Woodpeckers Class

Autumn

Science – Living Things

• Explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive.Identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, by mapping a habitat and identifying its inhabitants.
• Identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats
• Gather and record data to help in answering questions by investigating the preferred habitat of minibeasts.
• 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, by researching habitats and the animals that live in them.

History – Great Fire of London

• Develop an awareness of the past in the context of comparing present-day London to the London that existed before 1666.
• Identify differences and similarities between ways of life in different periods in the context of comparing present day living to how people of London lived during 1666.
• Know and understand key features of an event beyond living memory that are nationally significant in the context of finding out about the Great Fire of London and how it started.
• To understand key features of events, choosing and using parts of stories and asking and answering questions through discussing and thinking of the ways in which London was changed and rebuilt after the Great Fire.

Art & Design and Technology – Lowry

• The work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines in the context of comparing works by LS Lowry.
• Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space in the context of painting a seascape.
• Print a background.
• Draw buildings to use in my Lowry City Collage.
• Draw matchstick figures.

P.E. – Multi-skills

• Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities.
• Move with a ball.
• Use space when passing and receiving in a game.
• Use throwing and catching to pass and receive the ball in a game.
• Participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending.
• Apply specific skills to an invasion game and to follow rules to play a game.

Dance

• Perform dances using simple movement patterns.
• Change the speed, weight and size of my movement
• Dance in different formations
• Move in response to stimuli.
• Move to a rhythm.
• Synchronise movement in different formations

Computing – Computer Skills

• Using a Mouse or Track pad.
• Switch on & Shutdown.
• Applications & Windows
• Dragging Objects.
• Using our Computer Skills.