Furze Down School

Furze Down School

A Specialist School for Communication and Interaction

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Verney Road, Winslow, Buckinghamshire, MK18 3BL

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01296 711380

Oak

Oak

 

Overarching Themes and Topics Oak

 

Rotation 1

Autumn 1

It’s Good to be me!

Autumn 2

Fire! Fire!

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Spring 1

Up up and away!

Journeys

Spring 2

Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside!

Summer 1

Down at the bottom of my Garden!

Summer 2

Healthy Me

Literacy

Fiction – Talk for Writing

 

 

 

Stories in familiar settings about being an individual

Elmer – David McGee

Amazing Grace – Mary Hoffman

Chopsticks –

I’m Special I’m Me – Anne Meek

Only One Me - Linda Kranz

Where the Wild things are - Maurice Sendak

The Invisible Boy - Patrice Barton

The Colour of Home – Mary Hoffman

Traditional tales

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

 

 

Bonfire Poems

 

Christmas Stories

 

 

 

Stories from Air and Space

A balloon for Grandad – Nigel Grey and Jane Ray

A voyage in the Clouds - Matthew Olsen

The Story of Icarus

 The Man in Space

How to Catch a Star

The Way Back Home

Here We Are – Oliver Jeffers

The Darkest Dark – Chris Hatfield

One Giant Leap – Robert Burleigh

The Sea of Tranquility – Mark Haddon

Stories from the Sea

The Little Boat- Kathy Henderson

Mousehole Cat – Antonia Barber

Where the forest meets the Sea – Jeannie Baker

When the Whales Came -

Katie Morag Stories

 

Stories by a familiar author

Oliver’s Vegetables

Oliver’s Fruit Salad

Oliver’s Milkshake - Vivian French and Alison Bartlett

Stories in a familiar setting

Granpa’s Garden – Stella Fry

Handa’s surprise – Eileen Browne

James and the Giant Peach – Roahl Dahl

Yukky Worms – Vivian French

The Gigantic Turnip – Alexksei Tolstoy and Niamh Sharkey

·        The Curious Garden by Peter Brown

·        The Tiny Seed – Eric Carle

·        Tree – Steve Parker

Stories about the Body

Once there were giants – Martin Waddell

The Growing Story - Ruth Krauss

Titch – Pat Hutchins

Your Fantastic Elastic Brain - Joann Deak

Hugh Boy -

Literacy

Non-Fiction

Recounts

About our holiday

Dictionary

People who help us

Builders etc.

Recounts

About our holiday

Non-chronological and information texts

Great fire of London

Recounts

Newspaper articles

Letters

to Father Christmas

Recounts

About our holiday

Non-chronological and information texts

Flight including Space Travel

Lists, captions and diagrams Flight

Recounts

About our holiday

Letters home

Diaries

 

Recounts

About our holiday

Instructions

Recipes and growing

Lists, diagrams and captions

Plants

Mini beasts

Recounts

About our holiday

Explanatory texts

About how to stay healthy

Dictionary

Parts of the body

Understanding the world

History

My school and schools in the past

House in the past*

Geography

Schools in other countries

Where I live, my house and features of house

History

Bonfire Night^*

The Great Fire of London *^

Geography

Christmas Around the World – Aerial views ^

History

History of flight including. Hot Air Balloons and the Wright brothers^

Neil Armstrong*

Tim Peake

Geography

Places in the world using the globe, the Earth in space

History

Seaside holidays in the past *

Christopher Columbus

Geography

Holidays around the world*

Geography

Food from around the world

Where does it come from?

History

May Day

History

Florence Nightingale *

Art and Design

Art

 

 

DT

Self-portraits*

Picture Frame

 

Jackson pollock

Christmas Cards

 

 

 

Delightful Decorations

Matisse – The Fall of Icarus

Eric Carle – Draw Me a Star inspired paintwork

Papier Mache Balloons

 

Kites

Seascapes and Lowry ^

Easter Cards

Giuseppe Arcimboldo*

Van Gough Sunflowers*^ Katie and the Sunflowers - James Mayhew

Picasso Bouquet of peace

Matisse’s Garden - Samantha Friedman

Henry Moore ^ - sculpture

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

 

 

 

