St Edith’s Class – Mrs Hyslop – Autumn Term
Traditonal
Literacy
2015
Topic
Religious Education
In Literacy this term we will start by enjoying Aesop’s
Our topic of Stone Age to Iron Age provides us
Our RE learning will explore the Domestic Church.
Fables. Our grammar focus will be recognising simple
with an emphasis on History and Geography. We
We will look particularly at families and homes. The
sentences; compound and complex sentences; using
will explore Stone Age man’s habitat and life
children will re-tell some stories from the Bible and
conjunctions to express time or cause and learning how
style and how the changes came about to end the
describe some ways in which religion is lived out by
to use dialogue punctuation. We will explore dialogue
Neolithic period with the influence of the
believers. We will discuss and ask questions about
through drama, debate moral messages and write
Amesbury Archer and the Beaker people. Our
what we wonder about in RE. Under the theme of
letters in role. The children will have the opportunity to
learning will follow a time line through the Bronze
Promises the children will retell some special stories
write their own fables. We will move onto writing
and Iron Age including the Celtic tribes.
about religious events and people, as well as use
instructions and explanations where the children will
religious words and phrases to describe some
practise using imperative verbs and pronouns.
religious actions and symbols. The children will be
encouraged to make links to show how feelings and
beliefs affect our behaviour.
Numeracy
This term we will start by revising place value of
2 and 3 digit numbers including comparing
amounts of money written in pounds and pence.
We will be using mental addition and subtraction
to count up to find change from a pound as well as
adding and subtracting pairs of 2-digit numbers.
We will be adding and subtracting a multiple of 10
to and from a 3-digit number.
In shape, measure and data we will be describing
and naming 3D shapes and using the correct
mathematical vocabulary to sort 3D shapes using
a Carroll diagram.
We will continue to grow our mental multiplication
and division knowledge so that we can confidently
recognise multiples of 2, 5 and 10. We will revisit
the fact that multiplication is the inverse of
division and write related multiplication and
division facts.
In Fractions we will know what ½, 1/3, ¼ of a
shape looks like, and be able to find ½, 1/3, ¼ of a
small number.
P.E.
Stone Age to Iron Age
Music
Science
The children
Our science learning will focus on
will be taught
grouping living things. We will
football skills
explore the world of plants and
by a coach each
animals and recognise that living
week.
things can be grouped in a variety of
I will also be
ways. We will look at the use of
teaching them
classification keys to help group as
dance.
well as identify and name a variety of
The children will
D.T and Art
be learning some
Our Art and Design Technology will link to Stone
timetable songs.
Age to Iron Age. We will learn about the great
This will include
cave paintings of the Ice Age and experiment
the use of
with pastels and charcoal to re-create them. We
instruments as well
will be making our own hunter gathering tools.
as learning about
The children will use their design skills to make
rhythm and beat.
models of prehistoric buildings.
living things and their local and wider
environment. We will discuss and
recognise that environments can
change and that this can sometimes
pose dangers to living things.
We will be asking scientific questions
and understanding the importance of
a fair test; we will gather evidence
and record our findings.