Woodlands Primary School Medium Term Plan 2016 - 2017 Year Group: 3 and 4
Trip planned?Subject / Week 1 – 24.4.17 / Week 2 -1.5.17
M – May Day Bank Holiday
Th – Voting day / Week 3 – 8.5.17 / Week 4 – 15.5.17 / Week 5 – 22.5.17
Theme / Blue Abyss –
Writing objective / N.C Objective:
Plan their writing by: discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write.
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. / N.C Objective:
Plan their writing by: discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write.
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. / N.C Objective:
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.
Composing and rehearsing sentences orally (including dialogue), progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary and an increasing range of sentence structures.
Read their own writing aloud to a group or the whole class, using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear.
Draft and write in non-narrative material, using simple organisational devices. / N.C Objective:
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.
Composing and rehearsing sentences orally (including dialogue), progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary and an increasing range of sentence structures.
Draft and write by organising paragraphs around a theme.
Read their writing aloud to a group or the whole class, using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear.
Extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions.
Choosing nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion.
Using fronted adverbials. / N.C Objective:
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.
Plan their writing by discussing and recording ideas.
Indicating possession by using the possessive apostrophe with plural nouns.
Learning activities / Poetry with Personification
Choose their favourite sea creates from the aquarium. Put photograph in centre, describe it by looking at how they move, what they look like.
Use ideas to write sentences using a rich variety of vocabulary to personify their creature. Up-level choices by using a thesaurus and dictionary.
Drafting sentences to form the basis of a 4-6 line poem about their sea creature. Use examples of personification where appropriate, deciding whether they will write a rhyming or non-rhyming poem.
Writing 4-6 line poem about their sea creature. / Shape Poetry
(N.B No lesson Monday and Thursday)
Evaluate existing shape poems – commenting on effectiveness of them.
Gather words related to the pictures given.
Design and write their shape poetry based on fish. / Dilemma Narratives
Watch Finding Nemo (hook lesson) in classroom.
Character descriptions. Gathering adjectives – creating a character profile. Collect adjectives, verbs, adverbs using given headings. Create underwater word banks using a dictionary and thesaurus.
Applying description in sentences, use of conjunctions and expanded noun phrases.
Writing a character description ready for their story.
Setting descriptions, gathering vocabulary, creating mood and suspense. Different groups to focus on different settings. Magpie ideas from each other.
Up-levelling choices from previous day to describe new setting. Use of different vocabulary in order to not repeat. / Dilemma Narratives
Describe the dilemmas that a diver might face Research potential problems and difficulties. Decide what to include in their own stories. Provide starting sentence of a diver getting into trouble.
Provide a problem about a boat capsizing in the deep dark sea. Children to write the problem independently. / Dilemma Narratives
Draft a mood board plan for a dilemma story based on the film Finding Nemo with an alternative twist.
Writing own Dilemma stories.
SPAG objectives / Dictated sentences focussing on prefixes. / Using terminology to identify the grammatical terminology in the English Appendix 2. / Apostrophes for omission, contraction and possession. / Speech – focussing on correctly punctuated speech. / Past tense – children to edit and improve their writing.
Spoken word opportunities / N.C Objective:
Read aloud their own writing, to a group or the whole class, using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear. / N.C Objective:
Read aloud their own writing, to a group or the whole class, using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear. / N.C Objective:
Read aloud their own writing, to a group or the whole class, using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear. / N.C Objective:
Read aloud their own writing, to a group or the whole class, using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear. / N.C Objective:
Read aloud their own writing, to a group or the whole class, using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear.
Reading / N.C Objective:
Discussing words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination.
Looking at word classifications and examples to include alliteration, captions. Explain what are their purposes. / N.C Objective:
Retrieve and record information from non-fiction.
Comprehension based on a non-fiction text (found in the PIRA text – broken up pieces of text). / N.C Objective:
Identifying main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarising these.
Children to read the text and match which paragraph matches to which summary. / N.C Objective:
Checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and explaining the meaning of words in context.
Children to identify meanings of words in context and identifying synonyms. / N.C Objective:
Recognising some different forms of poetry [for example, free verse, narrative poetry].
Reading comprehension based on Poetry.
Science / N.C Objective:
Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways. / N.C Objective:
Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment. / N.C Objective:
Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment. / N.C Objective:
Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things. / N.C Objective:
Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things.
Learning activity / Living things:
Sort a wide range of images of living things seen in the aquarium in groups. Re-sort them repeatedly using different grouping strategies. Group digital images onto a presentation slide, adding a title for each group and labelling different creatures. / Living things:
Use classification keys (branching databases) to identify creatures that live in seas and oceans and sort them into groups, including cnidarian, mollusc, fish, mammal, arthropod, annelid, reptile or echinoderm. Watch film and documentary footage of a range of deep sea creatures to observe their features and behaviour. / Living things:
Research the food chain of a sea creature using a diagram or model to show their findings. Use their representation to explain where their particular creature fits into the food chain. Describe it and other parts of the food chain as producers, predators or prey and consider what would happen if any of the living organisms in their chain become unavailable. / Living things:
Watch clips from the BBC’s blue planet series about creatures of the deep. As they watch, make notes on how creatures have adapted for survival in this extreme environment. Select an adaption from their observations and find out more about it. Decide how to present their information, making sure it is easy and clear to understand. / Living things:
In groups, use the web or other source material to research the crown-of-thorns starfish, thought to be one of the greatest threats to the Great Barrier Reef. Present their findings digitally to the class, explaining what the crown-of-thorns starfish eats, its predators, why it is having a devastating effect on the Great barrier Reef and what measures and being taken to tackle this problem?
