Curriculum - Overviews
As a school, we follow the primary National Curriculum for Key Stage 2.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum#programmes-of-study-by-subject
Below, is a break down of the topics we cover in each year group.
At BPSP, our ambitious, vibrant and inclusive curriculum has been developed with the intention of providing all our learners with key knowledge and skills for long-term learning and with the cultural capital to become responsible and valuable citizens in our modern society.
From Year 3 through to Year 6, we study a wide variety of subjects, making cross-curricular links where relevant (see curriculum overviews on the school website for more detail) In addition, we regularly recap and revisit previous knowledge so it can be recalled and applied to different contexts in order to deepen the learning experience for all children.
If you would like any further information regarding our curriculum, please contact the school office at office@bpsp.coastalpartnership.co.uk.
History | Geography | Science | French | Art | DT | Music | Computing | PE | Games | RE | PSHE | |
Autumn 1 Rock & Roll | Ancient Civilisations Ancient Egypt | Rocks | Bonjour & Les Numéros | Painting The Colour Wheel | African drumming | Online Safety | Resilience Dribbling | Passing & Space Dance Sending & Receiving | Christianity Creation | Being My Best | ||
Autumn 2 Light Up The World | Light | Je m'appelle & J'habite | Structures & Mechanisms Packaging | Singing & Vocal Work | Word: saving documents, font, inserting pictures | Christianity Incarnation | Me & My Relationships | |||||
Spring 1 Animals & The World | Climates | Forces & Magnets | La Salle de Classe | Printing Water-based Tile Prints | Steel Pans | Coding: using 'repeat' | Gymnastics Net & Wall | Hinduism | Valuing Difference | |||
Spring 2 Forces & Motion | British History Celts | Animals, including humans The Skeletal System | Les Couleurs | Sewing Egg Cosies | Striking & Fielding Health & Wellbeing Athletics | Keeping Myself Safe | ||||||
Summer 1 | Ancient Civilisations Ancient Greece | Local Study | Plants | Les Anniversaires | Sculpture Clay Tiles | Composing | Typing | OAA Compassionate Compeitition | Rights & Respect | |||
Summer 2 | Je Me Présente | Cooking & Nutrition Salads | Music Notation through recorders | Word: backspace, delete, font, spelling | Christianity People Of God | Growing & Changing |
Spring 2
English - We practise writing skills daily and take our ideas from rich and varied texts including poetry and non-fiction. We continue to learn to write for different audiences and for different purpose. We aim to include as much ‘writing choice’ as possible. This half term our writing links with our History topic.
Maths – Please see our school website for more detail.
Computing— We will be learning how to code using an online programme to help us with our algorithms!
RE— We are learning about Sanathana Dharma and the Hindu faith. As we explore this world faith, we learn tolerance and respect.
Reading—Through our quality reading lessons, we enjoy a wide variety of text types and always read aloud together, working on our fluency. Every lesson allows children the opportunity to show a clear understanding of the text they have read.
P.E- All children take part in lively, engaging, weekly PE lessons to develop their skills in Dance and Gymnastics, Sending and Receiving, Net and Wall and Passing and Space. This will be done through a variety of activities, including ball skills and co-operative games.
French— We will be learning to ask and answer simple questions by recalling words and phrases.
Our main focus will be dates and birthdays this half term.
P.S.H.E— Our weekly PSHE lessons this half term help us to learn how to keep ourselves safe. We explore our thoughts and feelings with respect to our friends, families and communities.
Music— We are learning how to play and enjoy the wonderful sounds of the steel pans by developing a wide variety of rhythmic patterns.
Science: Our topic is The Skeletal System. We will learn about what food we need to eat to keep healthy and what the main jobs of our skeletal system are.
Design and Technology: We will be designing and making an egg cosy.
History: - We are beginning to learn about The Celts and the impact they had in Britain.
