Spring - Looking after our environment |
Literacy
- Narrative – stories linked to environmental issues
- Non-chronological reports – factual information about forms of global pollution
- Arguments – linked to environmental issues
- Journalistic writing – creating a newspaper/ magazine linked to environmental issues
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Mathematics
- Handling data and measures
- Calculating, measuring and understanding shape
- Securing number facts
- Counting, partitioning and calculating
Design and Technology
Make a bird or squirrel feeder |
Science
- Plants and animals in the local environment (using keys to identify animals, food chains, how animals adapt to their environment, life cycle of plants, role of leaf and root
- Micro-organisms, separating mixtures
- Properties of materials, grouping and classifying materials
- Chemical changes
- The water cycle
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Geography
- How healthy and diverse is our local environment?
- Collection and testing of water and soil samples (purification of water)
- Lessening our carbon footprint
- Global Pollution
- Link with children in Peru
- Impact on environment of global transportation of goods
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PE
- First half - Gymnastics and invasion games
- Second half – Gymnastics and net/wall games
RE
Modern Foreign Language
French (following the Torbay scheme of work for Y6) |
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Music
Composing music linked to either animals in local environment or linked to pollution.
ICT
Desktop publishing of environmental magazine/ newspaper
PSHCE
- Developing confidence and responsibility
- Preparing to play an active role as citizens
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