Year Group Curriculum

Key Stage 1 - Year 1

Subjects taught:

English, Mathematics, Science, Religious Education, Computing, History, Geography, Music, Design Technology, Art, PE, PHSCE ( Personal, Health, Social Citizenship Education), Phonics

Talking to others:

• Express feelings and ideas when speaking about matters of immediate interest
• Talk in ways that are audible and intelligible to peers
• Show some awareness of the listener by adjusting spoken language and using body language

Talking to others:

• Express feelings and ideas when speaking about matters of immediate interest
• Talk in ways that are audible and intelligible to peers
• Show some awareness of the listener by adjusting spoken language and using body language

Reading

• Secure at phase 5 phonics
• Identify which words appear again and again
• Relate reading to own experiences
• Re-reads if reading does not make sense
• Re-tell with considerable accuracy
• Discuss significance of title and events
• Make predictions on basis of what has been read
• Make inferences on basis of what is being said and done
• Reads with pace & expression, i.e. pause at full stop; raise voice for question
• Knows difference between fiction and non-fiction texts.

Writing

• Write clearly demarcated sentences
• Use ‘and’ to join ideas
• Use conjunctions to join sentences (e.g. so, but)
• Use standard forms of verbs, e.g. go/went
• Evidence of:
• Capital letters
• Full Stops
• Question marks
• Exclamation marks
• Use capital letters for names & personal pronoun ‘I’
• Write clearly sequenced sentences
• Correct formation of lower case – finishing in the right place
• Correct formation of capital letters
• Correct formation of digits

Mathematics

• Count to & across 100, forwards & backwards from any number
• Read & write numbers to 20 in digits and words
• Read & write numbers to 100 in digits
• Say 1 more/1 less to 100
• Count in multiples of 1, 2, 5 and 10
• Know bonds to 10 by heart
• Use bonds & subtraction facts to 20
• Add & subtract:
• 1 digit & 2 digit numbers to 20, including zero
• Add any three 1-digit numbers with a total up to 20
• Solve simple multiplication & division with apparatus & arrays
• Recognise half and quarter of object, shape or quantity
• Sequence events in order
• Use language of day, week, month and year
• Tell time to hour & half past

Key Stage 1 - Year 1

Key Stage 1 - Year 2

Subjects taught:

English, Mathematics, Science, Religious Education, Computing, History, Geography, Music, Design Technology, Art, PE, PHSCE ( Personal, Health, Social Citizenship Education), Philosophy for Children

English & Mathematics

Talking to others:

• Recount experiences. giving some detail and using appropriate descriptive language
• Think of a range of questions to ask a visitor when on a visit
• Know how to vary talk to hold listeners’ attention
• Make specific vocabulary choices and use non-verbal features to engage listener

Talking to others:

• Help to organise group to take on different roles
• Recognise the need to take equal turns in a group situation
• Listen to and build on the contribution of the previous speaker
• Make helpful contributions when speaking in turn
• Try to hear and consider the different preferences and interests in the group

Reading

• Secure at phase 6
• Reads ahead to help with fluency & expression
• Comments on plot, setting & characters in familiar & unfamiliar stories
• Recounts main themes & events
• Comments on structure of the text
• Use commas. question marks & exclamation marks to vary expression
• Read aloud with expression & intonation
• Recognise:
• Speech marks
• Contractions
• ldentify post/present tense
• Use content and index to local information

Writing

• Write different kinds of sentence: statement. question, exclamation, command
• Use expanded noun phrases to add description & specification
• Write using subordination (when, if, that, because)
• Correct & consistent use of present tense & post tense
• Correct use of verb tenses
• Correct & consistent use of:
• Capital letters
• Fullstops
• Question marks
• Exclamation marks Commas in a list
• Apostrophe (omission)
• Introduction of speech marks
• Write under headings
• Evidence of diagonal & horizontal strokes to join handwriting

Mathematics

• Compare & order numbers up to 100
• Read and Write all numbers to 100 in digits & words
• Say 10 more/less than any number to 100
• Count in multiples of 2, 3 & 5 & 10 from any number up to 100
• Recall & use multiplication & division facts for 2, 5 & 10 tables
• Recall & use +/- facts to 20.
• Derive & use related facts to 100
• Recognise PV of any 2-digit number
• Add & subtract:
• 2-digit nos & ones
• 2-digit nos & tens
• Two 2-digit nos
• Three 1-digit nos
• Recognise & use inverse (+/-)
• Calculate & Write multiplication & division calculations using multiplication tables
• Recognise & use inverse (x&/)
• Recognise, find, name & write 1/3; 1/4: 2/4: 3/4
• Recognise equivalence of simple fractions
• Tell time to five minutes, including quarter past/to

Key Stage 1 - Year 2

Key Stage 2 - Year 3

Subjects taught:

English, Mathematics, Science, Religious Education, Computing, History, Geography, Music, Design Technology, Art, PE, PHSCE ( Personal, Health, Social Citizenship Education)

