Long Term Plan Cycle A Academic Year 2015/16Year Group: 3 and 4
Theme/Subject / People and Places / Connections / Our Wonderful WorldEnglish / Narrative Focus – stories set in the present.
Non-Fiction Focus – reports linked to history curriculum content
Poetry unit focus – performance poetry
Trip - Ilkley Book festival – meet an author workshop. / Narrative Focus (myths/legends and fables)-
Non-Fiction focus – persuasive texts
Performing a school play - Cinderella / Narrative Focus- adventure and mystery stories Poetry unit 2 – shape poetry and calligrams
Non-Fiction Focus– information texts
Geography / Investigating Our Local Area – creating multimedia maps
Local Fieldwork Trip / Changing world – climate change / Weather here and there – comparing UK weather to a non-UK location (within Europe)
History / Anglo –Saxon Life and The Scots / Anglo-Saxons meet Vikings / Viking Life
DT / Stable Structures – Towers STEM challenge.
Christmas Decorations - textiles / A healthy picnic
Music / Exploring descriptive sounds
Let’s play an instrument – Chime Bars / Singing styles (linked to play) / Exploring rhythmic patterns in context of world music (focus = African drum rhythms)
Art / Colour Skills – Colour mixing/pattern
Printing
Main artists:Kandinsky / Sculpture - with emphasis on own sculptor
Main artist: Barbara Hepworth / View Points including digital photography and collages
PE / 4E Swimming / 4E Swimming / 4T Swimming / 4T Swimming / 4H Swimming / 4H Swimming
Each class to cover 4 from these when not swimming: / Multi-skills, Striking and Field (e.g; rounders/cricket),Invasion(e.g. hockey/basketball) ,Gymnastics
Net and Wall - Badminton
PE (PPA) / OAA, Dance, Strike/field, athletics, gymnastics, invasion (netball)
Science / Our body:
Skeletons and muscles – we like to move it!
Teeth types and care / Rocks and fossils (Planet Earth Rocks!)
States of matter / How does your garden grow?
Classification of living things, habitats and food chains
Trip – Harlow Carr
Computing (PPA coverage) / esaftey
Email, including address books and attachments / Databases – rocks and fossils
Probots (over this term and into next) / Digital camera skills
Computing (Class) / Mapcaster link to geography / Searching the internet to make notes and create slide presentations on textease linked to history / Digital collage
Scratch animations
RE
Sikhism comparative faith / Focus faith overview
Place of Worship
Christmas/Harvest / Beginnings
Easter + Pentecost / Journeys
Reflections- Moving on
French / Moi – All about me! / Weather / Food
PSCE/Health / Water Safety
Road Safety
New Beginnings
Setting classroom rules/vision
Getting on and Falling Out
Anti-Bullying week
Linking Schools – 4B / Reaching for the Stars
It’s good to be me !
Linking Schools – 4B / Understanding Others
Preparing for Change
Linking Schools – 4B
Blue indicates areas to be linked within the theme. Green = discrete unit