Year Group: 3/4 Term: Summer Theme: Wishful Thinking

Theme: Wishful Thinking The Motivators

Areas for Learning: As Historians we will: Will learn about the author E Nesbit and the Edwardian period of history, including significant historical events e.g. the sinking of the Titanic. As Artists we will: Investigate and experiment with the style of the art movement – Art Nouveau As Musicians we will: Learn about the composer Edward Elgar who lived during the period of history we will be looking at, and use his work as inspiration for our own compositions. As Design Technologists we will: Plan and prepare our own Edwardian Picnic to share with other children in our school. As Geographers we will: Learn about the geography of Britain, it’s main towns and cities and it’s physical and human geography.

Art and Design Books E Nesbit – Trilogy

Grammar

Choose nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion in writing.

To use the possessive apostrophe with plural nouns. To draft and write rehearsing sentences orally

including dialogue. To use an increasing range of sentence structures.

History Pupils will be taught to experiment with repeating patterns, line and tone and colour using the art of the art movement Art Nouveau as inspiration. Children will study the work of William Morris and Rennie Machintosh, and use their work as inspiration for their own work.

Pupils will extend their historical chronological knowledge by studying the Edwardian period and E Nesbitt’s Britian. Children will study these significant Edwardian events to develop their understanding of this period. The suffragettes The Titanic The Wright Brothers

Reading

To be able to predict what might happen from details stated and implied based on a text.

To understand what we read by discussing words and phrases that capture the reader’s imagination. To draw inferences about characters and feelings

thoughts and motives from their actions. Writing

Use connectives (including time connectives) to write a set of instructions for an Edwardian picnic.

Draft and write paragraphs around a theme to produce non-fiction information texts about

important events in the Edwardian era. Write letters, diary, story extracts, recipes,

instructions, recounts

The South pole – Shackleton Music Geography Pupils will listen to, and appreciate the music of Edward Elgar, a British composer from Worcestershire who was alive during the period E Nesbitt was alive. Children will listen to The Ocean by Elgar and use it for inspiration for their own compositions where they will design their own graphic score to evoke a storm and a sense of disaster and foreboding. Y4 Clarinets

Pupils will be taught to name and locate countries and cities of the UK and develop their understanding of human Geography, by studying different types of settlements and land use.

D.T. British Values/ PSHE Pupils will be taught to design, make and evaluate an Edwardian picnic which will include ‘healthy’ foods. Pupils will design the food and the picnic baskets which the food will be served in.

Pupils will cover Stranger Danger, Road safety Water safety Looking after animals safely - dogs trust

Science P.E. Pupils will cover the following subjects in science this term. Y3 - Plants Y3/4 - Animals including humans Y4 - Living things and their habitats. Whilst learning about these different topics children will be given the opportunities to develop their understanding of scientific investigation skills whilst planning,

Pupil will develop their understanding of a need for a healthy lifestyle and how exercise is a part of this. Pupils will also develop Y4 –Dance – Pupils will perform a range of movement patterns with fluidity and discipline. Y3 – Swimming – Pupils will develop a range of strokes to help them swim 25m confidently.

conducting and drawing conclusions from their own experiments.

Y3/4 – During games lessons pupils will develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance through a variety of Athletic skills. Pupils will also improve their running, jumping, throwing and catching techniques and evaluate their performances.

I.C.T. R.E. Pupils will use image manipulation through of photos of fairies inspired by Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright Pupils will use a variety of coding software to design, write and debug a program of Shackleton’s ship crossing the ocean.

Pupils will discuss and develop an understanding of the following subjects: Why do people pray? What does it mean to be a Christian in Britain today? What does it mean to be a Hindu in Britain today? What can we learn from religions about deciding what is right and wrong?