Literacy
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Art/Design
Through adventure stories, playscripts and nonfiction we
will be:
Reading for understanding
Sharing and enjoying books
Understanding that writing needs a variety of sentence
types: simple, compound and complex
Developing well structured writing with clear layout
appropriate to the text type
Caring about presentation handwriting and spelling
Developing a wider range of punctuation including
speech, apostrophes and appropriate use of
exclamation marks
Making sure writing flows through use of a wide range
of connectives, interesting openings, variety in verbs,
adjectives and adverbs.
Speaking and listening so that we can talk confidently
in a range of situations
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Maths
 Mental maths
 Fractions (Target work)
 Place value/ordering and comparing numbers
 Addition/subtraction/doubling
 Weight
 Handling data
 Money
 Problem solving
 Time
 Shape
 Times tables
Topic Web
Terms 5 and 6 2013
Willow Class
Incredible
Invertebrat
es
PSHE – Changes
Through discussion, games, activities
Positive Changes
Change is normal
Making plans for Change
Unwelcome Change
Responses to change
ICT
 Developing questions
with Yes/No answers
 Sorting and Classifying
using tree diagrams
 Using branch diagrams
on the computer
 Making Branch
diagrams on the
computer
 Word Processing
Term 5/6
RE. – Life as a Journey
Identify aspects of life which may cause people, including people with a
faith commitment, to wonder/question.
Compare ideas about life on earth with those of others, including people
with a faith commitment
Music Painting with sound
Using sounds to create pictures and moods
Choosing suitable instruments/sounds
Listening to the Flight of the Bumble Bee
Exploring pneumatics
Exploring objects that use
air to make them work
Making objects move using
air pressure: syringes,
balloons
Making an invertebrate
with moving parts
After half term making
invertebrate models
Matisse paper cut outs :
The Snail…
Italian is on Thursdays with
Katerina our Comenius Assistant
Science
Habitats/ Rocks and soils:
 Sorting organisms
 Finding habitats
 Branching databases of organisms
 Food chains
 Protection of the environment
 Science investigation
 Observing and grouping rocks
 Comparing different sorts of rocks
 Looking at different soil types
PE – Games Skills
 Catching and throwing
 Striking and fielding
Drama:
We will continue with Drama on
Monday afternoons with Mr Smith.