Fiction – Reading and writing
Range – traditional tales and parables, oral and performance poetry from different cultures and plays.
Identifying typical story themes; sequencing key incidents; writing alternative sequels; writing own story plans; preparing poems for performance; rehearse and improve performance; write new verses for performance poetry; investigating styles and voices of traditional story language; characters and writing scenes for plays.
Non-fiction
Range – A variety of factual texts inc. instructional texts, letters and explanations.
Instructions; explanation; letters; reference.
Handwriting – building up speed, fluency and legibility.
Place value, ordering, estimating, rounding.
Reading numbers from scales.
Understanding addition and subtraction.
Money and real life problems.
Making decisions, checking units.
Shape and space.
Reasoning about shapes.
Measures, and time, including problems.
Counting, properties of numbers and number sequences.
Reasoning about numbers.
Mental calculation strategies.
Understanding multiplication and division.
Fractions.
Handling Data.
Characteristics of materials.
Children will identify the uses of common materials, suggesting reasons why the material is suitable; explain why it is important to test materials to find out whether descriptions of characteristics are reliable and to recognise when a test or comparison is unfair.
Children will explain that shadows are formed when light from a source is blocked; recognise that shadows are similar in shape to the objects forming them; describe how a shadow from the Sun changes over the course of a day; make predictions about the shadows formed by different objects or materials and make careful observations of the shadows.
The children will use a range of information to ask and answer questions about events related to Roman Britain; show knowledge and understanding of why Boudicca led a revolt, what happened and some of the results; know that an event can be interpreted in different ways.
The children will continue their work on investigating the local area. They will describe a range of physical and human features of their locality; use appropriate geographical terms; identify how people affect the environment and recognise ways people try to manage it for the better.
The children will investigate a range of commercially made packaging. They will design and make a package for an Easter Egg.
The children will recognise and create repeated patterns.
The software program ‘Compose’ will be used to manipulate sound and databases will be introduced.
Art and Design
The children will explore sculpture in public places and use shape, form, pattern and colour to make a maquette (small sculpture).
The class will be participating in gymnastics lessons for the first half of the term and tennis skills for the second half.
Loss and separation.
The themes this term will be Celebrations, Thanksgiving and Self-Giving
Celebrations: In this topic the children will learn that community celebrations are important. They will learn about the church’s teaching about sacraments, the Church’s celebrations and of their importance.
Learning intention: Children know and understand Sacraments as the Church’s celebrations.
Thanksgiving: The children will think about different reasons for giving thanks and about the Eucharist. They will learn how this is thanksgiving for each other and for Jesus.
Learning intention: children know and understand the Church’s teaching about the Eucharist: thanksgiving for the world, for one another and for Jesus.
Self-Giving: The children will think about the ways some people serve others by their occupation or their way of life and about the Church’s teaching about this.
Learning intention: children know and understand the Church’s teaching about Lent, Holy Week and Easter: the Church’s seasons for giving in different ways and celebrating the total self-giving of Jesus.