We will visit a local farm to find out about life on a farm and
how the food we eat is produced. We will learn about the
farming year and some of the significant times and festivals.
We will look at how the role of farming has changed since
WW1 and how WW1 affected people’s lives.
Our Stunning
Start: We are
going to visit a
working farm to
experience life
on a farm.
Make blackberry
jam and apple
crumble from the
recipes children
have created.
Sample different
types of breads
discussing the main
ingredients used to
bake bread and
what could be
added to bread to
change the flavour.
Why are there
different shapes
does this change the
taste?
What does different
bread mean to
different cultures?
After the visitWrite a non-chronological report
about the day to include what we
saw, what we learnt and what we
did.
Write a recipe for blackberry jam
and apple crumble.
Write a persuasive advert to sell our
blackberry jam and apple crumble.
(business enterprise)
A senses poem based on the
children’s farm visit.
Create a factual description of a
farm animal that could be used on
an information board at the farm
Create an informative and
persuasive job description/advert
for a farm worker.
Study the different types of farms in
our area. Use maps to identify the
types of environment in which they
are situated.
Draw and label a map of the farm
we visited.
Research the crops that are
harvested in our area and other
regions of our country. Make a map
of the UK labelling and drawing
crops that are currently being grown
in each region.
Map Joeys journey through the War.
When is harvest time? What does
harvest mean? Why is harvest
important? How have celebrations
changed over time?
How does Alber’ts farm compare to
the farm we visited? How has the
role of horses changed on farms and
around the world? Comparisons of
photographs.
Design and make a
healthy Smoothie
using farm
ingredients and
information we
gathered from our
visit to Tesco.
Investigate the mysterious box that
has been found on the farm. Ask
questions and draw inferences from
its contents and make predictions
about what they mean.
What were the rules of signing
up/conscription? Who was fighting
in the war and why? What was it like
to be a soldier? Why did the war
end?
Use drama to hot seat Joey, Mother
and Albert. Use freeze framing for
the ploughing competition.
Why do people wear poppys in
November?
How can we help
soldiers lift heavy
articles from the
trenches? Children to
investigate how they
could pullies, gears,
leavers, cams and
linkages can be used.
Children to write speech bubbles to
express how the characters are
feeling during the freeze frame.
Children to make a set
of instructions, using
ICT, describing how to
make the product that
will lift articles from
the trenches.
Children to perform
their ‘senses poems’ of
the farm using digital
software.
Create a newspaper article on the
departure of troops during WW1
linking it to Joeys departure in war
horse.
Write a diary entry of when Albert is
reunited with Joey after WW1.
What was the Christmas Truce? Why
did they stop at this time? Why did
the leaders not like the Truce?
Devise an investigation to find out
the best way of keeping fruit fresh.
Does cooked fruit behaved the same
way as raw fruit? (linking to our
making of the jam and crumble).
Label a plant, investigate what seeds
need to germinate and how plants
reproduce.
Investigate fruit and vegetables to
find out what they need to grow;
why they produce fruit and which
fruit comes from which plant.
How do you look after a cow or
chicken? Why are they important to
us? (link to Tesco visit) what are the
life cycles of the farm animals and
what are herbivores?
Which of your foods have egg or
milk in them? What are their
benefits? What do we need to be
healthy? What happens when you
shake cream? Why does it rise to
the top of milk?