Autumn Term

Focus Texts:

The Buried Crown - Ally Sherrick

Who Were the Vikings? - Jane Chisholm

English:

• Creating a Viking recipe for bread.
• Analysing and writing kenning poems.
• Writing a non-chronological report on the Viking Era.

Maths:

• Place value.
• Addition and subtraction.
• Multiplication and division.
• Perimeter and area.

Science:

• Compare and group everyday materials based on their properties.
• Compare and groups everyday materials based on their responses to magnets.
• Know that some materials dissolve in a liquid.
• Observe changes over time.
• Stephanie Kwolek.

History:

• Discovering how the last Anglo-Saxon kings shaped Britain.
• Making a timeline of the Vikings.
• Danegeld.
• Why the Romans left.
• Where the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians and Scots came from.

Geography:

• Invaders and settlers. The Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings.

RE:

• Christianity - who are the great leaders and inspiring examples in today's world?
• Understanding what is expected of a person following a religion or belief.
• Christianity, Hinduism and Islam.

Art and Design: 

• Adam Hale
• Alan Williams
• Creating a portrait of a Viking warrior.
• Creating mythical Viking dragons made from craft metal.

Design and Technology:

• Cooking a seasonal stew/soup to eat.

Music:

• Compose a song using GarageBand to include versus and a chorus. 
• Write lyrics and melody.
• Arrange a song to include dynamics, structure and contrast.

Computing:

• Evaluate information on Publisher.
• Collect data.
• Present data on Publisher.

French:

• Respond to classroom requests.
• Ask for things within the classroom.
• Telling the time.
• Numbers from 31-30.
• Written forms of familiar numbers.
• Identifying differences in school in the UK and France.
• Common use of the 24 hour clock in France.

PE:

• Athletics.
• Dodgeball.

PSHE / SRE:

• Know how to make informed choices that contribute to a balanced lifestyle.
• Identify the different influences on food and diet.