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Portal Travel: Mexico

 

Year 4 Term 2B

CONTEXT

Travel Writers

BROADENING EXPERIENCE

No visit

CLASS READER

Skellig

Oracy Development Opportunities

ENGLISH

Focus Narrative:

Cultural Stories

Key Text/Stimulus:

Dias De los Muertos (Animation)  

Focus Non-Narrative:

Formal Letter Writing

Key Text/Stimulus:

Science - pollution in food chains

Curriculum support genres:

Formal Letter Writing

Non-chronological reports

Hot-seating as characters, sharing ideas and feelings

Debate around pollution.

 

ART

Artist:

Day of the Dead

Medium:

Sugar Skulls

Papel picado (flags)

Feedback, sharing ideas

RE

Northumberland Agreed Syllabus

Unit L2.5 Why do Christians call the day Jesus died 'Good Friday'?

 

HISTORY

National Curriculum:

No focus

 

Content:

No focus

 

GEOGRAPHY

National Curriculum:

use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied

locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities

 

Tourism video, sharing information, discussions

Content:

understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region of the UK (North East), a region in a European country (Spain), and a region in North or South America (Mexico)  

 

PE

Real PE Unit:

Unit 3

Cog Focus

  • Creative Skills

Fundamental Movement Skills

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

Sport:

Invasion Games

Feedback, coaching, instructions

Planning Link

DT

National Curriculum:

No focus

Content:

No focus 

 

SCIENCE

National Curriculum:

Animals/Humans

construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey  

 

discussions, sharing/presenting  information,

WOW! Practical Introduction

Who eats who?

Children read the Habitat Story Cards. Using these cards can they work out who eats who? Could they produce a food chain from the information in the text?

Investigations:

TBC

COMPUTING

National Curriculum:

Computer Science

Logo (PM Unit 4.5)

 

 

Planning Link

Digital Literacy

Plagiarism (PM Unit 4.2 Lesson 3)

Planning Link

Debate, discussions, sharing ideas and views

MUSIC

Planning Link

Instrument Tuition

Steel Pans

Performing/singing/evaluations

SPANISH

Language Angels Unit

Core Vocabulary & Phonetics:

  • Recap Previous Vocabulary

 

Intermediate Language Unit (6 Lessons):

  • Me Presento (Presenting myself)

 

 

Planning Link

Planning Link

Speaking aloud