Our Lady of Grace Whole School Curriculum Long Term Overview
Year 1 & 2 Year A | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |||
RE | Creation
Families and Celebrations | Prayer
Advent | Christmas
Jesus Teacher and Healer | Forgiveness
Lent and Holy Week | Easter Pentecost
Sharing Jesus’ life | Following Jesus today | |||
Book | Little Red Riding Hood Cinderella Jack and the Beanstalk
| Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Book? The true story of the three little pigs The Flower | Lost and Found The Snail and the Whale | How to wash a woolly mammoth Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Monkey Puzzle The Tiger who came to tea | Vlad and Florence Nightingale
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English genres | Traditional Tales | Traditional tales with a twist | Fiction/recounts Non-fiction- Read, retrieve, write | Understand, read, follow and write instructions | Description/ recounts Poetry | Information texts Letters | |||
History | Geography | Seasons (geography): How does the weather affect our lives? | |||||||
Local Area Study (Yr 1 & 2)
| Local area in the past (Yr2) | Polar regions (Yr1) | Significant person from the past (local) – Josiah Wedgewood (Yr1) | Food from around the world | Significant person from the past (global)
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Art | D & T | Colours | Pottery
| Design a model and make it stronger | Famous portraits | Create a dish from around the world
| Design, make and evaluate functionality of necessary products
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Science | Animals including humans (humans) (Yr1) | Animals including Humans (animals) (Yr1)
| Materials (Yr1) | Uses of everyday Materials (Yr2) | Animals including humans (humans) (Yr2) | Animals including Humans (animals) (Yr2)
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PHSE | Being me in my World | Celebrating Difference
| Dreams and Goals | Healthy Me | Relationships | Changing Me | |||
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Year 1 & 2 Year B | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |||
RE | Old Testament Stories
| Sharing in the Life of Jesus Advent | Christmas Miracles and Parables | Special Celebrations Lent and Holy Week | Easter Pentecost
| Our Church The Mass | |||
Book | Stick Man Jack and the Beanstalk Goldilocks and the three bears Gingerbread Man | Elmer Night Monkey, Day Monkey | Meerkat Mail The Enormous Crocodile | Fantastic Mr Fox Gorilla
| Tom and Lucy and the Seaside Tiddler Commotion in the ocean | Vlad and the Great Fire of London The Owl who was afraid of the dark | |||
English genres | Traditional Tales | Recounts Using description | Narrative Descriptive poetry | Non Chronological Reports | Instructions Poetry- rhyme | Non Fiction
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History | Geography | Climate | Toys from the past
| Non-European Comparison study
| Great explorers | Seaside in the present | The Great Fire of London
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Art | D & T | Environmental art Andy Goldsworthy | Design and make a product that moves
| Patterns, printing, IT package | Design, make and evaluate functionality of necessary products
| Design and make a picnic | Portraits/ landscape | ||
Science | Living things and their habitats (Yr2) | Plants (Yr1) | Plants (Yr1)
| Plants (Year 2) | Seasons (on-going observation over time) | ||||
PHSE | Being me in my World | Celebrating Difference
| Dreams and Goals | Healthy Me | Relationships | Changing Me | |||
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Music Year 1 | Exploring sounds around us and using our voices developing into 3 pitch songs (Harvest Songs) | Exploring timbres of instruments. Keeping the beat. Singing longer songs; rhymes and alliteration (Christmas Production) | Taking turns and sequencing sounds when playing instruments. Adding sound effects to a picture. | Explore pitch and tempo changes to express the meaning of a known nursery rhyme. | Introduction to basic rhythm and relative pitch notation. | Performance practice: posture, memory, vocal control (Summer Concert) | |||
Music Year 2 | Singing together, following a conductor, 5-8 pitch songs, rhythm recap. | Changing dynamics and tempo for effect. Finding the difference between the beat and the rhythm. | Instrumental timbre groups Basic song structure; verse and chorus | Exploring musical contrasts and ternary form. | Musical story telling; beginning, middle and end. Creating expressive contrasts. | Accurate pitch in songs (Summer Concert) | |||
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Computing Year 1 | Word Processing Skills Computer Skills | Painting
Programming Toys | Online Safety
| Scratch Junior Programming
| Using and Applying
| Recap ‘Sticky Knowledge & skills’ ALL units | |||
Computing Year 2 | Presentation skills | Computer Art | Online Safety | Using the internet | Preparing for turtle logo | Programming Turtle Logo and Scratch | |||
Year 3 & 4 Year A | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |||
RE | Belonging We Listen to God’s word at Mass
| Prayer Advent
| Christmas Reconciliation
| Lent Holy Week
| Easter Pentecost
| The Eucharist is a thanksgiving to God
