1. Can I solve problems involving number up to three decimal places?
NUMERACY:
Can I round decimals with two decimal places to the nearest whole number and to one decimal place?
Can I solve problems involving number up to three decimal places?
Can I solve problems which require knowing percentage and decimal equivalents?
Measures:
Measure and calculate the perimeter of composite rectilinear shapes in centimetres and metres
Calculate and compare the area of rectangles (including squares and using standard units)
Estimate volume [for example, using 1 cm3 blocks to build cuboids (including cubes)] and capacity [for example, using water]
To use all four operations to solve problems involving measure [for example, length, mass, volume, money] using decimal notation, including scaling.
RE/ETHICS:
Religious leaders and significant people.
Differences in Christian religions – changes over time.
Key LOs: Can I compare beliefs and faith with another time?
ENTERPRISE: Bridge design and building for a propose and audience.
Review a project and work out how they would carry out future enterprise projects.
Review understanding of the concepts involved in the project.
Review their success in the skills they used.
LITERACY
READING
Can I identify significant ideas, events and characters and discuss their significance.?
Can I make comparison within and across texts?
Can I identify how language structure and presentation contribute to the meaning of the text?
AUTHOR: Darren Shan – Cirque du Freak
WRITING – AUTOBIOGRAPHY/NARRATIVE
Can I use progressively varied, rich vocabulary and a range of sentence structures ?
Can I create settings, characters and plot to form a narrative?
Can I use stylistic features for effect?
Can I use noun phrases and preposition phrases to expand and add detail?
Can I use paragraphs to organise information and ideas around a theme?
Can I revise and re-draft writing for improvement?
SPAG –
Can I use model verbs to indicate possibility?
Can I use dashes and brackets to indicate parenthesis?
Can I use connecting adverbs to build cohesion within paragraphs?
PE:
Key LOs: Develop underarm and overarm bowling technique and accuracy.
Develop batting accuracy and directional batting
Improve close catching, wicket-keeping and deep field catching
EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITES:
Architect project with external provider - bridge trip
Art Gallery project
Arts Award discover
MUSIC – Brass (Focus last term)
TOPIC/PERSONALISED QUESTION:
People with Power – Do I have any real power?
SCIENCE:
Key LOs: Understand that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, Describe how to recover a substance from a solution.
Use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated
Give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests.
Demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes.
Explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that this kind of change is not usually reversible.
Scientific enquiry:
Decide what equipment, tests and secondary sources of information to use to identify and classify things.
Recognise when variables cannot be controlled and when pattern seeking will help to answer questions.
SMCS/LOCAL ISSUES (P4C/RP)
MBV – What is power?
Who has power now?
Democracy – What does democracy mean? Do I have any real power?
P4C – Freak shows – understanding and tolerance, celebrating differences.
HISTORY: The Tudors – Who had the most power? Compare a King to a Queen – compare to a current queen/president/prime minister.
Key LOs: Can I explain differences between men’s and women’s rights in Tudor times?
Can I compare an aspect of life with the same aspect in another period?
GEOGRAPHY: Superheroes from around the world. Saving the planet – reducing rainforests.
Key LOs: Can I identify changes in the physical geography of the world over time?
Can I identify possible causes for these changes?
ICT: Key LOs: Can I use search technologies effectively, appreciate how results are selected and ranked, and be discerning in evaluating digital content?
Can I use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly?
D&T/ART: (Bridge design)
Key LOs: Can I use research and develop design criteria to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing products?
Can I generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion?
Can I apply my understanding of how to strengthen, stiffen and reinforce more complex structures ?
EXTENDED LEARNING:
Health and hygiene – growing up talk