Curriculum

English

Autumn 1

• Significant Author – Roald Dahl (5 weeks)
• Instructions – Bread making (2 weeks)

Autumn 2

• Highwayman (3 weeks)
• Recounts - Newspaper Reports (3 weeks)

Spring 1

• Stories from Other Cultures (4 weeks – Mulan)
• Poetic Style - Lear/Stephenson (2 weeks)

Spring 2

• Myths and Legends (King Arthur) - 4 weeks
• Guided reading – whole class book (2 weeks)

Summer 1

• Guided reading – whole class book (1 week)
• Persuasive text (4 weeks)

Summer 2

• Hidden figures - non chronological report (3 weeks)
• The Tempest (1 week)
• Recount (2 weeks)
• End of year assessments?

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Mathematics

Number and Place Value

• Read, write, order and compare numbers to at least 1 000 000 and determine the value of each digit
• Count forwards or backwards in steps of powers of 10 for any given number up to 1 000 000
• Interpret negative numbers in context, count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers, including through zero
• Round any number up to 1 000 000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10 000 and 100 000
• Solve number problems and practical problems that involve all of the above
• Read Roman numerals to 1000 (M) and recognise years written in Roman numerals.

Addition and Subtraction

• Add and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (columnar addition and subtraction)
• Add and subtract numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers
• Use rounding to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, levels of accuracy
• Solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why

Multiplication and Division

• Identify multiples and factors, including finding all factor pairs of a number, and common factors of two numbers
• Know and use the vocabulary of prime numbers, prime factors and composite (non-prime) numbers
• Establish whether a number up to 100 is prime and recall prime numbers up to 19
• Multiply numbers up to 4 digits by a one- or two-digit number using a formal written method, including long multiplication for two-digit numbers
• Multiply and divide numbers mentally drawing upon known facts
• Divide numbers up to 4 digits by a one-digit number using the formal written method of short division and interpret remainders appropriately for the context
• Multiply and divide whole numbers and those involving decimals by 10, 100 and 1000
• Recognise and use square numbers and cube numbers, and the notation for squared (2) and cubed (3)
• Solve problems involving multiplication and division including using their knowledge of factors and multiples, squares and cubes
• Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and a combination of these, including understanding the meaning of the equals sign
• Solve problems involving multiplication and division, including scaling by simple fractions and problems involving simple rates

Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages

• Compare and order fractions whose denominators are all multiples of the same number
• Identify, name and write equivalent fractions of a given fraction, represented visually, including tenths and hundredths
• Recognise mixed numbers and improper fractions and convert from one form to the other and write mathematical statements >1 as a mixed number for example, ⅖   +   ⅘   =  1⅕
• Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator and denominators that are multiples of the same number
• Multiply proper fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers, supported by materials and diagrams
• Read and write decimal numbers as fractions [for example, 0.71 = ⁷¹ ⁄ ₁₀₀
• Recognise and use thousandths and relate them to tenths, hundredths and decimal equivalents
• Round decimals with two decimal places to the nearest whole number and to one decimal place
• Read, write, order and compare numbers with up to three decimal places
• Solve problems involving number up to three decimal places
• Recognise the per cent symbol (%) and understand that per cent relates to ‘number of parts per hundred’, and write percentages as a fraction with denominator 100, and as a decimal
• Solve problems which require knowing percentage and decimal equivalents of ½, ¼, ⅕, ⅖, ⅘ and those fractions with a denominator of a multiple of 10 or 25

Measurement

• Convert between different units of metric measure (for example, kilometre and metre; centimetre and metre; centimetre and millimetre; gram and kilogram; litre and millilitre)
• Understand and use approximate equivalences between metric units and common imperial units such as inches, pounds and pints
• Measure and calculate the perimeter of composite rectilinear shapes in centimetres and metres
• Calculate and compare the area of rectangles (including squares), and including using standard units, square centimetres (cm²) and square metres (m²) and estimate the area of irregular shapes
• Estimate volume [for example, using 1 cm³ blocks to build cuboids (including cubes)] and capacity [for example, using water]
• Solve problems involving converting between units of time
• Use all four operations to solve problems involving measure [for example, length, mass, volume, money] using decimal notation, including scaling.

