Curriculum Overview

Reading

‘Stig of the Dump’ by Clive King.

Writing

Using Stig as our inspiration, we will start the year by writing a biography of Clive King. We will then write our own short narratives with dialogue. After that, we will write letters from Barney to Stig. Finally, we will write an explanation text linked to our learning in Geography this term.

Maths

We will start by looking at number and place value (numbers up to 1000) before comparing and ordering numbers on a number line. Later in the term we will work on Graphs before focussing on addition and subtraction.

Science

Autumn 1 - The Human Body

The digestive system, teeth and senses, a healthy diet, nutrition, vitamins and minerals, skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement.

Autumn 2 - Cycles in Nature

Seasonal cycles and plants, animal migration and Life cycles of a plant and a frog.

RE

We will be considering these big questions this term:

Autumn 1 - Christianity

What do Christians learn from the Creation story?

Autumn 2 - Judaism

Why is the Torah such a joy for the Jewish Community?

PHSE

We will continue our learning on how to be ‘Heart smart’, building on from the learning in Y2:

Autumn 1 - Get Heart Smart

Children will learn and discuss ways of showing love to themselves and others.

Autumn 2 - Don’t forget to let love in!

Children will learn and discuss that each one of us is loved, special and important.

PE and Sport

We will be working on the core skills we need to take part in different competitive games and will also be developing our gymnastic and dance skills.

Geography

Autumn 1 - Spatial Sense

Using and analysing maps, reading compasses and symbols, reading grid references, carry out some fieldwork of our local area and compare localities of San Francisco and Peterborough (human geography and physical geography).

Autumn 2 - Settlements

Learning that settlements are where people live, exploring the different types of settlements, compare the differences between rural and suburban areas, analyse and interpret population maps to learn about population density and understand how the geography of a region effects its settlements.

History

Autumn 1 - Stone Age to the Iron Age

Recapping what we know about ‘prehistory’, learning about hunter gatherers and how people lived during the Mesolithic age, exploring life in the Neolithic age and the introduction of farming, look at the Bronze age and how migration brought new skills, read about archaeologists possible reasonings for Stonehenge and learn about the Iron age in Britain.

Autumn 2 - Ancient Egypt

Use prior geographical knowledge to locate Egypt and look at the significance of the river Nile, explore what life was like in Ancient Egypt and how do we know so much information about them, learn about the religion and the afterlife in Ancient Egypt, find out about Howard Carter’s discovery of Tutankhamun, analyse how historians have found out about life in Egypt at this time through learning about Hieroglyphics.

Art

Autumn 1 - Line 

Artists: Klee, Leonardo, Picasso, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Moore, Hokusai

Concepts: Lines as basic tools, lines with different materials, line weight, different types of line, different ways to use line, printing to create lines.

Skills: continuous line drawing, line weight, drawing contour lines, mono printing.

Autumn 2 - Still Life and Form

Artists: Warhol, Morandi, Stubbs, Cezanne, Moser

Concepts: What is a still life?, still life throughout history, using tone to create form, highlight, shade/shadow, cast shadow, mid-tone, using colour to create form.

Skills: Pencil techniques to show form and tone, cross-hatching, drawing still life – what you see, layering oil pastels.

Languages

We will be starting to learn Latin using the book “Minimus”. We will be introduced to the Latin family that ‘Minimus’ the mouse lives with, learn some greetings and the members of the family.