Focus Narrative:

A Bug’s Life (Fictional Diary)

Key Text/Stimulus:

A Bug’s Life (Movie)

Focus Non-Narrative:

Informal Letter writing

Key Text/Stimulus:

Letters to Regina

Curriculum support genres:

Nonsense poems (plants)

Explanation Texts

Hot-seating as characters, freeze-frame

Recording reading letters to Regina - giving feedback

Artist:

Georgia O’Keeffe (Plants)

Medium:

Drawing

Painting (Watercolours)

Feedback, advice, sharing ideas

Northumberland Agreed Syllabus

Unit L2.10 How do festivals and family life show what matters to Jewish people?

National Curriculum:

No focus

Content:

No focus

National Curriculum:

describe and understand key aspects of:physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains

Content:

Link to plants around the world

Real PE Unit:

Unit 4

Cog Focus

• Creative Skills

Fundamental Movement Skills

• Coordination: Sending and Receiving
• Counter Balance: With a Partner

Sport:

Invasion Games

Feedback, advice, sharing ideas

Planning Link

National Curriculum:

DESIGN OBJECTIVES

MAKE OBJECTIVES

EVALUATE OBJECTIVES

understand and use mechanical systems in their products [for example, gears, pulleys, cams, levers and linkages]

Content:

Growing plants moving toy - for Flowerton Enterprises marque at the flower show. 

Instructions, record episode of Portal about cams, levers etc.

National Curriculum:

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
 

Weekly updates on seed growth

Seed dispersal performance

WOW! Wonder Launch

Dissect a flower and identify each of the different parts that help with fertilisation.

Content:

• Parts of Plants
• Investigate 1 - What do plants need to grow well?
• Investigate 2 - What have you found out?
• Moving Water
• Fantastic Flowers
• Life Cycle

Investigations:

Cress growing conditions

Water transportation in plants - White carnations/celery and coloured ink

What are all the different ways that seeds disperse?

Planning Link

National Curriculum:

Information Tech

Simulations (PM Unit 3.7)

Planning Link

Digital Literacy

Fact or Fiction (PM Unit 3.2 Lesson 2)

Planning Link

debate, discussions

Instrument Tuition

Steel Pans

Language Angels Unit

Core Vocabulary & Phonetics:

• Recap Previous Vocabulary

Early Language Unit (6 Lessons):

• Los Instrumentos (Instruments)

Planning Link

Planning Link

Speaking aloud