St. Bernadette’s Curriculum Planning

Our curriculum isskills based, active,

enriched and creative.It has been developed over four years.

We have used Chris Quigley resources to develop our skills based approach

and use key texts.

St Bernadette’s Catholic Primary SchoolLong Term Curriculum Overview Year 5

Autumn Spring Summer

RE, EPR and SEAL

New Beginnings, Sex Education, Getting on and Falling Out

Going for GoalsDrugs, and Alcohol

RelationshipsCultural diversity

Good to be meEnvironment

Changes

Year 5

The Best of Times, the Worst of Times

(The Victorians)

Life CyclesInterdependence and Adaptation

Lifecycles

Art and Design William MorrisDT Victorian Biscuits

Local study: Preston Manor

Texts: Oliver Twist

Water BabiesStreet Child

The Secret Garden

‘Water, Water Everywhere’

Environmental aspect Coastal erosion and coasts

Weather

Around the world – global warming

Gases around us and Changing State

Art – HiroshigeDT – Wind turbines

Texts: The Ancient Mariner

Kensuke’s KingdomThe Wreck of the Zanzibar

We’ll Meet AgainWW11

Email French childrenEconomic wellbeing- War time rationing –Refugees – Kinder

transportPolitical geographyChanging CircuitsChanging Sounds

Art: WW2 Propaganda Posters –

Ravillious and NewboldTexts: Good Night Mr Tom

The PianoHitler stole my pink rabbit – Judith

KerrCandle in the Dark

Carrie’s War

Enrichment(e.g. Stunning

Starts, Fabulous Finishes,

WorkshopsTrips etc)

Dickens World

Preston Manor

RNLI Visit

Seven Sisters

Brighton Museum Handling Session

VE Day Jive Party

Area of Learning Subject Autumn TermThe Best of Times, The Worst of Times

Oliver Twist, Water Babies, Street Child, Christmas Carol, The Secret Garden

Spring Water, Water Everywhere

Kensueke’s Kingdom, Skelli, The Water Tower, Water myths, legends, fables

Summer TermWe’ll Meet Again

Candle in the dark, Goodnight Mr Tom, The Piano, Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, The Silver Sword

Religious Education

Babies, Initiation, GiftsWorld Faith – Judaism

Books, Death, New Life Energy Freedom / Responsibility, Special Places

EPR/PSED

Personal Health Sex EducationNew BeginningsGetting On and Falling OutAnti Bullying Week

Personal Health- drugs safetyGoing for GoalsDifference and DiversityRelationships

Development of awareness of local and wider world issues- EnvironmentGood to be MeMoney ManagementChanges

Understanding English, Communication, and Languages

English

Unit 1 Poetic Style – performance, word play, metaphor, rhyme, word choice 2 weeksUnit 4 Older Literature – The Secret Garden – 3 weeksUnit 2 Recounts - 2 weeksUnit 3 Persuasive writing – 3 weeksUnit 2 Traditional stories, Fables, Myths, Legends – 4 weeks

Unit 1 – novels and stories by significant authors - Michael Morpurgo - 4 weeksUnit 2 – Narrative Poetry – The Rime of The Ancient Mariner – 2/3 weeksUnit 3 Persuasive Writing 2 weeksUnit 3 – Stories from other cultures – 3 weeks

Unit 5 – Film narrative, The Piano – 3 weeksUnit 1 – Instructions - 3 weeksUnit 6 Dramatic Conventions 2-3 weeksUnit 2 Recounts – Evacuees – 2 weeksUnit 3 Choral and Performance Poetry – 1 week

ICT

Research – large databases – the internet – research Victorian BritainCommunication PowerPoint/Hyperlinks/Presentation

Controlling Devices Scratch/Coco – log flumes/washing machine

Modeling and simulation – Excel, spreadsheets, planning VE day partyData Handling – Information Workshop – WW2 link

Primary Language

Writing a postcard/recipes and instructions /weather and Christmas

Numbers to 200/The River Seine (link with Water topic)/ Simple presentations

Directions/places in school/objects in school.

