Science: 1^st half: HUMANS (see scheme of work for more detail)

• Identify, draw and label the basic parts of the human body, and say which part of the body is associated with each sense.

CROSS CURRICULAR LINKS

• Count everyday materials in groups of 2,5 or 10.
• Use comparative language to describe the simple physical properties of everyday materials.
• Use names of common 2D shapes when describing everyday objects.
• Write a sense poem using describing materials.
• Write a set of instructions about how to make an umbrella

Science: 2^nd half – AUTUMN AND WINTER (see scheme of work for more detail)

• Observe the changes across the four seasons.
• Observe and describe the weather associated with seasons and how day length varies.

CROSS CURRICULAR LINKS

• Use a ruler to measure plants in cm.
• Use comparative language to describe differences in plants.
• Make a fact file ion trees.
• Write a leaflet about how to look after a plant.

Digital Publication: Complete Purple Mash Seasons Writing Projects

• Create publications and presentations for a purpose
• Enter, revise and edit text using a keyboard
• add relevant clipart to a publicationHistory: QUEEN VICTORIA AND VICTORIAN TOYS
• Learn about Queen Victoria.
• Learn about Victorian family life.
• Use pictures to compare Victorian toys with modern day toys.
• Visit a toy museum and discuss what other people’s toys were like.
• Describe whether an object is old or new.
• Describe the characteristics of old and new objects.
• Identify similarities and differences between toys in different periods.

CROSS CURRICULAR LINKS

• Read and write how old Queen Victoria was at various key moments of her life.
• Count and add Victorian toys.
• Solve simple problems about toys.
• Guess how many years old a toy is.
• Use comparative language to describe the size of a toy.

Digital Media: Explore the Purple Mash Toys Painting Projects

• Explore the tools in a painting program to make a picture
• Use painting tools to create images for a purposeGeography: THE UNITED KINGDOM
• Name, locate and identify characteristics of the four countries of the United Kingdom.
• Name, locate and identify the characteristics of the four capitals of the United Kingdom.
• Use maps, atlases and globes to identify the United kingdom and its countries.

CROSS CURRICULAR LINKS

• Count how many different countries and capitals there are in the UK.
• Write a list of the main features of the capitals in the United Kingdom.
• Write a very simple postcard describing one of the countries of the UK.

Digital Research – Look at UK outline on Google Maps – use arrow keys and mouse to navigate around the map, zoom in and out and explore

• Explore a website to find interesting information
• Navigate websites and online tools using buttons and menusArt: INVESTIGATING PATTERNS (use William Morris as an example)
• Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.
• Use drawing and paint to develop ideas, experiences and imagination.
• Develop a range of art and design techniques, including colour, pattern, texture, line and space.
• Know about the work of William Morris.
• Print with a range of hard and soft products.
• Build repeating patterns and recognise pattern in the environment.
• Experiment with printing motifs and colours.

CHALLENGE ACTTIVITIES FOR THE MORE ABLE:

• Create and use more complex printing blocks and patterns.
• Experiment with and determine the best materials to use for printing and explain why.

 

D.T: MAKING PUPPETS

• Look at a variety of different puppets.
• Know that puppets are made up of different parts.
• Draw a puppet and label its parts.
• Use a template to mark out the animals in Noah’s story.
• Join the fabric together (using basic sewing techniques or glue.)
• Develop own designs by adding different fabrics.
• Perform the story of Noah and the Ark with the puppets made.

Digital Media: take photos of the puppets at different stages

• Take digital photos for a purpose, review/retake
• Record an event with a series of digital photos

CHALLENGE ACTIVITIES FOR THE MORE ABLE:

• Add more detail to the puppet design.
• Choose appropriate fabrics and explain the reason for their choice.

Music:

• Use voices creatively by singing songs, chants and rhymes.
• Play un-tuned instruments musically.
• Listen with concentration to a range of high quality recorded music..
• Experiment with sounds using interrelated dimensions of music.

P.E:

Games, gymnastics and dance (use the Val Sabin scheme of work located in the PPA room)Computing

Using Technology Safely

• Communicating Online
• Personal Information
• Staying Safe/Getting HelpComputing

Coding and Programming

• Algorithms and Decomposition
• Programming on screen
• Sequence, Repetition, Selection
• De-bugging E – QCA unit – Belonging Judaism unit 1

Entitlement and enrichment:

• Pollocks Toy Museum
• Museum of Childhood
• Southwark Cathedral workshop on toysTopic writing links: (teach during Friday’s literacy lesson –work to be in topic books)
• write a simple postcard describing one of the countries of the UK.
• Write a fact file about one of the capital cities of the UK.
• Write a description of a toy.
• Create a lost poster for an old toy.
• Write a recount of a trip to a toy museum.
• Write a simple fact file of Queen Victoria.
• Pretend to be a Victorian child and write a simple letter about Victorian family life.

Literacy books which link in with topics:

• Lost in the toy museum
• Threadbare
• Mr Gumpy’s outing
• Oi get off our train!
• This is the Bear and ths Scary Night
• Whatever NextMaths topic links: (work to be in topic/Science books)
• Money work based on toys.
• Compass work based on countries.
• Measure work based on puppets.

Data-handling work based on seasons and length of days