Curriculum Booklet Primary - St Philip's School · Dear Parents/Carers This booklet provides you...

Curriculum Booklet Primary

Dear Parents/Carers

This booklet provides you with details of the curriculum which your son/daughter will follow in Key Stage 2 at St Philip’s School. Please support them by ensuring they bring a pencil case with basic stationery and their student planner to school each day. They must also bring their PE kit on days when they have timetabled PE lessons.

Your son/daughter will receive homework throughout the academic year. This may be a short task to be completed within a short time frame or a project to be completed over a longer period of time. Homework tasks will be recorded in the student planners. In addition, we will be issuing all students with a homework pack which should be used to supplement any other homework set. We also recommend students should try to read each day at home. This could be a book brought home from school, a newspaper or magazine, a book from the library or something of interest on the internet. The expectation is that all pupils complete homework tasks and return them however the homework pack is optional.

You may find these websites useful when working with your son/daughter at home.

www.ictgames.co.uk - maths and literacy activities. http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths - maths activities. www.mathszone.co.uk - Maths activities. www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ - Science activities. www.sumdog.com – Maths activities

Top 5 Learning Skills

STOP AND THINK I make sure I know what to do PLANNING I make sure I have a plan BEFORE I start work CHECK AND CHANGE Mistakes are good as they help me learn I look for mistakes and change them ASKING QUESTIONS If something is confusing I use my skills to help make things clear, like asking questions REMEMBERING I use more than one piece of information at a time

English Unit of Work Knowledge and Content Sensory Garden Researching, designing and creating objects for a Sensory Garden

Skills covered:

• Research and using non-fiction books as sources of information • Layout of non-chronological reports including headings and captions • Features of persuasive writing • Writing letters for different purposes (eg thank you letters) • Instructions • Nouns, adjectives, verbs and adjectives

Krindlekrax We will be reading ‘Krindlekrax’ by Philip Ridley Skills covered:

• Predictions • Describing characters and settings – using adjectives and adverbs • Creating information leaflets • Capital letters for proper nouns • Spelling patterns and rules

The Miraculous Journey of

Edward Tulane

We will be reading ‘The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane’ by Kate DiCamillo Skills covered:

• Predictions • Inverted commas for direct speech • Conjunctions to link sentences (eg and, so, but, because, however) • Synonyms (eg big, huge, gigantic) • Writing adventure stories • Past and present tense

Oral Stories -The monster over the Hill Poetry - The Spider and the Fly

We will be learning the story of ‘The Monster Over the Hill’ through using a picture story board and using this to help us write our own stories Skills covered:

• Learning to retell a story orally • Retelling a story in writing • Adapting a well-known story

We will also be learning about poetry, through the poem ‘The Spider and the Fly’ Skills Covered:

• Formal and informal language • Planning and writing poetry

Varjak Paw

We will be reading ‘Varjak Paw’ by SF Said Skills covered:

• Individual reading and writing targets • Writing instructions • Reading comprehension skills • Describing characters and settings

The Outlaw

Varjak Paw

We will be reading ‘The Outlaw Varjak Paw’ by SF Said Skills covered:

• Predictions • Prefixes and suffixes • Singular and plural • Apostrophes for contraction and possession • Reading comprehension skills

Maths

Unit of Work Knowledge and Content

Place Value and Number

These are the overall topics covered but will be differentiated to suit individual abilities:

• Counting forwards and backwards • Reading and writing number in numerals • Comparing and ordering numbers • Finding more or less • Recognising place value • Partitioning numbers • Odd and even numbers • Rounding • Find a fraction of a length, shape, quantity or object • Decimals • Percentages • Recognise find and write fractions

Addition, Subtraction,

Multiplication and Division


• Using Number bonds • Recognising inverse relationships • Mentally adding and subtracting • Adding and subtracting using written methods • Knowing doubles • Solve problems involving x using material, arrays, repeated

addition, mental methods • Recall & use x and ÷facts for times tables

Shape, Space and

Measure


• Compare and order length, mass and capacity • Money • Time • Symmetry • Use positional language • Identifying 2D and 3D shapes

