Music
This half term children will
take part in a weekly
drumming workshop. They
will also learn about the
music associated with the
Slave Trade
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*play and perform in solo and
ensemble contexts, using
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Athletics
Fitness
links Children will:
develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and
balance through athletic activities
Engage in physical activity for a sustained period
of time
Understand that physical exercise is an integral
part of leading a healthy lifestyle
their voices and playing
musical instruments
*improvise and compose
music for a range of
purposes *develop an
understanding of the history
of music
PSHE
New Beginnings– In this unit, children
will *recognise their worth as
individuals *learn to face new challenges
positively *to realise the nature and
consequences of racism (linked to
themed work) teasing, bullying and
aggressive behaviours
behaviours
Art and Design
How can you capture the emotion
associated with slavery in art? Children
will use a range of media to capture
images of slavery having first looked at
and considered photographic and artistic
evidence available to them.
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Pupils should be taught to:*Create sketch
books to record their observations and use
them to review and revisit ideas*Improve
their mastery of art and design techniques,
including drawing and painting, with a range of
materials, for example, pencil, charcoal, paint
Computing
E Safety
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*use
technology safely, respectfully
and responsibly; recognise
acceptable/unacceptable behaviour;
identify a range of ways to report
concerns about content and contact
Theme: History – Why Should The World Be Ashamed of
Slavery? The children will study an aspect or theme in British
and American history that extends pupils’ chronological
knowledge beyond 1066 – Slavery. This unit will focus on
transatlantic slavery, addressing the conditions and
experiences of slaves, the slave triangle and the abolitionist
movement. We will then look at the issue of discrimination and
multi-cultural Britain today.
NC links Children will:
*Continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and
understanding of British, local and world history
*Address and sometimes devise historically valid questions
about change, cause, similarity and difference, and
significance
*Construct informed responses that involve thoughtful
selection and organisation of relevant historical information
*Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed
from a range of sources.
RE
Our Class Faiths/Harvest/Eid
Science
Evolution and Inheritance
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•recognise that living things have changed over time and that
fossils provide information about living things that inhabited
the Earth millions of years ago
•recognise that living things produce offspring of the same
kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their
parents
•identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their
environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to
evolution
English
Reading
Writing Narrative Writing and Biography
GPS (Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling)
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(Reading) Continue to read and discuss an increasingly
wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and
reference books or textbooks
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Read books that are structured in different ways and
reading for a range of purposes
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Increase their familiarity with a wide range of books,
including myths, legends and traditional stories, modern
fiction, fiction from our literary heritage, and books
from other cultures and traditions
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(Grammar)Revise work on different word classes – nouns,
adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, determiners
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(Writing) Identify the audience for and purpose of the
writing
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In writing narratives, consider how authors have
developed characters and settings in what pupils have
read
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Describing settings, characters and atmosphere and
integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the
action
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Use further organisational and presentational devices to
structure text and to guide the reader
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Assess the effectiveness of their own and others’
writing
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Propose changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
to enhance effects and clarify meaning
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Ensure the consistent and correct use of tense
throughout a piece of writing
Ensure correct subject and verb agreement when using
singular and plural
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(Spelling)Revise earlier work on spelling and introduce
new rules, e.g., words containing the letter-string ‘ough’
and words ending in ‘able’ and ‘ible’
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Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed
Mathematics
Place Value
Mental and written addition
Mental and written multiplication
Mental and written subtraction
Mental and written division
NC links Pupils should be taught to:
•Read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000
and determine the value of each digit
•Round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy
•Use negative numbers in context, and calculate intervals
across 0
•Solve number and practical problems that involve all of the
above
•multiply multi-digit numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit
whole number using the formal written method of long
multiplication
•divide numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit whole number
using the formal written method of long division, and
interpret remainders as whole number remainders, fractions,
or by rounding, as appropriate for the context
•divide numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit number using the
formal written method of short division where appropriate,
interpreting remainders according to the context
•perform mental calculations, including with mixed operations
and large numbers
•identify common factors, common multiples and prime
numbers
•use their knowledge of the order of operations to carry out
calculations involving the 4 operations
•solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in
contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and
why
•solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication
and division
•use estimation to check answers to calculations and
determine, in the context of a problem, an appropriate degree
of accuracy