Literacy
Daily individual Literacy sessions: reading, writing, spelling,
phonics, handwriting: joining using cursive script.
Spelling: practice learning new topic words through castle word
search. Write glossary for the words found, putting them in
alphabetical order.
Using a range of non-fiction texts to learn about castles; write an
information page including facts. Write explanations to give
information about why castles have certain features and how they
were used.
Read stories about castles, Mouse Quixote (HT animated tale) and
fairy tales such as The Princess and the Pea and Sleeping Beauty.
Sequence the stories; use stories as an inspiration for writing own
fairy tales.
Descriptive writing about castles: choose a favourite castle and
write a description using WOW words.
Poetry: Shape and acrostic poems about knights and castles.
Writing invitations to our Medieval banquet; labels and captions
for models; instructions and recipes.
Numeracy
Daily individual Numeracy sessions
Number and fractions: Order 2-digit numbers. Find a number
between multiples of 10. Find 10 more and 10 less. Place 2-digit
numbers on a number line. Round 2-digit numbers to nearest 10.
Find ½ and ¼ of shapes. Find ½ and ¼ of amounts. Count in
fractions. Find ½, ¼, ¾ and 1/3 of amounts. Find ½, ¼, and ¾ and
1/3 of amounts.
Addition and subtraction: Adding and subtracting 10 and 11
to/from a 2-digit number. Doubling and halving by partitioning.
Adding pairs of 2-digit number by partitioning. Bridging 10.
Multiplication and division. Times tables and number facts.
Place value and number sequences.
Time: analogue and digital times.
Block graphs and pictograms.
Science Exploring everyday materials
Link: which materials might you find in and around an old castle?
Materials used in shields. Forces used to operate a draw bridge and
portcullis.
Identify a variety of materials and sort them using a variety of criteria.
Recognise which materials are man-made and which are naturally occurring.
Investigate how some materials can change shape by twisting, squashing,
stretching and bending but others can’t. Find out why!
Explore the suitability of metals and plastics for a variety of purposes.
Think about what familiar objects are made of, and why.
Identify different products that can be made from wood, and think about
their features and purposes.
Investigate different materials that can be used for the same product. Discuss
how some things can be sometimes be made of metal and sometimes plastic.
Think about glass and plastic. Try to explain how the purpose of a product
might affect the material that is used.
Identify material inventions and discoveries. Find out about Dunlop,
Macintosh and McAdam and their inventions.
PE
Dance: Perform dances using simple movement patterns.
Let’s Move: Knights, castles and dragons! Wood in the wood! Summer
holidays.
Focus: low and upper body movement; movement and stasis; contrasting
traveling steps; working alone, in pairs and in groups; travelling using a
variety of pathways; control and co-ordination.
Swimming: weekly swimming sessions at Bosworth Academy pool.
Athletics: sports day practise
Football coaching 20 week coaching sessions with FA accredited coach
(LCFC) tournament to be held at the King Power Stadium. 9/5/16 10-12
Castles
Summer 2016
Geography/History
Geographical locations of castles: Explore where and why some castles
were built. Why were some built on hills? What were the advantages
and disadvantages?
Find out which physical land features made castles easier to defend.
Name and locate UK capital cities and their castles.
Map skills: devise a simple map and use and construct a simple key.
Use compass points to move around the grid.
Find out who built the first castles in the UK and why. Who invaded
England? Find out about William the Conqueror and King Harold.
Learn about the Battle of Hastings and the Bayeux Tapestry.
Find out about UK castles that were built by the Normans: learn about
parts of castles and their function. Explore similarities and differences
between castles.
Find out about medieval castles and castle life of the people living in
them. What was life like for common people in these times?
Find out about the Tower of London and how its use has changed over
time.
Conclude the topic with a medieval banquet: have “jousting” battles,
display our castles, dress in medieval clothing.
Waterfall
RE Judaism: Why is the Torah special?
Find out about Judaism, what it is and what Jews believe.
Compare with the other religions we have studied so far:
Christianity, Sikhism and Hinduism.
Find out how the Torah began on Mount Sinai.
Discover how the Torah is used by Jews today and what makes it
so special.
Explore some of the stories in the Torah and what they teach
about God. Do we know some of these stories? Which other holy
book do they appear in?
Find out some of the laws in the Torah. What does it tell Jews
they should or shouldn’t do?
What does the Torah teach Jews about helping others? Relate to
their own experience of helping others.
? Visit to a local synagogue: time allowing!
DT
Design and make a knight’s shield.
Design a healthy menu for an end of unit celebratory
banquet.
Design a board game.
Design a medieval tool: catapult; scythe; axe; dagger and
sheath; bow and arrow.
Design and make a medieval castle! Build a keep with four
walls, battlements, front door that opens, a drawbridge and a
portcullis. Build a motte and bailey castle with a moat!
Art
Design a coat of arms. Research children’s individual family
coat of arms.
Moving pictures: jousting horses.
Explore the Bayeux Tapestry and what it shows. Look at
how it is made and the techniques used. Use line to create a
picture in the style, using pencils with control.
Look at work of the Buck brothers and create a picture in
the style, combining a variety of marks.
Create a painting in the style of James Paterson.
Music
“Jack and the Beanstalk” (BBC Music)
Controlling sounds through singing and playing; sing songs in unison and two parts
with clear diction, control of pitch, a sense of phrase and musical expression.
Rehearse and perform songs.
Creating sound effects for a castle poem.
PSHE
Health and well-being; puberty.
Relationships: friendship: Tutor sessions.
Change: transition to secondary placement.
British Values.
Daily prayer.