Data Handling


• Interpret, construct and present data using pictograms • Interpret, construct and present data using bar charts • Interpret, construct and present data using tables • Solve one step & two step questions using info presented in scaled

bar charts, pictograms & tables

Science

Unit of Work Knowledge and Content Living Things and

Their Habitats

Skills covered: • Classifying living and non-living objects • Using and creating classification keys • Identifying and labelling the body parts of an insect • Identifying local birds • Identifying local trees

Evolution and

inheritance Skills covered:

• Understanding how fossils are formed • Classifying fossils based on their characteristics • Understanding what fossilised footprints tell us about

adaptation • Evolution • Identifying and describing family groups of dinosaurs

Earth and Space Skills covered: • Planning scientific enquiries • Recreating a scale model of our solar system • Describing the movements of the Earth relative to the Sun • Explaining how and why day and night occur • Understanding how shadows can be used to tell time • Explaining the movement of the moon

Light and Shadows

Skills covered: • Sorting objects into transparent, translucent and opaque • Investigating the relationship between shadow size and

distance of light source • Investigating colour and texture effects in shadows • Understanding how and why we see different colours • Exploring ways of splitting light • Understanding that light can be reflected

Animals and Humans

Skills covered: • Understanding and naming the components of blood • Investigating how exercise affects heart rate • Describing ways in which nutrients are transported in

animals including humans • Understanding the impact diet has on our bodies • Understanding the impact exercise has on our bodies

Properties and Changes of

Materials

Skills covered: • Understanding the water cycle • Investigating whether a material is soluble • Separating mixtures, including through filtering, sieving

and evaporating • Understanding and explaining irreversible changes

Topic Work

Unit of Work Knowledge and Content Sensory Gardens

• Visiting Sensory gardens and garden centres • Researching sensory gardens • Creating a mood board for a sensory garden • Using gardening tools safely • Using natural materials to make art work for a garden • Making bird feeders

Palaeontology • Identifying different periods in the Phanerozoic era • Naming and drawing extinct animals • Creating models of fossils • Understanding the work of Mary Anning • Investigating fossilised footprints • Recreating a dinosaur foot • Identifying and describing changes throughout the

Mesozoic era Journeys

• Designing and creating journey sticks • Identifying key features of maps • Understanding and using London Underground maps • Creating a timeline of the history of transport • Making models of early forms of transport • Identifying how transport has changed over time • Comparing the journeys of Christopher Columbus and Neil

Armstrong The Maya

• Comparing the achievements of the Maya and the Anglo-

Saxons • Creating a time line of hosorical civilisations • Evaluating historical sources • Labelling maps of ancient Maya civilisations • Understanding and using the Maya writing system • Understanding and using the Maya number system • Building a Maya settlement • The life of a child in Maya times

Healthy Living

• Understanding and naming the components of blood • Identifying key parts of the circulatory system • Making a model of the heart • Experiments investigating how nutrients are transported • Understanding the impact diet and exercise have on our

bodies • Understanding the effects of smoking and alcohol

Rivers

• Understanding how rivers are formed • Identifying and explaining key features of rivers • Understanding what an estuary is • Naming major rivers around the world • Describing human geography around rivers such as

bridges • Describing how humans use rivers • Rivers in famous art works

Art

Unit of Work Knowledge and Content Flowers

By the end of the module all students should have produced:

• A 3D flower tile • A Print of a flower composition • A recycled bottle flower

Dinosaurs


• A dinosaur model out of cotton buds • A dinosaur bone from salt dough • A paper mosaic dinosaur

Journeys


- A painting of a place they have visited - A paper plate desert island - A detailed drawing of an animal seen during a journey

Emotions


• A painting of an emoji • A finger puppet • A wooden spoon puppet

Food in Art


- A painting of a food composition - A collage of a healthy food composition - Some clay models of food items

Water Animals


• A collage of an under the sea scape • A 3D fish tank • A 3D lobster

DT

Unit of Work Knowledge and Content Wind Clunks

Skills covered:

• Gathering materials • Designing a wink clunk • Using a junior hacksaw and hand drill safely • Using sandpaper

Large scale dinosaur models

Skills covered:

• Designing a prototype • Making a prototype • Measuring and cutting accurately • Creating texture using paint • Constructing a model

Food Technology

Skills covered:

