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Science

Electricity

Light and dark

Investigate the force exerted by theWind and how it can be used to power vehicles.

Roll cars down slopes and observe the effects.

Complete the floating challenge pupils to work in

groups to build boats.

Literacy

Different stories from the same author-Julia

Donaldson.

Recounts fact or fiction.

Silly Stuff (Poems)

Drama opportunities

Numeracy

Unit A3- Counting, partitioning and calculating

Unit B3- Securing number facts, understanding shape

Unit C3- Handling data and measures

Unit D3- Calculating, measuring and understanding shape

Unit E3 - Securing number facts, relationships and calculating

ICT

Programme an onscreen car using E Toy

software.

Creating news article/video on class vehicle

race using voice recording software and video

camera. Uploading work.

Pupils to use 2simple to retell stories.

Pupils to use 2simple software to draw

vehicle designs.

Health and Well-being

Road Safety

Understanding how I learn best

Managing frustration and boredom

PE

Games/catching and fielding

Athletics

History

Identify changes over time (c. 100 yrs).

Compare old and new forms of transport similarities and

differences.

Draw some conclusions about how transport has changed

the local environment.

Use photos to find out about the past.

Develop chronological language (old, new, then, now,

past, present, etc.)

Find out about different forms of transport in the past.

Investigate how people's lives in the past differ from

now and how transport has impacted on this.

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(This plan is not definitive and is subject to change. Thank you!)

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Music

Unit 6: Whats the score (Exploring

instruments and symbols)

Unit 7: Rain, rain go away (Exploring timbre,

tempo and dynamics)

Geography

Recognise some of the physical and human features around the school

and describe them.

Develop a sense of place in relation to home and school.

Ask questions about the local area and find answers by fieldwork.

Observe, recognise and describe the ways in which parking is controlled

around school.

Looking at transport in other parts of the world.

Extend to other features of road safety in the local area.

Undertake simple mapping tasks.

Express views about making the local area safer.

Art

How to create our own futurist painting to capture the speed and

movement of transport

How to create a boat collage in the style of Turner and Monet

Pupils to use ICT to create a futurist picture of a vehicle moving.

Visits/guests

TBA

Transport

RE

Summer 1: Islam - festivals and

celebrations/lifestyles.

Summer 2: Islam stories.

Design and Technology

How to make a vehicle to transport a small toy from one place to another

How to make plans for vehicles

How to test our vehicles to see how well they work

Children to design whacky racing cars and build.

To know that there are many types of vehicles.

See that vehicles have different purposes and this is reflected in their design.

Produce ideas for their own designs by looking at familiar products.

Identify and label parts of a vehicle.