Newton Primary School: Termly Overview Plan Date: Autumn 2013 Year Group: LKS2 –Mr Howells & Mrs Stewart
Topic Title: Water & Light
LKS2
Week 9
w/b 4/11/13
Week 10
w/b 11/11/13
Writing:
Writing our own Playscript for a shadow puppet show
retelling the story of Rama and Sita.
Reading:
Non - Fiction : Information texts on Hinduism and Divali –
The Festival of Light.
Reciprocal/Guided Reading
Oracy:
Role play – performing shadow puppet show
Reciprocal/Guided Reading
Weekly grammar and spelling activities
Adverbs and adventurous vocabulary
Maths
Exploring multiplication and division using a using a
range of strategies including partitioning.
Weekly NRICH challenges Times Table and Mental Maths
tests
ICT
Religious
Education
Week 12
w/b 25/11/13
Week 13
w/b 2/12/13
Project 3: Divali Delight
English
Science
Week 11
w/b 18/11/13
Week 14
w/b 9/12/13
Week 15
w/b 16/12/13
KS2 Christmas Show
Project 4: Shining Lights
Writing:
Exploring traditional stories from Hinduism and
retelling them using the story mountain format
Reading:
Fiction : Traditional stories from different cultures /
religions
Reciprocal/Guided Reading
Oracy:
Role play – performing shadow puppet show
Reciprocal/Guided Reading
Weekly grammar and spelling activities
Verb tenses (past and present)
Exploring 2D shape, rotation, symmetry and
translations and how these can be used to create
patterns.
Weekly NRICH challenges Times Table and Mental
Maths tests
Identifying light sources. Exploring how light travels and how our eyes see it. Discussing why shadows appear and
what makes shadows bigger and smaller. Playing shadow games and making shadow predictions. Investigating
transparent, translucent and opaque materials. Spellbound Science – The Prisoner Princess
Media Project (Ipads) – Constructing, performing, filming and editing our own shadow puppet shows retelling the
story of Rama and Sita.
Exploring and discussing Divali – The Festival of Light and Hindusism. Comparing and contrasting symbolism of Light
and Water in different religions and communicating findings in a range of formats. Holding our own Divali
celebrations.
Writing:
Writing a piece of Instruction writing to share how to
build a model lighthouse. Writing Newspaper reports
about sea disasters / ship wrecks.
Reading:
Non Fiction – Newspaper reports, information texts
about lighthouses and shipwrecks.
Reciprocal/Guided Reading
Oracy:
Reciprocal/Guided Reading
Weekly grammar and spelling activities
Direct and reported speech
Writing:
Producing a piece of
descriptive writing about
the sea using similes and
personification
Reading:
Fiction – Poetry / creative
stories about the sea.
Reciprocal/Guided Reading
Oracy:
Performance poetry.
A Child’s Christmas in
Wales
Reciprocal/Guided Reading
Weekly grammar and
spelling activities
Adjectives and verbs
Using measuring skills in mm, cm and m to build our model lighthouses. Converting
units of measurement using multiplication and division by 10 / 100 and combining units
of measurement using decimal numbers.
Weekly NRICH challenges Times Table and Mental Maths tests
Exploring electricity, what it is used for and how we use it on a daily basis. Discuss what
life would be like without electricity. Investigating simple circuits and how electricity
travels.
Using logo and a control box to light our model
Emailing Santa –
lighthouses.
composing, sending and
retrieving e mail.
Exploring and discussing Advent and Christmas-the birth of Jesus Christ
History
Geography
Exploring the main rivers
of the World using
research and information
texts. Focus on Ganges in
India
Exploring the main rivers
of the World using
research and information
texts. Focus on Nile in
Africa
Exploring the main rivers
of the World using
research and information
texts. Focus on Amazon in
South America
Exploring the main rivers
of the World using
research and information
texts. Focus on Fitzroy in
Oceana
Exploring the main rivers
of the World using
research and information
texts. Focus on Yangtze in
Asia
Exploring the main rivers
of the World using
research and information
texts. Focus on Mississippi
in North America
Exploring the main rivers
of the World using
research and information
texts. Focus on Danube in
Europe
Design
Technology
Art &
Design
Music
Physical
Education
Welsh/CC
PSHCE/P4C
Designing, planning, making and evaluating our own
shadow puppets to perform the story of Rama and Sita.
Designing, planning, making and evaluating our own
model lighthouses with a working light with the help of
XL Wales.
Looking at Rangoli pattern art and other patterns from multi cultural sources - attempting to create our own
responses to this type of artwork using symmetry and shape based skills.
Composing (Music Express SOW & Sounds of Music SOW)
Playing with patterns , Suo-Gan, Jelly on a plate & Unsquare rythems
Composing short pieces of music to accompany our shadow puppet show of Rama and Sita.
Designing and making Christmas pictures using Splosh,
Christmas cards and calendars
Designing, planning,
making and evaluating our
own shadow puppets to
perform the story of Rama
and Sita.
Designing and making Christmas pictures using Splosh, Christmas cards and calendars
Performing - Christmas carol singing and singing practice for KS2 Christmas show.
P.E. – Dance - (LCP – The Divali Dance)– Games –Invasion games - Netball – (PESS SOW)
Weekly sentence patterns, day to day Welsh drilling
sessions. Water related vocabulary
Y4 Stabec – Ga i? Dillad
Y3 Pip 7 / 8 – Beth wyt ti’n hoffi wneud/ fwyta?
Weekly sentence patterns, day to day Welsh drilling
sessions. Light related vocabulary
Y4 Stabec – Beth sy’n bod? Rhy fyr etc
Y3 Pip 9 / 10 – Beth wyt ti’n hoffi yfed / fwyta?
Weekly sentence patterns, day to day Welsh drilling
sessions. Travel related Vocabulary.
Y4 Stabec – Beth sy’n bod? Rhy fyr etc
Yr 3 Pip 11 – Ble wyt ti eisiau mynd?
Weekly sentence patterns,
day to day Welsh drilling
sessions.. Christmas
related vocabulary
Y4 Stabec– Beth mae’r
bachgen yn wisgo?
Yr 3 Pip 12 – Beth sy gyda
ti?
Symbolism:
What is symbolism and
what does it mean?
P4C Weekly
Religious symbol images
Symbolism of Light &
Water:
What is the symbolism
of light in Judaism
Christianity?
P4C Weekly
P4C Weekly
Traditional Religious
Stories
Why is religion important
to so many people?
P4C Weekly.
Share the World
Why is Christmas a special
time for us?
P4C Weekly
How Santa Really Works
Symbolism of Light &Water:
What is the symbolism of
light in Hinduism & Sikhism?
P4C Weekly
Traditional Religious Stories
Rights Respecting Schools :
What are want and needs
and what is the
difference?
P4C weekly
I Want A Cat! & UNICEF
RRS materials
What do we know about
the real meaning of
Christmas?
P4C Weekly
The Nativity Story