Geometry - Properties of a Shape

• Identify 3-D shapes, including cubes and other cuboids, from 2-D representations
• Know angles are measured in degrees: estimate and compare acute, obtuse and reflex angles
• Draw given angles, and measure them in degrees (°)
• Identify:
• Angles at a point and one whole turn (total 360°)
• Angles at a point on a straight line and ½ a turn (total 180°)
• Other multiples of 90°
• Use the properties of rectangles to deduce related facts and find missing lengths and angles
• Distinguish between regular and irregular polygons based on reasoning about equal sides and angles.

Geometry - Position and Direction

• Identify, describe and represent the position of a shape following a reflection or translation, using the appropriate language, and know that the shape has not changed

Statistics

• Solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in a line graph
• Complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables.

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Science

List of Topics:

• Living Things in their Habitats
• Animals including Humans
• Properties and Changes of Materials
• Earth and Space
• Forces

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Art

List of Topics:

• Rembrandt
• Georgia O’Keeffe
• Faith Ringgold

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Computing

List of Topics:

• Developing a simple animation or game using Scratch or Kodu
• Communicating information safely, an introduction to cryptography: Scratch/Black Chamber
• Geometric art using Inkscape/Scratch
• Web development using Google Sites- website on eSafety
• Blogs: WordPress/Blogger – creating a blog to share experiences and opinions
• Introduction to computer aided design: Sketchup – creating a virtual ‘space’

eSafety learning runs throughout all topics

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Design and Technology

List of Topics:

• Mechanisms: Moving books/toys
• Textiles: Batik prints on silk
• Food: Bread

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Geography

List of Topics:

• Map skills
• Volcanos
• Local geography/ history

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History

List of Topics:

• Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor
• Study of a Non-European Society –Baghdad
• Local history – Birmingham / Kings Heath

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Music

The majority of music will be delivered by a specialist vocal teacher. In addition the pupils will complete a composition topic and half term learning to play an instrument.

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Physical Education

List of Topics:

• OAA
• Cricket
• Rounders
• Tag Rugby
• Athletics (indoor and outdoor)
• Tennis

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PSHE
Non-statutory

List of Topics:

• TBD

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Religious Education

We will follow the Birmingham Agreed Syllabus, available here.

English

Autumn 1

• Stories with a familiar setting
• Reports (2 weeks)
• Guided reading

Autumn 2

• Myths and legends
• Shape poetry and calligrams
• Guided writing

Spring 1

• Adventure and mystery
• Instructions
• Guided reading

Spring 2

• Dialogue and plays
• Guided writing

Summer 1

• Authors and letters
• Guided reading

Summer 2

• Reports (2 weeks)
• Poems to perform
• Narrative assessment
• Guided writing

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Mathematics

Number and Place Value

• Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100; find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number
• Recognise the place value of each digit in a three-digit number (hundreds, tens, ones)
• Compare and order numbers up to 1000
• Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations
• Read and write numbers up to 1000 in numerals and in words
• Solve number problems and practical problems involving these ideas

Addition nd Subtraction

• Add and subtract numbers mentally, including:
  • A three-digit number and ones
  • A three-digit number and tens
  • A three-digit number and hundreds
• Add and subtract numbers with up to three digits, using formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction
• Estimate the answer to a calculation and use inverse operations to check answers
• Solve problems, including missing number problems, using number facts, place value, and more complex addition and subtraction

Multiplication and Division

• recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables
• write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division using the multiplication tables that they know, including for two-digit numbers times one-digit numbers, using mental and progressing to formal written methods
• solve problems, including missing number problems, involving multiplication and division, including positive integer scaling problems and correspondence problems in which n objects are connected to m objects.

