Cross curricular: PSHE Knowledge Skills and Understanding: Talk and write about their opinions, and explain their views on issues that affect themselves and society. Citizenship: Research, discuss and debate topical issues, problems and events Cross Curricular: SMSC: Spiritual Comparing their lives with people living in other countries or other parts of UK

Cross Curricular: Writing: Narrative based on Tsunami settings Discussion linked to Natural Disasters Descriptive writing linked to victims of a Tsunami NC Objectives: • Plan their writing by discussing writing similar to that

which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar

• In narratives, creating settings, characters and plot

• In non-narrative material, using simple organisational devices [for example, headings and sub-headings]

• Organising paragraphs around a theme • Proposing changes to grammar and vocabulary to

improve consistency, including the accurate use of pronouns in sentences

• Proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors

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Geography NC Objectives: Human and Physical Geography

• Describe and understand key aspects of: Physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle

• Discuss how volcanoes and other natural disasters (earthquakes, Tsunamis) affect human life e.g. settlements and spatial variation.

• Locate places in the world where volcanoes occur. • Know where tectonic plates and the ring of fire lay • Recognise the different traits of volcanoes, including dormant, extinct

and active volcanoes • Understand and be able to communicate in different ways the cause

of volcanoes and the process that occurs before a volcano erupts. • Draw diagrams, produce writing and use the correct vocabulary for

each stage of the process of volcanic eruption. • Ask and answer questions about the effects of volcanoes.

Educational Workshop: Natural History Museum Trip Media Project –

Cross Curriculum: ART NC Objectives:

• to create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas • to improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials

[for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay] • Learn about great artists, architects and designers in history

YEAR 4 – Spring Term Planning – Natural Disasters (Geography)

Cross Curricular: Reading: A range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts. NC Objectives:

• Identifying main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarising these

• Identifying how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning

• Using dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read

• Retrieve and record information from non-fiction

• drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence

• Participate in discussion about a variety of texts that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say.

Cross Curricular: Science Electricity NC Objectives:

• identify common appliances that run on electricity

• construct a simple series electrical circuit, • identifying and naming its basic parts, including

cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers • identify whether or not a lamp will light in a

simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery

• recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit • recognise some common conductors and

insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

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