Computing / N.C Objective:
Select, use and combine a variety of software on a range of digital devices that accomplish given goals. / N.C Objective:
Select, use and combine a variety of software on a range of digital devices that accomplish given goals. / N.C Objective:
Select, use and combine a variety of software on a range of digital devices that accomplish given goals. / N.C Objective:
Select, use and combine a variety of software on a range of digital devices that accomplish given goals. / N.C Objective:
Select, use and combine a variety of software on a range of digital devices that accomplish given goals.
Learning activity / Photo Stories
Inserting digital photos into a desk top publishing package to create a comic strip effect. / Photo Stories
Editing and enhancing digital photos in a desk top publishing package and adding well-presented text. / Photo Stories
Inserting titles, speech bubbles and backgrounds into a desk top publishing package to create a comic strip effect. / Photo Stories
Using video editing software (Movie Maker) as an alternative way to present digital photos. Children are taught to insert and rearrange images, then edit the duration and animation effects. / Photo Stories
Adding music and text to existing Movie Maker projects. These effects can then be refined by editing the start time, start point and end point of music as well as moving the appearance of captions.
Topic / N.C Objective:
Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities.
Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied. / N.C Objective:
Name and locate counties and cities of the United Kingdom, geographical regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics, key topographical features (including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers), and land-use patterns; and understand how some of these aspects have changed over time. / N.C Objective:
Name and locate counties and cities of the United Kingdom, geographical regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics, key topographical features (including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers), and land-use patterns; and understand how some of these aspects have changed over time. / N.C Objective:
Physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle. / N.C Objective:
Physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle.
Learning activity / Children to locate countries where fish come from. Children to locate the surrounding seas and oceans around it. / Children to consider the physical and human characteristics of the places researched. Children to locate the surrounding seas and oceans around it. / What is a river? Children to research characteristics of a river. Locating rivers in the world on a map. / Research what living creates live in rivers – what kind of fish live here? Children to locate rivers identifying which fish live where. / Climate changes in different places where fish are found. Children to make comparisons between the two. Look at the differences between oceans and rivers.
ART / N.C Objective:
To create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas. / N.C Objective:
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]. / N.C Objective:
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]. / N.C Objective:
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]. / N.C Objective:
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].
Learning activity / Sketching different fish using a stimulus. / Adding a background to a chosen fish design. / Adding texture to create a 2D effect on their designs. / Water colour background – children to design. / Adding a sketch of a chosen fish.
Evaluate their final piece of art.
RE / R.E Syllabus:
Explore the meaning of a wide range of stories about the beginnings of the world and reflect upon their importance for believers
2.1d The beginning of the World / R.E Syllabus:
Explore the meaning of a wide range of stories about the beginnings of the world and reflect upon their importance for believers
2.1d The beginning of the World / R.E Syllabus:
Explore the meaning of a wide range of stories about the beginnings of the world and reflect upon their importance for believers
2.1d The beginning of the World / R.E Syllabus:
Explore the meaning of a wide range of stories about the beginnings of the world and reflect upon their importance for believers
2.1d The beginning of the World / R.E Syllabus:
Explore the meaning of a wide range of stories about the beginnings of the world and reflect upon their importance for believers
2.1d The beginning of the World
Learning activity / Children to explain how they think the world was created. / Christian Story of Creation / The birth of Brahma and the Sea of Milk / Similarities and differences between the two religions / Children to write their own creation stories.
PSHE / International day of human space flight
Sikh Baisakhi
Earth Day for kids
Shakespeare Day
St George’s day / International Jazz Day
Buddhist Buddha day / VE Day / SEALS Relationships
Walk to school week / SEALS Relationships
Christian Ascension day
Islamic First day of Ramadan
P.E
Outdoor
External Coach / N.C Objective:
Play competitive games, modified where appropriate [for example, badminton, basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounders and tennis], and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.
Cricket – Outdoor agency / N.C Objective:
Play competitive games, modified where appropriate [for example, badminton, basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounders and tennis], and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.
Cricket – Outdoor agency / N.C Objective:
Play competitive games, modified where appropriate [for example, badminton, basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounders and tennis], and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.
Cricket – Outdoor agency / N.C Objective:
Play competitive games, modified where appropriate [for example, badminton, basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounders and tennis], and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.
Cricket – Outdoor agency / N.C Objective:
Play competitive games, modified where appropriate [for example, badminton, basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounders and tennis], and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.
Cricket – Outdoor agency
P.E. Indoor
Taught by Aspire Coach
Gymnastics / N.C Objective:
Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance.
Perform using a range of movement patterns.
Compare performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best. / N.C Objective:
Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance.
Perform using a range of movement patterns.
Compare performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best. / N.C Objective:
Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance.
Perform using a range of movement patterns.
Compare performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best. / N.C Objective:
Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance.
Perform using a range of movement patterns.
Compare performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best. / N.C Objective:
Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance.
Perform using a range of movement patterns.
Compare performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best.
Learning activity / Gym- Receiving body weight / Gym- Receiving body weight / Gym- Receiving body weight / Gym- Receiving body weight / Gym- Receiving body weight
French / N.C Objective:
Engage in conversations; ask and answer questions; express opinions and respond to those of others; seek clarification and help. / N.C Objective:
Write phrases from memory, and adapt these to create new sentences, to express ideas clearly. / N.C Objective:
Engage in conversations; ask and answer questions; express opinions and respond to those of others; seek clarification and help. / N.C Objective:
Write phrases from memory, and adapt these to create new sentences, to express ideas clearly. / N.C Objective: