Reading:

• Escape from Pompeii by Christina Balit
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
• Talking Turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah

Writing:

We are writing for the following purposes:

• Inform (recount, instructions, facts)
• Entertain (story, poetry, performance)
• Persuade (letters, posters)
• Discuss (newspapers, book reviews, debates)

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Bluest of Blues by Fiona Robinson:

• Character description 
• Non-chronological report 
• Diary entry 
• Persuasive letter 
• Publishing 
• Editing 

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Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman 

• Character creation 
• Setting description 
• Writing an adventure narrative 
• Letter writing 
• Publishing 
• Editing 

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Guided reading-

Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo:

• Predict
• Infer 
• Summarise 
• Retrieve 
• Key vocabulary 

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Place Value:
Numbers up to 10000
Counting in 10s, 25s and 50s 
Rounding 
Comparing and ordering numbers 
Number patterns 

Addition and Subtraction:

Addition withoutrenaming
Addition with renaming 
Addition using mental strategies 
Subtraction without renaming
Subtraction with renaming

Subtraction usingmental strategies 
Solving word problems 

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• Time (24-hour clock, minutes to seconds, hours to minutes, years to months and weeks to days)
• Decimals (tenths, hundredths, dividing by10 and 100, comparing and ordering decimals, rounding decimals and fractions as decimals) 
• Money (amounts of money, comparing amounts of money, rounding amounts of money) 

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• Length, Mass and Volume (converting units of length, converting units of mass) 
• Area and perimeter of figures (finding perimeter and area, finding areas of a square and rectangle)
• Geometry (comparing angles, classifying triangles and quadrilaterals, identifying symmetrical figures, comparing and classifying shapes)
• Position and movement (describing position, plotting points, describing translations)

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• Exploring Pentatonic Scales
• Unit Aim - To develop children's ability to recognise and use pentatonic scales and to work with 4 X 4 beat phrases

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Playground Songs

Follow teacher’s hand signs to sing drmsl phrases (do/re/me/so/la), then improvising vocally and singing 4 beat phases using drmsl to solfa notation

Share, learn and study playground songs from around the world

Take an existing playground song and add another verse to make into a performance in a group.

• Colour to reflect mood - Abstract volcanoes
• Black History Month - Mark making - depicting Peckham
• Artists: Gerhard Richter, Faith Ringgold
• DT - Nutrition - Pompeii pasta - meal design, preparing food, cutting skills.

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Print: 

Cyanotypes inspired by Anna Atkins: 

• Researching great artists and in history 
• Experimenting with drawing techniques and materials 
• Making observational drawings and experiment with drawing materials 
• Exploring and creating cyanotypes 

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Pneumatics inspired by Anna Atkins:

• Learning about pneumatic systems 
• Making designs for a pneumatic system 
• Creating a pneumatic system 
• Evaluating pneumatic systems 

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• Being me in my world: Becoming a class ‘team’ including our learning charter, Rights, Responsibilities, and Democracy and what it means to be a school citizen, Rewards and Consequences
• Celebrating difference: Judging by appearances, understanding influences, understanding bullying, problem-solving, special me

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Sikhism: Practices and values, the 5 K’s, the story of Guru Nanak, Sikh festivals, and celebrations. We will develop the children’s inquisition skills and encourage reflection on how Sikhism forms part of our world’s and locality’s cultural heritage.

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Five pillars and Islamic community:

• What are the five pillars?
• What is salat?
• What is sawm and zakat? 
• Why are Eid and Ramadan such important events for Muslims?
• Introducing the Muslim community in Britain.
• What is the Grand Iftar in Bristol?
• How do Muslims in the UK celebrate the end of Ramadan?

• States of matter: Compare, group, explore the solids, liquids, gases. Understand the water cycle, including evaporation and condensation. Understand, explore, and investigate melting, freezing, and boiling points.
• Animals including humans: The digestive system, including teeth, functions of the main organs, food chains, and food webs

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Living things and their habitats: 

• Exploring different habitats 
• Researching habitats 
• Exploring how animals are classified 
• Creating a classification key 
• Adaptations and classifications within species 
• Explore and classify pond plants 

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Electricity:

• Explore electrical appliances and electric safety
• Learn about electrical components in a series circuit 
• Investigate electrical circuits 
• Explore conductors and insulators
• Learn about electrical switches 
• Investigate how electrical components can change within a circuit

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• Geography topic: Volcanoes and Mountains - Layers of the earth, tectonic plate movement, primary and secondary effects of earthquakes, how mountains are formed, volcanoes.
• History topic: Collapse of the Roman Empire - Formation of the Roman Empire, the decline and split of the empire, the sacking of Rome, withdrawal from Britain and subsequent impact, why did Rome fall?

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Geography 

Climate zones and climate change:

• Climate zones including mountains 
• Biomes of the world 
• comparison between Biomes and the ecosystem
• Understand the relationship between climate, nutrients and vegetations within the ecosystem 
• Man-made Biomes 
• Changes over time 

History 

Vikings:

• Chronology, who were the Vikings? Where did they come from?
• Why did the Vikings invade Britain?
• How did the Vikings invade Britain? 
• Resistance by Alfred the Great. 
• Viking life in Britain. 
• What happened after 900 AD?
• Battle of Hastings. 

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• Computing systems and networks: Connecting networks, what is the internet, and who owns it, websites, sharing information, can I believe what I read online?
• Creating media: Audio and digital recording, editing digital recordings, combining audio, evaluating podcasts.

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Data and information:

• Data collection 
• Data analysing 
• Using excel 
• Creating graphs based on data 

Programming:

• Use of Scratch 
• Creation of a game 

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Hockey - 
Dribbling, passing, attacking, defending, shooting

Swimming - 
External coach

Autumn 2 Cricket - 
External coach
Throwing, catching, fielding, batting, bowling 

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Say, read, write and understand:

• Vocabulary and simple sentences about school - Objects in and around the classroom, numbers 0 to 20, the days of the week and months of the year, commands, classroom instructions
• My local area, your local area - Firework poetry, recognize places in town, using ‘where is’, identify and name shops

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I don't feel well/ Walking through the Jungle:

• Remember parts of the body and explain why I don’t feel well or what hurts.
• Take part in role play dialogue at the doctor’s.
• Understand and name jungle animals in Spanish.
• Understand a story. Understand adjectives to describe jungle animals.
• Write a sentence using a noun, a verb and adjectives to describe animals.
• Write my own jungle explorers’ story.

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The Weather / Ice creams / Language Puzzle:

• Say different weather statements in Spanish .  
• Describe the weather in different seasons of the year.  
• Say simple phrases to give the weather forecast.  
• Understand and name ice cream flavours.  
• Talk about ice creams I love, like and dislike.  
• Apply my language detective skills to learn another language. 

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