The Widcombe Offer

  1. The BIG Idea 
  2. The Knowledge Box
  3. The Enquiry Questions
  4. The Learning Offer
  5. The Polished Products
  6. The Medium Term Plan
  7. The Planning Journey

 

  Autumn Spring Summer
Year 3

Explorers

Machines Digging up the Past
Year 4

Jungle Fever

We can be Heroes! Lasting Legacies
Year 5

A Magic Carpet Ride

The Land of the Rising Sun Breaking Boundaries
Year 6

Migration

Peace & Conflict Identity

 

Example of Medium Term Planning

Year: Year 4 Term: 1 + 2 Theme: Jungle Fever
The Big Idea

To understand the global significance of tropical rainforests. To understand the reciprocal relationship between the natural world and humans. 

 

 

The Knowledge Box
National Curriculum Objectives Facts Vocabulary

Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical characteristics, countries, and major cities.

 

Identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.

 

Understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of the United Kingdom and a region within South America.

 

Describe and understand key aspects of:

Physical geography, including: climate zones, and rivers. 

 

Human geography, including: land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water.

 

Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied

 

Use fieldwork to observe, record and present the human and physical features in the local area using a range of methods, including sketch maps, plans and graphs, and digital technologies.

Amazon largest rainforest in the world 2.58 million square miles.

 

The Amazon river is 6,400km long – second longest in the world.

 

20% of the World’s Oxygen is produced in the Amazon rainforest.

 

The forest is so dense that rain falling from the canopy can take up to 10 minutes to reach the ground. 

 

It takes 400 cocoa beans to make a pound of chocolate 

 

In Britain, we eat an estimated 660,900 tonnes of chocolate a year. 

 

70% of the World’s cocoa comes from West-Africa.

 

50% of products in a weekly supermarket shop contain palm oil. 

 

Each individual piece of fruit from the palm tree contains 50% oil and can be harvested all year round.

 

Palms can grow between 8 and 20 metres high.

Canopy – The second highest layer of the rainforest which forms a roof

 

Climate zones - Where different weather patterns are known

 

Confluence – The point where a tributary joins 

 

Delta – A small island created by deposited material (soil) 

 

Emergent layer  - The top layer of the rainforest lots of sunlight

 

Equator – A line around the earth separating the northern and southern hemispheres 

 

Fairtrade – Agreements made so that producers in under developed countries are paid a fair price

 

Floodplain – Area of flat land either side, likely to flood. 

 

Forest floor– The floor of the forest where it is very dark and very few plants grow

 

Groundwater– Rain that soaks into the ground. 

 

Meander – Flowing in a winding, curving course

 

Mouth – The place where a river meets the sea. 

 

Ox-bow lake– A lake created when a meander is cut off.

 

River – A large natural stream of water. 

 

Source – The beginning of a river. 

 

Spring – Groundwater that comes up to the surface. 

 

Stream – A small river. 

 

Sustainable– Able to be maintained at a certain level

 

Tributary – A stream or river that joins another river. 

 

Understorey  - The second lowest layer of the rainforest, little sunshine lots of animals

 

The Enquiry Question The Learning Offer The Polished Product

Do we need rainforests?


Why are they important?

 

Are they in danger?

What can we do to save them?

 

Can palm oil be produced in a sustainable way?
 

What is palm oil?

Where can palm oil be found?
 

Can chocolate be traded ethically and fairly?


How are chocolate products made?

Where does cocoa come from?
 

How do you transform cocoa bean into chocolate

 

Texts – Charlie and chocolate factory, Multicultural stories form the Amazon, and various non-fiction texts (palm oil). 

 

Wow day (Samba Workshop, Nature doc, Tropical bird drawings, top trumps rainforest and Rice and beans cooked on fire). 

 

Visitors and trips - Samba workshop, chocolate workshop and river walk.  

 

Artist - Romero Britto (Brazilian Artist)

 

DT project – beanie frogs

 

Local to global

Outdoors – river walk 

 

Debate Question – Should palm oil be banned? 

 

Performing arts – Samba workshop, 

 

Published book of Amazon traditional story

 

Pop Art Romero Britto bright drawings

 

Bean bag frogs

 

DT- design and create Poison Dart Frog

 

Missing chapter of Charlie and the Chocolate factory

 

Shoebox river diorama 

Samba collective piece of music

 

 

Curriculum Area Weeks 1-5 Weeks 6-9 Weeks 10-15
       
Enquiry Question Do we need Rainforests? Can Palm Oil be produced in a sustainable way? Can Chocolate be traded ethically and fairly?
English

Poetry - Haikus

 

Stories from Amazon cultures – narrative focussed on setting.

Balanced argument (letter to supermarket)

Missing chapter Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Narrative – action) 

Maths Scheme of Work Scheme of Work Scheme of Work
SPAG See Scheme of Work – Read, write inc. spelling See Scheme of Work – Read, write inc. spelling See Scheme of Work – Read, write inc. spelling
Science

Sound

Observe and name a variety of sources of sound, noticing that we hear with our ears

 

Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating.

 

Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases.

 

Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it.

 

Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it.

 

Investigative skills.

Sound/Electricity

 

Electricity

Identify common appliances that run on electricity.

 

Construct a simple series circuit.

 

Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit based on whether or not a lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery.

 

Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit.

 

Recognise some common conductors and insulators and associate metals with being good conductors.

Geography/History

Amazon

Layers of the rainforest

 

Climate Zones (polar, desert, temperate and tropical). 

 

To identify the tropical zone on a map

Indonesia

Indonesian way of life

 

Indonisia is the biggest producer of palm oil in the world

 

How is it made?

 

Palm oil can be made sustainably

 

History of palm oil

 

Indonesian study (history, island, rainforests and why they are special, animals, culture, religion, attractions and volcanoes).

Climate Change

Excess CO2 is causing the temperature of the planet to rise

 

Polar ice caps melting causing sea levels to rise

DT

Diorama

To make labelling drawings from different views showing specific features.

 

To measure, mark out, cut and shape a range of materials, using appropriate tools, equipment and techniques.

 

To evaluate their work both during and at the end of the assignment.

Frog Beanie

To evaluate products and identify criteria that can be used for their own designs.

 

To measure, mark out, cut and shape a range of materials, using appropriate tools, equipment and techniques.

 

To join combine materials and components accurately in temporary and permanent ways.

 

To evaluate their work both during and at the end of the assignment.

 

Chocolate Wrappers

To generate ideas, considering the purposes for which they are designing.

 

To make labelling drawings from different views showing specific features.

 

To evaluate products and identify criteria that can be used for their own designs.

To measure, mark out, cut and shape a range of materials, using appropriate tools, equipment and techniques.

To use simple graphical communications techniques.

To evaluate their work both during and at the end of the assignment.

To evaluate their products carrying out appropriate tests.
Computing     Code a program to make a Chocolate factory.
Performing arts Samba Workshop Debate. Pros and cons for oral debate: Should we ban palm oil? Acting out of new chapter for Charlie and the Chocolate factory.
PE Netball Gymnastics Circuit Training
RE Christianity: Gospel Christianity: Gospel Why do Religious books matter?
PSHE

New Beginnings 

Good to be me

Consequences and Responsibility

Trying new things

Resilience

Kindness

Getting on and Falling Out

Road Safety

Anti-Bullying

UNICEF – Rights & Responsibilities 
Oracy     Debate Question: Should we ban palm oil?
Other Romero Britto (Brazilian Artist)    
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