| Autumn | Spring | Summer | |||||
| Topics | Holidays and Journeys | Celebrations | Buildings | Toys | Living Things | Monsters | |
| Texts | Traction Man Adventure |
Little Red Hen traditional tales |
Hansel and Gretel traditional tales |
Non-fiction | Where the wild things are fiction |
Monster poems | |
| Autumn | Spring | Summer | ||||
| Topic | Food and farms | Antarctica | Who is afraid of the dark? | The Great Fire of London | Rainforests | Castles |
| Texts | Gigantic turnip traditional tales |
Lost and found | The owl who was afraid of the dark/Owl babies/stories with familiar settings | Explanation/non-fiction | non-chronological reports | the pea and the princess – modern fairy tales |
| Autumn | Spring | Summer | ||||
| Topic | Stone Age |
Gladiator! | Chocolate | Explorers and Mayan civilization |
Water | Pirates |
| Texts | Graphic novel Ug! Boy genius of the stone age |
Non-fiction | Charlie and the chocolate factory - fiction | Non- fiction | Non-fiction | Mungo and the Pirates by Timothy Knapman fiction |
| rocks | states of matter | light | plants and animals and water cycle | |||
| Autumn | Spring | Summer | ||||
| Topic | Invaders- Saxons and Vikings | Iron Man | Ancient Wonders | Zoos | In the deep | Out of this world! |
| Texts | Non-fiction | Iron Man fiction |
Non-fiction | Zoo, Anthony Browne fiction |
Krindlekrax - fiction | Non-fiction |
| forces and magnets and electricity | living things and habitats animals | sound | ||||
| Autumn | Spring | Summer | ||||
| Topic | Greeks | War and Peace | Natural disasters and climate change |
Rivers and deserts | Tudors | Carnival |
| Texts | Mythology | Non-fiction and newspaper reports | Non-fiction | Holes Fiction adventure stories |
Macbeth Classic plays |
Benjamin Zephaniah Poems |
| earth and space | properties and changes of materials | living things and their habitats |
animals | |||
| Autumn | Spring | Summer | |||
| Topic | Fairgrounds | Crime and Punishment | Victorian Southwark | Sporting Summer | Independent study |
| Texts | Leon & the Place Between |
The Island |
Oliver Twist |
Tall Story |
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| light and electricity | living things and their habitats | animals including humans evolution and inheritance |
forces | ||