Curriculum & Help with Homework

Additional curriculum guidance may be requested from the class teacher or subject leader.

If your child needs to send in their homework electronically, please email it to homework@nashmills.herts.sch.uk

National Curriculum Spelling Lists

Yearly Plan

	Science	RE	History	Geography	Computing	FRENCH	Art/ DT	Music	PE	PSHE
Class 6	Light Evolution and Inheritance + Charles Darwin, Alfred Wallace, Mary Anning	Pilgrimage Natural world	World War II (local history)	Frozen Kingdom	Sound – digital music	Family La France	DT – seasonal cooking Art – Linked to Frozen Kingdom and Northern Lights	World War 2 Songs Music inspired by the Northern Lights	Netball Gymnastics – jumping and vaulting Touch rugby Dance – March of the Penguins?	New Beginnings Getting on and Falling Out
	Earth and space Electricity	Symbolism Ethics and moral issues	Leisure and Entertainment	Local Study – Apsley High Street	Spreadsheets	Actions Weekend with friends	DT – Marble structures? Art – a sense of place	Journey Into Space –Exploring Sound Sources Gustav Holst	Sportshall Athletics Hockey Silent movies dance	Going for Goals Good to be me
	Classification Revision	Traditions Beliefs about God	Mayan Civilization	Amazing Americas	Staying connected – wikis and blogging?	The future Jobs	DT – moving vehicles Art – Sculpture – Mayan clay masks	End of KS performance	Athletics Fielding and striking games Rhythmic gymnastics	Relationships Changes – Moving on Enterprise Topic?

	Science	RE	History	Geography	Computing	FRENCH	Art/ DT	Music	PE	PSHE
Class 5	Forces	Places of Worship Community	Tudors	Marvellous Maps (local study)	Data matters “Big Data” -store and search methods, digital footprints, safety and security, design and search databases	Greetings Numbers My Family	Tudor Portraits Cam Mechanisms	Cyclic patterns –African Rhythms Who Knows? - Exploring Musical processes	Rugby ( Saracens) African Dance Fitness Circuits	New Beginnings Getting on and Falling Out
	Properties of and changes in materials	Founders and Prophets Sacred texts:	Victorians	Our changing world	Robotics and Systems Automation, programming language, programming devices, controlling inputs and outputs	Seasons Eating out	Global Food	Roundabout – Exploring Rounds Musicals – Oliver	Cross – Country Gymnastics – bridges Sports Hall Athletics Tag - rugby	Going for Goals Good to be me
	Living things Life Cycles / reproduction	Festivals Rites of Passage	Ancient Greece - a study of Greek life and achievements and their influences on the western world.	Fair Trade –case studies of banana, coffee and sugar production	Animation	School trips Holidays	William Morris Electical systems	Songwriter - Exploring Lyrics and Melody Stars Hide Your Fires – Performing Together	Athletics Fielding and Striking Games	Relationships Changes – Moving on

	Science	RE	History	Geography	Computing	FRENCH	Art/ DT	Music	PE	PSHE
Class 4	States of matter Water Cycle Charles MacIntosh - waterproofing	Pilgrimage Beliefs	Anglo Saxons	Raging Rivers	Accuracy counts (internet, spreadsheets)	Months/Seasons Family	River Art (painting) Seurat Pointillism DT – Popup books	Play and perform – Recorders Notation	Swimming/Tag Rugby	New Beginnings Getting on and falling out
	Sound Electricity	Symbolism Ethics and Moral Issues	Egyptians British Museum visit	All around the world	Developing Communication (email, blogs, sound recording & editing)	Ourselves What we look like	Egyptian Sculpture (papier mache) DT – light up models	Music composition History of music	Swimming ½ term Mini Tennis and Hockey Gymnastics – Shapes and sequences	Goals, achievements and consequences
	Living things and their habitats (Habitats and classification) Animals and human(Teeth, Digestive system) Carl Linnaeus – taxonomist*	Traditions Natural World	Vikings	Land Use	Programming and games (simulations & programming)	Where we live House/furniture	Aboriginal Art DT – edible garden	Music appreciation Aural memory	Athletics Rounders/Cricket Dance - Country Dancing (Val Sabin)	Changes

