2015 - 16
Medium Term Planning
Rainforests
Y5/6
Wk beg: 07.09.15
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21.09.15
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28.09.15
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05.10.15
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12.10.15
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19.10.15
Numeracy
Assessment week
Place value
Place value
Addition and
subtraction
Multiplication and
division
Literacy
Assessment week
Imagery poems of
the rainforest
Performance/nonsense
poetry
Identify where in the world
rainforests are found and why
they are there.
Locate the world’s
countries, using
maps to concentrate
on areas of South
America
Plan out rainforest
collage
Physical geography of
Amazonian rainforest.
Nonchronological
report writing
Resources from
the rainforest.
report writing –
rainforest animal
Humanities
(Mon)
Rounding to
nearest whole or
decimal number
Nonchronological
report writing
Human
geography of
Amazonian
rainforest
Common factors,
multiples and
prime numbers.
Class non-fiction
book on rainforest
animals.
Other rainforest
regions across
the world
Completing
rainforest
collage
Listen to range of music of
rainforest sounds
Begin to experiment
with sound
Build up sounds to
begin composition
Class charter
Introduction to P4C
Exploring relationships
Making rainforest
collage – using a
range of
techniques and
materials.
Compose own
rainforest
inspired piece.
feelings
Sharing and cooperating
A class guide
Presenting
findings.
Classification of
living things.
Life cycles
Food chains
Interdependence
and adaptation
Art/DT
(Mon)
Music
(Tues)
PSHE
(Tues)
Science
(Tues)
Computing
(Wed)
Carry out more complex
searches using the AND/OR
search functions. Rainforest
With Miss Kerr
With Miss Kerr
With Miss Kerr
With Miss Kerr
With Miss Kerr
With Miss Kerr
Animals and
habitats
Key habitats in the
world
With Miss Weston
Why animals
live in specific
habitats
With Miss
Weston
Why animals live
in specific
habitats
With Miss
Weston
End of unit
revision
With Miss Weston
Which plants
grow in which
habitat.
With Miss
Weston
plants and animals survey.
MFL (Wed)
RE (Thurs)
Design rainforest
collage
Protecting the
rainforest.
With Miss Weston
With Miss Weston
2015 - 16
Medium Term Planning
Rainforests
Y5/6