Class: Emerald
TOPIC: I am Henry VIII, I am
Term: 3
Year 2016-17
Our curriculum is child centred and relevant, promoting curiosity and excitement through discovery. It promotes high standards and aspirations and will enable children to be
resourceful, resilient and reflective.
Our children need:
Opportunities
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to develop rich Language
To develop
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a love of reading
A deeper
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understanding of cultural diversity
To access
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outdoor learning and nearby local resources
Performance of understanding/presentation of
learning/wow days/trips/visitors
Theatre company to do a
Shakespeare play in a day
Children’s’ Interests
Learn more about John Cabot
Christian Values Link
Justice
Service
Wisdom
English
Biography
Historical stories
Character descriptions
Non chronological report - Tudors
Books -
Maths
Understanding the World
Fractions - mixed and improper
-calculate, order, compare
Measurements
Under the Rose – Tudor Spy Story
Drake’s Drummer Boy – A Tudor Sea Story
Children of Winter – Bertie Doherty
The Knight of Stars and Storms – Tudor Chronicles 4
Expressive Arts and Design/Cooking
Making Tudor houses - DT
Cultural Diversity- Home and Abroad
Finding new cultures during
exploration
Effects of immigration
History - Tudor exploration
-comparing great explorers - who was the best?
-why did exploration take place?
-what did exploration do for us today?
Geog-Looking at the difference of European and World map in
Tudor times and now.
-Effect of exploration on American Indians
Physical Education
Gymnastics
Outside learning
Have a go at wattle and daub
RE and SMSC
Are Sikh stories important today?
Home Learning
Weekly grammar, maths and spellings
Continue researching an aspect of the Tudors
that interests you.