Literacy

• Capital letters, proper nouns, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks
• Speech marks
• Different kinds of sentences
• Verbs as action words, past and present tenses
• Adjectives
• Words ending with one sound/two letters ck, ng, qu,
• A or an? Vowels and consonants
• Clues to meaning
• Synonyms
• Handwriting

Geography

About the location, size, shape and use of common landscape features (P, I, COT)

To recognise the importance of sustaining, conserving and regenerating our natural resources and biodiversity in Northern Ireland (COT, I, P)

To recognise that we are interdependent with other parts of the world for some of our goods and services (I, COT, M&E, P)

To recognise places and features, local and global, on a plan, map or photograph (P)

To use the 8 point compass (P)

To use 4-figure co-ordinates (P)

To use recognised Ordnance Survey symbols to identify familiar features (P)

To represent more complex journeys on maps of different scales e.g. road/rail/ferry maps, route planners etc. (P)

History

Explain how a local community influences its environment over time (I, COT).

Use different types of evidence to find out about the past e.g. oral, written, visual and physical evidence (P, COT)

To identify characteristics of a specific time period e.g. changes in transport/communications/ inventions (I, COT).

To investigate how people used to live, including roles and responsibilities in society, and how these have changed (I, COT).

To investigate issues associated with the conservation, preservation and regeneration of the local environment (I & P).

To understand why people in the past moved from one place to another and to consider how they might have felt e.g. Mesolithic hunters and food gatherers, The Vikings, Movement from town to country in Victorian times (M&E, COT).

Science and Technology

That a push or a pull is known as a force (M&E). That a push or a pull can change the direction or shape of an object (M&E).

Know that some materials are found in the natural world, other materials are made by people (I, P).

Recognise properties of materials including strength, flexibility, transparency, waterproofing, hardness/softness, conductor/insulator, magnetism and how these affect their use (I, P).

Know that materials can be solid, liquid or gas (M&E, P, COT).

Know that some materials will dissolve in water, others will not (COT).

Know that cooling/heating (freezing and melting) can change some everyday materials (COT).

Know that some changes are reversible or irreversible, desirable or undesirable (COT).