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Subject

Teacher

Year 1 Topics

Year 2 Topics

English

Mr Cloke

Lists, labels & captions. Stories with familiar settings. Poetry & cultural stories.

 Developing phonics.

Fiction & non-fiction texts.

Stories & poems.

Maths

Mrs Whiffin

Number names, shapes, learning to calculate, data handling & measuring.

Place value, ordering & understanding addition & subtraction. Money, shape & space.

Science

Miss Thurkettle

Ourselves.

Light & Dark.

 Health & growth.

Electricity.

PSHE

Mrs Woods

New begginings. Thoughts and feelings.

 New beginnings, taking responsibility for themselves & others.

Humanities History

Mrs Lamb 

 Our local area and contrasting areas through the Katie Morag stories.

Collecting data of our local area and looking at contrasting areas through the Katie Morag stories.

Art / Design and Technology

Mrs Johnson /

Mrs Greggor

 Shape, form & texture. Creating their own sculptures. Making different types of homes. 

Linked to humanities the children wil be creating rubbings of buildings, shape & space, to  create a mural.

Making vehicles.

R.E.

Miss Nelson

Stories, changing the way we think.

Judaism.

Music

Mr Cloke

Rhythm, pitch & maintaining a steady beat.

Listening & creating long & short sounds using their bodies & a variety of instruments.

P.E.

Miss Thurkettle

Games & gymnastcs

Gymnastics. Small sided & whole class games.

ICT

Mrs Wainer

Labelling & classifying.

Introduction to word processing.

Creating pictures using paint, finding information using CD ROMs & the internet.

Subject

Teacher

Year 3 Topics

Year 4 Topics

English

Mr Cloke

Myths & Legends, adventure & mystery stories. Spellings handwriting & guided reading.

Stories with historical settings, poems.

Investigating reports linked to ICT

Maths

Mrs Whiffin

Counting, partitioning & calculating. Number facts, shape, handling data, measuring, calculating, understanding shape.

Place value, multiplication strategies, handling data, number patterns, measuring, fractions & decimals. Real life problems.

Science

Miss Nelson

Materials, rocks & soils - characteristics & properties.

Circuits & Conductors.

Temperature insulation.

PSHE

Mrs Woods

New beginnings.

Celebrating our talents.

New begginings, problem solving, helping & welcoming others.

Humanities History

Mrs Lamb 

The Romans, invaders & settlers.

Ancient Rome &

Modern Italy.

Art / Design Technology

Mrs Johnson /

Mrs Greggor

Portraits.

Designing & making a photo frame.

Sculpture in public buildings and spaces.

Designing & making a money container.

R.E.

Miss Nelson

Christian & Hindu faith.

Inspirational People, exploring Christianity.

Music

Mr Cloke

Developing ability to create, perform & analyse

Exploring rhythmic patterns & arrangements.

P.E.

Miss Thurkettle

Gymnastics, games & dance.

Gymnastics, games & dance.

I.C.T.

Mrs Wainer

Combining text & graphics. e-mail.

Developing furthur word processing skills.

 

 

Subject

Teacher

Year 5 Topics

Year 6 Topics

English

Mr Cloke

 Writing short stories, myths and traditional.

Producing instructions

Writing short stories & biographies.

Produce a class newspaper in a journalistic style.

Maths

Mrs Whiffin

 Place value,problem solving, handling data, number patterns, measuring, shape & money

Place value,problem solving, handling data, number patterns, measuring, shape & money

Science

Miss Nelson

 Sun, Earth & Moon.

Changing states of liquid, solids & gases.

 Dissolving & chemical changes.

Electrical circuits.

PSHE

Mrs Woods

Dealing with new beginnings. Bullying and building relationships.

Dealing with new beginnings. Bullying and building relationships.

 

Humanities

Mrs Lamb

History & Geography of Martlesham Heath. Map reading skills.

 History & Geography of Martlesham Heath. Map reading skills.

 Design Technology / Art

Mrs Greggor /

Mrs Johnson 

 

 Designing & making moving toys. Looking at local landscapes to produce 2D paintings.

Designing & making

slipper socks. 

Looking at rural lanscapes to develop their own piece of 2D work.

R.E.

Miss Nelson

 Christianity, the Bible.

 Christianity & Hinduism.

New beginnings.

Music

Mr Cloke

 Group performances.

Percussion instruments to perform rythmic patterns

 Whole class composition using instruments from around the world.

Groovy City software

P.E.

Miss Thurkettle

Dance.

Tag rugby

 Swimming skills.

Tag rugby.

I.C.T.

Mrs Wainer

 Using graphic design programmes.

Databases.

 Powerpoint to create a presentation of Hill Tops.

 

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