Vikings
Curriculum Focus / Spring Term
Smoothies
Curriculum Focus / Summer Term
Romans
Curriculum Focus
English / Novel as a theme
Roald Dahl Matilda
Recounts: Diaries
Matilda / Fairy Tales/Folk Tales
Non-Chronological Reports - Vikings / Discussion For/Against – Healthy Eating in schools Yes/No
Persuasive Letters – link to above
Poems with a structure e.g. shape, calligrams, rhyming couplets – linking to Spring / Recount: Biography – link to famous Sports People
Classic poetry for performance – link to Easter production – performance / Mystery
Explanation Text
Fables / Playscripts – Roman Role Play
Poems on a Theme
ongoing English / Handwriting
Pupils should be taught to:
- use the diagonal and horizontal strokes that are needed to join letters and understand which letters, when adjacent to one another, are best left unjoined
- increase the legibility, consistency and quality of their handwriting [for example, by ensuring that the downstrokes of letters are parallel and equidistant; that lines of writing are spaced sufficiently so that the ascenders and descenders of letters do not touch]. / Grammar
Pupils should be taught to:
• develop their understanding of the concepts set out in
English Appendix 2 by:
- extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including when, if, because, although,
- using the present perfect form of verbs in contrast
to the past tense
- choosing nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition
- using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to
express time and cause
- using fronted adverbials
- learning the grammar for years 3 and 4 in English
Appendix 2
• indicate grammatical and other features by:
- using commas after fronted adverbials
- indicating possession by using the possessive apostrophe with plural nouns
- using and punctuating direct speech
• use and understand the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 accurately and appropriately when discussing their writing and reading / Spelling
Pupils should be taught to:
- use further prefixes and suffixes and understand how to add them (English Appendix 1)
- spell further homophones
- spell words that are often misspelt (English
Appendix 1)
- place the possessive apostrophe accurately in words with regular plurals [for example, girls’, boys’] and in words with irregular plurals [for example, children’s]
- use the first two or three letters of a word to check its spelling in a dictionary
- write from memory simple sentences, dictated by the teacher, that include words and punctuation taught so far.
Mathematics / Place Value
Mental Calculation
2D shape
Length including perimeter
Position and Direction
Written addition
Written subtraction / Counting
Multiplication tables 3x 4x
Written and mental multiplication and
division
Time
3D shape / Place Value
Mental addition and subtraction
Fractions
Division
Volume and Capacity
Mass
Multiplication including 8x and statistics, measures, money / 2D and 3D shape including sorting
Addition and Subtraction (statistics)
Fractions
Statistics Mental Calculation
Time / Multiplication facts (statistics)
Addition and Subtraction/ Multiplication and Division (Measures)
2D shape and 3D shape including sorting
Decimals
Addition and Subtraction (money) / Place Value (measures)
Mental Calculation
Fractions
Measures
Statistics
Geography / Human geography – types of settlements and land use, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water / Human geography – types of settlements and land use, economic activity including trade links.
Locate the world’s countries using maps, globes, atlases and digital/computer mapping / Name and locate counties and cities of the UK, geographical regions and human and physical characteristics and land use patterns
History / Settlements
Raids and invasion. Struggle for the Kingdom of England. Significance of cause, changes and effect. Reinforce sense of chronological understanding.
Use of primary and secondary resources to find out about the past. / Local history study, counties and regions. Changes over time. Compare and contrast periods of time/places. / Local history study.
Ribchester. Roman army and British resistance,
eg: Boudica. Romanisation of Britain and impact of technology, culture and beliefs. Cause and effect, in addition to significance of events/changes over time.
Science / Rocks – compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties.
Describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock.
Recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.
Forces - compare how things move on different surfaces.
Notice that some forces need contact between two objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance.
Observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others.
Compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they are attracted to a magnet, and identify some magnetic materials.
Describe magnets as having two poles.
Predict whether two magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing. / Humans/Health/Nutrition - identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat.
Identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement.
Plants – identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers.
Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant.
Investigate the way in which water is transported within plants. Explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal. / Light and astronomy - recognise that they need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light.
Notice that light is reflected from surfaces.
Recognise that light from the sun can be dangerous and that there are ways to protect their eyes.
Recognise that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by a solid object.
Find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change.
Computing / Using the Internet- develop key questions to search for specific information with purpose to answer a problem, Save and retrieve accessed information.
Communicating and collaborating-understand that Cloud based tools can allow multiple people to contribute to shared documents.
PurpleMash 2Write
Modelling and simulations-Use simulations to make and test predictions.
(Linked to Science investigations) / Using Data- to add data to a pre-made database. To use the data in a pre-made database to generate graphs and charts.
PurpleMash databases and 2Investigate
Digital media- sequence short pieces of music, PurpleMash 2Sequence. Create digital artefacts using photographs which they have taken or found. edit photographs using a range of basic tools.
PurpleMash 2Animate or Mashcam / Creating and publishing-use desk top publishing tools to create posters, leaflets and other documents which require specific formatting.
PurpleMash 2Publishextra
Programming and control-Begin to plan more complex sequences of instructions for on-screen and floor turtles test.
PurpleMash Logo
Use software to make basic puzzles and quizzes PurpleMash 2DIY
ongoing Computing / Using technology:
· develop their independence and confidence in using these devices.
· increase their typing speed
· make sensible choices about the technology they use to help them work, and to justify their choices
RE / Expressing Christian faith through Art
Harvest (Judaism)
Christmas – God with Us / Jesus the man who changed lives
Easter – Sadness and Joy / Rules for Living
Joseph
PE / Dance – Viking dance
Games – ball skills, striking and fielding / Gymnastics – link to fruits
Striking and Fielding (Rounders/cricket) / Athletics and Sports Day
Invasion games (Netball and football)
Art and Design / Clay – Viking shields and name plates
Weaving – Viking long ship willow weaving / Drawing/painting – still life linked to work by the artist Archimbaldo
Printing with fruits
Still Life – Mona Lisa – self portraits / Designer – jewellery design linked to Roman jewellery
Textiles – design
DT / Design and make – a Viking shield/armour
Rune name plate / Food technology – design and make a smoothie and evaluate existing smoothies / Design and Make - Roman Jewellery
Textiles
Music / Three Little Birds (Reggae)
The Units of Work cover a range of styles and genres and musically draw together listening/appraising, composing/improvising and performing skills / Mamma Mia (Pop)
The Units of Work cover a range of styles and genres and musically draw together listening/appraising, composing/improvising and performing skills / Topic Songs eg: Smoothies/Healthy eating
Collection of songs and activities to use as a stimulus for exploring other parts of the world. Plenty of chances for cross curricular work / Easter Presentation
Cross curricular opportunity to organise, promote, produce, perform and evaluate a presentation involving groups and classes / Recorder Course
In preparation for next year’s First Access Programme the children learn to play the recorder, focusing on developing early instrumental skills / Don’t Stop Believin’ (Rock)
The Units of Work cover a range of styles and genres and musically draw together listening/appraising, composing/improvising and performing skills
FL / Les 4 Amis – The 4 friends.
Animals, colours and adjectives – drama focus. / Ca Pousse – It grows.
Vegetables/fruit and growing things.
Jack and the Beanstalk.
On y va – transport. / Argent de poche – Pocket money toys, euros and currency.
Our Sporting lives – healthy eating and sport.
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