How Does Your Dinner Grow
Long Term Overview
Mercury Class
Weather and Seasons. / Traditions and Celebrations. / Where in the World? / Changes throughout history. / Superheroes. / Famous for more than five minutes.Autumn 1 / Autumn 2 / Spring 3 / Spring 4 / Summer 5 / Summer 6
Literacy / Roald Dahl
Fiction: Stories in Familiar settings:
Non fiction: Labels, lists and signs.
Poetry: Songs and repetitive poems. / Fiction: Stories with repeating patterns.
Non fiction: Information texts.
Poetry: Pattern and rhyme. / Fiction: Stories with repeating patterns.
Non fiction: Instructions.
Poetry: Poems about the senses. / Fiction: Traditional tales.
Non fiction: Information texts.
Poetry: Humorous poems. / Fiction: Fantasy
Non fiction: Letters.
Poetry: Poems about nature. / Fiction: Fairy Stories and Traditional tales.
Non fiction: Information texts.
Poetry: Traditional poems.
Numeracy / Number and Place value.
Addition and Subtraction.
Geometry and shape. / Number and Place value.
Addition and Subtraction. / Time.
Place value.
Addition and Subtraction.
Length and Height. / Multiplications and Division.
Fractions. / Place value.
Four operations. / Money.
Weight and Volume.
Science / Seasonal changes / Seasonal changes / Animals: Ourselves / Animals: Pets / Everyday materials: let’s build. / Everyday materials: Marvellous materials.
History and Geography / Hot and Cold climates.
Weather comparisons. / Different celebrations across the world. / Europe.
Continents.
Languages.
Food.
Customs. / Changes in the home: toys, clothes appliances.
School life in the past. / Heroes throughout history. Including; Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Florence Nightingale and Winston Churchill. / Explorers: Christopher Columbus. Captain Scott.
Royal family.
Art and DT / Finger painting.
Sun catchers.
Winter/summer/spring/
autumn scenes. / Firework pictures.
Poppy pictures.
Christmas craft.
Rangoli art. / Globes.
African art. / Charcoal drawings.
Collages.
Pop art / Collages.
Superhero puppets.
Superhero scenes. / Maps.
Telescopes.
Crowns.
PE / Games – Superskills.
Athletics. / Games – Superskills.
Dance. / Games – Super skills
Gymnastics – Stretching and travelling. / Games – Super skills
Gymnastics – Body awareness and jumping / Games – Superskills
Dance. / Games – Superskills.
Athletics.
ICT / Computer skills. / Computer skills. / Paint. / Paint. / Word processing. / Word processing.
Music / Sounds Interesting:
Exploring sounds / The long and short of it:
Exploring Duration. / Feel the pulse:
Exploring pulse and rhythm. / Taking off:
Exploring pitch / What’s the score?
Exploring instruments and symbols / Timbre, Tempo and Dynamics.
RE / Myself. / Christmas / Jewish and Christian Stories. / Jesus the miracle worker.
Easter story / Belonging / Beliefs.
Islam
PSHCE / Living environment / Living environment / Living environment / Living environment / Living environment / Living environment