Year 3 / 4 -Autumn Term Thomas Eaton Community Primary
PE / Games
History/Geography
We are learning to …
We are learning to..
(Dance)
- Explore the role of archaeologists and how they learn about
- Perform different movement patterns with increasing control.
- Use compositional ideas such as meet and part, repetition, unison,
interweaving pathway, lead and follow
(Invasion Games)
- Improve our skills of travelling with a ball, sending & receiving a
ball, movement into/out of a space, dodging, attacking and defending
Topic Title
- Apply our skills in small sided competitive invasion games
The Marvellous Mayans
ART/DT
We are learning to..
- Investigate Mayan masks and their uses.
- Explore techniques for creating masks, including papier
mâché.
- Design and making a Mayan mask for a particular purpose.
- Explore Mayan artistic skills, such as stone-carving and
pottery-making.
- Develop techniques when working with clay to create a particular artefact.
- Explore and recreate Bonampak murals and what they can tell
us about Mayan life.
Science
We are learning to…
- compare and group materials together, according to whether they
are solids, liquids or gases, observe that some materials change
state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the
temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C). And identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water
cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature.
PSHE (linked to Collective Worship)
the past.
- Identify what we can and can’t learn from artefacts
ancient civilisations leave behind.
- Order events chronologically on a timeline.
- Identify Mesoamerica on a world map.
- Locate and name the continents of the world.
- Locate and name the modern-day countries now situated
where the Mayans lived.
- Explore different types of maps and identifying the
various uses of each.
- Use maps, including online maps, to identify areas and
features.
- Explore the physical geography of Central America,
including climate, and comparing to the UK.
- Explore the lifestyle of modern Mayans.
- Assess the impact of the Spanish conquest of Mayan lands
and the effect on the Mayan people.
- Understand the concept of a hierarchy.
- Compare Mayan governmental hierarchies with how our
government is run today
- Explore the roles and responsibilities of leaders.
- Apply the concept of a hierarchy to school life.
We are learning to…
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Understand different ways that we can learn
Understand the importance of rules
Look at the principles of democracy
Respect others and show compassion
PSHE
We are learning to…
- Explore the lifestyle of the Mayans and assessing
how healthy it was.
- Compare modern lifestyles to Mayan lifestyles to
consider which is healthier.
- Consider ways of making our lifestyles healthier.
- Taste and describe healthy Mayan foods.
Computing
We are learning to….
- explore programming and algorithms using Scratch.
(programming).
- use search tools to find and use appropriate websites.
(technology in our lives).
- combine a mixture of text, graphics and sound to share our ideas
and learning. (multimedia).