Lower Key Stage 2

Frenchwood Community Primary School – Parent Overview 

This is what your child will be learning this half term? 

Cycle B 

Y3/4 

Spring 1 

English 

Children will be reading and enjoying the story on a theme, Stig of the Dump by Clive King. After practising using complex sentences, children will a narrative based on the plot. Later in the term, children will work collaboratively to write and rehearse a discussion / debate. 

Maths 

Y3 

Place value. Addition and subtraction 

Multiplication/ Division 

Fractions 

Volume, capacity and mass NFER 

Y4 

Place value 

Multiplication 

Division 

Addition and subtraction 

Fractions NFER 

Science 

Rocks  

Your child will Compare and group together different kinds of rock based on their appearance and simple physical properties. Children will describe how fossils are formed and  

Classify accordingly. Children will investigate hardness and absorbency. Children will conduct a soil separation investigation. Further to this, children will research Mary Anning.   

PE 

Indoor - Dance Rock and Roll 

Outdoor - OAA – Team Work and Problem Solving 

History 

Geography 

Iron age forts 

Children will learn all about the Iron Age. Using artefacts and secondary sources of information, we will look at life in that period and how it contrasts will modern living. Children will look at the tools and materials that were used in the Iron Age and the structures of that time such as forts. 

Reading   The Stolen Spear                    Enrichment Iron Age Museum display 

Computing 

• Information technology 

• Creating media – photo editing 

• Online safety 

• Project evolve 

Art or DT 

Electrical systems: Torches Applying their scientific understanding of electrical circuits, children create a torch, designing and evaluating their product against set design criteria. 

PSHE 

Dreams and Goals  

• Know what their own hopes and dreams are 

• Know that hopes and dreams don’t always come true 

• Know that reflecting on positive/happy experiences can help to counteract disappointment 

• Know how to make a new plan and set new goals even if they have been disappointed 

• Know how to work out the steps they need to take to achieve a goal 

• Know how to work as part of a successful group 

• Know how to share in the success of a group 

Music 

Charanga – Lean on me by Bill Withers 

Theme: Soul/Gospel  

Children will play instrumental parts with the song by ear and/or from notation. They will also improvise a melody 

RE 

Christianity – This term we will be learning about the followers of Jesus (the disciples) and how Christians try to follow the example of Jesus too. 

MFL 

Ancient Britain in Spanish.  

• Use the Spanish for “I am” (soy), “I have” (tengo) and “I live” (vivo).  

• Name in Spanish, the 6 key periods of ancient Britain, introduced in chronological order.  

• Be able to say in Spanish 3 of the types of people who lived in Ancient Britain. 

• Tell somebody in Spanish the 3 key hunting tools used during the stone age, bronze age and iron age in ancient Britain.  

• Name the 3 types of dwellings people lived in during the stone age, bronze age and iron age