History | Geography | Science | French | Art | DT | Music | Computing | PE | Games | RE | PSHE | |
Autumn 1 Settle Down | British History Romans | Living Things & Their Habitats Classification | Les Animaux | Drawing The Power of the Pencil | Ukulele | Online Safety | Resilience Dribbling | Dance Swim Sending & Receiving | Sikhism | Being My Best | ||
Autumn 2 Settle Down | Locational Knowledge Europe | Living Things & Their Habitats Habitats & Food Chains | La Maison | Structures & Mechanisms Lettering & Paper Folding | Singing & Vocal Work | Word: using the mouse | Christianity The Gospel | Me & My Relationships | ||||
Spring 1 Body Combat | British History Anglo Saxons | Animals, including Humans The Digestive System | Le Corps | Sculpture Clay Monsters | Steel Pans | Coding: using 'when' | Gymnastics Net & Wall | Food In Religion | Valuing Difference | |||
Spring 2 What A State | Europe Rivers & Mountains | States Of Matter | La Famille | Cooking Healthy Fruit Drinks | Athletics & Leadership | Christianity Salvation | Keeping Myself Safe | |||||
Summer 1 | British History Vikings | Electricity | La Musique | Sewing Binka Bookmarks | Introduction to the orchestra | Flexitree: database | OAA Striking & Fielding | Athletics & Leadership Passing & Space Swim | Christianity The Kingdom of God | Rights & Respect | ||
Summer 2 | Europe Climate Zones & Biomes | Sound | Je Me Présente | Painting Science Of Colour | Composing | Word: page border, WordArt | Signs & Symbols in Religion | Growing & Changing |
Spring 2
English: - We will be studying the story of Beowulf and using it to support us in writing a non-chronological report and a narrative whilst looking closely at the key objectives to develop the children as writers.
Maths: - Please see separate overview for more detail.
Computing: - We will be continuing with our coding sessions and understanding the difficulty of translating real problems into programs. We will also experiment with communicating ideas through codes and symbols.
RE: - We will be learning about the life of Jesus in the run up to Easter.
Reading: - We will be continuing looking at a variety of texts including ‘Wind in the Willows’ and practising our key skills to answer questions.
P.E: - This term we are developing our spatial awareness and passing skills whilst thinking about communication. We are also learning about alternative physical education activities. In Games lessons, the children will be keeping fit using different genres of dance and gymnastics. Our swimming lessons also continue with 2 more of our classes attending these.
French: - We will be learning about different fruit and vegetables and saying whether we like them or not..
P.S.H.E: - We will be investigating the ‘Health & Wellbeing’ unit of work, reflecting and discussing how to keep ourselves safe and healthy.
Music: - This term, we build on our Steel pan drumming skills and learn to fuse two different styles of music together. Each month, we will be learning about a different musician. If the children have any memorabilia/anything they would like to share, please bring it in during the relevant month.
Science—We will be learning about states of matter through a variety of experiments.
DT: - Children will taste and critique a variety of healthy fruit drinks in order to design and create a healthy drink of their own.
Geography: - We will focus on physical geography, in particular, rivers and mountains. Subsequently, we will investigate these features within the context of Europe.
History | Geography | Science | French | Art | DT | Music | Computing | PE | Games | RE | PSHE | |
Autumn 1 What's The Matter? | Human & Physical Geography North America | Properties & Changes of Materials Reversible & Irreversible Changes | Au Collège | Cooking Scone Making | Ukulele | Online Safety | OAA Resilience | Passing & Space Dance Sending & Receiving | Christianity The Gospel | Being My Best | ||
Autumn 2 A Tudor Story | British History Tudors | Les Passe-temps | Drawing Portraits | Singing & Vocal Work | Excel: graph, formulas | Christianity The Kingdom of God | Me & My Relationships | |||||
Spring 1 The Wonders of the Universe | Human & Physical Geography North America Weather & Climate | The Earth & Space The Solar System | Les Pays & Les Continents | Structures & Mechanisms Cam Toys | Steel Pans | Coding: nested loop, named procedure | Gymnastics Net & Wall | Sending & Receiving Passing & Space Dance | Christianity Incarnation | Valuing Difference | ||
Spring 2 | British History Victorians | Living Things & Their Habitats Life Cycles | Les Voyages & Le Transport | Painting (Watercolours and acrylics) | Sending & Receiving Health & Wellbeing Athletics & Leadership | Christianity Salvation | Keeping Myself Safe | |||||
Summer 1 | North America Human Changes | Forces | Les Maladies | Sewing Cushions | Composing | PowerPoint: background, hyperlink, transitions, animations | Compassionate Competition Tennis (sport education season) | Health & Wellbeing Striking & Fielding Athletics & Leadership | Islam | Rights & Respect | ||
Summer 2 | Local History Local Study | Je Me Présente | Sculpture | Hip hop Composing using YuStudio | Growing & Changing |
Spring 2
English
The first part of this half term’s English learning will be writing a non-chronological report about a Victorian invention of their choice. After this, the children will be focussing on writing centred around Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo.
