Medium Term Planning
ILP: Towers, Tunnels and Turrets
Date: January – February 2015
Memorable Experience: Visit a local castle, exploring its different parts. Find out how many towers it has, how many turrets and whether it has any secret tunnels or passages. How did the castle help defend the people living inside its walls? Take digital photographs of the castle’s different areas & interesting features, and talk to
experts to discover more about the people who lived & worked there. Find out what daily life might have been like, then get into the spirit of castle life by dressing up for role play activities. Be a lord, an archer, a prisoner, a cook or a maid! Introduce technical vocabulary such as keep, moat, drawbridge, gate house, bailey, great hall, ramparts,
battlements, portcullis & arrow and gun loops.
Week
Engage
th
5 Jan 15
Develop
th
12 Jan 15
Develop
19th Jan 15
Develop
26th Jan 15
Innovate
nd
2 Feb 15
Phonics/ Word
Focus
Non-Fiction books
Jay’s Clay Pot
Jim’s house in 1874
On your bike
Reading
Focus
Reported Speech
Reading
Retell a range of stories
they have listened to, using
story language.
Reading
Explain cause and effect in
narrative (e.g. what has
prompted a character’s
behaviour in a story).
Spoken Language
Provide clear reasons or
evidence for own answers
or opinions.
Writing
Focus
Reported Speech
Big Maths 1
Writing
Number and place value;
Write (personal) narratives Addition and subtraction;
by developing a sequence
Statistics (Block 5)
of sentence, including
some variation in sentence
openings.
Writing
Plan the content and
structure of each sentence
orally before writing.
Horses
Save the whale
Recount
Recount
Spoken Language
Writing
Explain a task or
With support, recognise the
experience, structuring talk main features of a given
so that the main points are model and create simple
clear.
checklists for own writing,
Reading
including sentence level
With some support, find
features.
Writing
information in non-fiction
books, using features such Write (personal) narratives
as contents page and
by developing a sequence
index.
of sentences, including
some variation in sentence
openings
Art / D&T
D&T
Constructing towers
Improve structures by
making them stronger,
stiffer and more stable.
Big Maths 4
Number and Place value;
Geometry – properties of
shapes, multiplication and
division (block 6)
D&T
Tunnel structures using
natural materials (willow)
Improve structures by
making them stronger,
stiffer and more stable.
Big Maths 5
Letters
Writing
Addition and subtraction
Draw pictures and note
Knowing and using
down ideas, key words and
number facts
new vocabulary in a simple
Measurement
planning format.
(Block 7)
Writing
Evaluate their own writing
with teacher and peers,
identifying the main
strengths and an area for
improvement.
Geography
Computing
D&T
Castle design using
Model castle building
drawing software
Choose appropriate
Organise, store,
materials and suggest
manipulate and retrieve ways of manipulating them
data in a range of digital to achieve a desired effect.
formats.
Big Maths 3
Number and Place value;
Geometry – properties of
shapes (block 6)
Assessment week
Letters
Spoken Language
Provide clear reasons or
evidence for own answers
or opinions.
Reading
Answer and ask questions
about what they have read.
Reading
Read aloud their own
writing clearly and with
appropriate intonation.
Computing
Big Maths 2
Computing
Cornerstones topic based Stop Animation Princess
maths project with Swallows
rescue
Schools (castle recipes and Complete simple tasks on
tower building)
a computer by following
Mathematics
instructions.
Use standard units to
compare different types of
Ongoing
quantities and measures and
record them using the
symbols (>), (<) and (=).
Non-Fiction books
Beep! Beep! Clocks and watches.
Non-Fiction books
Light and Shadow
Up in the air
How to make a peach treat
Mathematics
History
History
Castles from different
periods
Order events in a period of
history studied and begin to
recall the dates of important
festivals or celebrations.
Music
PSHE/RE
RE
What do we know about The Torah and The Bible?
Lincolnshire Agreed Syllabus KS1 Unit 4
What books are special to the children? Discuss why they
are special. Design a questionnaire for adults (parents,
staff, grandparents etc.) about their favourite book.
Songs/ Rhyme
2 Brave knights
If you want to be a
Prince
Geography
Songs/ Rhyme
Towers around the world
Name and locate the
The Queen of hearts
world’s continents and
oceans on a world map or
globe.
Geography
High points in the local
community
Name, describe and
compare human and
physical features of own
locality and another named
place, asking and
responding to questions.
Geography
History
. Songs/ Rhyme
World famous tunnels
The Great Escape (three
Describe and compare
tunnels)
Castles
human and physical
Ask and answer questions I’m a little Princess
features seen in their local about a range of historical
environment and other
sources
places in the world.
