Our Curriculum Vision
The curriculum we offer to the pupils of Grovelands aims to:
Nursery
NURSERY | TERM 1 | TERM 2 | TERM 3 | TERM 4 | TERM 5 | TERM 6 |
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Main Topic | Mini-beasts How many legs? |
Winter Time Do all animals sleep at night? |
Love What is love? |
Growing and Changing Guess the baby |
Space Where is planet Earth? |
The Sea Who lives under the sea? |
Reception
RECEPTION | TERM 1 | TERM 2 | TERM 3 | TERM 4 | TERM 5 | TERM 6 |
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Main Topic | This is me! | Winter time |
Space and Transport |
Growing and Changing | Our Community | Super Strong Super Heroes |
Year 1
YEAR 1 | TERM 1 | TERM 2 | TERM 3 | TERM 4 | TERM 5 | TERM 6 |
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Main Topic | Funny Bones 4 weeks The wolf did it! 3 weeks | The wolf did it! 4 weeks Celebrations-Christmas Story 3 weeks | Can toys come to life? Toy Museum visit school |
What came first-the chicken or the egg? Hatch and Brood in school |
A trip around the world | Danger at sea! Trip to the Seaside- Eastbourne |
Science Focus from National Curriculum | Animals including humans Seasonal changes| |
Seasonal changes Plants |
Everyday materials • know what an object is made from • identify common materials • describe properties of materials • compare and group materials based on their properties |
Animals including humans • identify and name a variety of animals • identify and name common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. • describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals |
Animals including humans |
Animals including humans |
History Focus from National Curriculum | N/A | Chronology |
Historical Enquiry |
Knowledge and understanding of events, people and changes in the past |
Knowledge and understanding of events, people and changes in the past |
Knowledge and understanding of events, people and changes in the past |
Geography focus from National Curriculum | Seasonal changes |
Seasonal changes |
Seasonal changes |
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Seasonal changes |
Seasonal changes |
Year 2
YEAR 2 | TERM 1 | TERM 2 | TERM 3 | TERM 4 | TERM 5 | TERM 6 |
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Main Topic | Colossal castles and noble knights | Fire! Fire! | Creatures of the night | Land of the rising sun | How does your garden grow? | Walking with Dinosaurs |
Science Focus from National Curriculum | Uses of everyday materials |
Uses of everyday materials |
Animals including humans Living things and their habitats |
Animals including humans • importance of exercise, eating the right amounts of different foods and hygiene |
Plants |
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History Focus from National Curriculum | Historical events, people and places in their own locality |
Event beyond living history - Great Fire of London Lives of significant individuals in the past - Samuel Pepys |
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Lives of significant individuals in the past - Mary Anning | ||
Geography focus from National Curriculum | Human features of city |
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• coast, forest |
Contrast human and physical geography of part of the UK, and an area in a non-European country Rivers/mountains |
• continents |
Year 3
YEAR 3 | TERM 1 | TERM 2 | TERM 3 | TERM 4 | TERM 5 | TERM 6 |
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Main Topic | Stone Age to Iron Age | Stone Age to Iron Age | Ancient Egypt | Egypt & the Nile | Amazing Adventures & Mysterious Maps | Amazing Adventures & Mysterious Maps |
Science Focus from National Curriculum | Rocks |
Light |
Forces and Magnets |
Plants |
Animals including humans |
Animals including humans |
History Focus from National Curriculum | Changes in Britain from Stone Age to the Iron Age |
Changes in Britain from Stone Age to the Iron Age |
The achievements of Ancient civilisations |
The achievements of Ancient civilisations |
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Geography focus from National Curriculum | Locational knowledge & place knowledge |
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• rivers and trade routes • settlements • land use linked to agriculture and soils |
Physical & human geography including key topographical features; understand how some of these aspects have changed over time. | Fieldwork & mapping skills |
Year 4
YEAR 4 | TERM 1 | TERM 2 | TERM 3 | TERM 4 | TERM 5 | TERM 6 |
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Main Topic | Romans versus Celts | Romans on the Rampage | Rumble Tumble | Where the River Meets the Sea | No Place Like Home | Down and Alp |
Science Focus from National Curriculum | Sound • identify how sounds are made • how sound travels • features of sound e.g. pitch & vibration |
Electricity • uses of electricity • simple series circuits • conductors and insulators |
States of matter • compare and group solids, liquids and gases • materials can change state if heated or cooled |
States of matter • Water cycle |
Living things and habitats • grouping • classification keys • recognise that environments can change and can be dangerous to living things |
Animals including humans • digestive system • identify different types of teeth and their functions • food chains |
History Focus from National Curriculum | The Celts and the Roman invasion of Britain |
Roman Empire and its impact on Britain inc. the legacy of Roman culture (art, architecture or literature) on later periods in British history, including the present day |
The eruption of Vesuvius in AD79 |
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Geography focus from National Curriculum | • British geography |
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Volcanos, Earthquakes & Tsunamis |
• rivers of the world |
To understand geographical similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of the South Downs and the Italian Alps |
Year 5
YEAR 5 | TERM 1 | TERM 2 | TERM 3 | TERM 4 | TERM 5 | TERM 6 |
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Main Topic | It’s All Greek To Me | Ropes and Railway | Smashing Saxons | African Adventure | The Circle of Life | Space Oddity |
Science Focus from National Curriculum | Forces |
Forces |
Properties and changes of materials |
Animals including humans • Describe changes as humans develop to old age |
Living things and their habitats • Life cycles of different species • Reproduction of plants and animals |
Earth and Space |
History Focus from National Curriculum | Ancient Greece |
Local History Study |
Britain’s settlements by Anglo-Saxons and Scots. |
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Geography focus from National Curriculum |
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Plan view Map |
OS Maps |
Compare a region in UK with a region in Africa, with significant differences and similarities. | Hemispheres, latitudes, longitudes. |
Year 6
YEAR 6 | TERM 1 | TERM 2 | TERM 3 | TERM 4 | TERM 5 | TERM 6 |
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Main Topic | A hiccup in Hastings | Storms and Shipwrecks | Carnival | Revel in the Rainforest | Empire to Commonwealth | Empire to Commonwealth |
Science Focus from National Curriculum | Electricity |
Evolution and inheritance • living things change over time • living things produce offspring • how animals and plants are adapted |
Light • light travels in straight lines • how the eye works • shadows |
Living things and habitats • classification of living things |
Animals including humans • human circulatory system • impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the body • how nutrients and water are transported within animals |
Animals including humans • human circulatory system • impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the body • how nutrients and water are transported within animals |
History Focus from National Curriculum | The Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor |
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Non-European society that provides contrast with British history- Mayan civilisation C. AD 900 |
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Geography focus from National Curriculum |
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Compare a region in UK with a region in N. or S. America with significant differences and similarities. |
Physical geography, including: Human geography: |
• Countries of the commonwealth |
Study of Antarctica linked to Shackleton Identify the position, significance and key features or the arctic and Antarctic circle |