Medium Term Planning: Topic: Buried Treasure Term: Summer 2 Class: Year 3/4
Themes for
learning
Literacy
Week 1
6.6.16
SPAG/ Persuasive
Writing- Hawk Ridge
Farm Park (Talk for
Writing)
Week 2
13.6.16
Nonsense Poetry based
on Owl and the
Pussycat
Week 3
20.6.16
Poetry- the work of Kenn
Nesbitt
Week 4
27.6.16
Story Writing- Billionaire
Boy by David Walliams
Week 5
4.7.16
Story WritingBillionaire Boy by
David Walliams
Week 6
11.7.16
SPAG refreshment
and consolidation
Week 7
18.7.16
End of Year
Assessment
Y4 Leeson House
Literacy
Basic Skills
Homework
Comparative and
Superlatives
Adjectives, adverbs and
noun phrases
Word classes
Using adverbs and
causal connectives to
infer characters feelings
Tenses- past, present
and perfect present
Understanding word
familiessolution/soluble/
solver/ solver/
dissolve/ insoluble
End of Year
Assessment
Mathematics
Revision of All 4
Operations
Revision of All 4
Operations
Fractions (ordering,
comparing and
equivalent)
Time (Converting from
am/pm to 24 hours)
Maths Assessment
Maths Assessment
End of Year
Assessment
Y4- Data Handling
Y4 Leeson House
Y4- Measures and Time
Y4- Shape, Translation
and Coordinates
Mathematics
Basic Skills
Homework
Improving recalling
multiplication facts at
speed
Place value
understandingpartitioning hundreds,
tens and units
Understanding
mathematical
vocabulary for all four
operations
Improving recalling
multiplication facts at
speed
Improving recalling
multiplication facts at
speed
Place value
understandingpartitioning hundreds,
tens and units
Place value
understandingpartitioning hundreds,
tens and units
Rigorous recollection of
all number bonds to 20
Naming and
categorising 2D
shapes
Naming and
categorising 2D
shapes
End of Year
Assessment
Using ICT
Opinion Pollsters
Opinion Pollsters
Opinion Pollsters
Opinion Pollsters
Opinion Pollsters
Opinion Pollsters
End of Year
Assessment
Planning survey in
groups using Freemind
-develop questions
based around topic
Develop questions for
survey on Google Forms
and show online
Creating survey on
Google Forms
Completion of peer
surveys (so data can
be collected for
following week)
Creation of bar
graphs/pie charts
based on survey
results
History/Geography
Show graphs/charts
available on Excel and
recap what they’re
useful for.
Analyse graphs
available
Buried Treasure
Buried Treasure
Buried Treasure
Buried Treasure
Buried Treasure
Buried Treasure
Recap of
Tutankhamen’s Tomb
discovery by Howard
Carter
Comparison of
Sherborne and Cairo
from google maps and
ordnance survey maps
Comparison of
Sherborne and Cairo
graphs/tables illustrating
climate/rainfall (recap)
Tourism pamphletTravelling to Sherbornewhat are its
advantages?
Creation of Tourism
pamphlet for
Sherborne
Field Trip to
Tutankhamen Exhibit
in Dorchester
Y4 Leeson House
End of Year
Assessment
Science
Understanding the
arts and design
Plants
Plants
Plants
Plants
Plants
Plants
End of Year
Assessment
Identify and describe the
functions of different
parts of flowering plants:
roots, stem/trunk, leaves
and flowers
Explore the
requirements of plants
for life and growth (air,
light, water, nutrients
from soil, and room to
grow) and how they vary
from plant to plant
Investigate the way in
which water is
transported within plants
Investigate the way in
which water is
transported within
plants
Y4 Leeson House
Explore the
requirements of plants
for life and growth (air,
light, water, nutrients
from soil, and room to
grow) and how they vary
from plant to plant
Explore the part that
flowers play in the life
cycle of flowering
plants, including
pollination, seed
formation and seed
dispersal
Sculpture
Sculpture
Sculpture
Sculpture
Sculpture
Sculpture
Making decorations for
Queen’s 90th Birthday
Designing papier mache
sarcophagi
Making papier mache
sarcophagi
Making papier mache
sarcophagi
Painting papier mache
sarcophagi
Reviewing papier
mache sarcophagi
Hitting forehands at
waist height
Hitting forehands at
waist height
Court awareness and
hitting over net
Serving underarm and
doubles matches
Footwork and volleys
-Doubles matches
End of Year
Assessment
Developing fielding skills
-block catching
Developing bowling
skills
-underarm bowling with
accuracy
Developing batting skills
-protecting the wicket
-driving and sweeping
shots
Developing game
awareness
-scoring runs practice
-staying in the crease
-Kwik cricket
Consolidation of skills
week
-work on weakest area
-cricket matches
End of Year
Assessment
Christianity
Researching different
places of worship and
discussing importance of
baptism
Christianity
What happens during
Christian worship? Are
all churches practice the
same form of worship
Study- Holy Communion
Christianity
How can a Christian live
their lives being mindful
of the 10
Commandments
Christianity
Key Question- Do
people need to attend
church to consider
themselves
Christians?
