Topic Based Curriculum

For the rest of the curriculum we use a topic based approach based on the Chris Quigley Curriculum. Our connected curriculum is structured into half termly themed Learning Units for each year.  It covers Foundation subjects and is fully mapped to cover the National Curriculum requirements.  National Curriculum Science units are linked in to the themes.  We believe using these themes increases pupil's enjoyment, knowledge and understanding and develops a lifelong love of learning.

Reception and Year 1

	Autumn	Spring	Summer
Year A	From Field to Fork. (Where does food come from? How is it grown?) ​ ​Moving onto planning a party for a princess.   Science: Plants and Food	Cracking Ideas (looking at inventions) ​Moving onto designing and building toys and gadgets. ​Science: Materials	Amazing Places and Spaces - Learning about monuments, sculptures, buildings, places, cities and countries in the United Kingdom.  ​ Science: Animals Including Humans. Living Things and Their Habitats.
Year B	All about Me. ​  ​Fairy Tales Extreme Weather Science: Plants and Food. ​	Transport: Designing Vehicles.  Looking at the history of Vehicles. Science: Materials	Jungles, learning about how plants grow, and where animals live. Science: Animals Including Humans. Living Things and Their Habitats.  ​

Year 2 and 3

	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Year A	The Arts - A History Based unit where children look at art as a sources of evidence of how people lived in the past. Science:  Plants	Post a Pringle - a DT unit - children learn about how to make materials strong - and complete a challenge.  Can they post a pringle to another country and keep it safe? Science: ​Materials	Eurovision - Geography.  Children learn about significant capital cities and geographical features in Europe. Science: ​Rocks	Buildings and Archetecture - Children look at famous buildings around the world, and use these ideas to design their own buildings. Science: Rocks	The Romans -  Children learn about the Roman invention and how the Romans changed Britain. Science: ​Animals including Humans	Australian Adventure - Children learn about the geographical features, animals and wildlife of Australia.   Science: Animals including Humans
Year B	Great and Ghastly Events - Children learn about some of the great and ghastly events in British History - Especially in the Stewart Period - including the Gunpowder Plot, the Great Fire of London and the Black Death. Science: Everyday Materials	Let's Remember -  We will find out about Remembrance Sunday and why people wear poppies.  We will look at what Britain was like 100 years ago. ​Science: Everyday Materials ​	Lift the Teacher and Other Marvelous  Mechanisms-  Children learn about forces, pivots and levers. They build a whole class machine strong enough to lift a teacher. ​Science: Forces and Magnets ​	Transport and Trade - ​Children look at how transport and trade are different now compared to different periods in history especially looking at railways and canals near Byfield.  They then design space transport and trade for the future. Science: Forces and Magnets	Great Britian - Land of Hope and Glory - Children learn more about the main physical and human features in Great Britian.  They look at how Byfield is different to other places in Britain. Science: Light	Make a Banana Keyboard - Children use a Makey Makey Kit to control a computer using everyday objects.   ​Science: Light

Year 4, 5 and 6

	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Year A	Shake Things Up - Natural Disasters. Children learn about how to make structures stronger.  They create an earthquake simulator to test their designs. Science - States of Matter and Properties of Everyday Materials.	Beliefs - children look at what different beliefs invaders and settlers had in Britain.  Science - ​Changing Materials	Balloon Blaster and other Mechanisms - Children look at Catapults, Bottle Rockets and creating other machines which need forces. Science - Forces	Invaders - Vikings and Anglo-Saxons.   Science - Forces	Land of the Free - America - Children look at the Human and Physical Geography of America. They then look at the wildlife and habitats of North America Science-  Living things and Their Habitats. Evolution and Inheritance	Conflict - Children research and explore conflicts throughout British History, before looking at one conflict in further detail. (World War 1 or War of the Roses) Science: Science investigation focus.
Year B	Art Bot - Children create circuits with motors to create a robot which will dance around a piece of paper and draw.  They then learn about and create other mechanisms which need electric circuits. Science -  Electricity	Rich and Poor - Children study the difference in lifestyles of Rich and Poor people in different history periods.  Focusing on Either the Victorians or The Tudors. Science - Electicity	Earthquakes, Zones and Volcanoes - Children learn about what causes Earthquakes and Volcanoes.  They then look at different Zones from the Poles to the Tropics and how this effects the Climate. Science - Sound	History - Ancient Greece or Ancient Egyptians. How does ancient Britain compare to a different Ancient Civilization?   Science - Light	Earth and Space Science - Earth, Space and the Solar System.	Achievements and Legacies - We create a reecord of our own personal achievements and then achievements and inventions in modern Britain.  We will then study achievement within ancient civilizations. Science - Science investigation focus.