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Book | Hansel and Gretel Anthony Browne | The Iron Man Ted Hughes | The Abominables Eva Ibbotson | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis
| The Battle of Bubble and Squeak Philippa Pearce | Cat Tales Linda Newbery | |||
English genres | Narrative – Traditional Tales Diary Instruction writing
| Report writing Letters – Formal Poetry | Biographies Non-chronological reports | Narrative - Stories set in imaginary worlds
Play-scripts
| Non-chronological reports
Poetry | Recounts
Explanation text | |||
History | Geography | Stone age – iron age | Volcanoes and Earthquakes | Ancient Ancients - Egypt | Rivers – The River Nile | Ancient Greece | Mediterranean country study | ||
Art | D & T | Stone age wall art
| Design, technology and evaluate (electrical) | Digital art – Digital images Photographs | Design/ product that floats | Pottery (Greek) | Food from farm to fork (harvesting, combing, creating, comparing) | ||
Science | Animals including humans (Yr 3) | Rocks (Yr 3) | Animals including humans (Yr 4) | Living things and their habitats (Yr 4)
| Plants (Yr 3) | Plants (Yr 4)
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PHSE | Being me in my World | Celebrating Difference
| Dreams and Goals | Healthy Me | Relationships | Changing Me | |||
PE | Dance | Multi-skills | Swimming | Gymnastics | Netball | Athletics | |||
French | Je Parle Francais | Je me Presente | En Famille | ||||||
Year 3 & 4 Year B | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |||
RE | Creation and the Story of Abraham to Joseph Jesus Teaches Us How to Pray | Advent | Christmas Jesus: Light of the World and Beloved Son | Old Testament: Moses - King David Lent: Living as Followers of Jesus Holy Week | Easter Pentecost | Sharing in the Life of Christ: The Church as a Community Special Roles and Responsibilities | |||
Book | Journey to Jo’burg (Beverley Naidoo) | Voices in the Park (Anthony Browne) | Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White) | The Firework Maker’s Daughter- (Philip Pullman)
| Why the Whales Came (Michael Morpurgo) | The Snow Walker’s Son (Catherine Fisher) | |||
English genres | Narrative: setting description based on Johannesburg. Narrative: diary entry Non-fiction- non chronological report. | Narrative- Autobiographies, Letters Non-fiction: Formal letter from the point of view of an integral character petitioning for a job. | Narrative- stories: based on the themes of CW. Non-fiction non-chronological reports Poetry | Non-fiction: Persuasive Writing Poetry: create vivid images using language techniques such as metaphors and similes | Narrative-Setting Description inspired by the island of Bryher. Non-fiction- debates/arguments inspired by the environment al impact on Whale’s habitats. Poetry. | Non-fiction- play scripts based off the narrative. Poetry: Construct an image poem based off a setting from the narrative. | |||
History | Geography | Stone age – iron age | The UK
| Romans | Maps Where in the world | Shang Dynasty | Mountains | ||
Art | D & T | Design, make and evaluate (mechanical) | UK Artist | Mosaic | Creative cooking | Ceramist study (artist & clay) | Design, make and evaluate | ||
Science | Electricity (Yr 4) | Sound (Yr4 ) | Forces (Yr 3) | States of matter (Yr 4) | Light (Yr 3) | ||||
PHSE | Being me in my World | Celebrating Difference
| Dreams and Goals | Healthy Me | Relationships | Changing Me | |||
PE | Gymnastics/Dance | Tennis/Hockey | Swimming | Parkour/Tag Rugby | Street Dance/Cricket | Orienteering/Golf | |||
French | Les Animaux | Mon Anniversaire | Le Monde | ||||||
Year 3 & 4 | |||||||||
Music Year 3 | Music reflecting nature Vivaldi – Four Seasons Saint Säens – Carnival of the Animals Families of orchestral instruments | Semiquaver rhythms. Music in 2- or 3-time. | Notes of the treble stave. Boomwackers. | Historical Comparison: Orchestral Music by Vivaldi and John Williams | Listening skills development through singing games. (Summer Concert) | ||||
Music Year 4 | Recorders- Notes B, A & G | Recorders- Lower notes E, D | Recorders- Upper notes C, D | Recorders- Improving fluency and expression; Festival pieces | Comparison of harmonic sound and structure: Mozart and Stravinsky | What features make music suitable for dancing? (Summer Concert) | |||
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Computing Year 3 | Word processing | Internet Research and communication | Online Safety Using and Applying | Programming Turtle Logo and Scratch | Drawing and DTP | Presentation skills | |||
Computing Year 4 | Online Safety | Word Processing | Scratch: Questions and Quizzes
| Programming Turtle Logo
| Animation
| Using and Applying | |||
Year 5 & 6 Year A | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |||
RE | Unit A: Creation Unit B: Miracles & The Sacrament of the Sick | Unit L: Marriage
Unit F: Parables & The Sayings of Jesus Unit C: Advent | Unit D: Christmas Unit E: Baptism | Unit G: Lent
Unit H: Holy Week
| Unit I: Easter
Unit J: Pentecost
| Unit K: The Work of the Apostles
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Book | Running on the Rooftop of the World | Varjak Paw | Oranges in No Man’s Land | Trash | The Girl of Ink & Stars | Journey To The River Sea | |||
English genres | Narrative: Suspense & Atmosphere
Narrative: tales with a historical setting.
Poetry- poems that convey an image.
