hill Victorian Village |
| Spring 2 | Non-fiction: Instructions (growing a healthy plant) | Number: Multiplication & division Measurement: Length & Height Measurement: Mass, Capacity & Temperature | The Apprentice Gardener | Geography: Islands in stories | Creating Pictures | Art: Mother Nature | Agility – Playing invasion games with tags. Swimming | Choices | Who is a Muslim and what do they believe? | What’s the score? (instruments and symbols) The larger the instrument the lower the pitch, the smaller the instrument the higher the pitch. | Designing and creating own islands |
| Summer 1 | Fiction: Extended Stories (Fantastic Mr Fox) | Number Fractions Measurement: Time | STEAM: Designing an effective shelter for Fantastic Mr Fox | History: History of Coventry | Questioning | D&T: Wheeled vehicles | Speed skills Different races e.g. hurdles, relay, sprint, log distance. Swimming | Communities | How and why do we celebrate special times? (Judaism & Islam) | Peter and the Wolf (timbre, tempo & dynamics) | Visit Coventry City Centre – cathedral ruins, Lady Godiva statue |
| Summer 2 | Non-fiction: Non-chronological reports (animals from around the world) Poetry: Riddles (animals) | Statistics Geometry: Position & direction | What is in your habitat? | Geography: Around the world | Coding | Art: Patterns around the World | Object mastery. Practicing sending and receiving a ball to a partner in a specific direction. Swimming | Changes | How should we care for others and the world and why does it matter? | Sounds interesting (exploring sounds: natural and synthetic) | Trip to Twycross |