Christianity
Making a presentation
in groups reflecting
how different places
make them feel
End of Year
Assessment
Changing Me
How babies grow inside
Mummy’s tummy
Changing Me
Labelling parts of the
body with scientific
vocabulary
Changing Me
Question and Answer
session on puberty
Changing Me
Talk with Mum and
baby (Miss Robertson
and Penny)
Changing Me
Discussion of what we
have learned
End of Year
Assessment
French food
Conversations with
Upper KS2 in French
End of Year
Assessment
End of Year
Assessment
Y4 Leeson House
PE (Tennis)
PE (Cricket)
(with Jimmy and
Lewis from Y6)
Religious
Education
Footwork and grip for
forehand and backhand
Y4 Leeson House
Developing fielding skills
-underarm throwing
-overarm throwing
-catching
Y4 Leeson House
Christianity
Special places in religion
and how people feel
when they visit.
Y4 Leeson House
Jigsaw
Changing Me
Babies and roles of
parents in different
animals
Y4- Genetics
Y4- Girls puberty talk
Y4 Leeson House
French
Review of French finger
rhymes
French alphabet and
spelling of names
Recap of days of
week/months and
birthdays
Countries in French (link
to Euro 16)
6. A sense of awe and
wonder about human life
and all creation (Link to
Jigsaw)
Class Discussion of EU
Referendum and
opportunity to listen to
Year 5 and 6 debate on
the issue
23. Accept and engage
the fundamental British
values of democracy
3. Courage to ask big
questions and a sense
of freedom to explore
them (link to Jigsaw)
Y4 Leeson House
Drivers 1a:
SMSC
(Spiritual)
16. Treasure other
people and recognise
that life is a precious gift
(Link to Queen’s 90th
Birthday)
Taking responsibility for
what we say and do. Be
Careful (AM- Collective
5. A sense of awe and
wonder about the
world all around them
(end of year
celebration)
Worship)
Driver 1b:
SMSC
(Moral)
1. Recognise and tell the
truth (Recapping
Restorative Justice)
13. Understand
actions/decisions and
consequences
(Discussion on football
hooliganism in Euro 16)
13. Understand
actions/decisions and
consequences (Link to
Jigsaw)
19. Have interest in
investigation and
offering reasoned
views about moral and
ethical issues and
ability to understand
and appreciate the
views of others on
these issues (Link to
RE)
14. Understand other
people have opinions
and they may differ from
yours (Discussion about
Orlando Shooting)
Driver 1c:
SMSC
(Social)
Link to responsibilities
whilst in groups/outside
of school and behaving
appropriately at Leeson
House (Year 4s)
4. Appropriate manners
which show respect
towards other people
(Link to Sports Day)
19. To be able to sit at a
table and eat a meal
using socially accepted
table manners (Link to
Ancient Egypt feast Y4)
3. To be able to adapt
behaviours to different
people and social
situations (Link to
Jigsaw)
7. To be able to begin
and continue a
conversation (Link to
French)
Recap of Restorative
Justice- What’s
working and what
isn’t? Are people
taking responsibility
for their actions?
12. Negotiate and
compromise
appropriately as tools
to achieve a desired
goal
Driver 1d:
SMSC
(Cultural)
21. Understanding and
appreciation of different
cultures within school in
their preparation for life
in Modern Britiain (link to
Art/Queen’s Birthday)
10. Take part in learning
a musical instrument
12. Taken part in
workshops with
professional artists,
musicians etc. (Music)
5. Presenting,
displaying and
performing to a range
of audiences (Link to
Art)