Medium Term Planning: Journey to the River Sea (Amazon River)  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
                   Read Journey to the River Sea       English                                                                                                                                Art and DT 
                    (Eva Ibbotson).                                                                              Cross curricular writing                                    Large class collage of the 4 layers of the                                                  Computing  
                                                                 
                   Children to write a letter in role                                                                    Geography – Studying the                           rainforest                                                                 Roamer – create routes around the 
                    of Mia to her old teacher in                         Planning and writing a ‘How                      Rainforest – Ask pupils to                        Study Henri Rousseau’s rainforest paintings.                                rainforest 
                    England.                                              did...’ tale for a rainforest                    research one of the plants of                     Create own painting in Rousseau’s style. 
                   Children to plan and write a                          animal.                                          animals mentioned in the book                     Making dye from natural ingredients to dye cloth                           Use graphs to present information 
                    continuation of a story.                             What am I riddles?                               and produce a information                         Create Mola art                                                             about rainforest climates 
                   Poetry based on The Amazon                           Newspaper report writing –                       booket/leaflet on it.                             Exploring types of moving mechanisms used in                               Creating multimedia presentations 
                    Rainforest.                                           eg new species discovered,                      Instructions – written ‘How to                     books, such as sliders, rotating wheels, pop-ups,                           about rainforest animals, including the 
                   Look at a selection of poems                          more rainforests destroyed.                      make natural dye’                                 - Using a variety of techniques to design, make                             use of sound 
                    about forests                                        Write descriptions of the                       Presentation – video                               and evaluate a moving picture about the 
                   Explored narrative hooks and                          rainforest.                                      ‘Explanation of the water                          rainforest. 
                    character, setting and mood.                         -Identifying glossaries and                      cycle’                                                                                                                
                                                                          learning how to construct                       Environmental posters 
                                                                          them                                                                                      History                                                                     Geography 
                                                                                                                                                                             Learn about the live of indigenous tribes in the   
                                                                                                                                                                              Amazon – homes, food, daily life, headdresses    
                                                                  Mathematics                                                                                                 and face painting, medicine                                           Locate equator, tropics or Cancer and Capricorn 
               Y4                                                 Y5                                                   Y4 and 5                                                                                                                      and rainforests on world map. 
                   Using all four operations to solve                Fractions, decimals and                                                                                                                                                      Understand the climate and structure of the 
                    problems involving measure.                        percentages                                     Problem solving and                                                                                                           rainforest. 
                   Multiplying 2 and 3 digit                         translations of 2D shapes,                      investigations.                                                                                                              Research sources of rivers and track the flow of 
                    numbers by a 1 digit number.                       reflections of shapes in the y                                                                                                                                                the river Amazon 
                   Time – 12 and 24 hour clock                        axis, plotting coordinates of                                                                                                                                                Take part in a river walk 
                   Roman numerals up to 100                           shapes in first 2 quadrants                                                                                                                                                  Water Cycle  
                   Read, write and compare 4 and                     Adding and subtracting 5 digit                                                                                                                                                 
                    5 digit numbers                                    numbers using compact                                                                                     Modern      Languages                                          Music 
                   Find the area and perimeter of                     written methods                                                                                                                                                                   Identify the musical elements (and be able to 
                    rectilinear shapes                                Reading timetables and 24                                                                                                                                                          define them)  
                   Fractions and decimals                             hour clock                                                                                                   Colours                                                    dynamics (loud and quiet);  
                   2D and 3D shapes                                  Roman numerals up to 1000                                                                                    Counting to 50                                                      Explore and discover sound makers in the 
                   interpret and present data using                  Area and perimeter using                                                                                     Sport                                                                environment (including own body and voice) 
                    time/bar graphs.                                   calculation.                                                                                                 Clothes                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                                    What would you like? French Café    
               Science                                                                   PHSCE                                                                                                                                                           Choir (Perpetuum Jazzile) create a rainstorm 
                                                                                         Destruction of the rainforest and effects on indigenous                                                                                                          with hands  
                   identify and name a variety of living things (plants and animals)                                                                                                                                                            
                    using classification keys to assign them to groups                   people, plants, animals and world                                                     
                   Learn how rainforest plants have adapted to life in the                       Coping with change and new situations                                                                                                         
                    rainforest.                                                                   Preconceived ideas and Misconceptions                                                                                                         
                   Investigation to find out if plants need leaves to grow                                                                                                                                                                      
                   To gain basic understanding of photosynthesis Investigate                      When the other girls in the Story ‘Journey to                                                                                                 
                    effect of light on plant growth – 4 layers of the rainforest                   the River Sea’  discuss what they have found                                                                                                  
                   Explain the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an                     out about the Amazon, how does this differ 
                    amphibian, an insect and a bird  describe the life process of                  from what Maia actually experiences? Are                                      Physical                     Education                         Religious Education  
                    reproduction in some plants and animals.                                       there certain countries that are portrayed 
                   Recognise that environments can change and that this can                       unfairly by the media? What misconceptions                                          Swimming                                                 
                    sometimes pose dangers to living things.                                                                                                                          Athletics                                                 
                   Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying                  can we have about other people? Discuss the                                        Tennis  
                    producers, predators and prey..                                                phrase, ‘Do not judge a book by its cover’                                                                                                     Why are some places and journeys special? 
                   Y5 Describe the changes as humans develop from birthto old                                                                                                                                                                  This unit explores the special journeys that 
                    age                                                                                                                                                                                                                         people make.   
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
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