Literacy:

Reading

Know how to access and use a range of resources to find information.

Know and understand the purposes of a persuasive text.

Evaluate advertisements  as a form of persuasive writing for their impact, appeal and honesty, focusing in particular on how information about the product is presented: exaggerated claims, tactics for grabbing attention, linguistic devices, e.g. puns, jingles, alliteration, invented words.

Writing

Summarise in writing the key ideas from a paragraph or chapter.

Improve the cohesion of written texts by organising information into paragraphs.

Write poetry based on the structure and style of poems read.

Design an advertisement, such as a poster or radio jingle on paper or screen, e.g. for a school fete or an imaginary product, making use of linguistic and other features learnt from reading examples.

Choose and combine words, images and other features for particular effects with the aim of persuading an audience.

Use a neat, joined and legible handwriting style consistently across the curriculum.

Use ICT for drafting and revising as well as producing a finished piece.

Use layout, format, graphics and illustrations for different purposes.

Develop speed and accuracy when typing.

Sentence Construction and punctuation

Identify the common punctuation marks including commas, semi-colons, colons, dashes, hyphens, speech marks and respond to them appropriately when reading

Understand how the grammar of a sentence alters when the sentence type is altered, when, e.g. a statement is made into a question, a question becomes an order, a positive statement is made negative, taking note of:

• the order of words/verb tenses
• additions and/or deletions of words
• changes to punctuation.

Use adverbs and conjunctions to establish cohesion within paragraphs.

World Around Us

Through the topic of The Terrifically Terrible Tudors we will learn:

Geography

• About the location, size, shape and use of common landscape features (P, I, COT)
• To recognise places and features, local and global, on a plan, map or photograph (P)
• To use standard references e.g. Globe, Atlas (P)

History

• To identify characteristics of a specific time period e.g. changes in transport/communications/ inventions (I, COT)
• To investigate how people used to live, including roles and responsibilities in society, and how these have changed (I, COT)
• To recognise that local/global events in the past have helped shape who we are and how we live today (I & P)
• Identify some buildings which have been used for different purposes in the past (P, COT)

Science and Technology

• That some materials will dissolve in water, others will not (COT)

• That some changes are reversible or irreversible, desirable or undesirable(COT)
• That a complete circuit is needed for electricity to travel (M&E)
• To recognise properties of materials including strength, flexibility, transparency, waterproofing, hardness/softness, conductor/insulator, magnetism and how these affect their use (I, P)

Using ICT

Understand how to keep safe on the Internet and display acceptable online behaviour.

Explore: Carry out a series of instructions using a digital device or environment.

Express: Create and edit text onscreen, combining images and/or sound.

Exchange: Identify and talk about ways of communicating digitally.

Evaluate: Talk about how to improve their work

Exhibit: Save their work.

Complete CCEA Task-  Design a Leaflet Part 1. (Explore 1, Express, Evaluate, Exhibit)  Desirable Features: Desktop Publishing.  Children will use Microsoft Publisher to produce a single-fold leaflet.  They will select and insert appropriate images and position them correctly.  Insert appropriate text making sure that punctuation and spelling is correct.  Make changes to work if they need to. Save work giving it a suitable file name.