Term 1:

Term 2:

Term 3:

Term 4

Term 5

Term 6

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Communication and languages (reading, writing, communication)

Novel Unit: Fiction Linked to World War 1

Letter Writing

Description

War Horse

Where the Poppies Grow

WW1 - Diaries and Recounts

Information Leaflets Posters

Adverts and Media

Journeys & Travel writing

Non-chronological reports and factual, informative writing

Poetry Unit

Narrative Poetry:

The Highwayman

Dramatic Conventions

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Opportunities

Experience a play in performance which may be live or recorded and read material from/about the play. Participate in discussions

Whole books

Maths

Mastery

Number and Place Value

Addition and Subtraction

Multiplication and Division

Measurement: including Time and Money

Geometry

Statistics

Understanding the World: History /Geography

The UK:

Changing Population of the UK

The First World War:

Challenges in Britain, Europe and the wider World

The First World War

Fragile Environments

Understand how climate and vegetation are connected in a range of biomes, e.g. the tropical rainforest

Amazon/ Rainforest

The Second World War:

Challenges in Britain, Europe and the wider World

The rise of Hitler and the Holocaust

Investigating rivers

A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066

Crime and Punishment through history

Technologies: Science

Solids, Liquids and Gases

Cells and Respiration

Inheritance, Variation and Survival

Energy and Matter

Chemical Changes

Electricity and Magnetism

Computing

Online safety

Algorithms

3D modelling and Advanced word processing

Designing, Making and programming robots

Making Movies   Creating, editing and evaluating digital video

Digital artwork.  Using IT tools to add to a digital art portfolio

Design Technology

Getting in Gears

Computer Aided Design

Electronics 2

Pneumatics and Hydraulics

PfA: Independent Living Skills

Domestic Tasks including household tasks and food preparation

Domestic Tasks including household tasks and food preparation

Domestic Tasks including household tasks and food preparation

Creative Art

Surrealism 

Use observation skills to replicate images by well-known artists and explain how their work is similar/different

Understands some history of art, styles and major movements 

can create images in the style of an artist from history 

Focus artists – Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, Grete Stern 

Medium – mixed media, paint, collage, sketching pencils 

Rainforest Theme  

Digital Art 

Mixed media 

Water-colour 

Drawing; sketching and ink 

Medium – mixed media, paint, collage, sketching pencils 

Art: Change your style  

Picasso / Braque / Leger /Renoir  

 To be informed by the work of an artist and produce work in a similar style.  

Music

Main Focus: Music Composition

Pupils experience elements of composition, performance, listening and appraisal.

Perform

To work towards singing performance

To Use music for wellbeing and low arousal interaction.

Main Focus: Music Listening Appraisal

Pupils experience elements of composition, performance, listening and appraisal.

Perform

To work towards singing performance

To Use music for wellbeing and low arousal interactions

 Main Focus Music Performance and singing

Pupils experience elements of composition, performance, listening and appraisal.

Perform

To work towards singing performance

To Use music for wellbeing and low arousal interactions

RE & MFL

What is Creation?

Who created the world?

French – Rigolo 1

Unit 1: Greetings

What is it like to be a Muslim?

What do I believe in?

French – Rigolo 1

Unit 2  - Numbers and classroom objects

Ethics and Moral Issues

Right and Wrong

Good and Evil

French – Rigolo 1

Unit 3: Parts of the Body

PfA: Health

Diet, exercise, lifestyle balance and healthy choices, and first aid

Respectful relationships Families and parenting, healthy

relationships, conflict resolution, and relationship changes

Developing risk management skills, analytical skills and strategies to identify bias:

• Managing online presence

• Digital and media literacy

Intimate relationships

Relationships and sex education including consent, contraception, the risks of STIs, and attitudes to pornography

Peer influence, substance use and gangs

Healthy and unhealthy friendships, assertiveness, substance misuse, and gang exploitation

PfA: Community and Inclusion

How can the media influence people? Media literacy and digital resilience; influences and decision-making; online safety

Discrimination: Discrimination in all its forms, including: racism, religious discrimination, disability, discrimination, sexism, homophobia, biphobia and transphobia

Taking care of the Environment, people and animals; shared responsibilities, making choices and decisions

PfA: Employment and Enterprise

Communication and Interaction focus

Skills:

Planning an enterprise activity

Creating

Evaluating how successful it was:

Christmas Focus

Skills:

Planning an enterprise activity

Creating

Evaluating how successful it was:

Christmas focus evaluation

Skills:

Money skills

Skills:

Planning an enterprise activity

Creating

Evaluating how successful it was:

Fiver Challenge

Skills:

Planning an enterprise activity

Creating

Evaluating how successful it was:

Fiver Challenge

PE

Multi skills

Invasion games skills

Badminton

Gymnastics

Games- Basketball/ Netball

Striking and Fielding

Athletics

SEMH

Re-visit Zones of Regulation 

and  

 Bucket Filler 

Headspace: an Introduction to Meditation 

Rotation:  

Mindfulness: Paws. B 

What is anxiety? How does it affect me? 

Draw Breath: combining yoga, creativity and mindfulness 

Rotation:  

Mindfulness: Paws. B 

What is anxiety? How does it affect me? 

Draw Breath: combining yoga, creativity and mindfulness 

Forest Bathing and Mindfulness in Nature 

Use of forest school area

Forest Bathing and Mindfulness in Nature 

Use of forest school area and possible

Year 9 Pupils to create a SEMH passport to take to next KS 

Possible Books

War Horse

War Horse

Darwin’s Dragons by Lyndsay Galvin 

Darwin's Voyage of Discovery by Jake Williams 

Poetry

Midsummer Night’s Dream