English
Instruction Texts: Read various instructional texts examining features; discuss similarities and differences between various instructions; examine language structure and use of complex vocabulary; make flow charts of instructions; plan, write, edit and publish instructional texts; draw labelled diagrams to accompany instructions
Shape Poems and Calligrams: Introduction to calligrams; read aloud a range of shape poems; examine language and rhymes in poems; write and perform own shape poems
Stories by a significant author- Roald Dahl: Gather information about the author’s style; discuss words and phrases; question famous characters in role; compare and contrast work by the same author; examine compound words and alliteration; write a book review of a Roald Dahl book; use simple, and complex sentences to demonstrate own viewpoint
Non-chronological reports: Read non-chronological reports; identify and discuss their structure and features; retrieve information and make notes; write a report using notes from the texts read; listen to an information broadcast; analyse the features used in a broadcast and create their own oral presentation.
Fables, Myths and Legends: Read and compare fables and myths from around the world; examine the structure, sequence and language of the texts; plan and write a sequel to their own Greek myth.
Maths
Counting, partitioning and calculating: Partition three-digit numbers into multiples of 100, 10 and 1; round two or three-digit numbers to nearest 10 or 100, give estimates for their sums or differences; derive and recall all addition and subtraction facts for each number to 20, sums and differences of multiples of ten and number pairs that total 100; add or subtract mentally combinations of one and two-digit numbers; multiply one or two-digit numbers by 10 and 100 and understand the effect; know all multiplication facts for the 2,3,4,5,6 and 10 times tables
Securing number facts, understanding shape: solve one and two-step problems involving money, measure, time and number; identify patterns in number or shapes and use information to solve problems; read and identify proper fractions; identify and estimate fractions of a shape; establish equivalent fractions; describe, visualise, classify, draw and make shapes; draw and complete shapes with reflective symmetry
Handling data and measures: know relationship between kilometres and metres, metres and centimetres, kilograms and grams, litres and millilitres; choose and use appropriate units to measure; read to the nearest division scales that are numbered or partially numbered; read the time on a 12-hour digital clock and to the nearest 5 minutes on an analogue clock; find start and end times for a given time interval; use tally charts, frequency tables, pictograms and bar charts to represent results; use Venn or Carroll diagrams
Calculating, measuring and understanding shape: Add and subtract mentally one and two-digit numbers; use written methods to add and subtract two and three-digit numbers; find unit fractions of numbers and quantities; draw and complete shapes with reflective symmetry; use the vocabulary of the four compass points to describe movement; recognise and draw right angles; recognise that a straight angle is equal to two right angles; choose and use appropriate unit of measurement
Securing number facts, relationships and calculating: solve one and two-step calculations; interpret denominators as part of the whole and numerators as the number of parts; understand that division is the inverse of multiplication and vice versa; find unit fractions of numbers and quantities
Science
Magnetism: use magnets to discover items that are magnetic; investigating magnetic force fields; record what happens when poles are placed together; investigating strength of magnets; making compasses using water or suspended by string.
Plants and Growth: to sort plants into groups; to know how a plant is suited to its environment; to know the different parts of a plant and their functions; to investigate what plants need to grow well.
Geography
(following last term’s theme of ‘Ancient Egyptians’, this term the focus switches to geography)
Pictures, Plans and Maps: Understand that a plan is a view from the top; draw a plan of the classroom; write about a journey to school and plan theroute on a base map; learn how to use coordinates.
The Local Area: Zoom in from looking at a globe to Europe to UK to Wolverhampton; read maps and scales looking in more detail at a local village; discuss terms ‘settlement’ , village, town and city; examine place names to give a clue to their original settlement.
Weather Around the World: research the weather in a variety of locations around the world; observe areas of the world where there are particular types of climate; explore the effect of weather conditions on human activity
RE
Right and Wrong: discuss the issue of ‘right and wrong’ with reference to daily life and school life; explore the ‘golden rules’ represented in all major faiths, explore how their sense of ‘right and wrong’ can change with circumstances; explore stories from different faiths and study the actions of believers who chose what they believed to be right over wrong, when that was a hard choice for them to make.
Creation Stories: to read and respond to creation stories from some of the world’s major faiths; to consider the question ‘How did the world come to be?’ and how it is likely to affect our behaviour towards the planet and all that lives on it.
PSHE
Knowing Myself: to explore ‘what kind of learner am I?’; how to set and achieve goals; to understand frustrations and how to overcome obstacles; to explore how to take responsibility for their own learning and behaviour.
Good to be Me: to explore different emotions; use circle time and role play to explore experience of being surprised and assertive; to explore how to manage feelings when worried or anxious
