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Cale Green Primary School
CREATIVE CURRICULUM OVERVIEW - SEPTEMBER 2014
Theme 1
Theme 2
Theme 3
Theme Name
Once Upon a Story
Dora the Explorer
Let’s go back in time!
Year 1
History : Changes within living
memory
NB: Include the Purpose of
study and the Aims for History
and Geography when planning
History: Significant events,
people and places in their own
locality
Comparing Toys
Geography: Name, locate and
identify characteristics of 4
countries and capital cities of
the UK (vocab and fieldwork to
be covered )
Focus unit: Why is the Wii more
fun than Granddad’s toys?
Focus unit: Where do and did the
wheels on the bus go?
Focus unit: What has changes
since your grandparents were
young?
Science links: Seasonal change
(ongoing)
Materials
 John McAdam
 Charles McKintosh
Animals and senses
 Carl Linnaeus
 Amy Vedder
Plants
 Barbara McClintock
 George Forrest
Theme Name
Flickering Flames and
Rascal Rats
Amazing Africa!
To Infinity and Beyond!
Year 2
History: Events beyond living
memory that are significant
nationally or globally
Geography: Name and locate
the seven continents and
oceans
Great Fire of London
Geography: Similarities and
differences between small area
of UK and a non-European
country (vocab and fieldwork to
be covered). Unit will link to
Science and to the third theme
History: Lives of significant
individuals in the past who have
contributed to national /
international achievements
(comparative study of
explorers)
NB: Include the Purpose of
study and the Aims for History
and Geography when planning
Focus: Why were Columbus and
Armstrong brave people?
Focus unit: Where would you
prefer to live – England or Africa?
Science links: Plants (ongoing)
Materials
 Leo Hendrick
Living things /
Habitats
 Kate Humble / Chris
Packham
 Steve Backshall
Animals/humans
 David Attenborough
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Theme 1
Theme 2
Theme 3
Tomb Raiders
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Geography: Describe key
aspects of physical geography
(climate zones, volcanoes,
earthquakes)
History: Early civilisations –
an overview of all and then an
in-depth study of Ancient
Egypt
History: Changes in Britain from the Stone
Age to the Iron Age
Describe key aspects of human
geography – land use,
settlement etc)
Focus: How can we re-discover
the wonders of Ancient Egypt?
VISIT TO BURWARDSLEY
Forces, Rocks, Soils, Fossils
 William Gilbert
Rocks, Soils, Fossils
 William Smith
 Mary Anning
Light
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Theme Name
Year 4
Groovy Greeks
Roman Raiders
Location, Location, Location
History: Ancient Greece
History: The Roman Empire
and its impact on Britain
NB: Include the
Purpose of study and
the Aims for History
and Geography when
planning
Focus: Why were the Romans so
powerful?
Geography: Europe study (including
similarities and differences between a
region in Europe and the UK)
Theme Name
Year 3
NB: Include the
Purpose of study and
the Aims for History
and Geography when
planning
Science links:
Science links:
River Deep, Mountain High
Focus: Who first lived in Great Britain?
Include UK
geography/mapping skills
Focus: Why were the Romans
so powerful?
Electricity / States of Matter
 Benjamin Franklin
 Alfred Barnhard Nobel
Include UK geography/mapping skills
Sound
 Heinrich Hertz
 Robert Boyle
James Clerk Maxwell
Links to Greece / Italy / volcanoes /
earthquakes etc
Focus: Why do people go on holidays to the
Mediterranean?
Animals / Humans / Food Chains
 Al – Jahiz
 Charles Elton
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Theme Name
Year 5
NB: Include the
Purpose of study and
the Aims for History
and Geography when
planning
Space Invaders
Arabian Nights
Welcome to Rio
History: Britain’s settlement by
the Anglo-Saxons and Scots the Viking and Anglo-Saxon
struggle for the kingdom (up to
1066)
History: Non-European
Society - Early Islamic
civilisation
Geography: Similarities and differences
between a region in UK and South
America
Focus: Why was the Islamic
civilisation (c.900AD) known as
the golden age?
Links to Science and Eco unit
Include UK geography /
mapping skills / counties and
cities of UK
Focus: Were the Vikings always
victorious and vicious?
Include mapping skills, latitude, longitude,
time zones, climates, land use, vegetation
belts etc
Focus: Why is Brazil in the news again?
Focus: Why are rainforests important to us?
Focus: Were the Anglo-Saxons
really smashing?
Science links:
Properties / changes of materials
 Marie Curie
 John Dalton
Earth / Space / Forces
 Edward Hubble
 Brian Cox
Forces / Living Things / Ani,as and Humans
 Robert Winston
 Sir Isaac Newton
Theme Name
Year 6
Stockport at War!
Famous British Writers
Keep Calm and Revise!
NB: Include the
Purpose of study and
the Aims for History
and Geography when
planning
History: Study of an aspect or
theme in British History beyond
1066 - WWI centenary
Geography: Locate countries of North
America on a map, concentrating on
environmental regions, key physical and
human characteristics, countries and
major cities
Links to local geography /
geography of European battle
fields
Links to 4th Theme - Environment /
Sustainability
Focus: A depth study linked to
previous area of study over time
tracing how national history are
reflected in the locality
Science links:
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Thomas Young
Sir david Brewster
Jean Bernard Foucalt
Thomas Edison
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Andre-Marie Ampere
Benjamin Franklin
Alessandro Volta
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William Harvey
Carl Linnaeus
Evelyn Cheesman
Sir Hans Sloane
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MAIN AREAS TO BE COVERED IN GEOGRAPHY PROGRAMME OF STUDY
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Locating world’s countries in Europe, North and South America (including environmental regions, key characteristics, major cities etc)
UK study (counties, cities, regions, land use etc)
Identifying latitude and longitude, time zones etc
Geographical similarities and differences between a region of UK, a region of a European country and a region within North OR South
America
Describe key aspects of physical geography (climate zones, volcanoes, earthquakes)
Describe key aspects of human geography (land use, settlement etc)
Mapping skills