Class 4 Spring Term 1st Half 2017
Poem – The Highwayman
Subject Focus – Music, Art, Dance and Drama
Focus Core Skill – Knowing me knowing you
English
Short story writing and Reports and Journalistic writing:
PSHE and links to Core Values
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Recognising feelings and understanding emotions
Developing a positive sense of one’s self
Stress Management
Drama
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Computing
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Word processing.
Espresso Coding – Intro to spread sheets.
Using computers for research purposes.
History
Links with the Highwayman Connected curriculum
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Famous Highwaymen.
Historical clothing – How clothes have changed since the
time of the Highwayman.
How the laws of the UK have changed.
Learn Poem The Highwayman
Opinion line – villain or hero?
Freeze frame
Hot seating.
Performance
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Soundtrack with illustrations.
Exploring percussion instruments.
Creating a soundtrack – revisiting notation.
Performance.
R.E.
What would Jesus do?
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Beliefs in action in the world.
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How do we make moral choices.
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Identifying the features of Gospel texts.
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Prayer Today.
listen and respond appropriately to their peers
articulate and justify opinions
consider different viewpoints
continue to read and discuss an increasingly wide range
of fiction
identify and discuss themes
make comparisons within books
link ideas … using adverbials of time, place and number
using a wide range of devices to build cohesion within
and across paragraphs
selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary,
understanding how such choices can change and
enhance meaning
in narratives, describing settings, characters and
atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey character
and advance the action.
use further suffixes and understand the guidance for
adding them
using and punctuating direct speech
using further organisational and presentational devices to
structure text and guide the reader
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Art and DT
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Chalk and charcoal doors
Illustrations from poem
Illustrate a line of the poem
Figure drawing
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Maths
MFL—French with Mrs. Nancekevill
Music
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Listen & engage—Ask & answer questions—Speak
in sentences using familiar vocabulary—Develop
appropriate pronunciation—Show understanding of
words & phrases—Appreciate stories, songs, poems
& rhymes broaden vocabulary.
Homework and Independent Learning
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SPAG
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Mental Maths and times tables
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Reading.
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Short story writing.
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Reading Comprehension skills.
Place value and negative numbers:
Objectives: Know what each digit represents in 7-digit numbers; Use place
value to add and subtract; Compare nos up to 10 million, Use < and >
signs; Place 7-digit nos on number lines; Round 7-digit numbers to the
nearest 10,000, 100,000 or 1,000,000; Use negative nos in context of
temperature; Calculate rises and falls in temperature; Calculate intervals
across zero.
Fractions, Decimals, Percentages and Mean:
Objectives: Compare fractions with unrelated denominators using
equivalence; Know decimal equivalents for halves, quarters, fifths, eighths,
tenths and hundredths; Recognise equivalent fractions, decimals and
percentages; Find percentages of amounts; Use mental division strategies
to find non-unit fractions of amounts; Calculate and interpret the mean as
an average.
P.E
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Invasion games
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Dance - Imaginative movement linked to our poem
The Highwayman.