	Science	RE	History	Geography	Computing	FRENCH	Art/ DT	Music	PE	PSHE
Class 3	Rocks Growing plants	Places of Worship Sacred Texts	The Stone Age	The Rainforest	Digital images and animation	Greetings Numbers	Stone Age Art DT: Bread	Music Express	Tri-Golf Swimming Dance	New beginnings Rules Problem solving
	Animals including humans (skeleton, muscles & nutrition) Scientists and inventor	Festivals Founders & Prophets	The Romans	Extreme Earth	Authoring	Age Birthdays	Roman Art Roman Mosaics DT: Moving monsters	Music Express	Swimming (1/2 a term) Ball games- Mini tennis	Goals, achievements and consequences
	Forces and Magnets Light	Community Rites of Passage	Local study- Canals	Local study- Canals	Keeping informed	Colours Pets	Canal Art DT: Juggling balls	Music Express	Athletics Introduction to cricket Gymnastics	Relationships and changes

Science

History

Geography

Computing

FRENCH

Art/ DT

Music

PSHE

Class 2

Uses of Materials

Special Occasions

Christmas

Great Fire of London (Samuel Pepys)

War and Remembrance

Talking & Sharing

(Communication & simulations)

Abstract art

Puppets

Exploring Duration

Exploring pulse & rhythm

Singing & Performing- Xmas

Games - Catching and throwing; Mini tennis

Dance

New beginnings

Getting on and falling out

Animals including humans (offspring and needs, exercise)

Plants

Our World

Easter

World around us

Japan

Getting Creative

(Creating digital texts)

Collage and painting

DT – dips and dippers

Exploring tempo & dynamics

Exploring sounds

Games

Gymnastics

Dance

Going for goals

Good to be me

Living things and habitats

Plants

Belonging

Special Stories

Seaside holidays in the past

Seaside

Visual Information

(Branching databases)

Mother nature

Winding mechanisms

Exploring pitch

Exploring instruments & symbols

Athletics

Games

Gymnastics

Relationships

Changes

	Science	RE	History	Geography	Computing	FRENCH	Art/ DT	Music	PE	PSHE
Class 1	Seasons Animals and Humans (naming and grouping)	All About Me Christmas	David Attenborough	Extreme Weather	Let’s Create		Self Portraits Mechanisms – moving pictures	Gymnastics – Travelling – body awareness Flight – Bouncing, jumping, landing Games – Mini tennis Dance – Snowmen and Penguins (Top Dance)	New Beginnings Communities	New beginnings Getting on and falling out
	Seasons Everyday Materials	Special Places Easter	Houses in the past	Transport around the World	Starting Research		Buildings (Lowry) Structures – houses & dens	Gymnastics - Rocking and Rolling Dance – We’re going on a bear hunt!	Feelings and Relationships Good to be me	Going for goals Good to be me
	Seasons Plants	Special Things Special People	Paper Mill – Locations of historical significant – John Dickinson	Local Area	Discovering Programming		Van Gogh Food – sensational salad	Athletics Games – aiming games Dance – The Circus	Rules Right and Wrong	Relationships Changes

Reception*

Autumn Term

Starting school

Autumn & Harvest Festival

Eco

Fireworks

Traditional Tales

Winter & Christmas

Spring Term

New Year, Easter & other celebrations

Traditional Tales

Transport

Wizards

Mr Men

Summer Term

Spring & growing (frogs & plants)

People who help us (Opticians)

Animals including minibeasts

Moving up

Nursery*

Starting school Diwali

Holidays People Who Help us

Harvest /The Little Red Hen/The Enormous Turnip Christmas/Nativity

Autumn/Owl Babies

Bonfire night

Winter, snow and ice

Transport

Chinese New Year

Dinosaurs

Me, Myself, I

Easter

Growing

Pirates

Safety Week

Ideas for after half term include:

Under water, Zoo animals, Mini beasts and summer

You can find out more about the curriculum of this school by referring to class newsletters below

*N.B. The plans for the Foundation Stage classes are subject to change due to meeting the interests and needs of pupils.

Spring 2020 Curriculum Newsletters

Autumn 2019 Curriculum Newsletters

Summer 2019 Curriculum Newsletters

Spring 2019 Curriculum Newsletters

Short Multiplication Flipbooks

These flipbooks demonstrate how the grid method, used in Year 3 and Year 4, supports the understanding of short multiplication in Year 4.

Long Multiplication Flipbooks

These flipbooks show how the grid method for multiplying a 2-digit by a 2 or 3-digit number, supports the understanding of long multiplication in Years 5 and 6.

Short Division Flipbooks

These flipbooks show how we use place value counters and number lines to aid the understanding of short division in Years 4, 5 and 6.

Long Division Flipbooks

These flipbooks show step by step instructions of how Year 6 are taught to do long division. We use a division method called chunking leading up to this formal method. Details of chunking can be found in our calculation policy below.