English
Objectives
Specifics
Read books structured in different ways
and read for a range of purposes
Discuss reading with others
Suggested arts
approaches
Read a range of fiction and
non-fiction texts focusing
Sir Francis Drake and the
Spanish Armada
Act out scenes from books
Role play
Show not tell
Use dictionaries to check meaning
Retrieve and record information from
non-fiction
Draw inferences and make predictions
Character description
When writing: Use paragraphs; create
settings, characters and plot; use
simple organizational devices
Narrative – story writing
Objectives
Listen and respond appropriately
Hot seating
Recount - Diary Writing
Role play
Non-chronological report –
life on board a Tudor ship
Relate data and word
problems, etc. to the
Tudors where possible
Relate angles to turns
Physical act out quarter, half and full
turns clockwise and anticlockwise
Create a map of a Treasure Island
Francis Drake discovered on his
journey around the world
Describe turns using the
compass points
Mark points on a map
Battleships using knowledge of the
Spanish Armada
Objectives
Specifics
Describe simple functions in a human
digestive systern
Identify different types of human teeth
and their functions
Ask questions and use enquiries to
answer them
Set up simple practical enquiries and
fair tests
Observe carefully and systematically,
taking accurate measurements
Collect, record, sort and present data
Record and report on findings in
various ways
Use results to draw conclusions,
make prediction, suggest
improvements and ask further
questions
Identify differences, similarities and
changes
Use scientific evidence
Discuss the difference
between our diet and
the diet of the Tudors
Build vocabulary
Speculate, hypothesis and explore
ideas
Discuss the reasons why
Spanish Armada failed
Debate
Role play
Physical Education
Specifics
Balance and movement
Suggested arts approaches
Hot seating
Children to develop
investigations around
digestive system and
teeth
Use of body to improve skills
Specifics
Objectives
Specifics
Understand and apply
principles of a healthy diet
Plan and make a healthy
balanced meal
(possibly a Tudor dish)
Suggested arts approaches
Create a poster promoting healthy
eating
Objectives
Understand seasonalitly
Specifics
Use sketchbooks to collect, record and evaluate
ideas
Improve skills in drawing, painting and sculpture,
using various materials
Learn about great artists, architects and designers
Music
Objectives
Study portraits from the Tudor period (Henry VIII,
The Armada portrait)
Discuss the painting styles, colours and materials
used
Specifics
Use voice and instruments with increasing
accuracy, control and expression
Languages
Study and make deductions from paintings/artwork
about instruments used and the significance of these in
the Tudor period - Look at how instruments used today
have developed from these
Objectives
Listen and respond
Develop an understanding of musical history
Specifics
Explore language through
stories, songs, poems and
rhymes
Suggested arts
approaches
Locate countries Drake visited
on his journey around the world
Use maps, atlases, globes and
digital/computer mapping
Explore navigation tools, look
at Tudor maps (Most maps are
hand-drawn and have a
compass drawn on to give an
idea as to direction)
Listen to traditional Tudor music, identify some of the
musical instruments used
Develop songs/music from traditional artwork
Songs and rhymes
History
Suggested arts approaches
Objectives
Locate the world’s countries,
focusing on Europe and the
Americas
Use eight points of the compass
(4-6 figure grid references,
symbols and keys)
Create posters/illustrations
explaining their findings
Design and Technology
Art and Design
Film or photograph activities
Geography
Objectives
Role play using Tudor/modern day
menus
Life on a Tudor ship –
tooth decay , scurvy etc.
Listen with attention to detail
Develop flexibility and
control in gym, dance and
athletics
Suggested arts
approaches
Prepare and cook mainly
savoury dishes
Hot seating
Objectives
Suggested arts
approaches
Year 4
Famous people
Francis Drake
Create a word bank/
glossary of terms related to
the Tudor period
Explore different viewpoints
Specifics
Recognise place value of each digit in
a 4-digit number
Order and compare numbers between
1000
Round numbers to the nearest 10,
100, 1000
Multiply and divide mentally
Use standard short multiplication to
multiply 2 and 3-digit numbers by a
one-digit number
Solve problems involving multiplying
and dividing
Identify, compare and order acute,
obtuse and right angles
Use first quadrant coordinates
Plot points and draw sides to complete
a polygon
Find the effect of dividing a one- or
two-digit number by 10 and 100
Round decimals with one dp to whole
numbers
Compare numbers with same number
of decimal places up to two dp
Solve measure and money problems
involving fractions and decimals
Proofread spelling and punctuation
Use a range of connectives; present
perfect tense; nouns/pronouns
appropriately
Science
Hot seating
Discuss interesting words/phrases
Prepare to write by: studying existing
texts; discussing and recording ideas;
rehearsing sentences orally; building
up vocabulary and a range of sentence
structures
Maths
Specifics
Suggested arts approaches
Study Tudor maps
Computing
Draw maps in Tudor style
Objectives
Use sequence, selection and
repetition in programs
Specifics
Research Sir Francis Drake create a
presentation of their findings in
PowerPoint
Use search technologies effectively
Use technology safely, respectfully
and responsibly
Create a short video about the Spanish
Armada
Suggested arts
approaches
Children to act in and
create props/costumes
for video
An aspect of British
history extending past
1066
Tudor period
Study and make deductions from
paintings of people/events from the
time.
Local history study
Tudor houses in Hackney (Sutton
House)
Study architecture / artefacts.