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Portal Travel: Mexico
Year 4 Term 2B
BedlingtonStation PrimarySchool
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
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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)
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