Reading:

• Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura
• The First Drawing by Mordicai Gerstein
• The King Who Banned the Dark by Emily Haworth-Booth

Writing:

• Grammar and Spelling
• Composition
• Genres: Narrative, Recount, diary, letter, newspaper report, formal speech

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Reading:

Cinderella of The Nile by Beverley Naidoo

The Story of Tutankhamun by PatriciaCleveland-Peck

A River by Marc Martin

Flotsam by David Weisner

Writing:

Grammar and Spelling: Spelling Shed - wordsreleased weekly. Practised in school and at home. 

Composition:

Genres: Short News Report,Diary Entry, BookReview, Biography,  Poetry, Sequel (mystery narrative)

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• Number and place value: Compare, order and look for patterns in numbers to 1000
• Calculations: Addition and Subtraction using bar models and 3 digit numbers and ‘renaming’ including word problems
• Calculations: Multiplication and Division by 3, 4 and 8 with 1 and 2 digit numbers, using long division, solving word problems

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Maths

Calculations:  multiplying and dividing a 2-digit number, multiply anddividing with renaming,

Length:Centimetres and millimetres

Mass: Readingweighing scales

Volume: Litresand Millilitres

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Animal Magic

Unit Aim - To develop children's ability to create, rehearse & perform a short descriptive composition; and to extend rhythm and pitch understanding.

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Performers (class performances of known songs)

Follow teacher’s hand signs to sing drm phrases(do/re/me), then improvising vocally and singing 4 beat phrases using drm to solfa notation∙

Find melody of known songs on tuned instruments

Perform class arrangement of a song

• Textiles and Batic: Exploring different textures, color mixing, plan and develop batic printing, consider form.
• Painting: Watercolors, color mixing, color wheels, different brush types, application techniques (dotting, scratching, splashing)
• Artists: Yinka Shonbare, Claude Monet
• DT - Structures (Stone Age Shelter): Design and plan a complex 3D shape. Make freestanding structures stronger, stiffer and more stable

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·        Form: Roman Pottery: Ancient pottery research, designing andform, clay pottery techniques.

·        Printing: Carbon Printing: mono printing, architectural studies.

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• Being me in my World: Getting to know each other, devising and owning our learning charter, rewards and consequences, the type of school we want and why
• Celebrating Difference: Being in a family, celebrating different types of family, dealing with conflict, words that harm, feelings, solutions

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Relationships:

Family roles and responsibilities,friendship, being a global citizen, celebrating my web of relationships.

Changing Me:  How babies grow, inside the body, family stereotypes, changes.

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• Judaism: When did Judaism begin, where do Jewish people live, what is a synagogue, Jewish festivals (Rosh Hashanah, Bar/Bat Matzvah Hanukkah, Shabbat), what is a covenant, the Torah, the mitzvot)

Islam Art andSymbols:

Who is Allah and what is the Qu’ran? 

Why does Islamic Art never show Allah? 

Why do Muslim artists use repeating tile patterns? 

Children will create their own Islamic tile pattern.

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• Scientific Enquiry: Posing questions and writing predictions, writing a method, carrying out a practical test and writing the results, writing a conclusion. Thinking about what a fair test is
• Light: Light sources, sun safety, reflective materials, shadows and how they change during the day.

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Plants: 

·        The effects of different factors on plant growth. 

·        Describe the functions of differentparts of a flowering plant and how they are used in photosynthesis.

·        Explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle offlowering plants

·        The pollination process

Rocks: 

·        Explore the formation and properties of igneous rocks.

·        Explore the formation and properties of sedimentary andmetamorphic rocks.

·        The weathering process and how water contributes to theweathering of rocks.

·        How fossils are formed.

·        Different types of soil.

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• Geography topic: Early Settlements- Case Study: Hampshire: What did early settlers need, where to settle, linking settlements, How is land used in settlements today - focus on Hampshire? What has changed over time in Hampshire? How has New Hampshire changed over time?
• History topic: Pre-historic Britain: From Palaeolithic to Mesolithic to Neolithic ages (hunter-gatherers to farmers) CHEDDAR MAN, the impact of tools and inventions on civilization - from stone to bronze to iron.

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Geography topic: Modern Europe and Rivers: Locating the Nile on a map, Stages of a River's Journey.

History topic: Egypt: Chronology, Belief and Religion, Social Structures.

• Computing Systems and networks: Digital devices, what are they, how do they work, and how do they help us, how are computers connected, how does the network in school work
• Creating media animation: Making storyboards, shooting frame by frame

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Creating media B desktop: Can you edit?, Lay it out.

Data Information Branching Database: Creating a branching database, structuring a branching database.

Football: Sending and trapping the ball using the inside of the foot, passing over short distances moving and finding a space to receive the ball, controlling the ball using the outside of the foot, working as a team (communicating and signalling)

Cricket: 

Apply simple tactics to choose where to hit the ball, Recognise when to throw over longer distances

Tennis:  Recognise the types of hitting needed for different areas of the court, Describe the skills needed to keep

a rally going.

Netball: Demonstrate dodging techniques to get ‘free.’, Identify and use the 1m distance rule in a game

Say, read, write and understand:

Common greetings, numbers, colors, classroom commands, calendar, celebrations

Animals: I can tell someone what my favourite animal is, I can recognise plural animals.

Carnival, using numbers and dates: I can ask and answer ‘How old are you?’,  I can take part in a simple dialogue about myself using familiar questions .