Key Vocab Our main enquiry question for History this term is Timeline of the Kingdom of Benin. ‘What was life like in the Kingdom of Benin?’ History The study of the past Oba Leader of Benin 400 AD 900AD 1180AD 1283AD 1440 AD 1451AD 1700AD Edo A person inhabiting the district of Benin The Yoruba The Benin The dynasty Oba Oguole The Kingdom Oba Ewuare The Benin Nigeria The country where Benin is located people Kingdom was of the Oba had the of Benin expanded Kingdom started to first created began. Benin City began to the kingdom entered a Plaque A brass object displayed around Benin use iron when small Wall built. expand and and set up period of tools for the villages prosper trading links decline due English: first time joined under the with to a lot of together. rule of Oba Portugese civil wars. Formal language - Language used when writing a letter or when Ewuare the visitors. speaking to someone of importance. For example: Dear, Sir, Yours Great sincerely, Yours Faithfully.

Informal Language - Language that can be used when speaking to This term in Science our topic is going to be Key facts about the Kingdom of a friend or family member. For example; Hi, Hello, How are you, plants! Benin Speak soon. In this topic we will be learning all about what plants Subordinate Clause – A sentence that does not make sense on it’s need to grow, how water moves through a plant, the life  The ancient Kingdom of own and has to be joined to another clause (sentence). cycle of a flowering plant and seed dispersal. Here are Benin was situated in the some key words for our topic: Determiner - a word that goes before the noun. For example; a, South East Coast of West an, the , these, those, their, my. Africa, an area forming Roots – These anchor the plants into the ground and part of modern Nigeria. absorb water and nutrients from the soil.  The people did not write

Maths target Stem – This holds the plant up and carries water and down their history but nutrients from the soil to the leaves. A trunk is the stem transmitted it through We’ve been Timestable Rockstars all year – working so hard on of a tree. their spoken culture, our timestables. Now we’re going to recap our learning and go their art and their over our 3,4,6, and 8 times tables. Can you remember them all?! Leaves – These make food for the plant using sunlight and carbon dioxide from the air. legends.  The people of Benin Pollination – When pollen is moved from the male were famed for their anther of a flower to the female stigma. skilled craftsmanship.  The earliest rulers of Benin were called Ogisos. The first Ogiso King was Ogiso lgodo who ruled from c40 BC to 16 CE.  The Ogisos were thought to have God – like qualities and were worshipped by other PE – Athletics DT In DT we will be designing four musical instruments based on a maraca, xylophone, a drum and a guitar. In this Athletics unit, children will have the opportunity to We are going to be using various objects to explore the different sounds we can make based on those develop their existing running, jumping and throwing skills. instruments and then perform them un groups to the class. They will be refining their sprint technique and learning

how to work as a relay team, by practising a basic baton changeover. They will learn the technique for throwing the Key Vocabulary: javelin (pull throw) and how to do the standing triple jump. Design The unit culminates in a class pentathlon that the children Product will compete in. They will be using and applying the Volume running, throwing and jumping techniques they have learnt throughout the unit. Throughout the unit they will be trying Pitch to improve their own performance as well as helping others Sound to achieve their personal best. Xylophone Guitar Maraca Drum

‘Why are Religious Stories important for believers?’

Music- African Instruments Our big question for this term is ‘’Why are Religious Stories important for believers?’’

We will be carrying on our learning and building on our knowledge of Religious Stories. Computing Religious Stories are ‘’holy scriptures’ to believers. Our topic for this term is: We are Children will learn how to play some rhythmic They are used to support, explain, or justify a programmers. We are going to be using lots patterns on the djembes (African drumming). particular system’s rituals, theology and ethics. They of different software to create an African Children will learn how to accompany the are believed to be myths to people of other cultures of songs learned, with the djembe instruments. belief systems. Savannah.