Science: ROCKS (see scheme of work for more detail)

• Compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple properties.
• Describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within the rock.
• Recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.

History: PREHISTORIC TIMES

• Identify the stone age era, the Bronze Age era and the Iron Age era on a timeline and in chronological order.
• Distinguish between evidence from each of the three periods.
• Learn about the Neolithic hunter-gatherers and early farmers through the study of Skara Brae.
• Learn about the Bronze Age religion, technology and travel.
• Find out how Stonehenge was built.
• Identify how farming changed people’s lives through the study of Danebury Hillfort.
• Identify when the most important changes in Britain between the Stone Age and the Iron Age.

Digital Publication: Complete Purple Mash Stone Age/Bronze Age Writing projects to publish reports etc – read and give feedback on classmates published work

• Use appropriate templates, layouts, and formatting tools
• Use tables, text boxes, and borders to layout content
• Evaluate and annotate their own work, give reasons for choicesArt: LASCAUX CAVE ART
• Experiment with different effects and textures including blocking in colour, washes, thickened paint creating textural effects.
• Work on a range of scales e.g. thin brush on small pictures etc.
• Create different effects and textures with paint.
• Mix colours and know which primary colours make secondary colours.
• Use specific colour language.
• Mix and use tints and shades.
• Know about great artists in history.Music: FOCUS STUDY – WORLD MUSIC.
• Play in ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing instruments with increasing accuracy.
• Improvise music for a range of purposes using the interrelated dimensions of music.
• Listen with attention to detail of sounds.
• Appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music.
• Develop an understanding of the history of music.E: (Follow Southwark agreed syllabus) Buddhism (units 1 and 2)

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 Entitlement and enrichment: Greenwich observatory and maritime museum. British museum.  Natural history museum. 

Topic writing links: (please teach during Friday’s literacy lesson and work in topic/Science books:

• Write a description of people from the different eras.
• Write a fact file about someone from Bronze age/stone age/Iron age – what they wore/where they lived/ what they ate/who they worshipped.
• Write a diary from a hunter-gatherer’s and early farmer’s point of view.
• Write a brochure about Stonehenge
• Write a guide to Skara Brae.
• Write about a typical day living at Danebury hill Fort.
• Choose a country from a different time zone and write a postcard.
• Retell ‘At the same moment around the world’ (Clotilde Penn)
• Write an explanation about the sun’s position and the earth’s rotation (make a book for a younger child)
• Write a contrast between what happens at daytime and what happens at night times.
• Write an explanation of how an animal becomes fossilised.
• Write a poem about the dark.

Maths topic Links: (work to be in topic/Science books)

• Measure work linked to Meridian prime.
• Time work based on time zones.
• Data-handling (light)