Click on the link below for helpful information and activities which are all literacy based;

Maths –

Themed projects, consolidation and problem solving

The projects provide an opportunity to revisit many

of the skills and curriculum content covered

White Rose Bakery

Ratio and proportion

Cost of ingredients

Best Value (percentages)

Profit and loss

Profit and Loss

Packaging (nets)

Common real-life problems encountered when cooking and baking

Cooking Problems

White Rose Tours

Climate

Conversions

Choosing flights (cost)

Accommodation (deals)

Working with a budget

White Rose futures

Annual salary

Hourly rates

Bills

Mortgage

 

 

Mental maths – additional weekly tests to develop children’s mental ability for rapid recall and problem solving.

Tables Test- weekly for x 2, x 3, x 4, x5, x 6, x7, x8, x9 x10, x11and x12.

 

 

 

 

 

Living things and their habitats:

Pupils should be taught to:

 describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common

observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including microorganisms,

plants and animals

 give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics.

 

Evolution and Inheritance:

Pupils should be taught to:

 recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide

information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago

 recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring

vary and are not identical to their parents

 identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different

ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.

 

Click on the link below for helpful information and activities which are all science based;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sing up Music Scheme:

Touch the Sky: Musical focus: To recognise features of Scottish folk music, to move, sing, and play in 3/4 time, to improvise using a pentatonic scale, to sing in two parts with dynamic contrast and expression.

Most children will be able to:

• Identify some of the features of traditional Scottish music that have influenced the composition of the song Touch the sky.
• Sing accurately in two parts, with dynamic contrast and expression.
• Improvise extended melodies using the pentatonic scale.
• Play the drone, bass note, or chord for a chorus of Skye boat song.

 

 

 

    

 

 

The Tudors

The children will be learning:

Threshold Concepts Covered

•           Main Events

•           Conflict

•           Culture and Pastimes

•           Travel and Exploiration

Beliefs

KEY LEARNNG

To present information about 3 Tudor monarchs and compare and contrast their reigns.

To recognise the significance of Elizabeth I dying without an heir.

To understand and explain what is meant by the term `civil war‘.

To explore the Pilgrimage of Grace.

To describe some of the challenges the Tudor monarchs faced with religion and how they began to overcome these problems.

To organise information about the Spanish Armada.

To organise information about the Renaissance during the reign of Elizabeth I.

To understand who Walter Raleigh was and the reasons why Walter Raleigh was executed.

To explore what is meant by the word `devout‘.

To know when Henry VIII became the head of the Church of England.

To organise information about the Protestant Reformation.

 

 

 

SPREADSHEETS

The children will be able:

To enter data and formulas into a spreadsheet.

To order and present data based on calculations.

To add, edit and calculate data.

To use a spreadsheet to solve problems.

To plan and calculate a spending budget.

To design a spreadsheet for a specific purpose.

                                                                                     

• Lessons Planned and taught by External Sports Company Non-Stop Action.

  Athletics and Rounders:

   

  Use running, jumping and throwing in isolation and in combination. Play competitive games, modified where appropriate. Communicate, collaborate and compete with each other. Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance. Develop an understanding of how to improve in different sports. Learn how to evaluate and recognise success. Compare performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement.

   

  Indoor PE (taught by the Class Teacher)

  Dance:

  In this unit the children learn different styles of dance and focus on dancing with other people. They create, perform and watch dances in a range of styles, working with partners and groups. In dance as a whole, children think about how to use movement to explore and communicate ideas and issues, and their own feelings and thoughts. As they work they develop an awareness of the historical and cultural origins of different ideas.

   

ART

REALISM

To research the work and style of Ford Madox Brown.

To recognise why art critics were suspicious of Realist artists in the mid-19th century.

To replicate the depiction of peasants in my own artwork in the style of a Realist artist.

To compare and contrast the colours used by French Realist artists with those used by Surrealist and Pop artists.  

To explore the reasons why Gustave Courbet’s art was not popular and was criticised during his lifetime. 

To experiment with Courbet’s style of depicting the main character from the back to draw the viewer into the scene.

To copy Courbet’s use of rough and visible brushstrokes, as well as using my thumb to apply paint in my own realistic paining.  

To copy Courbet’s effect of using lighter tones in the background and darker tones for the main features in the foreground. 

To create my own piece of realism and critically analyse my piece of work.