English & Mathematics

Talking to others:

• Develop ideas and feelings through sustained talk
• Show good awareness of the listener and organise what is said accordingly
• Understand the need to use a different style, tone and loudness of speech when speaking to a larger audience
• Use special words linked to the topic being discussed

Talking to others:

• Listen carefully and then make relevant comments in response to what has been said
• Agree about what is the most difficult problem in the task and how to tackle it
• Suggest different ideas related to a specific problem
• Summarise the main issues associated with a talk they have listened to

Reading

• Comments on the way characters relate to one another
• Knows which words are essential in a sentence to retain meaning
• Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts & motives from their actions
• Recognise how commas are used to give more meaning
• Recognise
• plurals
• pronouns and how used
• collective nouns
• adverbs
• Can explain the difference that adjectives and verbs make

Writing

• Use conjunctions (when, so, before, after, while, because)
• Use adverbs (e.g, then, next, soon)
• Use prepositions (e.g. before, after, during, in, because of)
• Experiment with adjectives to create impact
• Correctly use verbs in 1st, 2nd & 3rd person
• Use perfect form of verbs to make relationships of time & cause
• Correct use of speech marks for direct speech
• Group ideas into paragraphs around a theme
• Write under headings & sub-headings
• Legible, joined handwriting

Mathematics

• Compare & order numbers up to 1000
• Read & write all numbers to 1000 in digits & words
• Find 10 or 100 more/less than a given number
• Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 & 100
• Recall & use multiplication & division facts for 3, 4, 8 tables
• Recognise PV of any 3-digit number
• Add & subtract:
• 3-digit nos & ones
• 3-digit nos & tens
• 3-digit nos & hundreds
• Add & subtract:
• Numbers with up to 3-digits using efficient written method (column)
• Use inverse to check
• Multiply:
• 2-digit by 1-digit
• Count up/down in tenths
• Compare & order fractions with same denominator
• +/-fractions with same denominator with whole
• Know pairs of fractions that total 1
• Tell time using 12 and 24 hour clocks; and using roman numerals
• Tell time to nearest minute
• Know number of days in each month

Key Stage 2 - Year 3

Key Stage 2 - Year 4

Subjects taught:

English, Mathematics, Science, Religious Education, Computing, History, Geography, Music, Design Technology, Art, PE, PHSCE ( Personal, Health, Social Citizenship Education)

English & Mathematics

Talking to others:

• Adapt talk to suit specific audience. e.g. younger children or adults
• Give listeners/partners clear reasons or evidence for their views
• Speak with good diction so that the audience can hear clearly what is said
• Give listeners enough detail to communicate meaning clearly

Talking to others:

• Happy to attempt different roles and responsibilities, according to what is needed
• Discuss ways of making use of what they have learnt from a discussion, presentation or broadcast
• Explain how the group discussion arrived at an agreed view in relation to the aim of the task
• Make thoughtful use of the resources available to develop and illustrate ideas in discussion

Reading

• Give a personal point of view on a text.
• Can re-explain a text with confidence.
• Justify inferences with evidence, predicting what might happen from details stated or implied
• Use appropriate voices for characters within a story
• Identify how sentence type can be changed by altering word order, tenses, adding/deleting words or amending punctuation.
• Skims & scans to locate information and/or answer a question.

Writing

• Write clearly demarcated sentences
• Use ‘and’ to join ideas
• Use conjunctions to join sentences (e.g. so, but)
• Use standard forms of verbs, e.g. go/went
• Evidence of:
• Capital letters
• Full Stops
• Question marks
• Exclamation marks
• Use capital letters for names & personal pronoun ‘I’
• Write clearly sequenced sentences
• Correct formation of lower case – finishing in the right place
• Correct formation of capital letters
• Correct formation of digits

Mathematics

• Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers.
• Compare & order numbers beyond 1000
• Compare & order numbers with 2 decimal places.
• Read Roman numerals to 100
• Find 1000 more/less than a given number.
• Count in multiples at 6, 7, 9, 25 & 1000.
• Recall & use multiplication & division facts all tables to 12×12.
• Recognise PV of any 4-digit number.
• Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000.
• Round decimals with 1dp to nearest whole number.
• Add & subtract:
• Numbers with up to 4-digits using efficient written method (column).
• Numbers with up to 1 dp.
• Multiply:
• 2-digit by 1-digit
• 3-digit by 1-digit
• Divide:
• 3-digit by 1-digit
• Count up/down in hundredths.
• Write equivalent fractions
• +/- fractions with some denominator.
• Read, write & convert time between analogue & digital 12 & 24 hour clocks.

