Lower School
Term 4
English
Maths
History
continued
Geography
Continued
Science
continued
PSHE
continued
Curriculum outline
Students will ~
 Revise sentence components and structure (include weekly spelling and grammar)
 Write letters and diaries (link to History)
 Read literature from different genres (reading and creating a graphic novel or comic)
 Answer comprehension questions on a given text
 Use drama to tell a portray an event
Develop skills needed to speak confidently, including when in a role
Students will ~
 Identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles by size
 Count up and down in hundredths
 Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator
 Calculate quantities involving increasingly harder fraction
Students will ~
 Britain since 1949
 Alterations to the Commonwealth (link to Geogrpahy)
 Beginning of being a ‘teenager’; music, fashion
 Technological advances (link to ICT, Science, DT)
 Key events in UK contrasted with world events
Students will ~
 Britain since 1949
 Alterations to the Commonwealth (link to Geogrpahy)
 Beginning of being a ‘teenager’; music, fashion
 Technological advances (link to ICT, Science, DT)
 key events in UK contrasted with world events
Students will ~
 Learn about the effects of diet and exercise on health and lifestyle
 Heart and cirulatroy system
 Substance Missue; medicines and drugs
 Substance Missue; tobacco & alcohol
Students will ~
 Learn about the effects of diet and exercise on health and lifestyle
 Heart and cirulatroy system
 Substance Missue; medicines and drugs
 Substance Missue; tobacco & alcohol
Topic based (cont.) Morphing Objects and Improvisation
Drama
Developing focus and imagination using props for as many different purposes as possible.
Evaluation of how this can help to create a good and more believable improvisation. The
importance of a good beginning and ending in a performance.
Art
RE
Mark-Making
 Drawing exercises to understand mark-making vocabulary
 Discussion and analysis of Van Gogh’s pencil drawings with mark-making
 Experiments in ink with different tools to create a range of marks to describe the
texture of shells – toothbrush, branch, cocktail stick, cotton wool bud, fork
Observational drawing in ink of natural objects – shells, plants etc.
Birth Rites
 Significance of new life
 Muslim birth rites
 Christian baptism
 Jewish birth rites
Christian confirmation