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Yearly Overview KS2 Year A
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 *Yearly Overview: Year A (2024-25) KS2

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Value

Focus

Respect and Collaboration

Initiative

Curiosity

Risk Taking and Resilience

Application of all Values

English

Foxes: TWS- The Invisible by Tom Percival (Story about belonging)

Hedgehogs  TWS - The Arrival by Sean Tan

Foxes: TWS - Seasonal poetry

Foxes: TWS- Non Chron reports - animals

Foxes: TWS: The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers (humorous story)

adventure/quest set in polar/icy environment, focussing on the setting description)

Purpose: illustrated story (handwritten for 3/4 ; ICT produced for 5/6)

Foxes: TWS: Persuasive letter to an author

Writing to inform

(Polar Geography: short biographies about polar explorers

Non-chronological reports: polar animal or environmental issue)

Foxes: TWS: Wisp (Story of Hope) Linked to refugees and The Boy at the Back of the Class

Biography of Armstrong/Lovelace/Blake/Yarnold (linked to biography of Mary Anning in Science)

Read aloud Foxes

War Game by Michael Foreman

An alien in the jam factory by Chrissie Sains

Owen and the Soldier by Lisa Thompson

Shadow Fox by Carlie Sorosiak

The Land of Roar by Jenny McLachlan

The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf

Varjak Paw by SF Said.

Read aloud

Hedgehogs

War Game by Michael Foreman

War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

 

How to be More Hedgehog by Anne-Marie Conway

The Snow Girl by Sophie Anderson

The Last Bear by Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken

Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell

The Fossil Hunter: How Mary Anning unearthed the truth about the dinosaurs by Kate Winter

Ada’s Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay by Susan Hood & Sally Wern Comport

A Story Like the Wind by Gill Lewis

Maths (Y3)

U1- To be taught in MM

U2-Numbers to 1,000 (7w)

U2 cont-Numbers to 1,000 (3w)

U4- Manipulating additive relationship and securing mental calculation (4w)

U6-2,4,8 times table (3w) (MM)

U5- Column addition (2w)

U7-Column subtraction (1w)

U3 -Right angles (2w)

U10- Parallel and perpendicular lines in polygons (2w)

U11- Time (1w)

U8- Unit fractions (5w)

U9 -Non unit fractions (4w)

Maths (Y4)

U1-Review of column and addition and subtraction (3w)

U2-Numbers to 10,000 ( 4w)

U2 cont- Numbers to 10,000 (1w)

U3-Perimeter (2w)

U4 -3,6,9 times table (4w)

U5- 7 times table and patterns (2w)

U6 -Understanding and manipulating multiplicative relationships (5w) MM?

U7- coordinates (2w)

U8- review fractions (1w)

U9 cont -  Fractions greater than 1 (5w)

U10- Symmetry in 2d shapes (2w)

U11- Time (1w)

U12- Division with remainders (2w)

Maths (Y5)

U9 Converting units

U1 Decimal fractions

U7 Factors, multiples and primes

U3 Negative numbers

U4 Short multiplication and division

 U5 Angles

U8 Fractions

U5 Area and scaling

U9 Converting units

U1 Decimal fractions

U7 Factors, multiples and primes

U3 Negative numbers

Securing calculation

Maths (Y6)

U2 Multiples of 1000

 U3 Numbers up to 10000000

U5 Multiplication and division

 U4 Draw, compose and decompose shapes

U7 Fractions and percentages

U9 Ratio and proportion

 U6 Area, perimeter, position and direction

U11 Solving problems with 2 unknowns

 U12 Order of operations

Transition Work

Science

Animals including humans (human body: skeleton, muscles and digestive system)  - write and record film to tell people about healthy diets.

Evolution and Inheritance

(Trip) Create a polar animals and make a mini-documentary about it, detailing habitat and adaptations

(Ely Museum Fossil box / Trip to Scott Polar Research Institute

Study of a Famous Scientist - write a biography about Mary Anning.

History

Local History: World War 1 - plan a tea party at which children share mini-reports about their learning and bake treats.

Vikings: Alfred the Great

Invasion!

Anglo-Saxon / Viking struggle

Alfred

Why was Alfred successful when Boudicca wasn’t? - concept cartoons

Geography

Y5/6 Coastal Mapping (Norfolk)??

Hilltop

United we Stand: UK Nations and Regions - poster / leaflet

Polar Geography -

make maps and explain key similarities and contrasts between Antarctica and Arctic.

Art & Design

British Designers (Textiles)

Matisse

D&T

Bread (baking bread for a variety of events: Booknic, Autumn Fayre and WWI Tea Party).

Bread -. (diet of Polar explorers and WWI)

Bug hotels and cello stand

Computing

Computer Systems and Networks 

Yr5/6 Systems and Searching

Yr3/4 Communication - Google Classroom

Creating Media: Video production (link to Science)

Creating Media: Video production (link to Science)

Online Safety (linked to PSHE, using Project Evolve))

Data and Information 

(flat file databases linked to polar animals).

Programming

Y5/6 Selection in Physical Computing / Variables in games

Creating media (Google Draw - desktop publishing link to Hist)

PE

Core Sport: Netballs

Core Sport: Gymnastics

Yr5/6: Outdoor Adventurous

Core Sport: Dance

Core Sport: Tag Rugby

Core Sport: Tennis

Core Sport: Swimming

Yr5/6 Swimming 2

RE Yr3/4

Y3/4: Hinduism: Dharma

How does the story of Rama and Sita inspire Hindus to follow their dharma?

Y3/4: Gospel

What kind of world did Jesus want?

 Y3/4: Judaism: Covenant

 What symbols and stories help Jewish people remember their covenant with God?

Y3/4: Salvation

2a5: Why do Christians call the day Jesus died Good Friday?

Y3/4: Kingdom of God

When Jesus left, what was the impact of the Pentecost?

Y3/4  : Sikhism: Guru

How does the teaching of the gurus move Sikhs from dark to light?

RE Yr5/6

Y5/6: People of God

2b.3: How can following God bring freedom and justice?

Y5/6: Incarnation

2b.4: Was Jesus the Messiah?

Y5/6: Humanism: Happiness

 Why do Humanists say happiness is the goal of life?

Y5/6: Islam: Qur’an

What does the Qur’an reveal about Allah and his guidance?

Y5/6:  Kingdom of God

What kind of King is Jesus?

Y5/6 Buddhism: Triple Refuge 

How does the Triple Refuge help Buddhists in their journey through life?

PSHE

Mental Wellbeing

Caring Friendships (including anti-bullying week)

Internet safety and harms

Online relationships (including internet safety day)

Basic First Aid

Families and People Who Care for Me

Y3/4 Growing Up

Y5/6 Changing adolescent body and menstruation

Music

Keep the Home Fires Burning

Christmas Concert

Ely Arts Festival / Summer Production

French (Yr3/4)

Intermediate Teaching: Je me presente (Presenting myself)

Intermediate Teaching: Traditions et celebrations (Traditions and celebrations)

Immersive unit

Early Language Teaching: Les saisons (The seasons)

Progressive Teaching: Vikings

French (Yr5/6)

Intermediate Teaching: En classe (In the classroom)

Intermediate Teaching: Au salon du the (At the tea room)

Immersive unit

Intermediate Teaching: Quel temps fait-il? (What is the weather?)

Progressive Teaching: Vikings