
Autumn
History
Topic - Ancient Greece
Key Skills/Knowledge
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Say when the Ancient Greek people lived and order some events from the time on a timeline.
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Describe some key facts about the Battle of Marathon and the Trojan War and demonstrate their understanding.
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Talk about some Ancient Greek gods and know some features of Greek myths.
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Explain how and why the Greek Empire was so successful and be able to confidently explain how the political system worked.
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Describe elements of the Battle of Marathon and the Trojan War in significant detail and write their own Greek myth containing the relevant elements.
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Examine artefacts in order to draw conclusions about what life was like in Ancient Greece.
Key Vocabulary
- chronology
- empire
- timeline
- BC / AD
- locate/location
- country, city, state
- democracy, democratic
- ancient, modern
- politics
- ruling, ruler
- dikasteria, boule, ekklesia
- Polis, metic
- sprint, wrestling, boxing, long jump, javelin, discus, chariot racing, pentathlon
- pankration
- battle
- Marathon
- eye witness
- Sparta(n), Athens(ian), Persia(n)
- battle formation, hoplite, defensive, strategy, retreat.
Science
Topic - Earth and Space
Key Skills/Knowledge
- Describe the movement of the Earth, and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system.
- Describe the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth.
- Describe the Sun, Earth and Moon as approximately spherical bodies.
- Use the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky.
- Planning different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary.
- Taking measurements, using a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings when appropriate.
- Recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs.
- Using test results to make predictions to set up further comparative and fair tests.
- Reporting and presenting findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations.
- Identifying scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments.
Science
Topic - Forces
Key Skills/Knowledge
- Explain that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object.
- Identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces.
- Recognise that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.
- Planning different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary.
- Taking measurements, using a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings when appropriate.
- Recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs.
- Using test results to make predictions to set up further comparative and fair tests.
- Reporting and presenting findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations.
- Identifying scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments.