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Curriculum Overview

POPLAR 4 Year Thematic Rolling Program

 

CYCLE 1

Autumn 1

Who Am I

Ourselves and Outdoors

Autumn 2

Houses and Homes

 Buildings and Construction

Spring

Traditional Tales

Seasons and Weather

Summer

Pets and Animals

The Great Outdoors

CYCLE 2

Autumn 1

This is me

Our Community

Autumn 2

What a wonderful

world

Spring

Watch me grow

Myths and Legends

Summer

Awesome animals

Our super senses

CYCLE 3

Autumn 1

Here I

am

Autumn 2

Healthy Lifestyles

Food and Farming

Spring

Toys and

Technology

Summer

Tremendous

Transport

CYCLE 4

Autumn 1

Better together

Fun and Games

Autumn 2

Space

Family and Celebrations

Spring

Our Earth

Growing

Summer

Transport, Travel

and Holidays

Wider Curriculum Planning Map

 

 

POPLAR

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring

Summer

English

A strange place to call home

Information writing – facts

-     sentence writing

-     punctuation

-     Answering the 5 Ws

Sidney and the Seven Seas

Pie Corbett – magpie story

Nothing Rhymes with Orange

Character description

The Making of Milton

Diary Writing

The Invisible/Invisible Isabel

 

Acorns Group:

Feelings

Superheroes

Stories about Witches and Wizards – Halloween, alphabetical order

Rama and Sita

Diwali story - word types/spellings

 

Charging About: The Story of Electricity

Comic-strips, using ‘how something works’ in a story

 

The Last Tree in the City

Sentence writing

 

What the Romans did for us/Ancient Romans – non-fiction

(diagrams, annotations and captions)

 

The Sound of Silence

Tabby Mctat

Acorns Group:

Julia Donaldson

Feelings

Around the World with Max and Lemon

Imaginative writing, reading assessments

The Story of the Mountains

Descriptive Writing, places

That Moose is my Moose

Writing rules/instructions, using adverbs, statements/exclamations

The Good Samaritan (Parables)

Inference

Green Peas and Ham

Rhyming words, poetry

Acorns group

Traditional tales

 

Maths

Number – sequencing/patterns

Time – half/quarter hourly

Number – number, fractions (half)

Number – number, fractions (third, quarter)

Money – multiple coins (adding) Measure - weight

 

Number – subtraction

Number

Shape

Time

Measure - capacity

Number

 

Addition

Addition/Subtraction

Time

Number

Money

Life skills

 

Science

Living things and their habitats – classification, environmental changes (natural and man-made)

 

Electricity - circuits

States of matter – Solid liquid gas

 

Food Technology

Healthy ad unhealthy foods

Keeping Healthy

Basics in the kitchen

 

Art

Sketching Fruit and Vegetables (Italian/

Mediterranean)

 

Artist - Jen Aranyi

Landscapes

 

Design Technology

Scones – taste, design and make

 

Catapults (woodwork)        

 

History

 

Roman Britain

Tudor Times – The influence on Britain

 

Geography

Geography Europe including. the Mediterranean and Italy

 

Environmental studies

Mountains (Europe

 

RE

RE Key features of Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism

 

What does it mean to be a Hindu in Britain today?

Religions Teaching good/bad

 

Music

Pulse and Rhythm

Following a Piece of music

Technology

 

Computing

Creating Media – Audio editing (Audacity)

Coding – Bugs and Botley

Logo Repetition of shapes

Photo Editing

 

PSHE

Respect

Uniqueness

Respectful Relationships

 Caring Friendships

 Families and People who care for me

Health and prevention

Online relationships and safety

 

PE

Parachute games

Tem games

Hockey

Boccia

Yoga

Circuits

Gymnastics

Boccia.

Yoga

Circuits

Scooter time

 

Trips

 

Visit from Miniature Dachshund

Beacon Hill

Queens Park- Museum

 

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