Maths
All classes follow the National Curriculum and cover the Year 5 objectives throughout the year. Please see Maths overview for further details.
Reading
In reading lessons, children will read a selection of texts, based around our English and discovery learning, to develop inference, summary and prediction skills.
RE
The Big Frieze - Focusing on salvation, the children will strengthen their understanding of Christianity.
PHSE
PSHE this half term is focussed on ‘Keeping Myself Safe.’
French
This half term’s French learning is closely focussed around travel and transport.
Computing
We will be developing our coding skills through the use of code.org
Music
Children will be building on skills and knowledge learnt in Years 3 and 4 with regard to steel pans.
PE
In P.E and Games this half term, the foci are: Net and wall, passing and space, handball, gymnastics and dance.
Art
This half term’s art is focussed around the skill of sculpture. The children will be using a selection of technical and design skills to produce a final piece of work linked with our Science topic.
History
In History, we will be learning about the Victorians and the impact this era had on the world today.
History | Geography | Science | French | Art | DT | Music | Computing | PE | Games | RE | PSHE | |
Autumn 1 | World History WW2 | Animals, including Humans The Cardio Respiratory System | Le Temps | Drawing Tone & Texture | Samba | Online Safety | OAA Resilience | Passing & Space Dance Sending & Receiving | Christianity The People of God | Being My Best | ||
Autumn 2
| Les Vêtements | Cooking Soup Making | Singing & Vocal Work | iMovie: using video, text, pictures and audio | Judaism | Me & My Relationships | ||||||
Spring 1
| The Galapagos Islands | Inheritance & Evolution | Au Café | Sculpture Mask Making | Steel Pans | Coding: predicting, variables, programming devices | Gymnastics Net & Wall | Christianity God | Valuing Difference | |||
Spring 2 | South America | Living Things & Their Habitats Classification | Les Verbes | Sewing Arpilleras | Striking & Fielding Health & Wellbeing Athletics & Leadership | Christianity Salvation | Keeping Myself Safe | |||||
Summer 1 | Ancient Civilisations The Mayans | Electricity | Le Ballon Rouge | Printing Mayan Animal Prints | Structures & Mechanisms Mayan Creatures | Composing | Excel: if, conditional formatting | Tennis Compassionate Competition | Rights & Respect | |||
Summer 2 | Light | Je Me Présente | Composing using Garage Band | Publisher: columns | Christianity Creation & The Fall | Growing & Changing |
Spring 2
English –We are using the wonderful story, ‘The Explorer’, as our inspiration for some suspense writing and a formal letter.
Music – we are using our steel pan skills to play a piece from South America. Our focus musician will be Santana. As well as building on existing skills, we will look at how to improvise using notes from a specific key.
French – In our weekly lesson, we are increasing our knowledge of vocabulary and start to focus on ‘er’ verbs.
Computing– we continue to look at coding this half term by coding programmes onto small gadgets
Reading – We have weekly lessons to develop and enhance a variety of reading skills through a wide range of quality texts. As part of our school day, we have a dedicated ERIC time four times a week – this means Everyone Reads In Class. We will be focussing our Reading on ‘The Explorer’.
Physical Education – We are revising and enhancing sending and receiving skills as well as establishing skills that allow us to pass well and create space efficiently in a variety of games.
PHSE – Following the SCARF programme, we have a weekly lesson and this half term our topic is Keeping Safe. We enjoy our STORMBREAK sessions. - a mental health well-being programme.
Science - We explore the classification of living things by grouping them based on their specific characteristics.
Geography: We move from the Galapagos across to the wonderful continent of South America.
Religious Education: Through discussion we explore further aspects of Christianity, faith and meaning, focussing on the unit of Salvation.
Maths – Please see separate overview for more detail.
D.T. – Our D.T. unit this half term is focused around sewing skills by creating Arpilleras, a traditional, South American scene that was created to depict the landscape or show events that were happening in people’s lives.