Autumn (2022)
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Autumn (2021)
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Learning Challenges:
Where do leaves go in the winter?
Why is the Wii more fun than Grandma’s toys?
Why isn’t everyone afraid of the dark?
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Learning Challenges:
Why would a dinosaur not make a good pet?
What are fossils?
How will five a day help me to stay healthy?
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Supporting texts:
Albert le Blanc by Nick Butterworth , Stuck by Oliver Jeffers, harvest and fireworks poetry, range of traditional tales
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Supporting texts:
Rex by Simon James, Baby brains by Simon James, Dear Greenpeace by Simon James, Yum Yum - food chains, King of all the Dinosaurs poem by Paul Cookson, harvest and fireworks poetry, range of fables
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Topics
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Science: grouping and classifying materials, seasonal changes including night and day, day and night including temperatures, light and shadow
Geogrpahy: How the seasons and weather affect people, naming the countries that make up the UK
History: Changes within living memory - when parents and grandparents were young, toys from the past, Victorian toys
Art: Colour mixing and shades, Autumn tree art, seasons art, Andy Warhol, Christmas art and calendars
DT: make a toy, make a Victorian toy (peg doll or spinning toy), design and make a magnetic game
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Science: Animals and their offspring, naming and classifying animals, animals and their habitats, food chains, what animals and humans need to survive, exercise and healthy living
Geography: Seasonal and daily weather patterns in the UK, naming the countries and oceans of the world
History: Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole or Mary Anning, Guy Fawkes and Gunpowder Plot
Art: sketching fossils focussing on shading and texture, Arcimboldi food art, fossil and dinosaur rubbings, Christmas art and calendars
DT: salt dough fossils, split pin dinosaurs
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Spring (2023)
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Spring (2022)
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Learning Challenges:
Why can't a meerkat live in the North Pole?
Why were Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong brave people?
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Learning Challenges:
Where would you prefer to live?
Why do we love to be beside the seaside?
What were seaside holidays like in the past?
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Supporting texts:
Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett, Wombat goes walkabout by Michael Morpurgo, On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan
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Supporting texts:
Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae, The Great Fire of London, Seaside Poetry, Handa's Surprise
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Topics
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Topics
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Science: Labelling common animals, understand carnivores, herbivores and omnivores, animals and environements, naming parts of the human body, identification of plants and trees, label the structure of a plant, growing plants from seeds and bulbs
Geogrpahy: Features of hot and cold countries, animals and people who live in hot and cold countries, naming the countries and oceans of the world
History: Significant people in history - Christopher Columbus
Art: Aborigine art, colour - contrasting landscapes, Turner
DT: Minibeasts made from recycled materials, salt dough and clay Australian animals, Easter crafts
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Science: Living and non-living things, parts of the body, identifying plants and trees, identifying what plants need to grow, growing plants from seeds and bulbs
Geography:Compare an area in the UK to a contrasting area in the world - Africa to the Isle of Coll in Scotland
History: Significant historical events - Great Fire of London, Samuel Pepys, changes within living memore - what were seaside holdiays like in the past?
Art: Vincent Van Gogh - Sunflowers, Lowry - promenade sketching and painting, African Art
DT: African masks, musical intruments, Masaii jewellery
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Summer (2023)
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Summer (2022) |
Learning Challenges:
What materials would the Three Little Pigs have used to build their house?
What materials woould the little boy use for his basket when he walks to Grandma's house?
Which materials are suitable?
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Learning Challenges:
What would Dora or Ben find interesting about Uttoxeter?
What might Percy find in Bramshall Park?
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Supporting texts:
Into the forest by Anthony Browne, Hansel and Gretel by Anthony Browne
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Supporting texts:
Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne, Changes by Anthony Browne
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Topics
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Topics
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Science: Uses of everyday materials, classifying and grouping materials, changing materials by bending, squashing and twisting
Geography: Local geography, visiting parks and forests - comparing features of environments, looking after the local environment, recycling, map work and co-ordinates
History: Local history of Uttoxeter, Victorian times - How have schools and shopping changed over time?
Art: Contrasting colours, tone and texture - tree sketching in the style of Anthony Browne, Georgia O'Keefe
DT: Design and build the cotttage from the into the Forest story (junk materials - structure and strength), design and create plans for improving local environment
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Science: Uses of everyday materials, classifying and grouping materials, sources of sound, describing sounds, minibeasts
Geography: Fieldwork and observational skills - stufy the geography of the school and its grounds, physical and human features of the local environment
History: Significant historical events, people and places in Uttoxeter - Mary Howitt, Uttoxeter, Redfern Cottage
Art: Observational sketches of buildings in Uttoxeter, sketching minibeasts and habitats, Turner - seascapes, Monet - water
DT: Musical instruments, pom pom spiders, clay minibeasts
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