Fractions

• Count up and down in tenths; recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into 10 equal parts and in dividing one-digit numbers or quantities by 10
• Recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators
• Recognise and use fractions as numbers: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators
• Recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators
• Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator within one whole - for example, 5/7+1/7 = 6/7
• Compare and order unit fractions, and fractions with the same denominators
• Solve problems that involve all of the above

Measurement

• Measure, compare, add and subtract: lengths (m/cm/mm); mass (kg/g); volume/capacity (l/ml)
• Measure the perimeter of simple 2-D shapes
• Add and subtract amounts of money to give change, using both £ and p in practical contexts
• Tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12-hour and 24-hour clocks
• Estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute; record and compare time in terms of seconds, minutes and hours; use vocabulary such as o’clock, a.m./p.m., morning, afternoon, noon and midnight
• Know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year and leap year
• Compare durations of events [for example to calculate the time taken by particular events or tasks]

Geometry - Properties of a Shape

• Draw 2-D shapes and make 3-D shapes using modelling materials; recognise 3-D shapes in different orientations and describe them
• Recognise angles as a property of shape or a description of a turn
• Identify right angles, recognise that two right angles make a half-turn, three make three quarters of a turn and four a complete turn; identify whether angles are greater than or less than a right angle
• Identify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines

Statistics

• Interpret and present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables
• Solve one-step and two-step questions [for example, ‘How many more?’ and ‘How many fewer?’] using information presented in scaled bar charts and pictograms and tables

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Science

List of Topics:

• Throughout the year - Our Changing World. Plants and animals
• The Power of forces – Inertia, momentum, friction, magnetism
• Amazing bodies – Health, skeleton, muscles.
• Can you see me? Sight, light, shadows, sun safety.
• How does your garden grow? Plants – how they live and reproduce.
• Rock Detectives – Rock types, properties, fossils, soil.

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Art

List of Topics:

• Georges Seurat – Pointillism
• Vincent Van Gogh – Post impressionism
• Barbara Hepworth – Modernism – abstract art
• Look at architecture at the time

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Computing

List of Topics:

• We are programmers – Using Scratch to create an animation
• We are bug fixers – Finding and correcting the bugs in programs
• We are presenters – Videoing performances
• We are network engineers– Exploring computer networks, including the internet
• We are communicators – Communicating safely on the internet
• We are opinion pollsters – Collecting and analysing data

eSafety learning runs throughout all topics

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Design and Technology

List of Topics:

• Weaving:
  • Moving vehicles
  • Sandwiches

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Geography

List of Topics:

• Map Skills: UK and European Focus
• Mountains
• Local Area and land use

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History

List of Topics:

• The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain, an extended topic including a ‘Roman Day’ with invited guests
• Julius Caesar
• Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age

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Modern Foreign Languages

French will be taught weekly and throughout the year by a specialist language teacher.

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Music

The majority of music will be delivered by a specialist vocal teacher. In addition the pupils will complete a composition topic and half term learning to play an instrument.

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Physical Education

List of Topics:

• PE:
  • Gymnastics
  • Swimming and Water Safety
  • Street Dance - Perform dances using a range of movement patterns
• Games:
  • Multiskills
  • Netball/Basketball
  • Hockey
  • Striking and Fielding
  • Athletics
  • Tennis

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Religious Education

We will follow the Birmingham Agreed Syllabus, available here.

English

Autumn 1

• Guided Reading
• Stories with historical settings (assessed)
• Information texts (assessed)

Autumn 2

• Class Read
• Stories from other cultures (assessed)
• Exploring form

Spring 1

• Guided Reading
• Recounts: Newspapers and Magazines (assessed)
• Creating Images

Spring 2

• Class Read
• Stories that raise issues/dilemmas (assessed)

Summer 1

• Guided Reading
• Stories in imaginary worlds (assessed)
• Explanation text

Summer 2

• Class Read
• Persuasive text (assessed)
• Creative Writing – poetry/short story

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Mathematics

Number and Place Value

• Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1000
• Find 1000 more or less than a given number
• Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers
• Recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones)
• Order and compare numbers beyond 1000
• Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations
• Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000
• Solve number and practical problems that involve all of the above and with increasingly large positive numbers
• Read Roman numerals to 100 (I to C) and know that over time, the numeral system changed to include the concept of zero and place value

Addition and Subtraction

• Add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction where appropriate
• Estimate and use inverse operations to check answers to a calculation
• Solve addition and subtraction two-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why.