Key Stage 2 - Year 4

Key Stage 2 - Year 5

Subjects taught:

English, Mathematics, Science, Religious Education, Computing, History, Geography, Music, Design Technology, Art, PE, PHSCE ( Personal, Health, Social Citizenship Education), Philosophy for Children, French

English & Mathematics

Talking to others:

• Talk in extended turns to express straightforward ideas and feelings
• Capture listeners interest with intriguing situation, setting and character when telling story or recalling event
• Describe situation, creature or character in such clear detail and language that others identify it easily and confidently
• Present conflicting views of an argument and reach a considered conclusion

Talking to others:

• Show good understanding of what has been said and are able to introduce new ideas that are valid.
• Listen to others responsively in discussion and link own ideas clearly to others views, even when these views are different
• Know as group leader what to do to help the discussion to develop well
• Reflect on the contributions of different members of the group and consider the effect of each role.

Reading

• Summarises main points of an argument or discussion within their reading & makes up own mind about issues.
• Can compare between two texts.
• Appreciates that people use bias in persuasive writing
• Appreciates how two people may have a different view on the same event
• Draw inferences and justify with evidence from the text.
• Varies voice for direct or indirect speech.
• Recognise: Clauses within sentences
• Uses more than one source when carrying out research.
• Creates set of notes to summarise what has been read

Writing

• Add phrases to make sentences more precise & detailed.
• Use range of sentence openers-judging the impact or effect needed.
• Begin to adopt sentence structure to text type.
• Use pronouns to avoid repetition.
• Use:
• Brackets.
• Dashes.
• Commas.
• Use commas to clarify meaning or ovoid ambiguity.
• Link clauses in sentences using a range of subordinating & coordinating conjunctions.
• Use verb phrases to create subtle differences (e.g, she began to run).
• Consistently organise into paragraphs.
• Link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time (e.g. later), place (e.g. nearby) and number (e.g. secondly)
• Legible and fluent handwriting style

Mathematics

• Count forwards & backward with positive & negative numbers through zero.
• Count forwards/backwards in steps or powers of 10 for any given number up to 1000000.
• Compare & order numbers with 3 decimal places, read Roman numerals to 1000.
• Identify all multiples & factors, including finding all factor pairs.
• Use known tables to derive other number facts.
• Recall prime numbers up to 19
• Recognise PV of any number up to 1000000.
• Round any number up to 1000000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10000 or 100000.
• Round decimals with 2dp to nearest whole number & 1dp.
• Add & Subtract
• Numbers with more than 4-digits using efficient written method (column).
• Numbers with up to 2dp.
• Multiply
• 4-digits by 1-digit/2-digit
• Divide
• 4-digits by 1-digit
• Multiply and Divide
• Whole numbers & decimals by 10, 100 & 1000
• Count up/down in thousandths.
• Recognise mixed numbers & fractions & convert from one to another.
• Multiply proper fractions by whole numbers.
• Solve time problems using timetables and converting between different units of time.

Key Stage 2 - Year 5

Key Stage 2 - Year 6

Subjects taught:

English, Mathematics, Science, Religious Education, Computing, History, Geography, Music, Design Technology, Art, PE,PHSCE ( Personal, Health, Social Citizenship Education), Philosophy for Children, French

English & Mathematics

Talking to others:

• Vary vocabulary. grammar and non-verbal features to suit the needs of audience
• Shape folk very deliberately for effect and clarity
• Present a strong argument in a formal debate on an issue, using the language and procedures of debating
• Agree some good ways for opening and closing an interview
• Present a spoken argument that develops coherently and logically and supports its points with evidence and persuasive language

Talking to others:

• Recognise significant detail and implicit meanings in others contributions
• Comfortable in developing others’ ideas in different ways
• Show a growing ability to shape the direction of the talk
• Listen to the debate with an open mind, recall the main arguments and decide, for clear reasons, which one was the most convincing
• Work together as a group to prepare an argument against or for the motion in a debate

Reading

• Refers to text to support opinions and predictions
• Gives a view about choice of vocabulary, structure etc
• Distinguish between fact & opinion
• Appreciates how a set of sentences has been arranged to create maximum effect
• Recognise: Complex sentences
• Skims and scans to aide note-taking.

Writing

• Use subordinate clauses to write complex sentences.
• Use passive voice where appropriate
• Use expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely (e.g. the fact that it was raining meant the end of sports day).
• Evidence of sentence structure and layout matched to requirements of text type.
• Use
• Semi-colon, colon, dash to mark the boundary between independent clauses
• Correct punctuation of bullet points.
• Hyphens to avoid ambiguity.
• Full range of punctuation matched to requirements of text type.
• Use wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs.
• Use paragraphs to signal change in time, scene, action, mood or person.
• Legible, fluent and personal handwriting style.

Mathematics

• Compare & order numbers up to 10000000.
• ldentify common factors, common multiples & prime numbers.
• Round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy.
• Multiply:
• 4-digit by 2-digit
• Divide
• 4-digits by 2-digit
• Add & subtract fractions with different denominators & mixed numbers.
• Multiply simple pairs of proper fractions, writing the answer in the simplest form.
• Divide proper fractions by whole numbers.
• Calculate % of whole number.

Key Stage 2 - Year 6

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