2. Meet the Teacher Evening Spring Term 2015

4. Topics for Spring Term   Traditional Tales   The Three Billy Goats Gruff   Jack and The Beanstalk   Little Red Riding Hood   The Three Little Pigs   The Gingerbread Man 2. Castles   Castle features   Defence and attack – how to protect your castle   Jobs around the castle   Kings, Queens and Knights – William the Conqueror   Jousting   Medieval feasts

5. P.S.E.D  Well being and cultural diversity  Look at Jack and the Beanstalk discuss characters being kind, stealing etc.  Discuss strangers in fairy tales – should we trust them?  Traditional Tales which go against gender stereotypes  Tales from different countries looking at same/different  Difference between lives in medieval times, rich and poor

6. Communication and Language  Reading and retelling traditional tales, retelling stories in their own words  Create re-enactments of stories, interviewing characters, hot seating  Looking at beginning, middle and ends of stories ends of stories  Retell a different ending – the Gingerbread man gets away…… Gingerbread man gets away……  Taking messages to castles  Story telling – the jester, troubadours and minstrels

7. Physical Development  P.E in hall travelling in different ways, animals, royal people, Billy goats etc.  Looking at slow/fast movements  Knights and tournaments, games linked to hawking and hunting  What’s the time Mr Wolf?  Team games  Food for Saints and festival days  Keeping well then and now, medicines  Handwriting quills and pencils

8. Literacy Story structure Story structure  Writing about creatures such as goblins, elves, giants, trolls, leprechauns, witches, and wizards.  Writing in full sentences, capital letters, full stops, finger spaces and letter formation  Phonics – groups, Phase 3, blending – homework  Reading – for pleasure – fluency – practise – using phonic knowledge  Letters from crusades, parchment/scrolls  Story plans – a problem and resolution

9. Mathematics  Calculation – counting all, counting on, symbols, taking away, number sentences, number bonds.  Looking at size measuring (beanstalk) from non-standard to metric.  Discuss numbers in traditional tales, 7 dwarves, 3 pigs, 3 bears - making sets of - repeated addition  Money, (gold coins), time, (day in a castle) and 3D shapes, (building of castles)

10. Understanding the World  Growth and plant care – grow own beanstalk  Testing strength of materials – the 3 pig’s houses  Maps – journeys Red Riding Hood   Use the internet and books to find images of castles   Use a paint program to design a castle   How have castles changed? Look at different castles.   People who used to live in castles.   What life was like? Feasting   Comparing dragons in tales to Chinese dragons

11. Expressive Arts and Design  Modelling using reclaimed materials  Colour changing, wax resistance, weaving  Design own castle and shield for a knight, making a sweetie house (Hansel and Gretel)  Creating scaly dragons, salt/tea leaves and lemon  Medieval music  Soldiers – keeping a good beat on drums  Making ‘abracadabra’ wand music  Dance - Into the castle, greensleeves - medieval dancing

12. Spring Term  R.E. Bible stories, the Easter story, different faiths  Mother’s Day celebration  Easter