Durrington Infant and Junior Schools – Medium Term Plan Year Group: 4

Term: Summer

Topic Name: Awesome Egyptians!

Subject/Topic focus: English, Geography and History

Whole School Link:

A trip to:

n/a WOW starter…

Corridor decorated with Egyptian art and role play area in classes (tomb).

A visitor from:

Paul Ullson – Egyptian Expert

The Grand Finale…

Egyptian Museum! Parents to be invited (and Jane Dorey – local historian) 1

Durrington Infant and Junior Schools – Medium Term Plan

Cross Curriculum Coverage Date: Spring 2016 Year group: 4 Subject

Topic title: Antarctic Adventures! Learning Intention/Outcome

English

To use orgainsational devices to shape my writing. To organise paragraphs around a theme. To assess the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggest improvements. To read their own writing aloud, to a group or the whole class, using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear. To use commas after fronted adverbials. To build sentences with varied topic specific vocabulary and structures. To proofread my work for spelling and punctuation errors. To read aloud using appropriate intonation, tone and volume. To develop characters, settings and plot in story writing.

Maths

To convert between different units of measure To measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear figure (including squares) in centimetres and metres To find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares To estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money in pounds and pence To read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12 and 24-hour clocks To solve problems involving converting from hours to

Core Learning activities Diary writing Newspaper writing Map designing Instruction writing Poetry writing Persuasive writing

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Durrington Infant and Junior Schools – Medium Term Plan minutes, minutes to seconds, years to months, weeks to days To interpret and present discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical methods, including bar charts and time graphs To solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in bar charts, pictograms, tables and other graphs.

Science

Computing

To identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating. To recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear. To find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it. To find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it. To recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases. To identify common appliances that run on electricity. To construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers. To identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery. To recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit.

Building and drawing circuits Build (Egyptian) instruments

To understand computer networks including the internet; how they can provide multiple services, such as the worldwide web; and the opportunities they offer for communication and collaboration. 3

Durrington Infant and Junior Schools – Medium Term Plan To use search technologies effectively, appreciate how results are selected and ranked, and be discerning in evaluating digital content.

History Geography

Art and design

To research events from the past. To locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities. To use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied. To explain geographical similarities and differences between regions (physical and human). To use the 8 points of a compass. To improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials.

Egyptian Life Howard Carter Egypt maps Nile

Egyptian God art Canopic Jars Hieroglyphs

Music

To play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression. To listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory.

Key2Music

P.E.

To take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team To compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best. To swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a

Rounders Outdoor Adventurous Activities Swimming

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Durrington Infant and Junior Schools – Medium Term Plan distance of at least 25 metres. To use a range of strokes effectively. To perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.

R.E.

To identify and begin to describe the similarities and differences between religions. To make links between different forms of religious expression and 
understand why they are important in religion, explaining how religious beliefs and teachings can be expressed in a variety of forms.

Egyptian Gods Christianity - Moses

PSHCE

To encourage students to accept responsibility for their behaviour, show initiative, and to understand how they can contribute positively to the lives of those living and working in the locality of the school and to society more widely.

Assemblies and circle time

Outdoor learning

To work as a team

Outdoor Adventurous Activities

Promoting British Values

To encourage students to accept responsibility for their behaviour, show initiative, and to understand how they can contribute positively to the lives of those living and working in the locality of the school and to society more widely. To encourage respect for democracy and support for participation in the democratic processes.

Egyptian values – linking to British values School rules

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