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Curriculum Plan for Grovelands School Sept 2007 – July 2008

Weds Sept 5 – Fri  Sept 7

Learning to Learn days

 Sept 10 – Oct 5

Changing Britain

FS – Family Life
Y1 – Toys
Y2 – Fire of London
Y3 – History of Hailsham
Y4 – Tudors
Y5 – Invaders and Settlers
Y6 – Victorians

 Oct 8 –  Oct 18

Energy

FS –  Physical processes
Y1 – Pushes and pulls
Y2 – Electricity
Y3 – Magnets and springs
Y4 – Circuits and conductors
Y5 – Changing sounds
Y6 – Physical processes revision of forces, circuits etc

Oct 19 - Training day – Performance management and curriculum planning

End of term 1

Mon Oct 29 – Weds Oct 31

Learning to Learn days

Thurs Nov 1 – Fri Nov 16

Materials

FS – Clothes
Y1 sorting and using materials
Y2 – Grouping and changing materials
Y3 – Characteristics of materials linked with rocks and soil
Y4 – Separating solids and liquids
Y5 - Changing state, including gases
Y6 – Materials revision of reversible and irreversible changes, dissolving etc.

Mon Nov 19 – Fri Nov 30

Communication

ICT, emails, debate, newspapers, design and technology, art.

Year group to decide a skills focus

Mon Dec 3 – Fri Dec 21

Celebrations
Dance, drama, music, performance, RE, art, food technology

FS –  Christmas
Y1 – Divali, Christmas, Light , Gifts and giving
Y2 – Hanukah, Christmas, parts played by different characters
Y3 – Special books, Christmas, Flight into Egypt
Y4 – Advent, Rosh Hashanah the Jewish New Year
Y5 – sharing food, Artists’ interpretations of Christmas
Y6 – Different gospel accounts of Christmas

End of term 2

Mon Jan 7 – Weds Jan 9

Learning to learn days. Anti-bullying focus

Thurs 10 Jan – Fri Feb 1

Living and growing

FS –  Senses
Y1 – Ourselves
Y2 – Health and growth
Y3 – Teeth  and eating
Y4  - Moving and growing
Y5 – Life cycles
Y6 Life and Living Processes including revision of interdependence and adaptation, micro-organisms etc.

 

Mon Feb 4 – Fri Feb 15

European Languages

 

End of term 3

Mon Feb 25 – training day

Tues Feb 26 – Fri March 14

Another Place

FS –  Holidays
Y1 – Homes around the world
Y2 – Japan
Y3 – Ancient Egypt
Y4 – India
Y5 – Ancient Greece
Y6 – Mountains across the World

Mon 17 March – Thurs March 20

Easter

FS – Easter story and new beginnings
Y1 – Stories of new life
Y2 – Church visit?
Y3 – Easter symbols
Y4 – Lent and the temptations of Jesus
Y5 – The events of Holy week
Y6 – Spring Festivals

Easter Weekend March 21 – March 24

Tues 25 March – Fri April 4

Wonderful World

FS –  Music and musical instruments
Y1 – Light and Dark
Y2 – Sound and hearing
Y3 – Light and shadow
Y4 – keeping warm
Y5 – Sun, moon and earth
Y6 – Light, and sound revision

End of term 4

Mon April 21 – Weds 23

Learning to learn days

Thurs April 24– Fri May 9

This Global Village
The impact that the way we live has on the planet. Linked with walk to school week

 

FS –  Taking care of the environment
Y1 – Air pollution and traffic
Y2 – Saving energy around the house
Y3 – Clean water for all
Y4 – Reduce, re-use, recycle
Y5 – How we get our food
Y6 – Travel and tourism

Mon May 12 – Fri May 16
Mon May 19 – Fri May 23

Y6 Tests

School summer tests

Year Group Focus

End of term 5

Mon June 2 – Weds June 4

Learning to learn days

Thurs June 5 – Fri June 20

Plants and animals

FS - Growing things
Y1  – Growing plants
Y2 – Plants and animals in the local  environment
Y3 – Helping plants grow well
Y4 – Habitats
Y5 – Dandelions
Y6 – Living things

Mon June 23 – Fri July 4

Our Locality

FS -  Layout of the school
Y1 – Locality of the school
Y2 – Seaside
Y3 – Around Hailsham
Y4 –  The Cuckoo Trail
Y5 – A local issue
Y6 – Water cycle

Mon July 7 – Weds July 23

Fitness and well-being

Sports day, PSHE, keeping safe, personal health

End of term 6

Discrete teaching areas: Maths, PE and Music in KS2
                                    Areas of Literacy and ICT where links cannot be made