Autumn Term Planning 2017
Curriculum Planning
Autumn Term 2017
We share all our learning objectives for each class over the coming term. This information is updated termly and hopefully gives you an insight into what your child will be learning in the upcoming months. If you would like further information, please do not hesitate to speak to your child’s class teacher.
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Reception EYFS |
Objectives Autumn 2017 |
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Communication, language & Literacy |
Responding to others; use of imaginative language; retelling traditional tales; letter formation; CVC reading and writing; digraphs in reading; fairy tales; poetry/ |
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Maths |
Numbers to 20 and beyond; estimating quantities; measures; data handling. |
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Understanding the world |
Winter; weather; growth; Spring. |
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Personal, social & emotional development |
Being a good friend; showing respect to others’ beliefs and cultures. |
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Creative development |
Watercolours; materials; storytelling. |
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Physical development |
Games – rolling and kicking; gymnastics – travelling; dance – weather-themed; developing fine motor skills; healthy eating. |
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RE |
Getting to know Jesus; Sorrow and joy |
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Year 1 |
Objectives Autumn 2017 |
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English |
Traditional tales – Goldilocks and the Three Bears; poetry – Things Found in a Wizard’s Pocket; rhyming – Room on the Broom; stories from a range of cultures – Meerkat Mail; non-fiction – reports. |
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Maths |
Time – to the hour and half past the hour; bar charts; 2D and 3D shapes; fractions – halves and quarters; doubling; division; word problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. |
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Science |
Everyday materials; seasonal changes. |
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Humanities |
Geography – natural and physical features; the United Kingdom (four countries and their capitals). |
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Art & DT |
Designing, building and evaluating a house for The Three Little Pigs; primary and secondary colours. |
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RE |
Families and celebrations – understanding what it means to belong to our church family, that God is our father in heaven, and to hear how Jesus’ family took him to the Temple; Following Jesus – Hear how some of his first disciples and consider how we choose friends and understanding that Jesus died on Good Friday and that God raised him from the dead three days later. |
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French |
Learn basic greetings; animals and pets. |
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Year 2 |
Objectives Autumn 2017 |
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English |
Traditional tales/fairy tales; stories from other cultures; different stories from the same author, focusing on Jane Hissey and the Old Bear stories; non-fiction writing – nocturnal animals; narrative story-telling; poetry. |
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Maths |
Place value (tens and ones); solving addition and subtraction questions including 2-step word problems; multiplication and division within the 2, 5 and 10 times tables; multiplication and division word problems; repeated addition of 3’s and 4’s (basic times table work); telling the time to five minute intervals; sorting and recognising 2D shapes; properties of 2D and 3D shapes; measurement (cm, money, capacity); fractions of shape, set and number. |
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Science |
Living things and their habitats; plants. |
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Humanities |
Geography – local area comparison with Daintree Rainforest. |
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Art |
Urban art and printmaking skills. |
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RE |
The Good News – understanding that Jesus had the power to turn sorrow into joy; The Mass – learning about the traditions within our faith. |
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Computing |
Computer algorithms and game design |
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PE |
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Year 3 |
Objectives Autumn 2017 |
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English |
Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura. We will explore the texts through drama, performance, poetry and the written word. |
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Maths |
Place value; reasoning; 3, 4 and 8 times tables and corresponding divisions; subtraction and division. |
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Science |
Light; Rocks and Fossils |
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Humanities |
From the Stone Age to the Iron Age |
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Computing |
Computer networks |
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Art |
Drawing and shading
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RE |
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Music |
Glockenspeil |
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PE |
Dance |
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Year 4 |
Objectives Autumn 2017 |
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English |
Playscripts; non-chronological report; poetry; library skills; dictionaries; grammar. |
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Maths |
Place value, ordering and rounding; mental calculations; paper/pencil procedures – addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; angles; length; perimeter and area. |
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Science |
States of matter; living things and their habitats; healthy eating. |
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Humanities |
Geography – rivers; geography skills – atlas work with continents and oceans; Europe – countries and captials; grid reference. |
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Art & DT |
QCA Unit – Take A Seat; working with fabrics; tie-dye; talking textiles (QCA Unit 5C) |
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RE |
Jesus the Teacher; Jesus the Saviour |
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French |
Pets and animals. |
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Physical Education |
Tag rugby, basketball/netball; gymnastics (jumping and flight). |
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Computing |
Scratch game design; We Are Weather Presenters – iPad work to create weather reports. |
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Music |
Violin |
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Year 5 |
Objectives Autumn 2017 |
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English |
Myths and legends; The Highwayman’; to use a range of sentence types effectively, being able to choose them appropriately; continue to develop the use of advanced of punctuation such as colons and semi-colons; to develop our use of commas, brackets and dashes to provide extra information in sentences. |
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Maths |
Fractions; decimals; percentages; angles. |
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Science |
Properties and changes to materials; animals including humans. |
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Humanities |
Geography – looking at fair trade and North America; local area history study – Samuel Oldknow. |
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Art & DT |
Screen printing; moving toys – children will design, create and evaluate their own moving toy. |
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RE |
Inspirational people. |
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Computing |
Developing our coding skills through the use of variables as we mimic computer games and then make our own. |
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Music |
Music appraisal; basic musical notation. |
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PE |
Football; TAG rugby; swimming. |
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Year 6 |
Objectives Autumn 2017 |
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English |
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo; discussion texts; advanced level punctuation; Alan Peat sentences; thesaurus work. |
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Maths |
Re-cap 2D and 3D shapes; angle work; geometry including perimeter, area and volume; ratio and proportion; statistics; data interpretation and constructing graphs. |
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Science |
Animals including humans; light. |
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Humanities |
Geography – South America. |
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Art |
Printing; textile skills. |
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RE |
Jesus, the Bread of Life; the Passover; elements of Mass; the miracles of Jesus, the Passion and His death. |
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Computing |
Coding – using Scratch to make and develop games. |
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Music |
Music appraisal and basic music notation. |
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PE |
Outdoor games. |
