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Flowerton Enterprises: Regina & the Chelsea Flower Show
Year 3 Term 2B
BedlingtonStation PrimarySchool
Year 3 Term 2B
CONTEXT
Horticulturists
BROADENING EXPERIENCE
No visit
CLASS READER
The Last Kids on Earth
Oracy Development Opportunities
ENGLISH
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
ART
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Artist:
Georgia O’Keeffe (Plants)
Medium:
Drawing
Painting (Watercolours)
Feedback, advice, sharing ideas
Who was Georgia O'Keeffe?Georgia O'Keeffe was an American artist famous for her colourful paintings of flowers, bones, and landscapes, which often showed the beauty of nature in a unique and bold way.
What are watercolours?Watercolours are a type of paint made with water that creates soft, transparent colours, allowing artists to blend and layer their artwork easily.
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RE
Jigsaw RE
What is 'good' about Good Friday?
Northumberland Agreed Syllabus - Unit L2.5 Why do Christians call the day Jesus died ‘Good Friday’?
What is salvation?
Christians believe that Jesus’ death and resurrection saved humans and opened the way back to God for eternity.
What is Maundy Thursday?
The day before Good Friday is called “Maundy Thursday” and is the day he ate a “Last Supper” with his friends. The passing of the cup of wine and breaking of bread at this supper is commemorated in the Christian sacrament of communion.
What is Good Friday?Good Friday is the day when Christians commemorate the death of Jesus on the cross. Christians believe his death on Good Friday was necessary to bring forth the resurrection on Easter Sunday.
GEOGRAPHY
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
What is a climate zone?A climate zone is a specific area of the Earth that has similar weather patterns, temperatures, and rainfall throughout the year, such as tropical, temperate, or polar climates.
What are biomes? A biome is a large area of the Earth that has a similar climate, plants, and animals, like forests, deserts, or grasslands.
What is a vegetation belt?A vegetation belt is a specific area of land where certain types of plants and trees grow together, usually because they have similar climate and soil conditions.
PE
Real PE Unit:
Unit 4
Cog Focus
Fundamental Movement Skills
Sport:
Invasion Games
Feedback, advice, sharing ideas
DT
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.
What is a gear?
A gear is a round, toothed wheel that helps machines and vehicles work by turning and transferring motion to other gears or parts.
What is a cam?A cam is a specially shaped piece of metal or plastic that helps change the motion of a machine by moving up and down or side to side when it rotates.
What is a pulley?A pulley is a simple machine made of a wheel and a rope that helps lift heavy things by changing the direction of the force you use.
SCIENCE
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
Investigations:
Cress growing conditions
Water transportation in plants - White carnations/celery and coloured ink
What are all the different ways that seeds disperse?
WOW! Wonder Launch
Dissect a flower and identify each of the different parts that help with fertilisation.
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