History
1
Real-life Superheroes: Edward Jenner
• Locating events on a timeline
• Learning about British History
• Describing key events in the life of a significant person
2
Real-life Superheroes: William Wilberforce
• Locating events on a timeline
• Learning about trade links and slavery
• Thinking of reasons for and against an idea
3
1
Secret Identities - Staying Safe Online
• Thinking about the devices we use to access the internet
• Thinking about some ways in which we use the internet
• Remembering some ways to maintain a ‘secret identity’ and
stay safe online
2
Programming Robots!
• Understanding what an algorithm is
• Writing simple algorithms
• Debugging defective algorithms
Real-life Superheroes: Heroic Adventurers
• Locating events on a timeline
• Finding out about the lives of significant women adventurers
• Considering the difficulties these women faced
Design & Technology
1
Superhero Pop-Ups
• Examining pop-up mechanisms
• Making sliding mechanisms
• Following instructions to make a pop-up book
2
Balloon-Powered Cars!
• Finding out about wheels and axles
• Designing and make balloon-powered cars
• Testing and improving a design
Music
1
Super-Senses: Listening Carefully
• Listening with concentration to music
• Identifying and describing sounds
• Learning about the sounds of different orchestral instruments
2
Suspense Music
• Thinking about how music creates suspense in films
• Describing qualities of suspenseful music
• Making suspenseful music
Geography
Computing
PSHE
1
Real-life Superheroes: The Emergency Services
• Thinking about people who look after us
• Learning about the role of the Emergency Services
• Knowing what to do in an emergency
2
Keeping Safe
• Identifying potential dangers in everyday environments
• Thinking about how to protect ourselves from harm
• Creating rules for staying safe in different everyday
environments
Superheroes!
Topic Overview
1
Real-life Superheroes: Undersea Explorers
• Locating and naming the five oceans
• Finding out about the lives and achievements of naturalists
• Describing conditions in an undersea environment
2
Real-life Superheroes: Polar Explorers
• Locating the poles
• Finding out about the life and achievements of Roald
Amundsen
• Describing the conditions of cold environments
3
Secret Bases!
• Identifying features of simple maps
• Designing a simple map using imagination
• Using symbols and a key
Art
1
Drawing Superheroes
• Thinking of ways of describing superheroes
• Using drawing to develop ideas
• Annotating drawings
• Explaining and sharing ideas with others
2
Painting Superhero Scenarios
• Identifying features of comic book art work
• Using painting to develop ideas
• Explaining and sharing ideas with others
3
Superhero Sculptures
• Using sculpture to develop ideas
• Making sculptures where posture and facial expression
conveys meaning
• Explaining and sharing ideas with others
Further suggestions:
PE
1 Superhero Training: Balance and Agility (gymnastics)
RE
Science
2 Superhero Training: Strength and Speed (athletics)
1 Super-Powers: Characteristics of amazing plants and animals
3 Superhero Training: Coordination (throwing and catching)
2 Super-Senses: Our Amazing Bodies
1
Cooking
1
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Understanding English,
communication and language
- Using adjectives to describe superheroes
- Using toys, models, drama and role play to
develop ideas
- Using speech bubbles, thought bubbles and
exclamation marks
- Exploring how gesture and facial expression can
convey meaning
- Identify features of texts
- Label pictures, maps and diagrams
- Consider and discuss dilemmas and philosophical
questions
- Consider others’ viewpoints
- Adapting texts into different forms
- Use technical vocabulary
Understanding the arts
- Identifying, selecting and combining sounds
to create suspense
- Listening with concentration to music
- Using drawing, painting and sculpting to
develop ideas
- Describe the qualities of the sounds made by
different instruments
- Perform/play an instrument with an
awareness of others, keeping time
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- Learning about significant individuals
- Ordering events on a timeline
- Learning about trade links
- Considering different points of view
- Finding out about the achievements of
women
- Locating the continents, oceans and poles
- Describing conditions in different
environments
- Identifying features of maps
- Drawing maps using symbols and a key
Topic Name
Topic Overview
Scientific and technological
understanding
Mathematical understanding
- Writing, testing and debugging algorithms
- Using symbols
- Sequencing events on a timeline
- Calculating time intervals
- Sorting and grouping
- Measuring lengths and times
- Use tallies, pictograms or bar charts
Historical, geographical and social
understanding
Understanding physical
development, health and well-being
- Staying safe online
- Knowing the role of the Emergency Services
- Knowing what to do in an emergency
- Identifying risks
- Thinking about ways of staying safe
- Know who to ask for help, and when
- Programming robots using simple algorithms
- Exploring and making simple mechanisms
- Making models with axles and wheels
- Testing and improving models
- Using technology to make music
- Begin to understand what thrust is and how it
can be used to power vehicles
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