• Baking, including the following: - Flapjacks - Banana bread - Scones - Pizza

Weaving

Skills covered:

• Making a loom • Weaving a pattern using wool • Weaving a basket using recycled materials

Food Technology

Skills covered:

• Healthy eating including making: - Healthy snacks - Healthy breakfast - Healthy lunch - Healthy dinner - Healthy dessert

Playground models

Skills covered:

• Researching school playgrounds • Designing a school playground • Choosing appropriate materials • Making small scale playground equipment

PSHE

Unit of Work Knowledge and Content Me and my new

school

Topics covered: • Knowing my address • Naming people in my family • Learning about my new classmates • Learning about my new teachers • My school timetable • Aspects of daily life in school • Hobbies, likes and dislikes

Friendships, Relationships and

Personalities

Topics covered:

• What different types of relationship are there • Qualities of a good friendship • Differences between personality and appearance • Recognising and understanding positive personality traits

Feelings

Topics covered: • Naming and identifying positive and negative feelings • Feelings during times of change • When and why we feel jealousy • Understanding the difference between small everyday feelings

and big feelings • Who to talk to about negative feelings including trusted adults • Skills of being a good listener

Personal Hygiene

Topics covered: • Knowing what personal hygiene is • The importance of keeping clean • The importance of wearing clean clothes • Changes during puberty such as greasy hair • The importance of brushing our teeth • Hand washing • How germs are spread

Puberty

This is delivered by the School Health Team and more information will be given prior to the start of the topic

PE


Dance

The students will learn to perform a range of dances using a range of movement patterns. These sessions will be delivered at school and by a qualified dance teacher. There will be opportunities to perform these dances during assemblies and whole school productions.

Games/Athletics

As part of the games offer, students will be given the opportunity to take part in a variety of sports and activities. As part of these activities the students will be taught a range of skills including: running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination. In addition the students are taught to apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending. They will also be given the chance to take part in a number of inter school competitions. These include badminton, basketball, cricket, football, boccia and tennis.

Gymnastics

Students are encouraged to develop their flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance during these sessions. The programme is delivered in the school sports hall. During these sessions the students are assessed against a range of criteria.

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Celebrations and

Festivals

Throughout the year, students will learn about celebrations and festivals from a wide range of religions, including:

• Birthdays and other personal celebrations • Baptism • Harvest Festival • Diwali • The Christmas Story • Religious journeys/Pilgrimage in different faiths • Chinese New Year • Holi Festival • Easter • Ramadan • Eid

Communication

Unit of Work Knowledge and Content / Skills Verbal & Non

Verbal Communication

Students will practice the following skills - Verbal & Non Verbal Communication:

• Listening and attention skills, Body Language/Facial Expressions, Eye Contact, Personal Space, Tone of Voice, Formal/informal language for different situations, Assertiveness

Students will practice their question asking skills including: • Formal and informal questions, how to use questions to find

out specific information, how to use questions to gain clarification or additional information, and what are appropriate and inappropriate questions.

Rules of Conversation

Students will practice rules of conversation including appropriate ways to:

• Start a conversation and greet others, Join a conversation, Turn taking Interrupting, Being Interrupted, Agreeing/disagreeing, Arguing, Complimenting, Criticising, Jokes, Refusing and Apologising

Students will develop an understanding of: • Friendships and who is and is not a friend • How I feel, why I feel like that and how I can help myself • Expected and unexpected behaviours in different situations

Social Skills

Students will practice functional skills for – • Friendships • Conversation • Social skills in the community including on social media • Understanding themselves and others • Expressing their emotions

The above topics will be based on Social Thinking Programme (Michelle Garcia Winner) and Talkabout (Alex Kelly), as well as Zones of Regulation (Leah Kuypers).

Timetabled Communication lessons will take place weekly, led by a qualified Speech and Language Therapist (Gemma Hatfield). As part of your child’s attendance at St Philip’s, implied consent has been given for your child to access the school’s Speech and Language Therapy service. If you wish to withdraw your consent for your child to access Speech and Language Therapy at St Philip’s please do contact Ben Walsh (Head Teacher), Gemma Hatfield or your child’s form tutor to discuss.

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