Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Special Events Literacy Numeracy Text: The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde Read only up to the point when the Giant returns. Oral- story telling in partners, freeze framing Magpie words from story, Use noun phrases to describe the Giant s garden. Show not Tell, how is the Giant/ children feeling? Writing from the point of view of the children using Show not Tell technique. Make and partition numbers to 1,000,000 using apparatus (i.e. Text: The Selfish Giant Oscar Wilde Use freeze frames to generate ideas of how the Giant is feeling. What do you think the Giant will do? Will the children return? What might he say. Use speech marks, go through inverted commas rules. Writing an ending for the story. Use direct speech. Ordering, writing numbers to 10000, Estimating size Partitioning What was it like in the workhouse for Jim? Generate a list of jobs he might have to do. Write a letter to his sisters about his new life in the adverbials? Fronted adverbials? Write a letter to his sisters about his new life in the Placing numbers on empty numberline using estimation. Rounding Read up to the part when Jim is on the Generate positive and negative aspects of Jim staying there. Use conscience alley to decide whether Jim should stay or escape the work house. Write about Jim s decision Addition and subtraction using mental skills and inverse Using length Class Assembly What could have happened to Jim s sisters Emily and Lizzy? Chn write a short narrative of what life was like for them when Jim and his mum left. Short narrative from the point of view of Emily or Lizzy. Calculating Written methods for addition and subtraction Money pairs that Purple book writing Fractions Mental- Counting on or back in fractions Written-Pairs of Black History Week To be planned Finding fractions of numbers using division facts. modelling with arrays, shapes etc
place value cards). Partition numbers to 1,000,000 Recognise the place value of a digit. whole numbers, positioning numbers on a numberline. Partition numbers to 1,000,000 in a variety of ways. numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1000 etc. measures Estimating length mm/cm Adding and Subtracting lengths mm/cm make 1 Using money multiplicationx10 etc. fractions that total 1 including decimals. Equivalentsdecimals, fractions. Adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator. (starter) Starters (Main) 1 st / 2 nd box of equivalence and comparing fractions Science Topic: Properties and Changes of Materials compare materials according to their properties Use feely bag activity to get chn to describe an unknown object to their partner using words i.e. hard, cold, soft etc. Go through properties ie.e. flxibity, transperancy, permeability, hardness etc. What do they mean? Test test thermal conductors and insulators thermal conductors and insulators? What are their uses? Chn carry set out a comparative investigation on range of materials to see which material will make the best lining for the inside of a lunch bag. Chn consider independent, dependent and controlled which electrical conductors make a bulb shine brightest. electrical insulators and conductors? Chn set up investigation to find the best electrical conductor. materials which will dissolve. Use concept cartoons to discuss what is happens when sugar is put into a cup of tea. What happened to the sugar? What is the difference between dissolving and melting? What is soluble and insoluble? Chn solubility of use processes to separate mixtures of materials. Show chn a range of mictures i.e. salt and water, sand and water, raisians and flour etc. Present chn a range of separating equipment i.e. eive, funnel etc. Chn work in groups to separate mixtures. Did you separate the identify and explain irreversible chemical changes. reverabile and irreversible changes? What is happening when an irreversible change is made? Link to baking bread (DT). Snowman s Coat investigation
History Topic: Victorians Art/DT objects for these properties and sort into groups. Introduction to the Victorians. Who was Queen Victoria? Look at a range of toys that chn played during the Victorian times. Show chn what a thaumatrope is. Chn make their own thaumatrope. variables for their investigation. Workhouse What were the conditions in the workhouses? Chn write an inspectors report of the workhouses/ Recipe for gruel in Revisit toys used by Victorian chn. Chn make peg dolls and rooms for Victorian dolls houses. Child labour What jobs did chn do? Child labour-locally, city compared to country. Look at artwork from Lowry. What do you notice about the colours and shapes. What is the picture showing? Chn create their own Victorian street scene. materials. Schools What were schools like for chn. Create a Victorian school scene. Queen Victoria pictures using charcoal and chalk on white or black background. mixture? Go through separation techniques i.e. sieving, evaporation, magnetic attraction filtration. What method was the best for your mixture? Chn write school rules in a blackboard style and practise Victorian handwriting. Chimney sweep pictures. Rich and Poor Compare and contrast life for rich and poor Victorians. Bread Planning and making (link to Street Child). Planning and making bread..
ICT PPA Star reader tests Graphic Modelling Children to recreate Matisse snail. They plan and design an aerial view of a garden using shape tool in word. Change size, colour and rotate. Save in folder. Graphic Modelling Children to open saved file and use the outline, width line tool. Copy and paste the shape. Add another shape from internet using snipping tool. Researching skills using a search engine LO I can research facts and complete a fact file on Dr Barnado. Use web quest and transfer information onto it. Researching skills using a search engine Presentation skills Using powerpoint to add text and images on values that are important to us. Use UN children to look at rights. Draw theses on a value tree. (Text wrapping and draw tools) Presentation skills PHSE Emotions Looking at colours for emotions (Pixar s Inside Out). Which character represents the emotion? What do we know about the character Joy, Fear, Disgust, Fear and Sadness? Show clip from Inside Out. What are the jobs of the emotion characters? Why might we feel the emotions- Joy, Fear, Disgust, Fear and Sadness? How can we recognise these emotions in people? How can we deal with ways when we go through these emotions? Chn come up with strategies by watching clips from Inside Out. Write emotion poetry using senses and similes. Look through scenarios. How is the person feeling? How do you know by looking at their body language? What could they do to help themselves?
Music P.E Recorders/ Clarinets Class songs (Victorians/ Black History) Table Tennis/ Bado Sports (Gymnastics)