| English |
COMPREHENSION: Based on class reader 'The Hobbit' and persuasive texts. |
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CREATIVE WRITING: Persuasive letters. Expressing a viewpoint. Short factual essay structure. Character descriptions. |
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Landscape descriptions, new episodes for a story. |
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GRAMMAR: Revision of speech punctuation and parts of speech. Homophones. Clauses in sentences. |
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Connectives. Apostrophe on contraction and possession. |
| Mathematics |
Number : Division and multiplication (long and short), adding, subtracting and multiplying decimals, percentages, ratio and proportion, calculator skills, money and real life problems, mental strategies. |
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Shape & Space : Co-ordinates, translations/rotations, angles, nets, charts. |
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Handling Data : Time, measurements, scales. |
| Science |
Life Cycles: Plant and animal - processes and stages of life cycles. |
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Changing Sounds: How sound travels, echoes and reflections. |
| History |
The Aztecs - What was Aztec society like? |
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The conquest by the Spanish. |
| Geography |
Coasts: Coastal environments, OS maps/satellite pictures; Isle of Wight Caves, arches and stacks. Estuaries, locks and fjords. |
| French |
Transport, the verbs to go and to come, countries, question forms/words, holidays, Around the World song, story and poem, house and home. |
| Religious |
Sikhism. |
| Education |
The Parables. |
| Art/DT |
Isle of Wight Paintings - Perspective - rendering solids. Continuing Noughts & Crosses games - computer controlled embroidery. |
| Music |
Much of the singing time will be taken up with learning and perfecting the chorus songs for 'The Rainmaker'. |
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Work on dynamics, pitch, timbre, rhythm and tempo from 'Music Search: Unit Two' video with short composing tasks at the end of each section using themes of City Music, Battle Music, Jungle Sounds, Machine Music and Dance Music. |
| PSHE |
Democracy - Communities. |
| Drama |
Working on end of term production 'The Rainmaker'. |
| Physical Education |
All athletic events, ESAA Awards, Rounders skills and tactics, swimming technique, net games. |
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PE - Lacrosse & Tennis. Games Boys - Cricket. |
| ICT |
Controlling devices - giving an object instructions to make it move. |
