Literacy

Talking and Listening

· Speak clearly and coherently to a wide range of audiences for a variety of purposes.

· Adapt behaviour and language to suit different situations and contexts.

· Offer reasons and evidence for their views, considering alternative opinions.

· Use and explore different question types - to clarify, to plan and to set goals.

Reading

· Understand how the fiction genre determines settings and characters.

· Explore narrative order, e.g. identify and map out the main stages of the story: - introduction (orientation) – build up – climax or conflict – resolution.

· Know and understand the terms ‘act’, ‘scene’, ‘set’, ‘props’, ‘costume’, ‘stage directions.

Writing

· Talk about and plan their writing with teacher and/or peers.

· Use different ways of planning stories, e.g. using brainstorming, notes, diagrams.

· Write a scene for play, e.g. using known stories as basis.

· Write poems based on personal or imagined experience, linked to poems read make some improvements to their work independently and when prompted.

Our topic for term one is ‘The Tudors’.

Using ICT

· Explore: find, select and use information from a given digital source.

· Express: create and edit text onscreen, combining images and/or sound.

· Exchange: Use a contemporary digital method to communicate or contribute to a supervised online activity.

· Evaluate: Talk about how to improve their work

· Exhibit: Save their work.

Geography

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

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

To use standard references e.g. Globe, Atlas (P)

History

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 recognise that local/global events in the past have helped shape who we are and how we live today (I & P)

· Identify some buildings which have been used for different purposes in the past (P, COT)

Science and Technology

· That some materials will dissolve in water, others will not (COT)

· That some changes are reversible or irreversible, desirable or undesirable(COT)

· That a complete circuit is needed for electricity to travel (M&E)

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