Saturday, 06 February 2016
Years 4, 5 and 6 - Term 3 (2015-2016) Forecast – Mr Hardy
Week 1:
Monday 4th
January 2016
Monday 4th
January - No
Music
Tuesday 5th
January – Visit
re extension
Numeracy
Year 5
Literacy
Neptune
RE, & PSHE (Year 4)
ICT (Neptune)
Monday:
Find prime numbers less than 50.
Children work in pairs to try and find all the prime
numbers to at least 50. Children write about any
patterns they can see.
Tuesday:
Division above the tables using vertical layout
chunking (with answers less than 40).
Children practise using vertical layout of chunking.
Challenge the children to make their own division
with answers between 20 and 30.
Wednesday:
Divide using a vertical layout. Round up or down
after division.
Children work through problems finding solutions
and deciding whether the answers need rounding
up or down.
Thursday (for JC):
Division above the tables using vertical layout
chunking (answers up to 60); choose written or
mental methods.
Children use vertical layout to divide numbers, but
watch out for the occasional division that can be
done mentally. Children choose their own starting
point.
Monday:
Explore examples of Flashbacks through the
texts of Harry Potter.
Tuesday:
Recognise flashbacks in text and recognise
what they’re used for.
Wednesday am:
Recognise and write relative clauses, pronouns
and adverbs.
Children write sentences to describe characters
in Harry Potter using relative clauses
appropriately. Share sentences with their
partners and get peer feedback.
Wednesday pm:
Learn spelling rules for words ending with
suffixes: -ent, -ence, -ency, -ant, -ance and ancy.
Children write sentence examples in their
books, encourage the use of dictionaries to
look up definitions of unknown words.
Monday:
RE: Abram.
Explain how the Jewish faith
started and the role Abram in
their history.
Discuss how people have to
wait for their dreams to come
true. Ask the children to write
a though bubble with a dream
that they are willing to wait
for to come true.
Hamilton Trust: Fiction Plan 3B – Stories with
flashbacks.
Mrs S
Mr Hardy
Hamilton Trust: Autumn Week 7 (Mental
multiplication and division; written division).
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Music: No set music lesson
today. Do some PSHE about
appropriate behaviour in the
lunch hall and playground.
Wednesday:
ICT/Topic: Revise PowerPoint
Features.
Children revise the features of
PowerPoint demonstrate how
to add animations and
transitions between slides.
Art and DT
Thursday:
Blitz Silhouette
Explain to the children that
this term we are going to
make a series of Blitz
Silhouettes with
backgrounds in different
mediums.
Investigate different
mediums for the
background by creating a
mood board.
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Week 2:
Monday 11th
January 2016
Wednesday 13th
January – AH
out at KS2
Assessment
Briefing.
Thursday 14th
January Lesson
Observations AM
Week 3:
Monday 18th
January 2016
Monday 18th
January – AH at
Assessment
Collaboration
(Shoreham
School)
Monday:
Find lowest common multiples and highest
common factors.
Children work in pairs to practise finding the
highest common factor, then shuffle a pack of 2-9
cards, take three and work out their lowest
common multiple.
Tuesday:
Use mental strategies to divide by 5, 20, 6, 4 and 8.
Children practise using metal strategies to divide
all whole numbers (HA: some numbers not whole).
Wednesday:
Use short multiplication to multiply 4-digit
numbers by 1-digit/2-digit numbers; use rounding
to approximate.
Children make estimates in pairs, record them and
use short multiplication to find exact answers.
Thursday (for JC):
Use short multiplication to multiply 4-digit
numbers by 1-digit numbers; use commutativity of
X.
Children carry out an investigation recording all
their results in the most logical way and explain
their findings.
Monday:
Children write up their earliest memory.
Tuesday:
Children explore how the ‘Pensieve’ is used a
flashback device in the Harry Potter stories.
Monday:
PSHE: PSHE task from
assembly.
Wednesday am:
Compare a scene from the book and film
version of ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’;
revise the use of adverbials.
Children use text extracts from Harry Potter
books to identify adverbials and prepositions.
Record definitions of both in their Literacy
books.
Wednesday pm:
Children plan their own Pensieve memory.
Explain that children are going to write up their
own Pensieve memory on the planning sheet.
Discuss the differences between personal and
third party memories in the Harry Potter books.