Mathematical Understanding

Maths

Place value, ordering and roundingUsing a calculator, Understanding x and ÷Mental calculation strategies (x ÷), Pencil and paper procedures (x ÷), Money and ‘real life’ problems, Making decisions and checking results, Fractions, decimals & %,Ratio and proportion, Handing data

Place value, ordering and rounding,Using a calculator, Understanding x and ÷Mental calculation strategies (x ÷)Pencil and paper procedures (x ÷)Money and ‘real life’ problems, Making decisions and checking results, Fractions, decimals & %,Ratio and proportion, Handing data

Shape and space , Reasoning about shapesMeasures including problems, Mental calculation strategies (+ -), Pencil and paper procedures (+ -)Money and ‘real life’ problems, Making decisions and checking results, Properties of numbersReasoning about numbers

Scientific and Technological

Understanding

Science

Interdependence and AdaptationLife Cycles

Gases around usChanging State

Changing CircuitsChanging sounds

Design Technology

Biscuits and lemonade

Wind Turbines

Make do and Mend

Historical, Geographical

and Social Understanding

History

The Victorians – famous Victorians/schools/work

Water and Coasts World War 2

Understanding the Arts

Art William Morris – Printing techniques Hiroshige Propaganda Posters Ravilious and Newbold

Music Ongoing skills 15, Rhythm and Pulse 16Exploring Rounds 17, Christmas Carols

Ongoing skills – Heroes of Troy BBC Performing together 17 Exploring Sound Sources 18, Lyrics and Melody 19Samba Band

Ongoing skills 15,Performing Together 20Exploring Musical Processes 21

Understanding Physical

Development , Health and Well

Being

Physical Education

Gym Unit 5Dance – Victorian Music – Victorian characters – composition individually/pairs/groups in unison/canon. Net + Wall Un 3TennisStriking and Fielding – Hockey

Gym Unit 5Dance Unit 5Invasion Games Un 3 – netball/basketball/football

Athletics Unit 3Striking + Fielding 2 Rounders/ cricketOutdoor Education

Curriculum 2014• When redesigning our long term plans in light of the new requirements

we wanted to keep what we believe enhances and enriches learning and underpin this with good subject knowledge.

• We looked at history and geography first as most of our current topics are history or geography interwoven with science.

• There was a lot of discussion with teachers negotiating and sharing ideas. There was a realisation that we would need to update our subject knowledge and there were also resource implications.

Teachers looked at the long term plans alongside the new expectations.

They highlighted the new History and Geography curriculum to show what was

covered in which year group.

This allowed any gaps in coverage to be seen.

We found that KS1 needed very few changes.KS2 needed a lot more thinking about.

RE EPR and SEAL

New Beginnings, Sex Education, Getting on and Falling Out

Going for GoalsDrugs, and Alcohol

RelationshipsCultural diversity

Good to be meEnvironment

Changes

Year 1

Wonderful WorldPeople who help usLocal Area-MapsExploring our local area

Ourselves Texts:Various non fiction texts about people who help us

CeltsHomes Long Ago-Celtic roundhousesCeltic way of life –where they settled

Sounds and Hearing Texts:Various non fiction texts about the Celts

Polar Lands Environmental -Global warmingWeather ,TravelPolar animals.Artists: Picasso – Blue periodSorting & Using MaterialsTexts: Non fiction: Extreme survival –Polar RegionsPolar LandsWeatherFiction:Eddie the Penguin saves the World, The Emperor’s Egg, Little PenguinPolar Bear Polar Bear Big Bear, Little BearLittle Polar BearPoetry:Avery first poetry bookPolar animalsOver in the Arctic

Polar Lands/AfricaHow inuits live –now and in the pastAfrican history –comparing our lives with other cultures now and in the pastLight and DarkTexts:Long walk to Freedom children’s versionAfrican texts

AfricaEconomic wellbeing – Fair TradeBreathing PlacesGrowing PlantsPushes and pulls Texts:A is for AfricaBringing the Rain to Kepiti PlainHanda’s SurpriseA Country Far AwayJim and The BeanstalkVarious non fiction texts about plants

Enrichment(e.g. Stunning

Starts, Fabulous Finishes,

WorkshopsTrips etc

Explore our school and the local area

Visit to Butser Ancient Farm-Talks around the fire in an

authentic roundhouseWorkshops including making

Celtic craft

Eddie the Penguin has a message for the children

Drusilla’s zoo to see Penguins and African houses

African singing and dancing workshop

African Day in school

KS2 staff discussed where new objectives could be incorporated into existing topics and came to mutual agreement.

Teachers became very passionate about different areas and because they were involved in the whole process were able to see the big picture. Teachers were on board with the changes as they were making them!

Those which could not be incorporated have become new topics.

New curriculum objectives were stuck on to the long term plan to ensure that all objectives were covered.

Some things which didn’t fit our current model

History CoverageY3• Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age – new topic• The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain – existing, with changes• A non-European society that provides contrasts with British History –

Mayan civilisation – new topic The Mysterious MayansY4 • Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots – a new topic to be

introduced in Autumn term – ‘This Sceptred Isle’ – encompassing History and new Geography objectives

• ‘Incredible India’ moving onto the locality study with Brighton. Royal Pavilion, Brighton as a fishing village- existing, with changes and deeper coverage

• ‘Our Living Planet’ is being introduced - geography and science based.

