Medium Term Plan: Mars Term 1 2017-2018
Subject / Week 1W/B 04.09 / Week 2
W/B 11.09 / Week 3
W/B 18.09 / Week 4
W/B 25.09
Literacy
Classic Fictiom
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll / Read and discuss extracts from the first chapters of Alice in Wonderland sharing and justifying views.
Read and discuss the content and style of writing. Discuss and answer questions about a text. / Analyse and compare Carroll’s style. Organise and share ideas in groups. Explore how the characters are introduced and described using ‘showing and not telling’
Rewrite a section of story they have read in a different using a similar style and imagination / Discuss and collect ideas about features of the text including language devices. Explore how commas are used.
Say and write multi-clause sentences. Punctuate sentences, which open with subordinate clause. Recognise relative clauses.
Use and punctuate embedded relative clauses to give clues to characters, motivation and plot.
Identify the appropriate relative pronoun. / Identify the features of diaries.
Rewrite a section of story they have read in a different genre – diary.
Use and punctuate relative clauses.
Numeracy
Hamilton Trust/Maths Hub
(Number-place value, Number-addition, subtraction, multiplication & division, Fractions) / Number (place value in whole numbers) and Written Addition
Day 1: Place value in 5-digit numbers (PV additions/subtractions)
Day 2: Add/subtract 1s, 10s, 100s, 1000s and 10,000s
Day 3: Place 5-digit numbers on a line and compare pairs of numbers, use < and >
Day 4: Revise using column addition to add pairs of 4-digit numbers
Day 5: Begin to use column addition to add pairs of 5-digit numbers / Number (place value in decimals) and Written Addition of money
Day 1: Divide by 10 and 100 to give answers with two decimal places
Day 2: Multiply and divide by 10 and 100
Day 3: Place two place decimal numbers on a number line and compare two numbers
Day 4: Add amounts of money using column addition; Use using rounding to check answers
Day 5: Add amounts of money using column addition; Use using rounding to check answers / Written and Mental subtraction
Day 1: find change from £20, £50 and £100
Day 2: subtract amounts of money
Day 3: Use column subtraction (decomposition) to subtract pairs of 4-digit numbers
Day 4: Use column subtraction (decomposition) to subtract 3-digit numbers from 4-digit numbers
Day 5: Choose whether to use counting up (Frog) or column subtraction (decomposition) to work out given calculations / Number, place value and Written subtraction
Day 1: Count on and back in steps of 0.01 and 0.1 from numbers with 2 decimal places
Day 2: Add and subtract multiples of 0.1 or 0.01 without crossing multiples of 0.1 or 1
Day 3: Subtract pairs of numbers with one decimal place
Day 4: Subtract pairs of numbers with two decimal places using counting up (Frog)
Day 5: Subtract pairs of numbers with one or two decimal places using counting up (Frog)
Science / Suggest enquiry questions to back up a series of statements about the Earth, Sun and Moon
Match possible scientific approaches to investigating enquiry questions / Use fruit to create a model of the solar system
Calculate scales and ratios for a model of the solar system
Research, collate & create graphs for data about the planets
Paint the planets from known images and the nature of the planets / Know the difference between geo and heliocentric solar system and how views have evolved
Build an orrery of our solar system
Create episode one of Stargazing which explains how the solar system works and what is in it / Carry out shadow investigations that help support the idea that the Earth moves on its axis
Observe, measure and identify patterns in changing shadows across a day
Record a working model of a ‘shadow clock’ offering observations and scientific explanation
Topic
Anglo Saxons / WALT understand who the Anglo Saxons were? / WALT discover who the Saxons were where they came from and understand the locations of the Saxon Kingdoms and settlements. / WALT Research Anglo Saxon Monarchs such as Alfred the Great / WALT use archaeological remains and Anglo Saxon objects to find out who the Anglo Saxons were
ICT