Wednesday:
ICT/Topic: Research the
speeches of Winston
Churchill.
Children use the internet to
explore the speeches of
Winston Churchill and take
key notes about why people
consider him to be an
inspirational speaker.
Hamilton Trust: Spring Week 5 (Mental
multiplication and division; written multiplication).
Monday:
Solve problems requiring scaling by simple
fractions.
Children work in small groups to make a scale
model.
Tuesday:
Recognise and use square numbers and cube
numbers.
Children work in pairs to calculate and list all the
square and cube numbers.
Wednesday:
Use short division (bus stop) to divide a 4-digit
number by a single-digit number.
Mrs S
Mr Hardy
Monday:
Children write up the first draft of their Pensieve
memory.
Tuesday:
Children finish their draft and write up their
neat Pensieve memory.
Wednesday am:
Identify features in a text designed to engage
and entertain the reader.
Children record features in their Literacy books
with definitions.
Wednesday pm:
Expanded noun phrases.
Music: Recorder lessons with
Miss Edmundson.
Thursday:
Blitz Silhouette
Children create their Blitz
Silhouette background
using paint and paint
washes.
Children start to create
templates for their
Silhouette of bombed out
cities.
Hamilton Trust: Fiction Plan 3B – Stories with
flashback.
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Monday:
RE: Moses
Explore how Moses came to
be leader of the Jewish nation
and why he is important to
believers today.
Children create a storyboard
of the story of Moses;
different groups do different
stages of his life.
Music: Recorder lessons with
Miss Edmundson.
Thursday:
Blitz Silhouette
Children use oil pastels to
make a silhouette
backdrop. Explain to the
children the need to show
texture.
Children finish silhouette
templates and start drawing
them on black paper for
cutting out.
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Thursday 24th
January –
Starfish Malawi
Assembly.
Week 4:
Monday 25th
January 2016
Wednesday 27th
January –
Lesson Study
Planning
Meeting.
Children work individually to solve an investigation,
recording each division and remainder. The
children discuss and record what they notice about
the answers.
Thursday (for JC):
Use short division to divide 4-digit numbers by
single-digit numbers, expressing the remainders as
fractions.
Children complete divisions showing answers as
fractions, simplifying where they can. Allow
children to choose their own starting point.
Hamilton Trust: Summer Week 6 (Multiplication
and division).
Monday:
Add pairs of five digit numbers.
Children investigate possible answers from adding
5-digit numbers together in different orders.
Tuesday:
Subtract pairs of five-digit numbers.
Children find the differences between two sets of
five-digit numbers. Allow children to choose their
own starting point.
Wednesday:
Use short multiplication to multiply.
Children multiply 3-digit answers and look for
patterns, they write these up and record them in
their Numeracy books.
Thursday (for JC):
Use short multiplication to multiply 3-digit
amounts of money by a single-digit number.
Children find the cost of a number of items.
Hamilton Trust: Autumn Week 11 (Mental addition
and subtraction; written multiplication)
Children write some expanded noun phrases
based on nouns given in a selection of
sentences. Share with the rest of the class.
Hamilton Trust: Fiction Plan 3B – Stories with
flashbacks.
Hamilton Trust: Non- Fiction Plan 3B –
Persuasive writing.
Mrs S
Mr Hardy
Monday:
Discuss and identify features in a persuasive
text.
Tuesday:
Identify features of persuasive posters.
Wednesday am:
Design and create a persuasive poster.
Children produce a persuasive poster about the
need for recycling, reusing and reducing during
the Second World War on the ‘Home Front’.
Wednesday pm:
Identify features of formal persuasive texts
(letters and articles).
Children make lists of rhetorical questions and
formal language/phrases that they could use
when writing a persuasive text.
Hamilton Trust: Non-Fiction Plan 3B –
Persuasive writing.
Mrs S
Mr Hardy
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Wednesday:
ICT/Topic: Children design
and prepare a PowerPoint on
Winston Churchill.
Children design and start to
make a PowerPoint about
Winston Churchill during the
Second World War. Remind
the children not to spend too
much time focussing on
animations and transitions.
Monday:
PSHE: PSHE Task from
assembly.
Music: Recorder lessons with
Miss Edmundson.
Wednesday:
ICT/Topic: Children design
and prepare a PowerPoint on
Winston Churchill.
