ENGLISH:

Poetry

Fiction – Friend or Foe

Non Fiction Texts – Animals on the Move.

Reading for Comprehension

Character analysis

Spellings

Grammar

Punctuation

Long composition

Story writing – structure and characterisation

Use of voice –storytelling

Radio play

SCIENCE: AUTUMN 1 Forces

What is a force? Balanced and unbalanced forces

Gravity

Air resistance

Water resistance

Friction AUTUMN 2 Properties and change of materials

Compare and group materials based on their properties

Soluble/insoluble

Filtering, sieving and evaporating

Testing different materials for particular uses

Reversible/irreversible changes

MATHS

Place value, ordering, reading and writing numbers to 1 000 000

Estimating and rounding – knowing when to round up or down

Calculating using mental strategies

Using the four operations to solve word problems.

Fractions, decimals and percentages

Identifying and measuring angles

Units of measurement for length

12 and 24 hour clock

Investigations

COMPUTING:

Coding

Introduction and recognising algorithms

HISTORY: Ancient Greece

Who were the Ancient Greeks

Democracy

The Olympics

Gods and Goddesses

The Battle of Marathon ART:

Still life

Pastels (link with English) DT:

Papier mache

Greek vases (link with history)

RE: Worship

Having worth

Music in worship

Prayer

Art

Artefacts

MUSIC Carnival of the Animals

Using musical elements to describe animals

Listen to corresponding examples of descriptive music e.g. Aquarium, The Cat

Composing music to represent the way an animal moves and sounds

Fitting music to film clips of Greek mythological creatures

Whole class composition – Carnival of the Greek mythological creatures

FRENCH Textbook based work – (Expo 1 Module 1)

Saying hello/goodbye and basic expressions: Getting to know someone

Alphabet

Numbers to 31

Giving the date of a birthday

Things in the classroom

Understand instructions

Names of colours

LATIN A Soldier’s Life Life in the Roman Army. Prepositions. How beautiful! Roman dress and jewellery, conjunctions, making a brooch, King Midas story Gods hear our prayers! Roman gods and goddesses, adjectival agreement, understanding simple Latin sentences, Apollo and Mercury story.

PE

Swimming – Techniques for 4 strokes, somersaults and stamina work

Football – Passing, long passing, turning, heading, shooting, laying off, pulling defenders and

goalkeeping. Playing as a team with a view of playing other schools

Gymnastics – vaulting, floor skills leading to gymnastic sequences

Indoor Games – netball passing, footwork, pivoting and shooting, leading to a full rule game

Hockey –dribbling, pushing and small sided games, Quicksticks (Gum shields and shin pads are needed)

Tag Rugby – handling, simple skills and mini games

Cross country – to improve stamina and endurance

PSHE:

Myself

Others’ feelings

Keeping safe, feeling safe