Multiplication and Division

• Recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12
• Use place value, known and derived facts to multiply and divide mentally, including: multiplying by 0 and 1; dividing by 1; multiplying together three numbers
• Recognise and use factor pairs and commutativity in mental calculations
• Multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number using formal written layout
• Solve problems involving multiplying and adding, including using the distributive law to multiply two digit numbers by one digit, integer scaling problems and harder correspondence problems such as n objects are connected to m objects.

Fractions and Decimals

• Recognise and show, using diagrams, families of common equivalent fractions
• Count up and down in hundredths; recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by one hundred and dividing tenths by ten.
• Solve problems involving increasingly harder fractions to calculate quantities, and fractions to divide quantities, including non-unit fractions where the answer is a whole number
• Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator
• Recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths
• Recognise and write decimal equivalents to ¼, ½, 1/3
• Find the effect of dividing a one- or two-digit number by 10 and 100, identifying the value of the digits in the answer as ones, tenths and hundredths
• Round decimals with one decimal place to the nearest whole number
• Compare numbers with the same number of decimal places up to two decimal places
• Solve simple measure and money problems involving fractions and decimals to two decimal places.

Measurement

• Convert between different units of measure [for example, kilometre to metre; hour to minute]
• Measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear figure (including squares) in centimetres and metres
• Find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares
• Estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money in pounds and pence
• Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12- and 24-hour clocks
• Solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes; minutes to seconds; years to months; weeks to days.

Geometry - Properties of a Shape

• Compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles, based on their properties and sizes
• Identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles up to two right angles by size
• Identify lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes presented in different orientations
• Complete a simple symmetric figure with respect to a specific line of symmetry.

Geometry - Position and Direction

• Describe positions on a 2-D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant
• Describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left/right and up/down
• Plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon

Statistics

• Interpret and present discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical methods, including bar charts and time graphs
• Solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in bar charts, pictograms, tables and other graphs

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Science

List of Topics:

• In a state – States of matter
• Good vibrations – sound
• Switched On – electricity
• Where does all that food go? Animals including humans, food and digestion
• Human Impact – Living things and their environments.

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Art

List of Topics:

• Portraits - Andy Warhol & Roy Lichtenstein
• Landscapes - David Hockney
• Physical - Wassily Kandinsky

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Computing

List of Topics:

• Desk Top Publishing – Publisher
• CLICKER
• We are co-authors – PPT basics
• We are musicians – Garage Band
• We are toy designers - Scratch

eSafety learning runs throughout all topics

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Design and Technology

List of Topics:

• 3D modelling – Chair
• Mechanisms – Night Lights
• Food – Curries and Spices or Soups

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Geography

List of Topics:

• European Cities
• Rivers
• Settlements

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History

List of Topics:

• Ancient Egypt
• King Tut and Howard Carter
• Britain’s Settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots

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Modern Foreign Languages

French will be taught weekly and throughout the year by a specialist language teacher.

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Music

The majority of music will be delivered by a specialist vocal teacher. In addition the pupils will complete a composition topic and half term learning to play an instrument.

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Physical Education

List of Topics:

• Hockey
• Netball/basketball
• Tag rugby
• Outdoor and adventurous pursuits
• Athletics
• Tennis

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Religious Education

We will follow the Birmingham Agreed Syllabus, available here.

English

List of Topics:

• Stories with a familiar setting: Children write a variety of descriptive pieces set in familiar places such as school and home.
• Instructional texts: A very practical unit focusing on the features, language and layout of instructions.
• Performance Poetry: Children study rhythm, rhyme and explore a selection of poems designed to be performed to an audience.
• Traditional stories: Focused around a range of traditional tales such as the Three Little Pigs and Cinderella. The unit culminates with children writing their own ending to a traditional story.
• Explanation texts with a cross-curricular link to our Geography Rainforest topic. We create rainforerst booklets with a contents page, index glossary and much more.
• Different stories by the same author: The author is Francesca Simon and we focus on the Horrid Henry stories and end the unit by writing our own versions.
• Nonsense poems: Children create silly rhymes and rhythms.
• Seaside stories linked to the Seaside Rock end of Key Stage 1 production.

