Year 4/5/6 Cycle C 2024/25

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Topic

Ancient Egyptians

Rivers and Water Cycles

Curriculum focus

History

Geography

Beyond the Boundaries

Cultural Experiences

Egyptian day

Canal Walk

Aspirational Experiences

Meet a historian

Meet an ecologist

Eco Opportunity

Orchard

Creating rivers

Writing

Fiction

Book unit

The Legend of Podkin one-ear

The Explorers

Film unit

Tadeo Jones

David Attenborough Amazon

Non-Fiction

Instructions for mummification

Life in the Amazon

Foundation Subjects

Science

Habitats

The circulatory system, diet, drugs and lifestyle

Art

Egyptian patterns and hieroglyphs. 3D sarcophagus/Modroc mummy

Water cycle diorama

Background colour washes. watercolours and large brushes.

 Design Technology

Egyptian food

Creating a water system

Music

Year 4/5

Getting started with Music tech (5)

Getting started with Music tech (5)

Year 5/6

Developing melodic phrase (6)

Understanding structure form (6)

Computing

Year 4/5

Programming in Scratch

Video Editing

Year 5/6

Programming in Scratch

App Design and Text Based Programming

Religious Education

3 - Religious Buildings

 and Art

3 - Religious Buildings

 and Art

Physical Education

Football/Swimming

Football/Swimming

Personal, Social,

Health & Economic

Being Me

Celebrating Difference

MFL - French

Year 4/5

On the move

On the move

Year 5/6

Let’s go shopping

Let’s go shopping