Medium Term Planning
English
Week
Topic
1
Letters
Objectives
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6
Numeracy
Letters
Stories From
Other Cultures
Stories From
Other Cultures
Stories From
Other Cultures
1.
2.
Discuss and answer questions about what
they have read.
Sequence the events after reading the
letter.
Change sentences written in the 3rd person
to written in the 1st person.
Identify past and present tense and convert
from present to past tense.
Identify features of a letter.
Write a letter in the 1st person using
appropriate verb tense.
1.
Read a story from another culture and
answer questions about the story.
2. Identify descriptive language used to
describe an unfamiliar setting.
3. Discuss characters customs and beliefs with
children’s own.
4. Read another story and make predictions at
key points for how the characters may act.
1.
Write a review for a story from another
culture.
2. Compare two stories from other cultures.
3. Identify nouns and adjectives in the text.
4. Identify verbs and adverbs in the text.
1. Plan their own story using a storyboard.
2. Write their story based on their
storyboard.
Assessment Week
Week
1
2
Topic
Place Value
Addition and
Subtraction
Objectives
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4
5
Multiplication
Division
Measures
Time
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6
Reads, writes and orders numbers up to
1000.
Finds 1, 10 or 100 more or less than a given
number.
Compares numbers up to 1000.
Orders numbers beyond 1000.
Adds and subtract up to 3 digit numbers
using a column method.
Uses inverse operation to check the answer.
Decided which operation is needed to solve a
problem.
Solve problems involving addition and
subtraction.
Recalls multiplication facts for the 2’s.
Recalls multiplication facts for the 5’s.
Recalls multiplication facts for the 10’s.
Solve multiplication problems involving 2’s,
5’s and 10’s.
Recalls division facts for the 2’s.
Recalls division facts for the 5’s.
Recalls division facts for the 10’s.
Solve division problems involving 2’s, 5’s and
10’s.
Reads time to the nearest minute.
Converts time between an analogue and
digital clock.
Converts years to months, weeks to days
and vise versa.
Gather information from time tables.
Assessment Week
Science
Week
1
Topic
Objectives
Keeping Healthy Get introduced to clients in need of advice on diet,
- Food for
health and exercise and take on the task of
Thought
becoming a personal trainer. Tabulate, draw graphs
2
Keeping Healthy
- A Balanced
Diet
3
Keeping Healthy
- Skeletons and
Bones
4
Keeping Healthy
- Moving
Muscles
5
Keeping Healthy
- Let's
Investigate
6
and analyse data from a survey of their client’s
diet and use it to answer questions.
Continue on the quest as personal trainers by
becoming experts on nutrition. Use knowledge of
food groups and a balanced diet to design healthy
meals by creating lifelike models of food on paper
plates
This session you will become an expert on bones,
joints and skeletons, acquiring scientific
vocabulary and understanding whilst playing games
and building your very own dancing skeleton string
puppet.
Learn how muscles work in pairs and investigate
the question “Do people have stronger muscles
because they use them more?” Make predictions,
gather data, discuss, display and interpret
findings.
Learn how the diaphragm is used in breathing and
build an instrument to measure lung capacity. Plan
and carry out an investigation to answer a health
and fitness question.
Assessment Week
History
Week
1
Topic
Objectives
Who were the Learn about Viking raids and invasion. Discover the
Vikings?
chronological place of this key era in the history
of Britain. Find out how we know about the Vikings.
2
Where were the
Vikings from?
Find out where the Vikings came from and why
they invaded. Through map work, learn about
Viking routes and settlements in the British Isles.
3
What made the
Discover what made the Vikings successful.
Vikings
Consider the experience of a Viking raid from the
Successful? Anglo-Saxon perspective. Design posters and write
letters based on your knowledge.
4
Researching
Learn about Viking warriors: their names, beliefs
Viking Warriors
and weapons. Make your own Viking shield.
5
What made the Learn about the features of the formidable Viking
Viking longship a
longships ready to design and make your own.
good mode of
transport?
6
Assessment Week
Geography
Week
1
2
Topic
Objectives
My Europe! Take Create a class display of a map of Europe; begin to
to the rails!
research locations in further detail; personalise a
passport that will record your achievements during
this block.
River Deep, Investigate key European rivers and mountains and
Mountain High create your own Snakes and Ladders style game
that shows your knowledge.
3
Cracking
Capitals
Research a European capital city and prepare
information text to accompany a photograph to be
mounted on the class display.
4
Pack Your Bags!
Research the weather from each of Europe’s
climate zones; decide what to pack for your
travels by painting or drawing appropriate clothing
onto outline people.
5
6
Art & DT
Linked to DT and ART
Assessment Week
Week
Topic
Objectives
1
Pablo Picasso
Children learn about the life of Pablo Picasso and
create an abstract self portrait.
2
Vincent Van
Gogh
Children learn about Van Gogh’s life and create a
replica of the ‘Wheatfield with Crows’ using
pastels.
http://artprojectsforkids.org/wp-content/uploads
/2014/12/Van-Gogh-Wheatfield.pdf
3
Sonia Delaunay
Children learn about Delaunay life and create an
abstract painting.
http://artprojectsforkids.org/delaunay-circles/
4&5
6
Wassily
Research the artist and his type of work, study his
Kandinsky style and create out our ‘Houses of Munich’ using
"Houses in
pastels.
Munich", 1908
Assessment Week
PHSE
Week
Topic
Objectives
1
We’re all star!
Devise a class charter!
As a group create a class charter stating the
children’s rights and responsibilities.
2
We’re all star
Gifts and Talents
3
We’re all star
Exploring Feelings
4
We’re all star
Working Cooperatively
5
We’re all star
Happy Playtimes
6
We’re all star
Having Opinions