DISCOVERING SUSSEX
Year Group:…3……………………
Title of Unit: INVASION!
Date: 28/9/14-23/10/15 Weeks: 4-7
Resources (books, films, music, visits,
role play, websites etc…):
Tom Lovells painting “The Battle of Hastings”
Animated Bayeux Tapestry(You Tube clip)
Battle re-enactment (Yout Tube clip)
Battle Gear for re-enactment.
Hamilton Trust resources
Summary:
Why is the Bayeux Tapestry an important artefact?
Why did William of Normandy invade?
Panel-by-panel: explore the story of the battle of Hastings as told by
the Bayeux Tapestry. Create freeze frame scenes of panels.
Talk4writing project: Imitation, Innovation, Invention: Battle!
Guided Reading: Non Fiction: 1066 text
Science:
Pupils should be taught to:
§ compare and group together different kinds
of rocks on the basis of their appearance
and simple physical properties
§ describe in simple terms how fossils are
formed when things that have lived are
trapped within rock
§ recognise that soils are made from rocks and
organic matter.
Labelled picture of cross section of the Earth
English:
EXPERIENCES - discuss similar writing / texts in order to learn new ideas for
structure, vocabulary and grammar
PLANNING - discuss and record ideas before writing initial draft
- compose and rehearse sentences orally (including dialogue)
- build a varied and rich vocabulary and an increasing range of sentence
structures
DRAFTING - organise paragraphs around a theme
SPAG: Vowel/consonant; plurals
Weald & Down Museum
WALT: Write exciting sentences with powerful vocabulary.
Battle Field Poems
Battle Field Vocabulary Wall
Outcomes for all subjects:
ICT:
Use technology safely,respectfully and
responsibly
eSafety: (Gigabyte scheme of work): Personal
Information, nicknames and passwords.
Maths:
National Curriculum objectives:
Mentally add and subtract ones, tens or
hundreds to/from numbers with up to
three digits
Learn 3, 4 and 8 times tables
•Multiply and divide two-digit by one-digit
numbers
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Published Battlefield Poems
Battlefield vocabulary word wall
Freeze frame scene of tapestry.
Labelled cross section of the Earth
Nicknames/passwords
Bayeux Tapestry coloured scenes.
Homework: Bring in battle gear
NB: End of this unit set Castles homework as lead
into next unit of study.
Art/DT:
National Curriculum Objectives: Learn about
great artists,architects and designers
Study of the Bayeuex Tapestry: how it was
made, and by whom, the materials used,
colours within. Colour images from the tapestry
using Norman colours or modern day colours.
Recreate panels of the tapestry using digital
photography.
Geography:
History:
National Curriculum objectives: a study of an aspect or
theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological
knowledge beyond 1066
Who, where, when, why: The Battle of
Hastings 1066