Focus Grammar

• Word Families based on common words eg. Solve/dissolve/solution /insoluble
• Formation of nouns using a range of prefixes eg. Anti, super, auto

Focus Narrative:

Random Writing

Key Text/Stimulus:

Context and Curriculum

Writing Outcome:

Children will complete a range of short writing tasks linked to their class contexts and wider curriculum learning throughout the year. Writing choices and outcomes will be led by cohort need, drawing upon the different genres, styles and writing techniques explored across the curriculum, and giving children opportunities to apply and develop their skills for a range of purposes and audiences.

Focus Non-narrative:

Random Writing

Key Text/Stimulus:

Context and Curriculum

Writing Outcome:

Children will complete a range of short writing tasks linked to their class contexts and wider curriculum learning throughout the year. Writing choices and outcomes will be led by cohort need, drawing upon the different genres, styles and writing techniques explored across the curriculum, and giving children opportunities to apply and develop their skills for a range of purposes and audiences.

Cross-curriculum support genres:

All genres previously covered

Pathway: Gestural Drawing with Charcoal 🔗

In this pathway, children discover how to make drawings that capture a sense of drama or performance using charcoal.

Disciplines:

Drawing, Sketchbooks

Medium:

Charcoal, Paper, Body

Artists:

Heather Hansen, Laura McKendry, Edgar Degas

Feedback, advice, sharing ideas

Context Link:

Professor Crankpot needs a team of scientific artists to help capture the power of forces through art! Children will use gestural drawing to sketch movement, action and energy, showing how pushes, pulls, twists and turns can make objects and people move. Their expressive artwork will help illustrate pages for Professor Crankpot’s new Book of Wonders: Forces.

What is gestural drawing and how can it help an artist?

Gestural drawing is a quick and expressive way of drawing that captures movement, energy and shape rather than small details. Artists use gestural drawing to observe carefully, explore different marks and show how a person, object or scene feels or moves.

Gesture – A quick drawing that captures movement, action or overall shape.

Expressive – Showing feeling, energy or emotion through marks and lines.

Observation – Looking carefully at something in order to draw what you see.

What are the key beliefs that Humanists may live their lives based on?

1.     There is no evidence of a god – science gives many answers to things previously attributed to gods e.g. the formation of life
2.     We have one life – we need to make the best of it
3.     It is our responsibility to treat humans and other living things ethically, fairly and positively 4.     We need to take personal responsibility for our actions 5.     We have the potential to achieve great things which will benefit humanity and future generations 6.     Humanists value freedom, empathy, reason and human rights 7.     Humanists respect people’s right to hold their own beliefs; however they are opposed to human rights being violated which can happen in some societies, some of which may be governed by religious law.

Responsibility – Taking ownership of your actions and doing what is right for yourself and others.

Empathy – Understanding how other people feel and caring about their thoughts and experiences.

Fairness – Treating everyone equally and making choices that are kind and just.

Sport:

Field Games

Feedback, advice, sharing ideas

Pathway: Pneumatic toys 🔗

Investigating how compressed air can create movement within a mechanism and be used in a working pneumatic toy.

Core: Mechanical systems

Context Link

Pupils will use their DT skills to design and make pneumatic mechanisms that show forces in action. Their research into pushes, pulls and air pressure will help them create clear information posters and moving models to present to Professor Crankpot for his Book of Wonders: Forces.

Feedback, advice, verbal instructions, explanations

Cross Curricular Writing Opportunity:

Write a persuasive advert or leaflet for a new pneumatic toy as part of your work for Portal Press. Using your understanding of how pneumatic systems use air to create movement, explain how the toy works and what makes it exciting or unique. Use persuasive language, rhetorical questions, commands and exciting vocabulary to encourage customers to buy your invention.

How do pneumatic systems create movement?

Pneumatic systems use air pressure to create movement. When air is pushed through tubes into a syringe or chamber, it can make different parts move, lift, open or close.

Pneumatic– a system that uses air pressure to make something move

Air Pressure – the force created when air is pushed into a space

Mechanism – a set of connected parts designed to make something move in a controlled way

Data handling

Comparison cards databases 🔗

Exploring the concepts of sorting and filtering by learning about records, fields and data.

Oak Academy

Singing for performance: holding a second part in rounds and partner songs 🔗

Language Angels Unit 🔗

• Los colores y los números (Colours and Numbers)