Focus Narrative:

Environmental Stories

Key Text/Stimulus:

Little Turtle Turns the Tide  

Focus Non-Narrative:

British Poetry (Oral)

Key Text/Stimulus:

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Curriculum support genres:

Labels, lists & captions

Non Chronological Reports

Debate, Freeze-frames

Poetry performance

Artist:

Damien Hirst

Medium:

3D work (recycled materials)

Feedback, sharing ideas

Northumberland Agreed Syllabus

Unit L2.7 What do Hindus believe God is like?

Discussions, sharing views and opinions.

National Curriculum:

No focus

Content:

No focus

National Curriculum:

No focus

Content:

No focus

Real PE Unit:

Unit 2

Cog Focus

• Social Skills

Fundamental Movement Skills

• Dynamic Balance to Agility: Jumping and Landing
• Static Balance: Seated

Sport:

Circuits

Yoga

Feedback, sharing ideas, coaching

Planning Link

National Curriculum:

Focus objectives:

DESIGN OBJECTIVES

MAKE OBJECTIVES

EVALUATE OBJECTIVES

apply their understanding of how to strengthen, stiffen and reinforce more complex structures

Recipes:

Food Packaging - reusable/recyclable  

Feedback, sharing ideas, conducting surveys

National Curriculum:

Living Things/Habitats

recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment

recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things

Animals/Humans

describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions

DiscussionsFeedback, sharing ideas, performance of digestive system- explanation

WOW! Practical Introduction

TRUE OR FALSE: There is only one way to classify something.
Provide each group with a selection of buttons/toy animals/foods/plants.
Classify the objects based on their characteristics (children to come up with criteria) e.g. Number of holes, shape, colour etc.
Write down a justification of why you have classified them.
Mix up the objects and classify them using a different criterion. Answer: There are many ways to classify something. Organisms can fit into more than one group.

Content

• Digestive System Parts
• Digestive System Functions
• Types and Functions of Teeth
• Tooth Decay Enquiry 1
• Tooth Decay Enquiry 2
• Food Chains

Investigations:

Paper V Plastic Straw

Can it be recycled?

Can younger children do more exercise?

What impact is plastic pollution having on the environment?

Planning Link

National Curriculum:

Computer Science

KODU Introduction (Creating worlds and basic movement)

Presentation of  their world and choices made

Digital Literacy

Going Phishing (PM Unit 4.2 Lesson 1)

Planning Link

Instrument Tuition

Steel Pans

Language Angels Unit

Core Vocabulary & Phonetics:

• Recap Previous Vocabulary

Intermediate Language Unit (6 Lessons):

• Habitats

Planning Link

Planning Link

Speaking aloud