Geography
* Where is Birmingham?
- labelling UK on a world map, labelling England, Ireland, Scotland
and Wales. Label the capital cities, seas, and the seven towns
that make up the county of the West Midlands.
* Investigate the population change from then (Victorian times)
to now?
*Why do you think Birmingham is called the second city?
* Canals/rivers/transport links
* The water cycle
* Land use/employment/age
* Human Geography – Economic activity and trade links
P.E.
* A1- Hockey and Football
* A2- Hockey and Cricket
PSD
* New beginnings
*Citizenship – why are rules important? Who should decide
on the rules?
* Getting on and falling out
* Anti-bullying week
French
* Greetings
* Asking and answering ‘How are you?’
* Asking for and giving your name?
* Numbers 1-10
Design and Technology
* Children to research Victorian Artist William Morris.
Design a print making tile using tools to create a William Morris
inspired stamp.
Children to use different inks and materials and experiment with.
Evaluate and compare.
Art and Design
* Children to experiment with their own art after researching
William Morris
Children to design William Morris style wall
Linked to DT – designing a printing tile and experimenting with
different inks and paints to make marks and discover which is the
most successful.
Outdoor learning
*
Term: Autumn
What was it like to be a child living in
Victorian Birmingham?
Science
Circle of Life:
What is a life cycle? What do we know about the life cycles of
mammals? What do we know about the life cycles of amphibians?
What do we know about the life cycles of insects? What do we
know about the life cycles of birds? What makes a successful
life cycle? How are humans helping endangered animals to
compete their life cycles? Why do animals make incredible
journeys as part of their life cycles?
Materials: All Change:
Are the changes that happen around us reversible or nonreversible? How much gas can be produced by non-reversible
change? How long does it take for iron nails to rust? What
happens when a candle burns? How long does it take for things
to rust? What would make the best rocket fuel?
History
*Timeline of events
* Homes – back to back houses
* Education
* Health and the welfare system
* Prominent characters – e.g. Doctor Barnado
* Workhouse
* Why is Birmingham called the ‘City of a Thousand Trades and
the Workshop of the World?’
* The effect of the Industrial Revolution
* Inventors
* Cadbury’s Bournville new town
* Invention timeline
Literacy- Cross Curricular writing
Historical Fiction - Street Child by Berlie Doherty
Hockley Girl – Sylvia Dayus
The Diary of a Workhouse Girl
* Explore a range of literature from different cultures and traditions.
* Exploring the life of being a child in the Victorian times.
* Considering how they feel and what they experience.
* Diary entries to explore different perspectives.
* Read two texts and compare different types of narrative text
identifying how they are structured.
* Infer the author’s perspective from what is written and what is
being inferred.
* Explore the writer’s use of language for dramatic effect.
* Explore the impact of character behaviour and motive of others,
including the reader.
Spellings – prefixes and suffixes
Grammar Vocabulary and punctuation:
* Expanded noun phrases to convey information concisely.
* Relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, whose, that or
with an implied relative pronoun.
* Using commas to clarify meaning. Use semi colons, colons or dashes
to mark boundaries between independent clauses.
Handwriting:
Focus on writing fluently with increasing speed. Forming letters
Computing
– joining
Searching
theletters.
Internet
correctly and
specific
* ESafety