Wisewood Community Primary School- Medium Term Planning Overview
Year GroupTerm- Autumn 1 2 Spring 1 2 Summer 1 2
Cornerstones Creative
Curriculum Unit
Literacy
Predator
Engage strategy
including visits and
visitors
Week 1
Predators
and Prey
Week 2
Week 3
Terrestrial
Predators
Flying Predators
chronological
recount of their
memorable
experience
Begin to use
paragraphs to
group related
material. Use
dictionaries to
check spellings,
alphabetical
order and
creating a
glossary of key
words for topic
Prepare poems and
play scripts to read
aloud using
intonation, tone,
volume and actions
to show
understanding/assist
the understanding
of others haiku
poetry Read Alfred
Lord Tennyson’s
poem, ‘The Eagle’
Fly Eagle Fly
Folk tales
create own folk
tale based on
dreams and
hopes
Handwriting/Letters
and Sounds
Numeracy
Statistics
linked to
Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Fly eagle fly- story
settings and
description/ poetry
based on settings
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Varmints
Create a
dilemma story
using the
images from
the book
Tin Forest
Dilemma
stories- look at
choices and
morals faced
Tin Forest
The old mans
dream role play
his life before
the rubbish
heap create a
book of dreams
link back to fly
eagle fly
Tin Forest
Endangered
habitats and
creatures debate
and discussion
Write a letter
make a
vocabulary
bank of words
to describe
both the old
man on the
rubbish tip’s
physical
situation and
the emotions,
thoughts and
feelings which
he must have
been
experiencing
topic prey
and
predators
Animal
diets
carnivores
herbivore
omnivores
RE Hinduism
PE/Dance
ICT skills
MFL
Cornerstones
Creative
Curriculum
Including Personal
Learning Time Foci
(3 choices)
Take part in different sporting challenges, including sprinting, long-distance running, jumping, throwing and catching. Record their
achievements in a table or spreadsheet and work over the course of the project to improve and achieve their personal best.
Create flow Use the web to find
out about ferocious
charts
insect predators,
showing
such as assassin
food chains bugs, tiger beetles,
dragonflies and
antlions. Search for
information about
their habitats,
favourite foods and
how they catch
their prey. Use ICT
to produce and print
a ‘Wanted’ poster
of a favourite
predatory insect for
display.
Animals
Science on
sorting and
comparing
animals
diets intro
food chains
ScienceIdentify and
describe the
functions of
common plant
parts.- Venus fly
trap
Draw a simple
diagram to show
Science
Watch video
and
documentary
footage of
different
predatory birds
catching and
Look at
children in
India who
scavenge
paper on
the rubbish
Create
leaves with
hopes and
dreams for
their own
futures to
how water is
transported through
a plant.
eating their
prey. Consider
why predators
must kill and
feed upon other
animals and
creatures and
predict what
would happen
to them if food
became scarce.
Make a food
chain to show
the prey and
predator
relationships for
a chosen bird of
prey
ART
Look at a range
of photographs
and drawings of
birds of prey in
flight and
sketch their
form. Discuss
what they know
about its
skeleton and
describe how
this supports its
muscles for
movement and
flight. Work in
small groups to
make 3-D scale
models of a bird
of prey using a
range of
recycled
heaps to
make bags
Paper
Make 3d
sculptures
of exotic
birds for
the
rainforest
put on a
rainforest
tree in
class
Decoupage
yogurt pots
create wire
flowers for
the forest
materials.
Display their
finished work in
a thoughtprovoking
installation
General including
continuous provision
opportunities, including
PSHCE/SEAL
National
Curriculum Targets
to be met
fully (F) or partially (P)