Topic: Stone Age to Iron Age
MTP Term 6 2015
Year 3/4 Maple Class Miss
Berry
Topic lead: History
Topic hook: How to survive the Stone Age to Iron Age
Week
Wk1
Wk2
Week
Children will know
BIG Write
overview/
the story Stone Age
Outcome
Boy. Role Play and
(incl. trips / comic strip writing
visits etc.)
Wk3
Writing in topic on
Cave paintings
Alternative ending
writing.
Wk4
Letter writing
Literacy
including main
book used (as
applicable)
Improve a sentencegrammatical elements
that need reviewbased on book
Fortunately,
unfortunately gameusing the book
Books- Stone
Age Boy,
Stone Age
newspapers
Museum
London-Story
Telling
Little Nose
the Hero
Sentence games
Give topic sentences
and children are to
suggest contents of
paragraph
Visual Literacy- what
might happen in this
story?
What clues are there?
Conjunctions game
based on stone age
boy
Class Debate
Would it be fun to be a
child in the Stone Age?
Story writing- Day in
the life of a stone age
boy/girl.-Introduction,
middle and end.
Talk for writing- Cave
paintings.
Writing an alternative
ending to video
Big Write through
topic
Letter writing home to
family in the present
day
Letter writing to Om
after he has returned
Find the coordinates of
shapes after
translation
Wk6
Wk7
Newspaper writing features
Newspaper
writing
Where’s Wally
prepositions
Adverbs and
Adverbial phrases
Structuring topic
sentences to
open paragraphs
Find out what
archaeologists do.
Could you write a
job description
for an
archaeologist?
What skills would
you need to have?
Newspaper writing –
Features of
newspapers.
Beginning to look at
headlines,
subheadings
Newspaper
writing- Create
their own
newspaper based
on Stone Age to
Iron Age
To create their
own poems
Instructional writinghow to make a fort and
tools.
Maths
Wk5
Archaeologist
Job description
writing +
Poetry writing
Assessment
week
Can you write a
set of instructions
to teach people
how to be an
archaeologist?
Role play first meeting
between the boy and
Om.
Children create
speech/ thought
bubbles for the first
meeting between the
boy and Om.
Create a comic strip
for the first meeting.
Use coordinates to
draw polygons
Benson C of E Primary
School value: Excellence
Recognise and write
Roman numerals to 100,
and begin to know the
history of our number
system including 0
Solve written addition
of two 4-digit numbers
Add amounts of money
in pounds and pence
using column addition
Multiply 2-digit
numbers by 11 and 12,
look for patterns and
write rules
Multiply and divide
numbers by 10 and
100 including
decimals (tenths
and hundredths),
read and write
Learn 11 and 12
times-tables and
describe the
patterns
Recognise acute,
right and obtuse
angles and
compare angles
Evaluation
Draw and interpret bar
charts and pictograms
Draw line graphs and
understand that
intermediate points
have meaning
Calculate area of
rectangles and simple
rectilinear shapes using
counting and
multiplication
Calculate area and
perimeter of
rectilinear shapes using
multiplication and
addition, or counting
Recognise, name and
classify 2D shapes,
identifying regular and
irregular polygons, and
sort 2D shapes
according to properties
including types of
quadrilaterals and
triangles
Revise 3D shapes,
consider 2D-shaped
sides on 3D shapes, and
sort shapes according
to faces, vertices,
edges
Solve 4-digit
subtractions using
written column method
(decomposition) or
counting up
Solve 4-digit minus 4digit and 4-digit minus
3-digit subtractions
using written column
method
(decomposition) and
check subtraction with
addition
Solve word problems
choosing an
appropriate method
Multiply 2-digit
numbers by numbers
between 10 and 20
using the grid method
Begin to use the grid
method to multiply
pairs of 2-digit
numbers
Use mental strategies
and tables facts to
divide 2-digit and 3digit numbers by 1digit numbers to give
answers of between 20
and 50, with and
without remainders
Find non-unit fractions
of amounts
decimals (to 1 and
2 places),
understanding
that these
represent parts
(tenths and
hundredths) of
numbers, and add
tenths to a 1-place
decimal to get to
the next whole
number.
Read and write
decimals (to 1 and
2 places),
understanding
that these
represent parts
(tenths and
hundredths) of
numbers, multiply
numbers with up
to 2 decimal
places by 10 and
100, and divide
numbers by 10 and
100 (with answers
up to 2 decimal
places).
Read and write
decimals (to 1 and
2 places),
understanding
that these
represent parts
(tenths and
hundredths) of
numbers, mark 1and 2-place
decimals on a line,
and add to a 1place decimal to
get the next
tenth.