Human Bodies – levers and sliders

Maths

Know and Use Number

Addition and Subtraction

Multiplication and Division

Fractions

Money

Time

Statistics

Shape, Space and Measure

Know and Use Number

Addition and Subtraction

Multiplication and Division

Fractions

Money

Time

Statistics

Shape, Space and Measure

Know and Use Number

Addition and Subtraction

Multiplication and Division

Fractions

Money

Time

Statistics

Shape, Space and Measure

Know and Use Number

Addition and Subtraction

Multiplication and Division

Fractions

Money

Time

Statistics

Shape, Space and Measure

Know and Use Number

Addition and Subtraction

Multiplication and Division

Fractions

Money

Time

Statistics

Shape, Space and Measure

Know and Use Number

Addition and Subtraction

Multiplication and Division

Fractions

Money

Time

Statistics

Shape, Space and Measure

Science

Classify Living things 

To know that Living things can be classified according to observable features 

 

Habitats 

Know that habitats provide things with what they need 

Day and night 

Day, night, month, seasonal change and year are caused by the position and movement of the Earth 

Light and sound 

Light and sound can be reflected and absorbed and enable us to see and hear 

Rocks and Fossils 

 

Different rocks have different properties and the formation of soil and fossils can be explained 

Materials 

Materials have physical properties which can be investigated

Computing

Digital Literacy

Staying safe online

Computer Science

Programming using Beebot, Purple Mash and other apps

Information Technology

Presenting work using ICT

(eBooks in 2CAS and Book Creator)

Information Technology

Creating music and sound

Computer Science

Programming using Beebot, Purple Mash and other apps

Information Technology

Creating movies using IT

RE/MFL

Remembering

Harvest

MFL – Greetings, nos 1-12, colours.

New beginnings

Easter

MFL – Greetings, nos 1-12, colours.

Special Clothes

Prayer

MFL – Greetings, nos 1-12, colours.

PSHE

Oak Class - Working together

How I am special

My emotions – Zones of Regulation, Social Stories

Diversity and communities

Managing Risk

Healthy lifestyles

Drugs and Medicines

Personal Hygiene

Sex Ed

Life skills

Fine Motor/Gross Motor skills

Develop gross motor skills

To develop dressing skills

Use tools safely and with care

Cutting skills

Food

Recipe and cooking skills

Drinks, fruit, veg.

Using utensils and putting things away. Washing up

Fine Motor/Gross Motor skills

Develop gross motor skills

To develop dressing skills

Use tools safely and with care

Cutting skills

Food

Recipe and cooking skills

Drinks, fruit, veg.

Using utensils and putting things away. Washing up

Fine Motor/Gross Motor skills

Develop gross motor skills

To develop dressing skills

Use tools safely and with care

Cutting skills

Food

Recipe and cooking skills

Drinks, fruit, veg.

Using utensils and putting things away. Washing up

PE

Games/Multiskills

Table tennis, table cricket, Polybat, Boccia

Indoor Athletics

Multi-skills invasion games

Basketball, Hockey

Dance

Multi-skills invasion games

Football, Netball, TAG rugby

Multi-skills net games

Tennis and Badminton

Outdoor Athletics

WOW

Visit old schools

Walks around Winslow

 

Theatre visit

School Production

Air museum Luton

Planetarium Visit

Visit to Seaside

Garden Centre

Planting and Growing

Hospital – visit by nurse, doctor, dentist

Visit Doctors’ Surgery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rotation 2

Autumn 1

My home is my castle

Autumn 2

Toys

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Spring 1

Whatever the Weather!

Spring 2

Water, Water Everywhere!

Summer 1

The Enormous Crocodile and Friends

Summer 2

Superheroes

Literacy

Fiction – Talk for Writing

 

 

 

Traditional Tales

Jack and the Beanstalk -

The Princess and the Pea – Lauren Child

 

Farmer Duck

Bear Under the Stairs

Rosie’s’ Walk

Bear Hunt

Owl Babies

The Owl who was afraid of the dark

 

Toy Stories

The Wooden Camel- Wanuri Kahiu and Manuela Adrean

Stanley’s Stick - Neal Layton

Where’s my Teddy – Jez Alborough

Monkey and Me - Emily Gravett

Dogger – Shirley Hughes

 

Christmas Stories

Stories from around the world about Weather

The Snowy Day – Ezra Keats

When the Rains Come – Tom Pow and Malika Favre

Mia’s Story – Michael Forman

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain – Verna Aardema

Hurricane – Jonathon London and Henri Sorenson

The Storm Book – Charlotte Zolotow

Lila and the Secret of Rain – David Conway and Jude Daly

Narrative Diaries - Lighthouse keepers’ lunch

The little Captain – Claudio Monoz

Rainbow Fish-

Tiddler – Julia Donaldson

Rainbow fish

Dougal’s Deep-Sea Diary – Simon Bartram

 

 

 

Stories by a familiar author – Roald Dahl

The Enormous Crocodile

The Minpins

The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me

Stories with imaginary settings about Superheroes

Eliot Midnight Superhero – Anne Cottringer and Alex Smith

Ten Rules of Being a Superhero – Deb Pilutti

Superhero ABC – Bob McLeod

Non-Fiction

 

Recounts

About our holiday

castle visits

Dictionary

Topic words

Recounts

About our holiday

Instructions

Recipes

Letters

Father Christmas

Recounts

About our holiday

Non-Chronological and information texts

People who help us e.g.

