1. Year 4: Victorians Sound
English texts/video stimulus:
Reading comprehension Queen Victoria
Reading comprehension –Victorian child labour
Street child-class read/whole class comprehension
English Writing Opportunities:
Diary entry-Street Child
Fact file-Child labour
Victorian handwriting lessons
Social, Moral, Spiritual and cultural links:
What were the Victorians morals?
Chidlren’srihts now and in Victorian times, and they have changed.
What Queen victoria believed in.
Explore people who helped chidlren, like Barnados.
Art and Design:
Find out about Victorian artists like William Morris, and recreate some art work, use and explore Victorian pens (quills, calligraphy etc).
Explore, investigate and experiment from a range of stimuli and starting points, roles,
techniques, approaches, materials and media.
Design and Technology:
Industrial revolution
Reflect and Evaluate
Reflect on and evaluate evidence when making personal choices or bringing about improvements in performance and behaviour.
Year 4: Victorians
OliverTwist
Science:
Sound
Observe and explore to generate ideas, define problems and pose questions in order to develop investigations and products.
Engage safely in practical investigations and experiments and gather and record evidence by observation and measurement.
Mathematics:
Chronological order
Time (over 24 hour period)
Computing:
Searching
Websites
Databases
Developing ideas and making things happen
Graphics
Text
Multimedia
Communication
Tennis
Outdoor learning
Music:
Ukulele
Recorders
Famous People:
Queen Victoria
Thomas Barnardo
William Morris
Charles Darwin
Charles Dickens
Visits:
Blists Hill
Geography:
British Empire
History
Create a ‘green Screen’ to explore the important events in Victorians, create an information book about the Victorian era, find out about: schools, clothing, food, children’s lives, houses and transport, and the monarchy.
Experience a school day for a Victorian child
Compare, interpret and analyse different types of evidence from a range of sources.
Compare, interpret and analyse different types of evidence from a range of sources.
PE:
Languages:
Languages week-focus on being taught by governess in rich households