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TETSWORTH PRIMARY SCHOOL

Term 1 2019 – 20

We Are Britain

PSHE Theme: Being Me in My World

Core Text:

  • The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier
  • Once Upon a Snowstorm by Richard Johnson

PSHE Outcomes:

Year 2

  • I understand my rights and responsibilities as a member of my class.
  • I know my views re valued and I can contribute to the Learning Charter/class rules
  • I can recognise the choices I make and understand the consequences.

Year 3

  • I can understand the importance of my role in the school community.
  • I can understand how democracy and having a voice benefits the school community.

Writing Opportunities:

The Night Gardener –

  • Write the Night Gardener’s back story.
  • William’s diary after the appearance of the owl.
  • An imaginative tale happening in an ordinary setting.
  • Settings -descriptions of the topiaries for a guide to a ‘living sculpture garden’.
  • Instructions -create an animal sculpture.

Once Upon a Snow Storm

  • Writing dialogue
  • Story settings – strong descriptions
  • Fictional story in the style of the writer

Topic overview: Learn about the countries and capitals of the UK. Learn fundamental information, key geographical vocabulary and important skills such as using maps, atlases and globes. Learn through a series of creative activities such as puppet show presentations, individual ‘family trees’ , a class ‘Breakfast Club’ that celebrates the diversity of all the children, putting on a castle inspired art exhibition, taking part in your own ‘We are Great Britain’ conference and sharing a final British Bakery celebration!

Art/DT:

  • Art linked to Gardens, Britain
  • Snowstorm Pictures
  • Eskimo Pictures using range of media e.g. cotton wool

Experiential Learning:

  • Organise a British tea party for parents.
  • Organise a Sports Event for the School Community.

Maths: Follow Hamilton Year 2 & 3 Scheme of work.

Science: Plants

RE: 

Year 2

  • Christianity – Harvest Time
  • Judaism – Believing in the Creation

Years 3 – Beliefs in Action – Christianity

How do religions and beliefs respond to the global issues of human rights, fairness, social justice and the importance of the environment?

PE:

  • Swimming
  • Football

ICT/Computing: Coding & Online Safety.

Music: Listening to African Songs

French: Colours, simple greetings.

Term 2 2019 – 20

Commemorating Events Beyond Living History

PSHE Theme: Celebrating Difference

Core Text:

  • Eric by Shaun Tan
  • Mr Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown

PSHE Outcomes:

Year 2

  • I can tell some ways I am different to my friends.
  • I know these differences make us special and unique
  • I know what bullying is.
  • I know ways to stop bullying happening.

Year 3

  • I can explain ways in which difference can be a source of conflict or a cause for celebration.
  • I can show empathy with people in either situation.

Writing Opportunities:

Mr. Tiger Goes Wild –

  • Letters writing
  • Research project leading to explanation
  • Discussion and debates

Eric –

  • Different sentence types
  • Write a question from Eric for each image.
  • Chronological report
  • Thank you letter
  • Newspaper Report
  • Diary/Blog
  • Fact – file – one of plants from the endpapers
  • Choose one of the fantastical plants on the endpapers to write a fact file about.
  • Persuasive writing

Topic Overview: Learn about events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally and are commemorated through festivals or anniversaries. Choose from our series of lively and creative blocks focussed on key commemorative days, including Remembrance Day, Bonfire Night, Thanksgiving Day, the first aeroplane flight, Shakespeare’s birthday, the Monarch’s official birthday, the National Days of Canada, Poland, India and Peru and Commonwealth Day.

Art/DT:

  • Portraits of William Shakespeare
  • Observational Paintings from the Installation – Standing With Giants
  • D.T – designing crowns with decorative gems and Jewels

Experiential Learning:

  • Visit to Tetsworth War Memorial.
  • Visits from people of different nationalities – how do they celebrate their cultural days?

Maths: Follow Hamilton Year 2 & 3 Scheme of work.

Science: States of Matter

RE: 

Year 2

  • The Mezuzah
  • Shabbat
  • Christianity – The Christmas Story

Year 3

  • Christianity – Parables
  • Christmas

PE: Gymnastics.

ICT/Computing: Typing

Music: Listening to African Songs

French: Colours, simple greetings.

Term 3 2019 – 20

Famous For More Than Five Minutes – Activists

PSHE Theme: Dreams and Goals

Core Text:

  • Malala – My story of standing up for girls’ rights by Malala Yousafzai
  • I am Rosa Parks by Brad Meltzer

PSHE Outcomes:

Year 2

  • I can tell you how I felt when I succeeded in a new challenge
  • I can store my feelings of success

Year 3

  • I can describe some ways in which I can work with other people to help make the world a better place.
  • I can identify why I am motivated to do this.

Writing Opportunities:

Malala Yousafzai & Rosa Parks –

  • Poetry
  • Letters
  • Diary Entries
  • Newspaper Reports
  • Speeches
  • Debates/ persuasive writing

Topic Overview: Explore the lives of Rosa Parks, twentieth-century anti-racism activist in the US, and Malala Yousafzai, twenty first-century activist for girls’ education in Afghanistan. Discover their courageous acts against unfairness. Learn how anyone can try to make a stand against injustice and plan a campaign.

Art/DT: African Art

Experiential Learning: Visit from someone / video clips of someone who can talk about the sort of racism encountered by Rosa Parks.

Maths: Follow Hamilton Year 2 & 3 Scheme of work.

