Literacy – Instructions and Persuasion
Numeracy
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Partitioning 2 and 3 digit numbers with and without
money.
Ordering and structuring numbers to 1000.
Adding and subtracting multiples of 10 and 100.
Patterns of similar adding and subtracting
calculations.
Reading and creating scales with different intervals
Finding half way, rounding to the nearest 10 or 100.
Learning multiplying facts and looking for patterns.
Introducing the sharing structure of dividing.
Extending sequences and finding differences.
Partitioning strategies for adding and subtracting.
Measuring accurately and calculating with metres,
centimetres and millimetres.
Calculating with pounds and pence and handling
money.
Measuring and calculating with g, kg, l and ml.
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Writing is organised, imaginative
and clear.
Main features of different forms of
writing used appropriately,
beginning to be adapted to
different readers.
Read a range of texts fluently and
accurately.
Spelling is usually accurate,
including that of common,
polysyllabic words.
Punctuation to mark sentences –
full stops, capital letters and
question marks – is used accurately.
Handwriting is legible, and work is
appropriately presented.
Knowledge and Understanding of the World –
Snowdon/Mountains around the world.
News, mountain disasters and volcanoes.
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Show knowledge and understanding of different localities
and environments
Recognise simple comparisons and offer some reasons for
the natural and human features of different localities
Recognise that people have impacts on their environment
Express their views about places, supported with some
reasons, and recognise that people have different views
Present information in a variety of ways
Use globes and maps to find information about places and
draw maps using a key and symbols, and understand
directions
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Reflecting
 Link outcomes to success criteria and identify what worked and what didn’t
while beginning to think about how the method could be improved.
 Link their learning to familiar situations (with support).
The Alps in Austria The Sound of Music Musicals: learn songs/perform
dance
Kuffin Williams ‘Eryri’ – Welsh landscapes, paint focus.
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Mighty Mountains Topic
What will your child
be learning this term?
Health, fitness and well-being activities
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Planning
 Suggest where to find evidence, information and ideas, and plan (with support)
the method to be used for their enquiries.
 Talk about their ideas and make simple predictions using their everyday
experience.
 Agree on some basic success criteria.
Developing
 Follow a simple series of instructions safely to gather their findings and (where
appropriate) make observations that they could measure using simple
equipment.
 Begin to organise their findings and display them in a given format including
simple tables and bar charts.
 Give simple explanations for differences between and changes to organisms,
objects, materials and physical phenomena.
 Say what they have found out from their work and make their own decisions
by weighing up pros and cons.
Creative Development
Physical Development – Swimming, athletics and rounders
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Science - Mountain gear: properties of materials.
Cooperate in solving problems when working with others.
Sustain activity over appropriate periods of time..
Use this understanding to plan how to improve their own skills, and
start to ask relevant questions in order to improve and make progress.
Describe how exercise affects the body, and will give reasons why daily
physical activity is good for them.
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Select and record their ideas and feelings through drawing and
other methods – from observation, experience and imagination
choosing from arrange of resources that they have collected and
organised as a basis for their work.
Use a range of materials, tools and techniques to achieve different
outcomes & experiment with visual, tactile and sensory qualities,
making suitable changes to the work where they identify the need
for modification.
Draw on their developing knowledge and understanding of
materials, ingredients & components to develop their ideas and
begin to consider sustainability issues related to the materials and
ingredients they are working with.
Use labelled sketches and / or models to develop and show the
detail of their designs.
Use simple tools / utensils and techniques to cut, shape, join and
mix materials and ingredients.
Products are similar to design intentions and any changes are
identified.
Sing songs in tune, and control their breathing in order to enhance
their performance.
Work with others to create compositions which have a simple
musical shape, revising their ideas where necessary.