A detailed reading of both texts during which the children should develop the following skills:

• Read fluently, accurately and confidently from text
• Use inference and deduction to identify underlying themes
• Understand dramatic conventions (e.g. script layout, stage directions)
• Set out play script correctly
• Present a persuasive argument using paragraphs
• Write neat, well structured narrative, mainly correctly punctuated
• Speak to class clearly, confidently and audibly
• Answer questions speaking in sentences referring to text

Children should show a developing vocabulary and understanding of narrative in response to the texts.

You may find it useful to read the Novel version of ‘Bill’s New Frock’ with your child and discuss the themes and authors intentions

• Know the differences between solids and liquids
• Make observations of materials and use scientific vocabulary to explain these
• Know that observations and measurements may need to be repeated during investigations
• Know that soils have air trapped within them
• Use results to compare soils
• Know that there are many gases and that the are important to us
• Know that when liquids evaporate, gases are formed
• Know that solids maintain their shape
• Know that liquids take the shape of the container and flow to the lowest level
• Know that gases do not have a fixed shape or volume
• Be able to identify solids, liquids and gases
  

• Understand the limitations of paint packages for modelling
• Use an object based graphics program to manipulate shapes
• Create objects using geometric tools
• Copy and paste objects and use the group tool to make more complex objects
• Use graphical models to identify patterns and relationships
• Use a graphical model to plan improvements to the school
  

• Understand the message of the ‘Good Samaritan’ parable
• Reflect on why people might need to phone Samaritans for help
• Understand the Salvation Army’s influence on society & the Welfare State
• Understand the influence of the Quaker movement on our society
• Have an awareness of the needs of others
• Understand the influence of Muslim teaching in Arabia & the Muslim empire
• Understand why religious people sometimes fast
  

• Identify differences between rural and urban lifestyles
• Interpret evidence left from a wealthy person's manor house
• Understand some of the differences between rich and poor
• Identify common characteristics between Tudor society and our own
• Gain Understanding of some of the leisure pursuits of the period
• Contextualise the role of William Shakespeare as a play-write for the masses
  

• Be able to shade an object in different ways to illustrate light and dark areas
• Revise proportion
• Recognise various qualities of line in relationship to texture, form and pattern
• Analyse images to make observations and comparisons
• Understand the intentions of the artist in different examples of portraits
• Understand the emotive use of colour
• Use devices such as distortion to emphasise expressive effect
• Draw from an imagined scenario
  

• Dance – Tudor Dances
• Games: Football and Hockey
  

• Composing and performing
• Listening and appreciating
  

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