Geography
Local bridges
Describe and compare
human and physical
features seen in their local
environment and other
places in the world.
PE
Science/Forest school Additional
notes
Science
Parent helpers
Suitable materials for cannon required for
local walk
balls investigation
Relate a material’s physical
properties to its uses (e.g. by
describing and demonstrating
how a material can be
unsuitable for a given task).
PE
RE
Defend and attack
What do we know about The Torah and The Bible?
outdoor games
Lincolnshire Agreed Syllabus KS1 Unit 4
Use a range of Make a class special book and together suggest ways of
simple tactics to aid treating, storing, handling it.
winning/defending.
Risk
assessment for
castle trip and
group
organisation
Source ‘The
Tunnel’
Anthony Brown
PE
Defend and attack
outdoor games
Use a range of
simple tactics to aid
winning/defending.
PSHE
Read the story of ‘The Tunnel’ and explore the word
‘dilemma’
Explain how their actions have consequences for
themselves and others.
Science
Parent helpers
Tunnelling animals
required for
Define the terms habitat and
willow
microhabitat, giving examples
planting
and animals that live in each of
them.
PE
RE
Science
Move over, under
What do we know about The Torah and The Bible?
Classifying bridges
Old King Cole
and through spaces
Lincolnshire Agreed Syllabus KS1 Unit 4
With help, decide how to group
Sing a song of
and obstacles
Show the children the Torah scroll and the Bible and give
materials, living things and
sixpence
outdoors.
an overview of their content:
objects, noticing changes over
Jewish Torah – teachings and instructions (law) for Jews – time and beginning to see
1st five books of the Jewish Bible.
patterns.
Science
Christian Bible – Collection of books divided into 2
sections, Old & New Testament
Investigate bridge shapes
Old – Jewish sacred writings and history
Do things in the correct order
New – stories of Jesus and his followers.
when performing a simple test,
knowing when something is
unfair.
Nottingham
Read the tale of the ‘Three Little Pigs’. What is the problem with the little pigs’ houses? Work in small groups to talk about what a safe piggy fortress might need. Look at pictures of castles and forts to help you gather
Castle trip
some ideas. Use a large sheet of paper to plan out your ideas. Remember to use a key to identify its features. Decide if you want to work outdoors or indoors to build your model fortress. Explain your reasons.
Thursday 5th
What materials will you choose for your
Fenruary
building? Make a list of all the materials you will need to build your fortress. Maybe you could collect some materials from home? Use your plan to start building your model. Work with others in your group, solving
Cave tour and
problems as you go!
castle tour
Take pictures using a digital camera as you work. Remember to save these on the computer so that you can look back at them later.
Wow! Your model fortresses look amazing! Let’s look at what each group has built… What do you think about each one?
Songs/ Rhyme
Imagine you are the wolf… and you’re feeling mighty angry about the pigs’ new fortress! Write a letter of complaint from the big bad wolf explaining to the little pigs why you are unhappy about their new living
arrangements.
Use your fortresses for play and storytelling. Use small world models to act out an alternative version of the ‘Three Little Pigs’. What might the different characters say in this story? Perhaps you could write their words on
giant speech bubbles?
Create a display all about your little pigs’ fortress challenge. Remember to print out your digital photographs. You could even help make labels and captions for the display.
Express
9th Feb 15
Big Maths 6
Addition and subtraction
Knowing and using
number facts
Measurement
(Block 7)
Meet the big, bad wolf… He is very cross about what’s going on! Explain to him why things have had to change – and maybe find a happy ending for him too?
D&T
Geography
History
PE
RE
Songs/ Rhyme
Explain how closely
Describe and compare Begin to understand cause
Move over, under
What do we know about The Torah and The Bible?
finished products meet their
human and physical
and effect by looking at a There was a Princess and through spaces
Lincolnshire Agreed Syllabus KS1 Unit 4
design criteria and say what features seen in their local
significant individual’s
long a go
and obstacles
Show the children how the Torah and the Bible should be
they could do better in the
environment and other actions and what happened
outdoors.
handled – with respect.
future.
places in the world.
as a result.
- What signs of respect do Jews and Christians use?
Where is the Torah kept? How is it handled? Why do
Bibles often have a gold leaf edge, or a leather cover?
- Discuss where the Torah is kept in a synagogue and
where the Bible is kept in a church.
- Hear some stories from the Jewish Torah and the
Christian Bible (link to unit 5).
Science
Relate a material’s physical
properties to its uses (e.g. by
describing and demonstrating
how a material can be
unsuitable for a given task).