Curriculum Overview 2014/15 1 I m Alive! What a Party! Toy Story The Night Pirates (3 weeks) Plants, Animals and Humans Pond Observation and map work School and surrounding area Line and Tone/ Colour Flowers painting (Georgia O Keeffe) Light sources Significant events in own locality Guy Fawkes Pattern and Shape Christmas decorations/cards I wish I lived in a Castle Materials Countries and Capitals of the UK Homes old and new. Lives of significant individuals Elizabeth I and Elizabeth II Materials Toys changes in living memories Vehicles mechanisms Matisse collages Changes of day and season Human and physical geography comparison of small area of UK and non-european country (Scottish and Caribbean Island) Seasonal changes Lives of significant individuals David Attenborough, Charles Darwin Environmental art and sculpture Andy Goldsworthy Food Technology Pizza (family Man Day) Art and design techniques JMW Turner Textiles
2 Marvellous Medicine Crackle and Pop Buckets and Spades Living and Dead Materials Plants and growth Animals and their offspring Lives of significant individuals Florence Nightingale / Mary Seacole Medicine bottles collage/mixed media Mechanisms jointed people Great Fire of London Samuel Pepys Human and physical geography comparison of small area of UK and non-european country Local area fieldwork Structures houses Lowey, Hundertwasser houses Food chains and habitats What were seaside holidays like in the past? Explorers Neil Armstrong, Christopher Columbus Continents and Oceans Barnaby Bear Explorers map work (transition project) Food technology packed lunch Drawing, painting, sculpture shells
3 Stones and Bones In the Spotlight Vini, Vidi, Vici, (I Came, I Saw, I Conquered) I m Alive! Plants; lifecycle and requirements for life Rocks, fossilisation Stone age to Iron age Map work counties, cities and regions of the UK Cave painting Forces and magnets Light shadows and reflections Light and shade Roman Empire Volcanos and Earthquakes Land use linked to Roman Settlements Region of UK and Europe (Snowdonia and Mount Etna) Mosaics self portrait Roman War machines mechanisms? Animals: skeletons and nutrition Fieldwork minibeasts Food Technology soup, growing vegetables Still Life Cezanne, Rousseau
4 Men and Machines Electricity Sculpture/mixed media Circuits Iron Man Out with the Old, In with the New (Anglo Saxons) Sound Anglo Saxons Settlements and trade links Textiles Food Technology Hidden Treasures (Egypt) States of matter Water cycle Egypt Climate zones Rivers Nile Egyptian Death Masks Structures Home and Away (contrasting localities North America) All living things Food Chains linked to N America Rivers and Mountains Uk and N American comparison (Rockies/Scotland) Climate zones N America Settlements Mississippi Landscapes abstract / Kandinsky Digestive System and teeth (stand alone topic)
5 Eureka! Could it be Invasion! Circle of Life Magic? Earth and Space Microsociety Life cycles of plants Properties and and animals Forces changes of Vikings materials Ancient Greece Comparison of regions Brighton and Greek Island Fieldwork and OS maps Brighton Food technology heated dish Greek Vases pottery Food technology reversible and irreversible changes Textiles slippers Vikings as explorers latitude, longitude, time zones etc. Viking art Longship designs Longboats/Viking Halls structures Textures observational drawing
6 Friend or Foe (WW2) Bean and Gone Health and Lifestyles Out and About Light Mayan Society Classification Electricity WW2 (include the significance of the Battle of Britain) UK and Europe mapping Commercial art WW2 posters Art Deco printing N/S America mapping, land use, economics, distribution resources Systems and control Health and circulatory systems Food technology healthy meal Still life Evolution and Adaptation Saxons modern day in the local area Observational art outdoors Production scenery design /props Sculpture - Henry Moore