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Dove Holes C. of E. Primary School
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History / Geography / D&T / Computing / Science
Medium Term Planning
Class 2 (Y2,3,4) Spring 1, 2016 (Y2 of
Theme / Topic Area
Learning Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Suggested Content / Activities
History
Y3/4.
To learn about the lives of significant
individuals from the past (Charles Darwin)
LINK science and Literacy
They will know key events and the
significance of what Charles Darwin’s life
and work discovered.
Literacy work – non chronological report,
computing – research using search
technologies.
Y2: To design purposeful, functional
They will have looked at a range of products
available as bug and bird houses, designed,
made and evaluated their product against
design criteria.
Use Internet and resources in school,
discuss own experience / knowledge.
Sketch books. Group work.
Purchase balsa wood.
Make plans. Make house.
To learn about the lives of
significant individuals from the
past
Design & Technology
appealing products for themselves and other
users based on design criteria. To generate,
develop, model and communicate their ideas
through talking, and drawing, templates,
mock-ups and where appropriate ICT.
To select from and use a range of tools and
equipment to perform practical tasks. To
select from and use a wide range of materials
and components, including construction
materials according to their characteristics.To
evaluate their ideas and products against
design criteria.
Y3/4: To generate, develop, model and
communicate their ideas through discussion
and anootated sketches. To select from and
use a wider range of tools and equipment to
perform practical tasks. To select from and
use a wider range of materials and
components, according to their functional
properties and aesthetic qualities. To evaluate
their ideas and products against their own
design criteria and consider the views of
others to improve their work.
Geography
Locational Knowledge
Human & physical geography
Geographical skills
Y2 To use basicgeographical vocabulary to
refer to: key physical features, including
beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea,
ocean, river, valley, soil, vegetation, season
and weather.
They will know the meaning of the words
and where they may be found. They will
know which are visible from space or a
distance. They will know that vegetation is
influenced by climate and soil, and that
weather varies by season.
Link to space station.
What can be seen from space?
Infant talking atlas.
Discuss own experience.
Use maps, photos.
They will be able to explain what an
algorithm is and be able to give a clear,
ordered set of instructions, identifying
mistakes and correcting them.
They will have input text, added pictures,
changed and corrected text.
They will have used internet sources to
locate information for topic work.
Baking bread literacy activity – order.
They will know names of plants and
common creatures in local environments.
They will be able to describe structure of
flowering plants. They will have decomposed
flowers and used magnifying glasses or
microscopes to observe closely.
They will know that habitats / environments
influence life there and what habitats need to
provide for the prevailing life.
They will have grouped animals and plants
in different ways.
They will understand that environments
change over time and that this has an affect
on life.
Sort pictures.
Decompose plants.
Describe orally and in writing.
Bug hunt.
Homework.
Use nature books from shelf.
Y3/4 To name and locate key topographical
features inc. Hills, mountains, coasts and
rivers. To describe and understand key aspects
of physical geography including climate
zones, vegetation belts, rivers, mountains.
Computing
Algorithms
Write & Debug programmes.
Science
LINKS to geography and
Literacy
Plants
Living things and their
habitats
Y2: To understand what algorithms are, how
they are implemented as programmes on
digital devices, and that programs execute by
following precise and unambiguous
instructions. To create and debug simple
programmes.(not covered last term)
To use technology purposefully to create,
organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital
content.
Y3/4 To use search technologies effectively,
appreciate how results are selected and
ranked, and be discerning in evaluating digital
content.
To select, use and combine a variety of
software on a range of digital devices to create
content that accomplishes given goals.
Y2 To identify and name a variety of common
wild and garden plants, including deciduous
and evergreen trees. To identify and describe
the basic structure of a variety of common
flowering plants, including trees.
Y3/4 Explore & compare differences between
things that are living, dead, and things that
have never been alive. To identify that most
living things live in habitats to which they are
suited and describe how different habitats
provide for the basic needs of different kinds of
animals and plants, and how they depend on
each other. To identify and name a variety of
plants and animals in their habitats, including
micro-habitats.
Y4 To recognise that living things can be
grouped in a variety of ways. To recognise
that environments can change and that this
can sometimes pose dangers to living things.
Working Scientifically
Y2 To ask simple questions and recognise that
they can be answered in different ways.
To observe closely, using simple equipment.
To identify and classify.
Y3/4 To ask relevant questions and use
different types of scientific enquiries to answer
them. To gather, record, classify and present
data in a variety of ways to help in answering
questions. To report from findings from
enquiries, including oral and written
explanations, displays or presentations of
results and conclusions.
They will have decomposed a flowering
plant, used equipment for close
observations. They will have an
understanding of classification. They will
have asked questions about the plants,
investigated and reported in writing and
orally.