Narrative: Stories from other cultures | Non-fiction: formal letter
Non-fiction: non- chronological report.
Narrative: use imaginative description- Interweave descriptions of characters, settings and atmosphere with dialogue. | Narrative: Issues/ dilemma.
Non -fiction: newspaper article.
Poetry: Create vivid images by using alliteration, similes, metaphors and personification. | Narrative: Adventure story.
Narrative: Stories from other cultures.
Non- fiction: biography [Greta Thunnberg] | Narrative: Legends
Non-Fiction: Explanation Text | Non- fiction: Persuasive piece.
Narrative: adventure.
Poetry: look at Rudyard Kipling poems. | |||
History | Geography | Mayans
| Mexico (north/south America) | Anglo Saxons
| Climate change and sustainability
| Vikings
| Fair trade | ||
Art | D & T | Design a product – Pulleys or gears
| Observational Art | E resources to create art
| Make product with electrical component – alternative energy.
| Norse Mythology Artist study
| Come dine with me (fair trade episode) – create within a budget. | ||
Science | Animals including humans (Yr 5) | Forces (Yr 5) | Materials (Yr 5)
| Earth and Space (Yr 5) | Animals including humans (Yr 6) | ||||
PHSE | Being me in my World | Celebrating Difference
| Dreams and Goals | Healthy Me | Relationships | Being me in my World | |||
PE | Swimming | Multi-skills | Dance | Gymnastics | Netball | Swimming | |||
French | Les Animaux | Mon Anniversaire | Le Monde | ||||||
Year 5 & 6 Year B | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |||
RE | Unit A: The Story of the People of God
Unit B: Followers of Christ | Unit K: Belonging to the Church community
Unit G: Prayers in the lives of the followers of Christ
Unit C: Advent | Unit D: Christmas
Unit E: Baptism and Confirmation | Unit F: Lent
Unit H: Holy Week
| Unit I: Easter
Unit J: Pentecost
| Unit L: Celebrating the life of St Mary’s and the saints
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Book | Street Child | River Boy | Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone | Skellig | The Nowhere Emporium | FaRther The Arrival | |||
English genres |
Narrative: tales with a historical setting.
Poetry- poems that convey an image.
Narrative: Stories from other cultures | Non-fiction: formal letter [Deforestation]
Non-fiction: non- chronological report.
Narrative: use imaginative description- Interweave descriptions of characters, settings and atmosphere with dialogue. | Narrative: Issues/ dilemma.
Non -fiction: newspaper article.
| Narrative: Adventure story.
Narrative: Suspense & Atmosphere
Narrative: Stories from other cultures.
Non- fiction: biography
| Narrative: Legends
Non-Fiction: Explanation Poetry: Create vivid images by using Text, alliteration, similes, metaphors and personification. | Non- fiction: Persuasive piece.
Narrative: adventure. Inferettial and Atmospheric Writing | |||
History | Geography | The British Empire | Jungles and Deserts | World war II | European Study Mega Cities
| Local History Study
| OS maps/Google Earth
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Art | D & T | Mood, feeling & emotions in Art | Design a product using scientific knowledge to design | Design & make replica product -Anderson shelter | European City Artist Study
| Source, track, combine ingredients (lobby) | Getting from A to B | ||
Science | Living Things and their Habitats (Yr 5)
| Electricity (Yr 6) | Living Things and their Habitats (Yr 6)
| Light (Yr 6)
| Evolution (Yr 6) | ||||
PHSE | Being me in my World | Celebrating Difference
| Dreams and Goals | Healthy Me | Relationships | Changing Me | |||
PE | Swimming | Multi-skills | Dance | Gymnastics | Netball | ||||
French | Mon Ecole et Moi | Qu’est-ce Que Tu Veux | Les Sports | ||||||
Year 5 & 6 | |||||||||
Music Year 5 | Texture in Music- Melody and accompaniment Ukuleles- chords | Ukuleles- Melodies using tablature | Ukuleles – Minor chords | Dramatic Music 19th Century programmatic music | Song accompaniments and story telling Mozart, Schubert and Gershwin | Score reading: Graphic scores | |||
Music Year 6 | Swing Music (1930s-40s): 3-part singing, instrumentation, swung rhythms, scatting. Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Louis Prima, Ella Fitzgerald | Early Rock ‘n’ Roll (1950s-60s): Blues structure, Ukulele 3 chord songs, lyric structure, Bass clef, compose a melodic introduction. Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Bobby Darin, The Beatles (early songs).
| Contemporary commercial music “Happy” by Pharrell Williams (2013), “Fireflies” by Owl City (2009) | My music legacy at OLOG; End of year event preparation (Summer Concert) | |||||
Year 5 & 6 | |||||||||
Computing Year 5 | Online Safety | Scratch: Developing Games | Controlling Devices: Flowol | Radio Station | 3D Modellling: Sketch Up | Online Safety | |||
Computing Year 6 | Unit 1: Scratch: Animated Stories | Unit 2: Spreadsheets | Unit 4: Online Safety | Unit 3: Kodu Programming | Unit 5: Film Making |