| Big question: |
What did the Victorians do for us? |
What is life like in India? |
| Wow event |
Visit to Southwell Workhouse Pirate Day Victorian Day |
Indian buffet India Day |
| Outcome |
Victorian Day – lessons like Vitorian childen, showing off the knowledge that they have learnt. Victorian element to the school play showing off their knowledge. |
Indian assembly showing work that they have done, the dance they have learnt and food they have cooked. |
| Maths |
Number and Place Value Addition and Subtraction |
2D shape Multiplication and Division 4 Operations Length and Height |
3D shape Fractions Temperature Time Capacity Mass |
Statistics Money Position and Direction Revision |
| Writing |
Writing about them Comparison between then and now Description of own treasure island Directions to treasure Own version of treasure island Recount of Pirate Day |
Retelling of Oliver Twist Wanted poster Diary entry Trip recount Letter to Dodger Describe Santa What’s in Santa’s sack? Shape poem Describe Christmas and Christmas day |
Retel story by changing animals and location Development of vocabulary Wanted poster Recipe Retell the story Uplevel the text |
Family description Retell the story Setting and character description Animal non-chronological report |
| Reading |
When I Was Little Treasure Island Pirates of Scurvy Sands |
Oliver Twist Night Before Christmas |
The Elephant’s Child The Enormous Crocodile The Drum – traditional tale |
BOOK WEEK TEXTS: Big Book of Families Familes, Familes, Familes Jungle Book |
| Science |
Victorian inventions and transport Properties of materials and how they are suitable for different jobs Experiment – which materials have which properties? Experiment – how do different fabrics affect our tempertature? |
Properties of materials, best materials for building Animals that live in India and their habitat – link in life processor vocabulary. Seasons in the UK and India Experiment – materials that are flexible, strong, waterproof and transparent |
| History |
What did the Victorians do for us? What do we still use today? Looking at aspects of Victorian life and comparing them to today (houses, jobs, education, transport, hygiene, food, shops etc) Timelines of changes and inventions Interview with people about the past Changes within Swanwick |
India gaining independence from the British empire |
| Geography |
Locate the different countries in the Victorian empire and the different countries in the UK, including capital cities, using maps, atlases and globes Locality study of Swanwick, looking at pictures then and now and comparing them |
Locate the oceans, the equator and continents using maps, globes and atlases Compare Indian to the UK using photos. Compare weather, houses, buildings, schools, jobs and other aspects of human geography between India and the UK Follow map around Swanwick looking at building types |
| Art/DT |
Art – William Morris inspired collage and design work, including ICT and printing. D&T – Puppets – design and make Art – Victorian toys (peg dolls, thaumatropes) D&T – Cross stitch design for Christmas cards D&T – Split pin calendars Art – Observational drawings from pictures using charcoal |
Art – Making clay homes – looking at how to secure pieces of clay together and how to make sure pieces are of a similar size Art – Rangoli and Henna patterns Art – Mixing secondary, tertiary colours and different shades of the same colour by adding black or white Art – 3D collage of Indian Gods D&T – Cooking Indian food D&T – Tasting ready made Indian food and evaluating D&T – Making pop-up Easter cards (mechanisms) Ar – Look at Indian artwork |
| Music |
Victorian Christmas carols, songs and rhymes with accompanying music made by the children – including body percussion. Songs learnt for the school play |
Looking at and listening to Indian music and Indian instruments |
| ICT |
William Morris artwork E-safety – Hector’s World episode 1 E-safety – school rules Beebot – programming paths Scrath Jr – create an island and move around it Take photos of emotions then use editing software to adjust photo. Saving, finding and removing photos from I-pad Screenshots on I-pads Printing from I-pads Shuting down of I-pads What are algorithyms? |
Rangoli patterns using art package E-safety – Hector’s World episode 2 Researching information about India. |
| PE |
Invasion games Athletics |
Indian dance Invasion games |
| PHSE/RSE |
PSHE – Class rules PSHE – Recognising emotions and discussion of how to deal wih them PSHE – Families – what is important? Who makes a family? PSHE – THRIVE – introduce T and H words PSHE – Individual lessons on each T and H word RSE – Special times we celebrate. RSE – Belonging to Christianity. RSE – What is Christianity? What do they believe? RSE – Christian special times RSE – Christian religious buildings – visit the church RSE – Christian artefacts RSE – Victorian Christmas. RSE – Story of the First Christmas and Advent. RSE – Inspiring people |
RSE – What is Hinduism? What do they believe? RSE – What religious buildings do they have? Where do they prey? RSE – Hindu festivals and special times. RSE – Belonging to Hinduism. RSE – The Easter story. RSE – Diwali and Holi stories. RSE – Story of the last supper. PSHE – THRIVE – introduce R and I words PSHE – Individual lessons on each R and I word PSHE – Respecting differences. PSHE – Hygiene and safety with food preparation and cooking. RSE – Comparison between Christianity and Hinduism RSE – Mahatma Gandhi and Saint Teresa – inspirational people |
| MFL |
N/A |
N/A |
