Literacy
Speaking and Listening
Sign language, Following Instructions, increasing
vocabulary, Describing, Sequential and Positional
Language
Reading
Phonics, High Frequency Words, Matching games,
commenting on Texts,
Writing
Information Texts
Linked to topic themes
Recounts and Reports
Linked to topic themes
Fiction
Stories featuring vehicles
Cars 2, Knightrider, Transformers, chitty Chitty bang
bang, brum, Thomas the tank engine, budgie the
helicopter, Mr.grumpy’s motor car, Mrs.armitage
queen of the road, green ship, journey home from
grandpa’s house, herbie
Poetry
Pattern and rhyme
MichaelRosen – the car trip
The highwayman
PHSE/SEAL
Emotions
Relationships/ stranger danger
People who help us
Community safety
Body changes/ Sex Ed
T5 SPRING Term
Vehicles and
Inventions
Science
Maths
Using and Applying
Maths Detectives
Talking Maths
Solving number problems
Reading bus timetables
Number/ Money
Public transport buy tickets
Calculation
Word problems
Pattern
Recognising, continuing and creating,
symmetry
Size
Estimating, measuring, and using units
of measurement
Data Handling
Tally charts linked to traffic at school/
cars in the car park etc Followed by
graphs
Pictogram/ caroll/ venn
SC1-Using and Applying
Applying scientific skills and vocabulary
SC4– Forces –
Push, pull, twist
Experiments and investigations linked to vehicle topic themes
SC4 – Forces –
Speed and direction
Experiments and investigations linked to vehicle topic themes
SC4 – Forces –
Gravity and air resistance
Experiments and investigations linked to vehicle topic themes
R.E.
Key aspects of religions – Christianity
Easter
The Easter story
Celebrations around the world
Judaism – Passover
D.T.
Designing/ make evaluate an
invention
Design moving vehicles
Go karts
Battery powered car
String powered cars
Scrapheap challenge
Class body board challenge
Food Technology
Cook a variety of savoury foods
linked to the season
Linked to people who help usParents, school cooks ect
Occasions/trips
London transport museum
Lego land
Henfieldmuseum
Fire station
Life boat centre
Farm
Brooklands trace track
Mercedes world
Horsham museum
Historic dockyards
Bently wildfowl
HISTORY
Transport through the ages
Trains, boats, cars, bicycles, buses
Famous people projects
Henry Ford
Wright Brothers
Invention of wheel
Changes in vehicles
T5 SPRING Term
Vehicles and
Inventions
Classroom Creative Area
Garage
Pit stop
Petrol station
Vehicles
Airport
Station
ICT
Control
Using pro-bots, remote control cars, remote
control helicopters, Lego technics
Animation
Sequence images and selection appropriate for
need of vehicle project
Multi-media and Word Processing
Exploring text and images, sharing ideas,
evaluating and improving work
Research
Researching and exploring information from
different sources
PE
Gymnastics
Shapes, jumps, rolls and sequences
Team Games
Rules of games and skills
Attaching and defending
Music / Drama
Music
Play and perform -Car Part Orchestra
Junk parts of cars as instruments
Sound collage- Listen with attention to
detail
Instruments to sound like vehicles or
parts of vehicles
Drama
A journey
Travelling on different vehicles
Travelling in different eras
Radio play with sound effects for
vehicles
Art
MovementRecording observations through animation
Dynamism
Umberto Boccioni – elasticity, dynamism of bike
Luigi Russoio – dynamism of car
Futurism
Movement in sculpture
Painting with tyres/wheels
Repeating patterns with treads
Pro-bot painting
Programming activities
MYTHS &