We are photographers / Discussing photographs. Search for examples of photographs from online galleries, such as FlickrR or PicasaTM, which they feel are particularly effective or evocative. Collect together links to the children’s favourite pictures. Identify any common characteristics or lessons that they might apply to their own photography. / Using a digital cameras explore how they work. Children share ideas on how to take the best photos. The children should start taking their photos. Children working small groups, showing one another the photos they take on the camera display, deleting bad ones. Discussing lessons learned for their next set of photos. / The children upload their photos and use image management software (PicasaTM) to browse through them, using the tag and rating tools to organise them. They should make use of the simple editing tools to adjust colouring and to crop the image, if needed. Provide feedback to one another on their photographs. / Taking one photo at a time from those that they consider the best examples of their work, the children experiment with the image adjustments and filters available in GIMP, discussing the effects of the changes they make. Save multiple copies of each photo, with different effects
Art & DT / Link to topic – Anglo Saxons / Art Skills / Link to literacy – Pheasant catcher / Art Skills
PE / Invasion Games / Invasion Games / Invasion Games / Invasion Games
RE / To understand the importance of Harvest, and investigate Harvest suppers. / AT1Know what a church building is used for and by whom. Write questions to help pupils find out more
AT2Discuss the ideas of the church as God’s house; sacred place and also pupils’ experience of what is sacred or special / AT1 Develop further pupils’ understanding of worship and religious expression at an Anglican church building
AT2Explore further the concept of what is sacred and what this means in practice for Christians and for pupils / AT1Know the names of other Christian denominations. Be able to identify difference styles of worship between the various denominations
AT2explore further the concept of what is sacred and what that means in practice for Christians and for pupils
Subject / Week 5
W/B 02.10 / Week 6
W/B 9.10 / Week 7
W/B 16.10
Literacy
Hamilton Trust / Discuss and collect ideas about features of fiction writing. Record ideas in preparation for story writing. Start to draft a story in the style of one read. / Complete draft of Journey – in words. Use relative clauses. Edit and proof-read story. Replacing excessive dialogue with action or descriptive passages. Use informal language to write realistic dialogue. / Identify good features of oral story telling.
Perform/record their story for a younger child
Numeracy
Hamilton Trust/Maths Hub
(Number-place value, Number-addition, subtraction, multiplication & division, Fractions) / Mental and written addition and subtraction and Written multiplication
Day 1: Revise mental addition and subtraction (Place Value and near multiples )
Day 2: Add pairs of 5-digit numbers (5-digit answers)
Day 3: Use decomposition to subtract pairs of 5-digit numbers
Day 4: : Use decomposition to subtract pairs of 5-digit numbers
Day 5: Use short multiplication to multiply 3-digit amounts of money by single-digit numbers / Shape
Day 1: Sort 3D shapes according to their properties; Visualise 3D shapes from 2D drawings
Day 2: Visualise 3D shapes from 2D drawings; Describe properties of prisms and pyramids
Day 3: Describe properties of 2D shapes including polygons
Day 4: Describe properties of polygons
Day 5: Classify quadrilaterals / Access and review
Science / Create a sundial calibrated to key school times
Explore time zones and relate this to the movement of the Earth
Use scientific logic and knowledge to solve time problems / Carry out a simulation investigation to demonstrate why the moon appears as it does in the sky
Look at photos of the moon and identify key features
Match lunar phases to relative positions of the Moon, Sun and Earth / Access and review
Topic
Anglo Saxons / Understand the mystery of Sutton Hoo. / WALT present our knowledge of Anglo Saxon Britain / Children do a round robin of activities – Building Anglo Saxon villages, making Necklaces, Creating their own Bayeux Tapestry, Archaeology
ICT
Hamilton Trust / Browse through the examples selected by each child as their best, edited work, inviting comments from the class. for the exhibition, which should then be printed or uploaded / Invite the children to look back over their photography work, discussing lessons
learned and using the self-assessment prompts on the back of the Pupil Task
Use cards to assess the success of their selections. / Create a set of school photos to share the changes that have happened in the last year link with newspaper.
Art & DT / Link to topic – Anglo Saxons / Art Skills / Link to topic – Anglo Saxons
PE / Invasion Games / Invasion Games / Invasion Games
RE / AT1Know the names of other Christian denominations. Be able to identify difference styles of worship between the various denominations
AT2Explore concept of what is sacred and what that means in practice for Christians and for pupils / AT1research other Christian denominations. Be able to identify differences between the various denominations
AT2Explore further the concept of sacred and what is sacred to them / Review Terms learning and discuss harvest in other countries including Malawi