English
Fiction:
Creative story writing
looking at developing
characters, settings and
plot.
To write their own stories
using characters and
animals from rainforests
across the world.
Non- Fiction:
Writing reports and
explanations using
information from
geography and
sciencework.
Spelling patterns:
Suffix ‘ous’
Prefix ‘auto’
Year 3/4 word list.
Music
Singing with Miss
Saunders.
Experimenting with
musical sounds to describe
rainforest animals.
ICT
Algorithms and
programming.
Databases and
information.
Rainforest Explorers
Science cross linked to
rainforest topic.
Plants:
Identify and describe functions
of plant parts, requirements for
plant growth, investigate how
water is transported round
plants and the lifecycle of
plants.
Living things and their
habitats:
How living things can be
grouped; use classification keys
to help group living things in
their local and wider
environment; environments
change and can pose dangers to
living things.
Maths
Mental strategies and
written methods for
multiplication and division.
Revisit place value; key
facts and
addition/subtraction to solve
problems.
Fractions of numbers,
shapes and measures.
Geography
PE
Identify climate zones and countries
which contain rainforests; research
and identify the layers of the
rainforest including the variety of
plants and animals; look at the
causes of and solutions to preventing
deforestation; global warming.
780 coaching
Running to Increase
fitness and stamina.
Improve technique, form
and posture.
RE & P4C
Hinduism
Deforestation
Art & DT
Painting rainforest pictures
using a variety of
techniques.
Making and decorating
traditional tribal clay pots.
Year 3&4 Spring 2016