1. Our Mysterious World
Learning Journeys

2. English: Kensuke’s Kingdom
Desert Island survival- Draw map and create instructions
Letter writing- Michael’s trip including places top trumps.
Haiku poems linked to water and stars
Japanese
Grammar
Discuss ambitious vocabulary
Complex sentences
Connectives
I, Kensuke. What do we know about him?
Discuss reasons for and against journey using connectives
Report writing- Jellyfish
Characters and Settings. What do we know about them?
Ending. Review our thoughts and themes in book.
Discuss reasons for staying or reasons leaving the island.
Cross Curricular links- Hokusui Paintings, Volcanoes, Hiroshima bomb, the last Japanese story

3. English: Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation
–cious word (y6), -tious words. ea words y5
Spelling
3. –ant –ent words (y6) ea words (y5)
5 –ough, ought and aught. ee words (y5)
2. –cial, -tial words (y6) - ea words (y5)
4. –ance – ence words (y6) ee words
6. –ance – ence words (y6)
Long e (y5)
Grammar
1.Standard English.
4. Connections
6. Direct and reported speech
2. Nouns, pro nouns, verbs, adverbs.
5. Complex sentences
7. L5 punctuation
3. Active and passive sentences

4. Maths: 1st half of Autumn Tern
Written Maths
Mental Maths
Read write and compare 5,6,7,digit numbers.
Doubling and halving to x4 x 8.
Strategies to x by 20,25 and 9
Maths: 1st half of Autumn Tern
Understand decimals
Number bonds, mental addition and subtraction
Multiply and divide by 10,100,1000.
Time- 24hr, finding time intervals
Times table practice
Measures- including area and perimeter
Mental time and measure problems
Subtraction and Addition methods
Weekly puzzles
Mental money problems
Use mathematical reasoning to investigste

5. Science: What is mysterious?
How are stars made? Tom S
What are the Northern Lights? Jake B and Jake W
Why do eclipses happen? Henry
How do waterfalls form? Ella
How are rainbows formed? Sophie
What killed the dinosaurs? Rex and Oliver
How are volcanoes made? Oliver and Sam
Why do animals have different features? Many people!
How do birds fly? Evie.

6. English- Kensuke’s Kingdom/Private Peaceful (Michael Morpurgo)
Reading activities- Discuss characters, settings, language, plot and predictions. Groups to read and compare other Morpurgo texts.
Text types- Poetry, non- chronological reports, personal letters, instructions, newspaper reports, character descriptions, stories.
Grammar and Spelling- Developing vocabulary through word classes, sentence structure, connectives, Standard English, complex punctuation. Suffixes and ea/ee spellings.
Maths
Mental-Doubling and halving (4x, 8x, ) Strategies to x by 20,25,9. Number bonds, addition and subtraction, time tables, time, measure and money. Negative numbers
Written- Place value, decimals, multiply and divide by 10,100 and Time, measure and money. Written methods for subtraction and addition, multiplication and division. Fractions, ratio and proportion, 2d and 3d shape. Weekly puzzles.
Our Mysterious World
Topic Web
Science
(topics raised by children)
Variation in animals, light (northern lights, rainbows, stars, eclipses) Why did the dinosaurs die?
Computing- Networks, internet (history, uses, safety, programing
RE- Sacred texts, friendship
Music- Listening, composition and by playing the Ukulele,
French-
P.E- Basic skills, indoor athletics and gymnastics
Art/D.T- Key skills/techniques, African art creating a volcano and maybe own stone circle!!
History/Geography (some topics raised by children)
Seas and oceans, WW1, Japan, Volcanoes, Freak weather, stone circles

7. History/Geography: What is mysterious?
Where are the worlds volcanoes?
How did the pyramids get built?
What is the Bermuda Triangle?
Why did they drop the bomb?
What happened to the forgotten soldier of Japan?
Who built Stonehenge and other stone circles? Henry , Jake, Ewan, Lauren
What causes Tsunamis? Jess
Where in the world can you go in a boat?
What causes lightning and freak weather? .

8. Measures/Time/Money
Pre Test- Linking converting units of measure to multiplying and dividing by 10,100,100
How do I read scales accurately?
How can I tell the time in 12 hr and 24hr?
What are the units of measure and can I convert between them?
How do I work with problems with time and timetables?
How can I work out problems with measures
How do I work out mixed measures problems?
Re test-Pre test (Time/Money)
Test- Money and Time
How do I work with problems associated with money?

9. Computing Spelling Grammar –cious word (y6), -tious words. ea words y5
3. –ant –ent words (y6) ea words (y5)
5 –ough, ought and aught. ee words (y5)
2. –cial, -tial words (y6) - ea words (y5)
4. –ance – ence words (y6) ee words
6. –ance – ence words (y6)
Long e (y5)
Grammar
1.Standard English.
4. Connections
6. Direct and reported speech
2. Nouns, pro nouns, verbs, adverbs.
5. Complex sentences
7. L5 punctuation
3. Active and passive sentences