Develop and use
effective mental
multiplication
strategies
Use the vertical
algorithm to multiply
3-digit numbers by
single-digit numbers
and use rounding to
estimate answers
Use a written
method to multiply
3-digit numbers,
including amounts of
money, and use
rounding to estimate
answers
Multiply 2-digit and
3-digit numbers by
single-digit numbers,
understand how
division ʻundoesʼ
multiplication and
vice versa and divide
above the tables
facts using multiples
of 10
Draw lines of a
given length and
identify
perpendicular and
parallel lines
Revise line
symmetry in
shapes and sort
2D shapes
according to their
properties,
including the
number of right
angles,
perpendicular and
parallel lines and
lines of symmetry
Draw shapes with
given properties
and explain
reasoning
Draw lines of
symmetry and
draw the other
half of
symmetrical
shapes
ICT /
computing
Science
Using
Stone Age
Boy
History
Literacy researchStone Age
Literacy researchStone Age
Literacy researchStone Age
To understand how
stop motion
animation works
To create simple
stop motion
animations
Plan 30 seconds of
animation
Rehearse
movements
Creating a stop
motion animation
that has smooth
movements
Look at the
illustrations of the
animals on the
inside covers. Can
you find out more
about them? How
many of them are
still alive today?
Archaeologist
work- bone hunting
Children are to
discover bones
What does
Prehistory Mean?
To put events into
chronological order
To understand how
the period from the
Stone age to the
Iron Age fits into
the wider picture
of British History
Can you find out
about other extinct
species? When did
they live? What
caused their
extinction? How
are they similar /
different to other
species alive
today?
Wasn’t the stone
Age just Cave
Men?- Link with
Art(Clay)
To understand how
art was used to
record life in the
stone age.
To identify some
achievements of
Stone Age Society.
Literacy researchStone Age
Literacy
research- Stone
Age
Creating a stop
motion animation
that has smooth
movements
Creating a stop
motion
animation that
has smooth
movements
write a short
script and then
record it
Stone age people
didn’t have plastic
or metal. Can you
make a list of
modern objects
that are made
using plastic /
metal? How would
life be different
without them?
What was life like
at Skara Brae?
To research what it
might have been
like at Skara Brae
To understand how
farming changed
the way people
lived in the
Neolithic period
What was so good
about Bronze?
To know how the
Bronze Age was
different to the
Stone Age.
To explain the
process of making
bronze- Link to
Science
Literacy
research- Stone
Age
Combining video
and sound
Saving as useful
format
To evaluate
each other’s
workAssessment of
ICT
Create a menu
for a stone age
meal.
What do grace
goods tell us
about the
Bronze Age?
To understand
how grave
goods can give
us information
about the past.
To explain
what some of
What was loge
like at an Iron
Age hill fort?
Topic
homework
evaluation
To understand
how British
society changed
in the Iron Age.
What have we
learned about
this period of
History?
To imagine what
life was like in an
Iron Age hill fort.
To review the
major changes
during this
period.
the Bronze Age
burial practices
were
Art/DT
Stone Age
paintings
Stone Age
paintings
Stone Age House
Making
Stone Age House
Making
To design and tell
a story on stones in
style of stone age
To design and tell
a story on stones in
style of stone age
To design and
collect appropriate
materials.
To design and
collect appropriate
materials.
Hand Stencils
To recreate
cave paintings
using hands
What was Iron
Age Art like?
To describe some
artefacts that tell
us about the Iron
Age
To assess
pupils
understanding
of this unit.
What was Iron
Age Art like?
Create
Jewellery
To use design
ideas from Iron
Age art.
RE
French
PEAthletics
Sports Day
Running techniques
To be able to perform
the basic technique for
effective running. To
understand how
exercise affects the
body. To understand
the importance of
pacing and speed
judgment when running
a race.
Running techniques
To replicate a sprinting
technique with a
changeover element to
the race. To understand
the importance of
timing during the relay
changes. To explore the
concept behind speed
matching.
Throwing for Distance
To accurately replicate
the general technique
for a throwing event.
To experience and
perform a range of
push, pull and slinging
events. To understand
how a change in body
technique will result in
a further throw.
Throwing for Distance
To replicate the basic
technique when
throwing a javelin. To
explore the difference
in a standing and a run
up throw. To develop
the ability to recognise
good performances and
correct elements of a
peers technique.
Jumping Distance
To replicate the
technique for an
effective distance
jump. To explore
the different ways
of jumping and
hopping. To
understand the
how the use of
arms and speed
can help in
jumping for
distance.
Jumping Distance
Triple Jump
To replicate the
technique for an
effective distance
jump. To explore the
different ways of
jumping and
hopping. To
understand the how
the use of arms and
speed can help in
jumping for distance.
Mini athletics
festival/circuit
To demonstrate
an accurate
replication of
running, jumping
and throwing
techniques. To
show an
understanding of
the rules for each
event and the
underlining
principles of each.