Children complete working on
their PowerPoints.
Thursday:
Blitz Silhouette
Children do their chalk
background for their
silhouettes.
Children cut out and start to
stick on to previous
backgrounds their
silhouette in black sugar
paper.
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Week 5:
Monday 1st
February
2016
Week 6:
Monday 8th
February
2016
Monday:
Use counting up to subtract four-digit numbers
from multiples of 1000.
Children make 4-digit numbers (using 6, 7, 8 and 9
digit cards) and subtract them from 10,000. Ask
the children to find the all the possible answers.
Harder can use five digit cards with a 0.
Tuesday:
Subtract pairs of two-digit numbers with one
decimal place.
Children roll a 0-9 dice three times to make a
three-digit number with a one decimal place. They
then subtract the smaller number from the bigger
number. Allow children to choose how they set out
the calculation.
Wednesday:
Use frog to find change from £100; use column
addition to add amounts.
Children choose different pairs of items, adding
them together using column addition. They then
use frog method to calculate change from £100.
Thursday (for JC):
Use frog to find the difference between amounts
of money.
Children use estimation to sort possible answers
into <£5 and >£5. Calculate exact answers to see if
their estimation was correct.
Hamilton Trust: Spring Week 2 (Mental addition
including subtraction)
Monday:
Revise column addition of four-digit and five-digit
numbers.
Children practice column addition. Allow children
to choose their own starting point.
Tuesday:
Monday:
Connectives used in formal persuasive texts;
write persuasive letters to a newspaper.
Tuesday:
Definition and use of modal verbs in text.
Wednesday am:
Discuss ideas for a debate about recycling.
Childrnen prepare for debate on the motion: It
should be a criminal offence to place recyclable
items in your landfill wheelie bin.
Wednesday pm:
Hold a debate.
Children hold a debate on the motion prepared
for in the previous lesson. Photograph as
evidence to be stuck into Literacy books.
Hamilton Trust: Non-Fiction 3B – Persuasive
writing.
Mrs S
Mr Hardy
Monday:
Children write a book review to recommend a
book they have read using persuasive language.
Tuesday:
Use of apostrophes; comparison between
formal text and informal speech.
Wednesday am:
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Monday:
RE: Ten Commandments
To know that the Ten
Commandments are part of
Jewish law and why they are
important to believers today.
Children look at the ‘Ten
Commandments’ and produce
their own ten rules they try to
live their life by.
Thursday:
Blitz Silhouette
Children produce their final
background for their
silhouettes in collage form.
Children finish sticking on
their black silhouettes and
create their large artwork
for display.
Music: Recorder lesson with
Miss Edmundson.
Wednesday:
ICT/Topic: Children present
their PowerPoints to the class.
Children present their
PowerPoints to the rest of the
class. Print off Slides to stick
into topic books.
Monday:
PSHE: PSHE task from
assembly.
Music: Recorder lessons with
Miss Edmundson.
Thursday:
Blitz Silhouette
Children write an evaluation
of their blitz silhouette and
how it turned out. Stick
photograph into art books.
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Use place value to add and subtract; add and
subtract near multiples of 100, 1000 and 10,000.
Children practice using place value to add and
subtract. Allow children to choose their own
starting point.
Wednesday:
Use short multiplication to multiply four-digit
numbers (money) by a single-digit number.
Children use short multiplication to multiply
amounts of money. Children can choose their own
starting point, encourage grid method for
checking.
Thursday (for JC):
Use short division to divide four-digit numbers by
single-digit numbers.
Children make four-digit numbers a choose a
number to divide it by. Children show the
remainder as a fraction, simplifying if possible.
Plan a persuasive story about the
environment/poverty based on a classic fairy
tale.
Children plan a short story based on a fairy tale
with an environmental/poverty message.
Wednesday pm:
Draft, edit and write up in neat their persuasive
fairy tale.
Children write up their short fairy tale with a
environmental/poverty message.
Hamilton Trust: Non-Fiction 3B – Persuasive
writing.
Mrs S
Mr Hardy
Hamilton Trust: Spring Week 11 (Mental & written
addition & subtraction; written x and ÷).
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Wednesday:
ICT/Topic: Children type up
their Dunkirk poems.
Children use their word
processing skills to type up
their Dunkirk poems from
their Topic lesson.
Children talk about what
they might change or do
differently next time.