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Mathematics

Number and Place Value

• Count in steps of 2, 3, and 5 from 0, and in tens from any number, forward and backward
• Recognise the place value of each digit in a two-digit number (tens, ones)
• Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations, including the number line
• Compare and order numbers from 0 up to 100; use <, > and = signs
• Read and write numbers to at least 100 in numerals and in words
• Use place value and number facts to solve problems

Addition and Subtraction

• Solve problems with addition and subtraction:
  • Using concrete objects and pictorial representations, including those involving numbers, quantities and measures
  • Applying their increasing knowledge of mental and written methods
  • Recall and use addition and subtraction facts to 20 fluently, and derive and use related facts up to 100
• Add and subtract numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and mentally, including:
  • A two-digit number and ones
  • A two-digit number and tens
  • Two two-digit numbers
  • Adding three one-digit numbers
• Show that addition of two numbers can be done in any order (commutative) and subtraction of one number from another cannot
• Recognise and use the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction and use this to check calculations and solve missing number problems

Multiplication and Division

• Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables, including recognising odd and even numbers
• Calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division within the multiplication tables and write them using the multiplication (×), division (÷) and equals (=) signs
• Show that multiplication of two numbers can be done in any order (commutative) and division of one number by another cannot
• Solve problems involving multiplication and division, using materials, arrays, repeated addition, mental methods, and multiplication and division facts, including problems in contexts.

Fractions

• Recognise, find, name and write fractions ¹⁄₃ , ¹⁄₄ , ²⁄₄ and ³⁄₄ of a length, shape, set of objects or quantity
• Write simple fractions for example, ¹⁄₂ of 6 = 3 and recognise the equivalence of ²⁄₄ and ¹⁄₂

Measurement

• Choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction (m/cm); mass (kg/g); temperature (°C); capacity (litres/ml) to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers, scales, thermometers and measuring vessels
• Compare and order lengths, mass, volume/capacity and record the results using >, < and =<
• Recognise and use symbols for pounds (£) and pence (p); combine amounts to make a particular value
• Find different combinations of coins that equal the same amounts of money
• Solve simple problems in a practical context involving addition and subtraction of money of the same unit, including giving change
• Compare and sequence intervals of time
• Tell and write the time to five minutes, including quarter past/to the hour and draw the hands on a clock face to show these times
• Know the number of minutes in an hour and the number of hours in a day.

Geometry - Properties of a Shape

• Identify and describe the properties of 2-D shapes, including the number of sides and line symmetry in a vertical line
• Identify and describe the properties of 3-D shapes, including the number of edges, vertices and faces
• Identify 2-D shapes on the surface of 3-D shapes, [for example, a circle on a cylinder and a triangle on a pyramid]
• Compare and sort common 2-D and 3-D shapes and everyday objects

Geometry - Position and Direction

• Order and arrange combinations of mathematical objects in patterns and sequences
• Use mathematical vocabulary to describe position, direction and movement, including movement in a straight line and distinguishing between rotation as a turn and in terms of right angles for quarter, half and three-quarter turns (clockwise and anti-clockwise).

Statistics

• Interpret and construct simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and simple tables
• Ask and answer simple questions by counting the number of objects in each category and sorting the categories by quantity
• Ask and answer questions about totalling and comparing categorical data.

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Science

List of Topics:

• What’s in your habitat? - Children look at and identify some of the animals and plants that live in a habitat.
• Apprentice Gardener - Children use their observations to describe and identify seeds. They start to plant a series of seeds that they will observe over the next few weeks, plant some bulbs to observe as a class and begin a class book to record their investigations
• Growing up – Children identify the needs of a human baby and identify the changes that have occurred as they have grown from a baby into a child. The unit progresses to looking ath the stages of human life. Children find out more about babies by questioning an expert (a parent or health professional). They may also meet a baby.
• Take care - Children first think about what they need to do to stay safe and healthy. They then sort food, group into categories and plan a healthy meal. The unit also focuses on physical health and the importance of cleanliness
• Materials - Children identify which materials are appropriate for certain objects and which are not based upon their properties. Children carry out a comparative test to find out which types of materials are appropriate or not appropriate to make a teabag.
• Shaping up – a unit investigating how we can change the shape of objects. They decide on suitable uses for a range of materials and test different types of elastics to see how well they stretch.

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