Topic name: Who is Louise Marie Therese? 1. Compare aspects of life in different periods 2. To know about the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements. 3. Events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally 4. Understand geographical similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of a small area of the UK and a contrasting non-european country. 5. Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify the UL and its countries, as well as a contrasting country. 6. Refer to key human features including: city, town, village, factory, farm, house, office, port harbour and shop. 7. To Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space. 8. To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination. Engage: Make a giraffe Develop: Mini Epcot go to each table with their giraffe and each table represents a different country (Food, activities, music, landmarks) Innovate: Create a 3D map of Zeraffa s journey. Express: Evaluate his journey (What was sensible and part of the journey they would change). Make their own journey and share with the class. Artist: Jane Ray (Illustrator of Zeraffa Giraffa), Sue Dickinson Trip options: Zoo, Epping Forest, Sun trap, Power of Reading Book: Zeraffa Giraffa Narrative: Retell stories from other times or cultures Recount: Write first person recounts retelling historical events, using adverb of time to aid sequencing, and maintaining consistency in tense and person
Topic name: Taming happily wild things. 1. Identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats. 2. Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants. 3. Explore structures. How can we make them stronger, stiffer and more stable? 4. Evaluate their ideas and products against design criteria. 5. To develop a range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line shape, form and space. 6. Refer to any physical feature including: beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather. Power of Reading Book: Wild Narrative Myths and Legends Based on a familiar structure, write myths (such as creation myths) e.g. How the Zebra got its stripes) Poetry Personal Responses to Poetry Free verse poetry. Engage: Children go to the park and act like wild animals. Develop: Crime scene- Lots of structures are destroyed. Pupils develop ideas on how to make them stronger, stiffer and more stable. Innovate: Make a bridge that links the house to the forest. (Test the materials, see which animals can cross over). Express: Test the bridges with small world figures. See which materials work and which ones doesn t Artist: Andy Goldsworthy, Trip options: Lloyd Park, Epping Forest, Grow Wild (In Lloyd Park) Wild faces with bug eyes and draw on crazy hair. Big trees, plants.
Topic name: Clanking Tin Heart 1) Devise a simple map and use and construct basic symbols in a key. 2) Identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the UK. 3) Identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses. 4) Explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead and things that have never been alive. 5) Explore and evaluate a range of existing products. 6) To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space. Power of Reading Book: The Robot and the Blue Bird Narrative: Stories with recurring literacy language. Use a familiar story as a model to write a new story Report: Assemble information on a subject, sorting and categorising information; use comparative language to describe and differentiate. Engage: Watch Wall-E (Disney film) Develop: Investigate different existing robots, and what consists them. Innovate: Plan and design a robot Express: Presenting their ideas/design to the class. Contrasting aspect: Aluminium foil/dark paper vs birds and bright colours Hanging birds Robot man Artists: Michelle Reader (lead on to making own junk artwork) Trip Options: Sparrow Session, Gods Own Junkyard, Recycling Place
Topic name: March of the Penguins. 1. Find out about and describe the basic needs of animals including humans. 2. Describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain and identify and name different sources of food. 3. Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic need of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other 4. Notice that animals including humans have offspring that grow into adults. 5. Identify the location of how and cold areas in the world in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles. 6. Us e the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes. 7. Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space. Engage: To watch clip of Happy feet with the egg falling. Develop: Children have own egg to look after. Innovate: Choose best habitat to keep the egg safe. Design something to keep the egg safe Express: Make and test their egg contraption Trip options:park trip to look at habitats of minibeasts etc. London zoo, Power of Reading Book: The Emperors egg Narrative: Write a selection of first and third person narratives. Letters: Formal and Informal letter writing. Instruction: Write a series of fiction-based instructions (i.e. How to trap an ogre) Snowflakes, penguin feathers, paper plate penguins, cotton wool, igloo,
Topic name: There s a whale in my bathtub. 1) To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination. 2) Describe the importance for humans to exercise, eat the correct the foods and hygiene. 3) Name and locate the world s seven continents and five oceans. 4) Name, locate and identify characteristics of the four countries and capital cities of the UK and its surrounding areas. Power of Reading Book: The Storm Whale Retelling a story (Narrative) Poetry Engage: Use book to develop awareness of the world s seven continents and five oceans. Develop: Learn about habitats by the sea. Innovate: Use different materials to design and build a boat. Express: To experiment the boats on water to see which materials are durable and can float. Hokusai: Beyond the great wave. Trip options: Visit to the seaside Boat/Ship Museum. Create a large storm whale for each classroom. Ocean related wall display Large noy (character) Fish hanging from the ceiling with vocabulary to describe characters feelings.
Topic name: I m not afraid of the dark! 1) To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination. 2) Use aerial photographs and plan prospective to recognise landmarks and basic physical features. 3) Use simple field work and observational skills to study the geography of their school and its grounds and the key human and physical features of its surrounding environment. 4) Explore and use mechnaisms (e.g. leavers, sliders, wheels and axels, propellers 5) Find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching. Engage: Use book to develop idea of darkness and light. Develop: Learn how electricity works. Innovate: Design and make a model light source. Express: Display of light source inventions to class and parents. Edward Hopper: The lighthouse at two lights. Trip options: Visit to the Science Museum. Power of Reading Book: The Dark Narrative: Character descriptions Recount: Write first person recounts retelling historical events, using adverb of time to aid sequencing, and maintaining consistency in tense and person