Personal, social and emotional Physical Development
development (including pshme, PE – Swimming at Ladywell
Creative Development (Art, Dance, Music)
ART – (topic link) – 3D clay work – Viking utensils/ creating
runes/ gaming pieces/ metal wire for jewellery
Investigating pattern – weaving/ embroidery on hessian
Developing skills- portraits of Anglo Saxons, creating and
decorating Viking shields
MUSIC – (topic link)- Viking Rock and class assembly
Discrete music lessons based on Music Express planned and
deliverd by L Sparkes (PPA)- Painting with Sound – Unit 3
Dance (Topic link) – Beowulf, invasion settlement- developing
dance to tell a story. Improving dance/movement skills using
4 basic shapes and working as group to convey meaning/
story based on invasion of an Anglo Saxon village or Beowulf
Knowledge and understanding of the world (including RE,
geography, history, DT)
RE – Christianity
Geography/History (topic link)– invasion and settlement-
Vikings
Where did the Vikings come from?
How did they travel? What was Scandinavia like- why did they
need to travel? How did they change life in Britain?
(atlas and map skills, understanding weather, northern
European countries and landscape)
DT (topic link)- pop up book (re-telling Beowulf?) investigating
levers. Pivots to make own moving picture book
Trips, visitors, events and displays
History Man visit
Writing workshop (Vikings/ Beowulf)
Class assembly – Vikings story (based on dance?)
Mathematical development
emotional lit, citizenship) weekly sessions Tuesdays
Continue with weekly circle times to address on-
going issues in class- focus on social skills/
playtime games and listening activities. Base
Games – (Dance this half
sessions on J Mosely’s 101 Games for Social
Skills term)
Key Questions & Ideas / Creative Entry Point
Who were the Vikings? Why did they come to Britain?
What were the benefits for them? How did it change life
in Britain?
Invasion and
settlement -
VIKINGS
ICT- branching databases
-That ‘yes/no’ questions can be used to divide a set of objects into sub-sets
and that a sequence of ‘yes/no’ questions can dentify an object.
-That a tree diagram can be used to organise information.
-To search a branching database.
-To use a branching database to organise, reorganise and analyse information.
-Understand that different graphs are used for different purposes.
Session also used for maths games, publishing learning from other curriculum
areas etc
Community Cohesion / Planning for Diversity
Low ability readers with volunteer Wed and Fri pm
Additional handwriting and reading with Audrey Thompson Tues
Maths booster with L Bridgestock – x4 weekly
Letters and sounds booster with R French – x4 weekly
Billy P and Tairece SW working with New Woodlands outreach Fri
Block A2 – counting on and back
Comparing and ordering numbers, understanding
negative numbers
Block B2 –doubles and halves, multiplication by
partitioning, developing mental strategies
2d shapes and lines of symmetry
3d shapes/nets polyhedron tetrahedron
Block C2 – scales, capacity and measures
Reading timetables, time intervals, 24 hour clock
For detailed objectives see individual maths plans
Communication, language and literacy (including talking/
speaking & listening, writing, reading, spelling, handwriting,
drama and links to other areas)
1)- Stories in historical settings (3 weeks)
Beowulf
2)- information texts (3 weeks)
Life in Anglo Saxon Britain- (ICT link- creating an online
book, PP presentation?)
Weekly spelling investigation and dictation based on L&S phonics
Science – Keeping Warm (maths link- data handling)
(planned and deliverd by L Sparkes
learn about thermal insulators as materials which can help to keep
things warm or cool.
• turning ideas into a form that can be investigated
• using thermometers to make careful measurements of temperature
-identifying and suggesting explanations for can be investigated
patterns and trends in results and using results to draw conclusions.