Class 3
Year B
Term Autumn
International Primary Curriculum Unit Title: Scavengers and Settlers - Early man to the Iron Age.
Science / Design and Technology
Opportunities for Writing
Magnets and forces
Intstruction texts- recipe using
Compare how things move on different surfaces
ingredients we can forage for (forest
Some forces need contract between two objects but
school) eg. Wild garlic, sorrel, borrage,
magnetic forces can act at a distance
nettels.
Observe how magnets attract or repel
Story telling (round a camp fire)
Compare and group materials
Recount of ‘my day in the life of a cave
Poles
person’.
Electricity
Identify common appliances that run on electricity
Construct series circuit- name parts
Predict whether a lamp will work (complete curcuit)
Recognice that a switch opens and closes a circuit
Metals- good conductors
Maths in the Curriculum
Comparison and presentation of facts and figures in topic work
History / Geography
Stone Age – Neolithic hunter gatherers – Bronze
Age – comparison with existing indigenous
peoples
Create a Timeline of early human history.
What is a stone circle and or barrows? What
does an archaeologist do? What is Stonehenge?
Farming – first farms
Spread of man across planet – migration – early
settlement along rivers lakes and coasts.
Early religion
Computing
Internet safety
Repetition and loops (Espresso Unit)
Speed, direction and co-ordinates (Espresso
Unit)
Art / Music / P.E.
Aboriginal art
Cave Paiintings- making paints from natural
materials.
Paintings as mind maps
Sportsjam; dance
R.E. / Cultural
What sort of book is the Bible?
Why do Jews celebrate Hanukkah?
French
(Unit B)
Greetings
Numbers >30
How you feel
Christmas (Noel)
Local / Outdoor / Visits / Visitors
Cooking on fire at Forest school.
Making shelters at forest school.
Caer Caradoc
Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre
Shrewsbury Museum