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JOHN HAMPDEN PRIMARY SCHOOL

Term 1 2019-20

Stone Age and Stones ‘n’ Bones

PSHE Theme: Being Me in My World

Core Text:

  • Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura.
  • How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth by M. Robinson

PSHE Outcomes:

  • I can recognise my role in the school community and how this affects myself and my peers.
  • I can understand my choices affect myself and others.

Topic overview: In this topic we will explore the daily life of a boy in the Stone Age. We will explore where the Stone Age era fits into History, and how life compares to today.

Writing Opportunities:

  • Story / retelling
  • Instructions
  • Stone age fact file
  • Role play

Art:

  • Cave paintings. Research famous ones.
  • Own charcoal pictures.

DT: Biscuit Henge, The Cave Baby – non-stitched felt teddy, Stone Age necklaces

Experiential Learning: Hill End. The children will experience den building, Spear making, bread baking on an open fire, grinding wheat and spear throwing.

Maths:

  • Place value
  • Addition and Subtraction

Science: Rocks

RE: Celebrating belonging (Hinduism)

PE: Communicating, collaborating and competing both individually and in a team in order to evaluate and recognise their own success.

ICT/Computing: Lego workshop

French: greetings, social conventions, classroom instructions, numbers to 10

Music: learning how we notate pitch & creating simple 3 note melodies on chime bars & glockenspiels.

History: Stone Age

Term 2 2019-20

Circus

PSHE Theme: Celebrating Difference

Core Text:

  • Clown by Quentin Blake
  • Mr Majeika Joins the Circus by Humphrey Carpenter
  • (Bellamy Brickle’s Circus Dream – Jo Pritchard)

PSHE Outcomes:

  • I can tell you about a time when my words affected someone’s feelings and what the consequences were.
  • I can give and receive compliments and know how this feels

Topic overview: In this topic we will explore how the circus celebrates difference. We will explore the history of the circus and how it has changed over time to represent changes in values.

Writing Opportunities:

  • Descriptive writing of a clown.
  • Persuasion – circus posters/leaflets.
  • Newspaper – an animal has escaped from the circus!
  • Circus poems and rhymes

Art/DT:

  • Pointillism (Seurat)
  • Creating a colour wheel
  • Clown portraits.

Experiential Learning: Circus Skills

Maths:

  • Addition and Subtraction
  • Multiplication and Division

Science: Forces and Magnets

RE: How does religion inspire people differently?

PE: Cooperative games and gymnastics.

ICT/Computing: Giving instructions to a circus performer. Scratch.

French: adjectives, classroom instructions, Christmas

Music: medieval music: studying medieval piece Columba Aspexit renaissance music: studying Pueri Concinite by Handl learning songs for the Christmas church service.

History: History of the circus

Term 3 2019-20

Arctic

PSHE Theme: Dreams and Goals

Core Text: The Great Explorer by Chris Judge

PSHE Outcomes:

  • I can evaluate my won learning process and identify how it can be better next time.
  • I am confident in sharing my success with others and know how to store my feelings of success in my internal chest.

Topic overview: We will look at maps of the artic region and start to think about the impact of climate change. We will discuss animals and their habitat? Looking at historic artic explorers through our Literacy lessons

Writing Opportunities:

  • Non-fiction – what would you need to take on an exploration?
  • Newspaper Report – Missing explorer.
  • Diary writing.

Art/DT: Chalk polar bear pictures

Experiential Learning: Outdoor tasks followed by hot chocolate.

Maths: 

  • Multiplication and Division
  • Money and Statistics

Science: Light and Dark

RE: Bible stories and miracles

PE: Ball skills, attacking and defending – football

ICT/Computing: Using PowerPoint. Make a presentation on the Arctic.

French: French Arctic Animals

Music: Artsweek music: composing rounds in pairs

Geography: Exploration (the Arctic).

Term 4 2019-20

Fantastic Mr Fox

PSHE Theme: Healthy Me

Core Text: Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl

PSHE Outcomes:

  • I can identify things, people and places that I need to be kept safe from and can tell you some strategies for keeping myself safe including who to go to for help.
  • I can express how being anxious or scared feels.

Topic overview: As a class we will read and explore Fantastic Mr Fox before creating character descriptions. Ch will also learn how to read from a play script.

Writing Opportunities:

  • Character description
  • First- and third-person narrative.
  • Play scripts and role play.

Art/DT:

  • Observational drawing
  • DT – make own pizzas

Experiential Learning:

  • Food tasting
  • Pizza making

Maths: 

  • Measurement: Length and Perimeter
  • Number: Fractions

Science: Animals including Humans

RE: The Easter story

PE: Sending and receiving, bench ball and basketball.

ICT/Computing: Research different towns and cities

French: travel, Easter, numbers to 20

Music: learning about note values through sports names and creating own songs based on the pentatonic scale.

Geography: where could Mr Fox live? Looking at the UK (towns and cities)

Term 5 2019-20

Plants

PSHE Theme: Relationships

Core Text:

  • The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
  • The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier
  • The Land of Neverbelieve by Norman Messenger
  • (A first book of nature – Nicola Davies & Mark Herald – Poetry)

PSHE Outcomes:

  • I can explain how some of the actions and work of people around the world help and influence my life.
  • And can show an awareness of how this could affect my choices.

Topic overview: During this topic we will continue to build on the children’s knowledge of plants. We will explore the impact that humans have on the natural world around them and will develop a deeper understanding of human and physical features around the world.

Writing Opportunities:

  • Descriptive writing – imagery to inspire writing.
  • Non-fiction – explanation text.

Art/DT: 3D plant models

Experiential Learning:

  • Plants around the school
  • Planting and growing

Maths:

  • Fractions
  • Time

Science: Plants – roots and shoots

RE: Understand the Hindu belief that there is one God with many different aspects.

PE: Dance and gymnastics

ICT/Computing: creating documents. Plant top trumps.

French: Numbers to 30, pets and animals

Music: using dynamics in music: writing own group composition pieces based on dynamics in ‘Night on a Bare Mountain’ by Mussorgsky and ‘Hall of the Mountain King’ by Greig.

Geography: human and physical features (countries and continents)

Term 6 2019-20

The Romans

PSHE Theme: Changing Me

Core Text:

  • Roman non-fiction texts
  • Roman diary by Richard Platt

PSHE Outcomes:

  • I can identify how boys’ and girls’ bodies change on the inside during the growing up process and can tell you why these changes are necessary so that their bodies can make babies when they grow up.
  • I recognise how I feel about these changes happening to me and know how to cope with these feelings.

Topic overview: The Roman topic will give children the opportunity to explore the Roman invasion of Britain and the impact this had on everyday life.

Writing Opportunities:

  • Non-fiction – information book on Roman times.
  • Diary writing – life of a Roman slave.
  • Performance poetry – Roman soldiers.

Art/DT:

  • Roman shields
  • Bread baking

Experiential Learning:

  • Verulamium at St Albans
  • Children will make Roman shields and will go to battle!

Maths: 

  • Shape
  • Mass and Capacity

Science: Plants – Flowers and pollination

RE: Understand the significance of the Rive Ganges for a Hindi and a non-Hindu.

PE: Athletics and field games

ICT/Computing: Typing skills

French: holidays, Tour de France

Music: watching 10 pieces, then creating whole class body percussion piece inspired by ‘Connect It’ by Anna Meredith.

History: Romans