Science: Rocks

RE: 

Year 2

  • How and why are celebrations important?
  • The Epiphany

Year 3

  • Islam – symbols and religious expression
  • Why are the 5 pillars important to Muslims?
  • How are Muslim beliefs expressed through calligraphy and architecture and why?

PE:

  • Swimming
  • Dance.

ICT/Computing: Effective Searching

Music: Listening to African Songs

French: Colours, simple greetings.

Term 4 2019 – 20

Famous For More Than Five Minutes – Medical

PSHE Theme: Healthy Me

Core Text:

  • How to make an Apple Pie and see the world by Marjorie Priceman
  • The boy who loves broccoli by Gene L. Hamilton and Sarah A. Creighton
  • It’s disgusting and we ate it by James Solheim and Eric Brace
  • How did that get in my lunchbox? by Christine Butterworth
  • Gregory the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat

PSHE Outcomes:

Year 2

  • I can tell you how amazing my body is
  • I can identify ways to keep my body safe and healthy
  • I can recognise how being healthy helps me to feel happy

Year 3

  • I can evaluate when alcohol is being used responsibly, anti-socially or being misused.
  • I can express how I am feeling in an appropriate way and recognise when I need help to work through my feelings.

Writing Opportunities:

Healthy Eating Books

  • Retelling stories
  • Poetry
  • Diary entries
  • Report
  • Letters
  • Fiction stories.

Topic Overview: Begin with a portrait of Mary Seacole and decipher clues about this nineteenth century nursing pioneer, then travel back in time to become the characters in Jennifer Worth’s books about midwifery in 1950s London. Examine the role of nurses today and find out what qualities are needed to become a nurse. Discover how to avoid being ill through healthy eating and exercise and take the opportunity to create a healthy food plate! Learn real nursing skills and test those skills on patient teddy.

Art/DT: Design and make a healthy snack

Experiential Learning:

  • Sleepover
  • Visit from a Nurse/ Dentist/ Paramedic.

Maths: Follow Hamilton Year 2 & 3 Scheme of work.

Science: All Living Things

RE: 

Year 2

  • How and why are some stories sacred and important in religion
  • Christianity – Easter

Year 3 – Easter

PE: Hockey

ICT/Computing: Presenting Ideas

Music: Listening to African songs

French: Colours, simple greetings.

Term 5 2019 – 20

Stone Age to Iron Age

PSHE Theme: Relationships

Core Text:

  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  • The Twits by Roald Dahl

PSHE Outcomes:

Year 2

  • I can tell you why I appreciate people who are special to me.
  • I can express my feelings when talking about people who are special to me.

Year 3

  • I can recognise when people are trying to gain power or control.
  • I can demonstrate ways I could stand up for myself and my friends in situations where others are trying to gain power or control.

Writing Opportunities:

The Twits

  • Using powerful adjectives to create a poem
  • Write a new chapter with a new trick,
  • Design a disgusting menu a Write a letter to Mr. Twit and Mrs. Twit.

Topic Overview: Children learn about life in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, a period covering a million years of history. As well as understanding the chronology of this fascinating time, children will learn about the food, religion, homes, technology and art and how each of these areas developed and changed over time and how amazing developments occurred from the Stone Age to the Iron Age.

Art/DT: Art/D.T based on the linked to the Stone Age Roald Dahl – illustrations in the style used in his books

Experiential Learning:

  • Roald Dahl Museum Trip.
  • Lord Williams’s School Primary Dance Festival

Maths: Follow Hamilton Year 2 & 3 Scheme of work.

Science: Skeletons

RE: 

Year 2

  • Judaism – Pesach
  • Islam – the stories of Mohammad

Year 3

  • Christianity – worship, pilgrimage and special places
  • Where, how and why do people worship, including at particular sites?

PE:

  • Swimming
  • Athletics.

ICT/Computing: Logo

Music: Listening to African Songs

French: Colours, simple greetings.

Term 6 2019 – 20

Sports Tournaments

PSHE Theme: Changing Me

Core Text:

  • The Journey by Francesca Sanna
  • My Dad used to be so Cool by Keith Negley
  • Grandad’s Island by Benji Davies

PSHE Outcomes:

Year 2

  • I can identify how boys and girls differ and I can use the correct vocabulary when talking about this differences.
  • I respect my body and understand which parts are private.

Year 3

  • I can talk about the changes that are happening to me physically and socially and explore my feelings about leaving primary school.
  • I can describe how a baby develops from conception through the nine months of pregnancy, and how it is born.

Writing Opportunities:

  • Poetry around a theme – granddads and fathers
  • Writing a biography of a family member
  • Chronological reports

Topic Overview: This topic takes the inspiration of a range of major sports including football, rugby, athletics, cycling, tennis and cricket to generate some fantastic learning opportunities. Learn about the origins and development of popular sports and their most important tournaments over time and stimulate some fantastic history learning. Find out about where sporting tournaments are taking place and which countries will be taking part and prompt some impressive geography learning.

Art/DT: Art linked to Sports and Europe.

Experiential Learning:

  • Sports Week – (various coaching sessions inc: tennis, cricket, Zumba).
  • End of Year trip.

Maths: Follow Hamilton Year 2 & 3 Scheme of work.

Science: Habitats and Food Chains

RE: 

Year 2 – Christianity- What do the sacred texts say about God/the world/human life?

Year 3

  • Judaism – beliefs and questions
  • What does the story of creation mean for Jewish people?
  • What do Jews believe will happen when the Messiah comes?
  • What is God’s promise in the Covenant and why is it important to Jews?

PE: Cricket.

ICT/Computing: Branching Databases

Music: Listening to African Songs

French: Colours, simple greetings.