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‘Africa’

Literacy

Stories from the African culture and poetry

Stories with patterned language and alliteration

Character studies – Masai and I

Story mapping and retelling – Handa’s surprise

Instructions to make banana fritters

African folktales – predicting, comparing heros

Animal riddles, animal fact cards

Non chronological reports – animals

Letter writing

Persuasive posters

Letters and sounds Phase 2, 3 and 5

Numeracy

Partitioning numbers into tens and ones

Ordering numbers and placing on number line

Counting on and back in steps of 10

Doubling and halving

Adding and subtracting multiples of 10

Addition and subtraction

Finding the inverse operation

Pairs of numbers to 10

Addition facts for numbers to at least 5

Repeat patterns – continuing, spotting mistakes

Describing and sorting shapes

Measures – weight, capacity and length

Block graphs

Science

Planting corn – predicting

Using senses to investigate African fruits – look at

flesh, count seeds, plant seeds, taste etc

African habitats – Savannah – wild life and vegetation

Sorting wild life into groups – comparing and

contrasting

African animal food chains

Predator/prey relationships

Animal’s use of camouflage for protection

Animal’s use of senses for protection

Investigating how to enhance our hearing

Art/DT

Using a range of materials creatively.

African patterns – acrylic paint

Adinkra printing onto fabric

Making banana fritters

Print using corn, maize field collages

Earth toned chalk pastel patterns

3D cardboard box animals

Savannah collages

Sunset painting

Animal wooden spoon puppets

Collage of African city skyline

ICT

Early Essentials – paint a maize field

Create own version of Jackson Pollock’s

‘Yellow Islands’

Early Essentials – paint a sunset picture

Softease – create a suitable habitat

around a clipart animal

Comic life – tourist poster

Geography/History

Learn how village life in rural Africa differs to

life in Blackpool.

African artefacts and photos

Locate continent of Africa on globe

Wateraid

Animal conservation

Savannah landscape

African cities and slums

Tourism

RE

Stories with meaning

Learning about values and behaviour

through reading stories.

To know that religions often use stories as a

way of teaching followers.

To know that Jesus used stories to teach.

To be able to identify events in their lives

that are similar to those in stories.

To be able to think about how they would

have responded in a similar situation.

PE

Dance- traveling pathways and space

awareness. Travelling in different

directions.

Music

Exploring instruments and symbols

Identify sounds made by different

instruments

Create controlled sounds on

instruments

Perform with others

Follow musical instruction

Change sounds

Organise sounds in different ways

PSHE & SEAL

Wateraid

Poverty in Africa

Animal conservation

Zoos – good or bad?

Relationships

Year 1/ 2