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Shang! Tang! Ming! Part 1
Year group: 3/4
Class: Cashmere
Term: 3
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
English
Maths
See Goat Lees maths
curriculum (purple file)
Science
See Kent Science scheme of
Year 3– Light
Year 4 – State of matter
Stunning start:
Terracotta warriors –
what were they? Link to
Qin Shi Huang di the first
Emperor of China
http://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=Xkxv-uVysv8
Create clay version to add
to class display. What I
know…what I want to
know in books.
Timeline – to find out
where China is and where
the Shang dynasty ruled.
Labelling maps of China
looking at the landscape
features as well as
historical rule. HT
timeline lesson 1.
PSHCE – Positive Action
research project
RE – Yr 3 Christianity
parables. Yr 4 Christianity
- churches
Topic 1
Topic 2
PSHCE/RE
Art / DT
Computing
PE
See Goat Lees maths
curriculum (purple file)
See Goat Lees maths
curriculum (purple file)
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Shang Dynasty – Warfare. Hot
seating HT lesson 1. Game playing
to explore armies HT lesson 2.
Dairy entry being a warrior.
See Goat Lees maths curriculum
(purple file)
Shang Dynasty – Warfare. Drama – The battle of
Muye. HT lesson 3 and 4 - Writing to follow from this.
See Goat Lees maths
curriculum (purple file)
See Goat Lees maths
curriculum (purple file)
Writing and the Shang calendar.
Learn some Chinese characters
and write their name using these.
Explain how the writing works and
learn to say some mandarin.
Surname goes first. Children will
create their own dictionary from
resource provided. HT trust lesson
1.
Writing and the Shang
calendar. Learn how and
why people in Shang
dynasty made calendars.
Explain how the calendars
worked. You might need
some support from some
year 5/6 children to
support with using
protractor and compass.
HT trust lesson 3.
Catch up session if
needed.
Marvellous middle –
whole day event.
Find out about bronze
vessels, sketch design,
create own and then
use this to explore the
casting process using
clay and jelly etc. See
Hamilton Trust lesson.
Music express
Music express
work in staff shared area.
Timeline – create a timeline
of the Shang dynasty. Link to
maths with negative numbers.
Work out how long ago the
Shang dynasty existed; create
a timeline of CE dynasties.
Create a timeline of BCE
Shang dynasty. HT timeline
lesson 2.
Farming and food – explore
how food was grown and
processed in the Shang
dynasty. Recreate irrigation
farming of Shang Dynasty in
miniature, using compost,
clay and gravel. Children
create a river and plant seeds
in groups.
HT trust lesson 1.
Timeline –evaluate the
reliability of different sources
about the Shang. Research
questions in texts & online
historical topic. Learn to
distinguish - fact &opinion.
Use of a research template.
HT timeline lesson 3.
PSHCE – Positive Action
research project
RE – Yr 3 Christianity parables
– favourite places. Yr 4
Christianity, churches
Farming and food – learn
Writing and the Shang calendar.
about silk worms. Describe
Learn how and why people in the
how silk is made from silk
Dynasty wrote. Researching
worms and explain some of
writing found on oracle bones. HT
the methods of Shang
trust lesson 2.
farmers. Link to science
learning – life cycles.
HT trust lesson 3.
PSHCE – Positive Action
PSHCE – Positive Action research
PSHCE – Positive Action
PSHCE – Positive Action
research project
project
research project
research project
RE –Yr 3 Christianity parables. RE – yr 3 Christianity parables. Yr
RE – Yr 3 Christianity
RE – Yr 3 Christianity
Honest and Fair. Yr 4
4 church buildings
parables. Yr 4 Christianity parables. Yr 4
Christianity churches and
last Supper
Christianity communion
community
and Eucharist
Food technology Year 3 adapting a recipe and making healthier snacks. See separate planning.
Year 4 – light bites, plan and make their own hot snack.
Year 3 – E-safety and then We are presenters – Rising Stars *Using digital devices
Year 4 – E-safety and then We are meteorologists – Rising Stars *Ways of measuring weather *Recording weather – link to skills in year 3 data loggers *Look at weather data, predict.
*Prepare and present own weather forecasts
Indoor – dance – Indian Katak
Outdoor – Year 3 - batting skills and Football. See year group skills and activities list in Curriculum resource area.
Music
Music express
French
Year 3 & Year 4 – see Karine’s separate planning
Trips/ entry
point
Stunning start – children find out about the terracotta warriors and make own versions with clay.
Marvellous middle – See Hamilton trust planning - Technology
Epic ending– Hold an Indian and Chinese feast to sample the different flavours. Which do they prefer and why? Play Mah jong.
Geography – Locational knowledge, locating the worlds countries, physical characteristics. Physical Geography – climate zones, rivers and mountains. Geographical skills – using maps,
atlases and globes.
History – learn about the achievements of Earliest civilizations – The Shang Dynasty of China.
NC 2014
links
Music express
Music express
Music express