Y5• Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of

England to the time of Edward the confessor (1066) – invasions

New topic- entwined with an existing ‘water’ topic• A local history study- village of Preston (school

location) – Preston Manor, exploring how the village changed with the introduction of the railways, looking at Census, land use changes, population – Existing topic as part of Victorians, with more focused coverage

• A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066- railways as part of the existing Victorian topic ‘The best of times, the worst of times’

Y6• A study of an aspect or theme in British history that

extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066 – as part of the work on Exploration,

‘An Awfully Big Adventure’(Shackleton) – existing topic • Achievements of the earliest civilisation – Ancient

Egypt – existing topic ‘I See Beautiful Things’ but alternates with Ancient Greece topic

• Ancient Greece and influence on the Western world – existing topic (‘Aristos Achaion and the Siege of Troy’)

We chose to follow topics chronologically, apart from in Year 6, and linked them as much as we could to our known and successful topics.

We will be introducing our new topics this academic year as far as possible.

An example from Y5

“Water Water Everywhere”, had a geographical and scientific focus over the Spring term.

This has now been moved to the Summer, to ensure more time, and will be re-planned to allow for the History objectives of Vikings and Anglo-Saxons, including 1066. This will involve the role of the Channel and ways in which England was invaded.

Long Term Curriculum Overview 2013-2014

 Autumn- HSITORY FOCUS Spring- HISTORY/ GEOGRAPHY

FOCUSSummer- HISTORY/ SCIENCE/ GEOGRAPHY

RE, EPR and SEAL

New Beginnings, Sex Education, Getting on and Falling Out

Going for GoalsDrugs, and Alcohol

Relationships

Cultural diversity

Good to be meEnvironment

Changes

Year 5  

 

The Best of Times,the Worst of Times

(The Victorians)Life Cycles

Interdependence and Adaptation 

Art and Design William MorrisDT Victorian Biscuits

 Texts: Oliver Twist

Diary of a workhouse/ Chimney sweepStreet Child

The Secret GardenCautionary Tales

 NEW CURRICULUM

Local study: Preston Manor- local history study- how Preston village changed over

time as a consequence of the introduction of railways, looking at census work – including

map work, symbols and keys, references, looking at plans of the local area, looking at

physical and human features, settlement use, economic activity

We’ll Meet AgainWW11

Email French childrenEconomic wellbeing- War time rationing

–Refugees – Kinder transportPolitical geographyChanging Circuits

Enquiry in an environmental context Changing Sounds

 Art: WW2 Propaganda Posters –

Ravillious and NewboldTexts: Good Night Mr Tom

The Piano Hitler stole my pink rabbit –

Judith KerrCandle in the Dark

Carrie’s War

‘Water, Water, Everywhere’ Environmental aspect

Coastal erosion and coastsWeather Around the world – global warming

Gases around us and Changing StateArt – Hiroshighe

DT – Wind turbinesTexts: The Ancient Mariner

Kensuke’s KingdomThe Wreck of the Zanzibar

 NEW CURRICULUM AND GLP-

-distribution of natural resources, including water – including discussion of global issues- what is ‘enough’ water, do we all have enough,

can we all have enough, do some have ‘excess’? Understanding physical geography- rivers, the water cycle, understanding physical/ human features (rivers, coasts) using globes, maps,

atlases, locating places around the UK

Ready for 2014- discussion of use of Channel for Vikings, Anglo-Saxons- struggle for the Kingdom of Britain up to 1066? – looking at Pevensey/ Hastings? Possible new topic change – encompassing water, environment, channel, Vikings etc over whole of summer term Including longitude/ latitude for sailors

Enrichment

(e.g. Stunning Starts,

Fabulous Finishes,Worksho

psTrips etc

 Dickens WorldPreston Manor

Hove Museum- Victorian toy handling session

 Brighton Museum Handling Session

VE Day Jive Party 

 RNLI Visit

Seven Sisters

An example from Y4

The year 4 teacher took the new curriculum as an opportunity to redesign topics and introduce new ideas. She has designed a new topic to encompass ‘Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots’. There will be many cross-curricular links with Geography.

Next Steps• to think of inspiring topic titles• turn our long term plans into medium term plans • to develop subject knowledge• to find fiction and non fiction texts and books • to find resources and artefacts, places to visit,

visitors, workshops