Weather forecasters

Rescue workers

 

Recounts

About our holiday

Information and Non-Chronological texts

People who help us e.g. lighthouse keepers

Lifeboats

Coastguards

Books on Grace Darling

Recounts

About our holiday

Letters

To Dahl characters

Lists captions and diagrams

Recounts

About our holiday

Explanatory texts 

How to be a superhero

Understanding the world

History

Famous Castles *

History of Castles

Geography

Where I live in the world

History

Toys from the past*

Geography

Toys Around the World

Geography

Weather around the world*

History

Grace Darling

Geography

Lighthouses and coastline

Geography

African animals *

History

Heroes Throughout History (Florence Nightingale) *

Art and Design

Art

 

 

DT

Design and make a castle

Paul Klee - Castles

 

Christmas Cards

 

 

 

Colour Mixing*

Mondrian^

Henri Rousseau – Surprised! Tiger in a Storm

 

Sketching with pencils

Fish

Easter cards and Easter Art – marbling eggs

Clay crocodiles and habitat

African Art*

Quentin Blake art^

 

 

Design a costume for a superhero

 

 

 

Maths

Know and Use Numbers (Recognition & Identifying)

Addition

Time (seconds, minutes, hours, days, months)

 

Know and Use Numbers (Place Value)

Subtraction

Money

 

Know and Use Numbers (Statistics)

Multiples

3D Shapes

 

Know and Use Numbers

Multiplications

Length & Weight

 

Know and Use Numbers

Division

Money

 

Know and Use Numbers

Addition & Subtraction

Time (reading the time)

 

Technologies

Science

Light – light and sound can be reflected and absorbed and enables us to see and hear 

Materials 

Materials have physical properties which can be investigated and compared 

Day and night 

Day, night, month, seasonal change and year are caused by the position and movement of the Earth 

Contact and non-contact forces 

There are contact and non-contact forces; these affect the motion of objects 

Life Cycles – Animals 

Know that life exists in a variety of forms and goes through cycles - Animals 

Life Cycles – Plants 

Know that life exists in a variety of forms and goes through cycles - plants 

Computing

Digital Literacy

Staying safe online

Computer Science

Programming using Beebot, Purple Mash and other apps

Information Technology

Presenting work using ICT

(eBooks in 2CAS and Book Creator)

Information Technology

Creating music and sound

Computer Science

Programming using Beebot, Purple Mash and other apps

Information Technology

Creating movies using IT

RE/MFL

Hinduism – Diwali/Rama & Sita

Christianity – The Nativity Story

Judaism - Hanukkah

Christianity - Easter

Islam - Ramadan

Places of Worship

PSHE

Why we need rules

Family and Friends

Anti-bullying

Drug Education

Managing Change

Sex Education

Life skills

Fine Motor/Gross Motor skills

Develop gross motor skills

To develop dressing skills

Use tools safely and with care

Cutting skills

Food

Recipe and cooking skills

Drinks, fruit, veg.

Using utensils and putting things away. Washing up

Fine Motor/Gross Motor skills

Develop gross motor skills

To develop dressing skills

Use tools safely and with care

Cutting skills

Food

Recipe and cooking skills

Drinks, fruit, veg.

Using utensils and putting things away. Washing up

Fine Motor/Gross Motor skills

Develop gross motor skills

To develop dressing skills

Use tools safely and with care

Cutting skills

Food

Recipe and cooking skills

Drinks, fruit, veg.

Using utensils and putting things away. Washing up

PE

Games/Multiskills

Table tennis, table cricket, Polybat, Boccia

Indoor Athletics

Multi-skills invasion games

Basketball, Hockey

Dance

Multi-skills invasion games

Football, Netball, TAG rugby

Multi-skills net games

Tennis and Badminton

Outdoor Athletics

WOW

Warwick Castle

Toy museum

Christmas Production

 

Lighthouse Visit

Great Missenden

Roahl Dahl Museum - Aylesbury

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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