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Subject

Spring Yr4 2011- (Tudor Times and Winter)

Yr 4 cross curriculum day –

 Redwood Lodge / Matthew ship and follow up day

 

English

Set text-The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (imagery world)

Stories set in imaginary worlds

Informational text

-Science- how to keep warm and insulate things

-Debate-energy uses to keep warm?

Tudor menu

Poetry with imagery

Winter and the snow/keeping warm

Stories with historical settings –

Story on Tudor England- history 

 

Maths

Data work using graphs and tables to log work using thermometers   

 

ICT

Touch typing

 

Science

Keeping warm

English-Informational writing

History: keeping warm in Tudor England

Friction

-DT-Design a vehicle with little friction 

 

Latin

 

Verb ‘to be’ grammar                            houses in Pompeii

Subject and object,                               daily life in Pompeii

Present tense                                        the town of Pompeii

1st person and 2nd                                the Forum     

 

Debate

Debate the best way to keep warm in winter, think of cost and energy use. Also the effect on the environment.

 

Drama

Shakespeare’s work or Tudor time

Mime and movement –to explore imaginary characters  (links to History and Tudors)

Introduce facial expression and use of hands

 

History

Tudors

English historical stories,

Diary work on Tudor Monarchs and The Armada

Research Henry  VIII

 

Geography

Village settlers

 

Art/DT

Tudor houses (shelters)

Scenery making for Fantasy Worlds (literacy)

 

Music

Tudor music-history- recorders

 

 

PSHE

Going for goals

To achieve best results both academically in all subjects and to set personal goal targets- all subjects

 

PE

Football   Netball 

Dancing – Tudor dances 

 

Subject

Spring Yr5-2011 (Different Cultures)

English

Set text:-Shakespeare- A Midsummer Night’s Dream  /

Good night Mr Tom 

Older literature- Shakespeare

Recount-non-chronological reports 

Poetry- classical

Science-Keeping warm-season poetry, weather poetry, 

Stories from other cultures

music stories from other cultures

art/ pictures from other cultures

RE religious beliefs from other cultures

 

 

Maths

ICT

Data base  on different cultures

Science

Changing sound

music – different instruments- blow, string, bang etc. 

Earth, sun and moon

Lit.- informational report on the planets and the solar system

Latin

 

Verbs sing. and plural                       Roman beliefs about life after death

Nouns sing. And plural                      Theatre at Pompeii

Imperfect and prefect tenses              Slaves and freedmen

                                                       Gladiator shows

History

Aztecs

Art

Geog,(Mexico) 

Debate

Cultural issues

Drama

Use stories from other cultures for drama and mime these.

Shakespeare a midsummer night’s dream

Geography

Find other countries on maps of the world

Contrasting UK localities: Llandudno

Art/DT

Making clay pots and design Aztec prints on them

Music

Science: space music !!

 

PSHE

Going for goals

To achieve best results both academically in all subjects and to set personal goal targets- all subjects

PE

Football   Netball 

Dancing – using different cultures

Subject

Spring Yr6 – 2011Greece (Olympic games and exercise)

 

English

Set text: Goodnight Mr Tom

Short stories with flashbacks

Authors and text

Newspaper : write newspaper reports on ancient Greece and the Olympic games. Also on recent events in school

Revision for SATS 

 

Maths

Data:- science and geog. Study on temperature and permafrost

 

ICT

Excel- graphs

 

Science

Forces in action

Environmental and technological enquiries

Geog, investigation into permafrost

 

 

Latin

 

Indirect object                 The baths                                           

Conjunction of verbs              School and Roman Education

Forming words without question words 

and question words

       

Local government and election

The destruction of Pompeii (volcanoes)  Evacuation of Pompeii

 

Debate

Why we should exercise and keep healthy

Democracy- law , rules around school etc.

 

 

Drama

Look at movement and body tone during drama

Detailed characterisation work using mime

 

 

History

Ancient Greece

Myths and leg. stories(Lit)

Olympic games –PE

 

 

Geography

Inuits Arctic –

Investigation into permafrost (Science)

 

Art/DT

Containers-Greek vase (his)

 

Music

Weather forcast (geog,), combining and changing sounds (science geog)

Keyboard + using conventional music notation

 

 

PSHE

Going for goals

To achieve best results both academically in all subjects and to set personal goal targets- all subjects

PE

Football   Netball  Gym

Write reports on games for the newsletter

French

 

 

 

 

 

 
 NEWS
Silverhill School Early Years Newsletter 06/02/2012

Job Vacancies 31/01/2012

Silverhill Celebrates Outstanding Ofsted 13/01/2012

Silverhill School Autumn 2011 Newsletter 17/12/2011

Term Dates 2012/13 21/10/2011

Term Dates for 2011/2012 16/09/2011

Spaces in Nursery classes 09/09/2011

Silverhill School Summer 2011 Newsletter 28/07/2011

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