Key Stage 4

Autumn Term 2017

4P

Mr Pascu

Curriculum information

Subject: English

Topic: Harry Potter

Teacher: Mr Adrian Pascu

Class: 4P

Skills students will be developing:

  • Reading skills including comprehension.
  • Fine motor skills including handwriting.
  • Using phonics to decode words.
  • Sentence construction and punctuation.
  • Vocabulary.
  • Communication skills.
  • Analysing characters.
  • Teamwork and collaborative learning.
  • Confidence in communicating in small groups.

Brief Description of Activities:

  • Some will engage in independent research.
  • Some will engage in colourful semantics activities to caption pictures from the story.
  • Reading extracts from the story.
  • Comprehension.
  • Comparing the story with the film version.
  • Exploring good and evil in the story.
  • Creating imaginary spells using sensory materials.
  • Role play to explore characters and events in the story.
  • Differentiated reading and writing activities

Subject vocabulary:

  • Good, evil, magic, fly, compare, behaviour, characters.

Curriculum information

Subject: Maths

Topic: Number, Money, Problems solving, Time

Teacher: Eleni Marseli

Class: 4P

Skills students will be developing:

  • Numbers , addition and subtraction
  • Using money
  • Telling the time
  • Measuring height/length.
  • Recognising, continuing and creating patterns

Brief description of activities:

  • Recognise coins and begin to total amounts
  • Use money to pay for items
  • Addition by counting on from larger number
  • Subtraction by taking away and saying how many are left
  • Using numberlines to add and subtract
  • Mental addition and subtraction using fingers
  • Reading numbers to 100 in numerals and words
  • Partitioning numbers into tens and units
  • Ordering and comparing numbers
  • Reading time from analogue clocks (o’clock/half past), months of the year, using ordinal numbers (first, second, third, last) to sequence e.g in lists
  • Compare length and height and use appropriate vocabulary. Measure length using non-standard units
  • Continue simple repeat patterns e.g threading beads, making paper chains, printing

Subject vocabulary:

  • Tens, units, more, less, double, pounds, pence, add, count on, hundred square, numberline, o’clock, half past, months (month names), centimetres, longer/shorter/ taller, half, quarter, pattern

Curriculum information

Subject: Computing

Topic: Digital Media/ ICT skills

Teacher: Mr Pascu Adrian

Class: 4P

Skills students will be developing:

  • Mouse skills using 2Simple draw, purple mash and help kidz learn.
  • Problem solving
  • Decision making
  • Communication skills
  • Technical skills

Brief Description of Activities:

  • Using a range of tools to enhance their presentation and presenting it to their peer group.
  • Using a range of formatting techniques to enhance the overall appearance of the presentation
  • Taking part in quizzes

Subject vocabulary:

  • Animations, images, formatting, buttons, plans, effects, audience.

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Skills students will be developing:

•Mouse Skills

•Keyboarding and Typing Skills

•Teamwork.

•Decision making skills

Brief Description of Activities:

•Developing confidence using equipment

•Interacting with software programs/games

•Creating Digital Media/ Graphics

Subject vocabulary:

•Digital Media, Digital Art, sequence, keyboard, mouse, control,

CURRICULUM INFORMATION

Subject: RE

Topic: Myself and my Family

Teacher: Mrs Eleni Marseli

Class: 4P

Skills students will be developing:

  • Recognising characteristics of themselves.
  • Listening, speaking and turn taking involved in group discussions.
  • To understand things we do as a family.
  • What is a celebration?
  • To take part in celebrations.
  • Celebrating festivals of Light.
  • Finding out about Diwali.
  • To participate in the Posada tradition.
  • Advent preparations.
  • Celebrating Christmas.
  • Recognising the cues for prayer and reflection time and responding to these cues appropriately.

Brief Description of Activities:

  • Singing and signing songs about ‘Me’.
  • Creating art work to showing how important and special their name is and how uniquely they have been created.
  • Activities involving Family/Family tree.
  • Art and craft activities to reinforce the children’s understanding of the celebrations, including Diwali and Christmas.
  • Dressing up and looking at special costumes for different celebrations.
  • Using a variety of resources to learn about celebrations/festivals of light
  • Art and craft activities related to the colours and meaning of Advent.
  • Making a poster of The Christmas Story and designing Christmas cards.
  • Prayer and reflection time at the end of every lesson.

Subject vocabulary:

  • Myself, me, family, family tree, sister, brother, mummy, daddy, friend, pray.
  • Celebrate, celebration, light, festivals, Diwali, Advent, Christmas

Curriculum information

Subject: PSHE

Topic: Respecting differences and working together

Me and my relationships

Teacher: Mr Ruben Pedrosa

Class: 4P

Skills students will be developing:

  • Literacy skills to name, to write or to match with symbols key words, to complete simple or complex sentences about the topics.
  • Social skills to greet people appropriately.
  • Mathematical skills to count skills needed to work as a part of a team.
  • Social skills to identify qualities in others and ways to help people.
  • ICT skills to match key words/symbols on the interactive board and to research for information about law and discrimination.
  • Creative skills to express feelings and make a display to celebrate differences.

Brief Description of Activities:

  • Role plays: “How do I talk to someone new?” “Excluding one person from a game”.
  • Identify people who can help them to deal with changes.
  • Vote for the best friendship song ever.
  • Identify skills needed to work as a team.
  • Make a display: Celebrating Differences
  • Use interactive board to match key words (Clicker 6 and Smartnotebook)
  • Try food from different countries
  • Identify and name pupil’s friends at school.
  • Use interactive games to identify different feelings.
  • Make new class’s rules.
  • Play parachutes games.

Subject vocabulary:

  • same, different, new, worries, feelings, sad, happy, team work, talent, relationship, good at, rules, lonely, friendship, discrimination, beliefs, country, food.

CURRICULUM INFORMATION

Subject: PSHE

Topic: Respecting differences and working together

Teacher: Mrs Eleni Marseli

Class: 4P

Skills students will be developing:

  • Their understanding of similarities and differences; cultural and personal interests.
  • Their understanding of respecting differences.
  • Their understanding of the impact of co-operating as a team.

Brief Description of Activities:

  • Group contract and group rules
  • Class discussions; brainstorming using visuals
  • Group projects and games.
  • Role play to demonstrate respect and kindness towards others.
  • Using images and role play to demonstrate co-operation.
  • Contrasting negative and positive ways to demonstrate respect.

Subject vocabulary:

  • Differences, similarity, common goals, respect, compliments, kindness, care, cooperation, honor.

Curriculum information

Subject: Science KS4

Topic: Materials (Colours/smells & fibres)

Teacher: Ms.Merseli

Class: 4P

Skills students will be developing:

  • Developing an understanding of the different properties of materials
  • Developing ways to investigate different materials
  • Use of keywords to describe scientific phenomenon.

Brief Description of Activities:

  • Investigating different objects and using keywords to describe them.
  • Students will make their own paint from ingredients
  • Students will make their own perfume from ingredients
  • Students will look at a range of fabrics and investigate the properties
  • Students will build a house from different materials and test for strength

Subject vocabulary:

  • Paint, pigment, waterproof, perfume, ingredients, Materials, waterproof, stretchy, strong, shiny, hard, soft, transparent, wood, plastic, metal, cotton, nylon, wool.

Curriculum information

Subject: Community skills

Topic: Community skills

Instructor/Teacher: Mr Pedrosa

Class: 4P

Skills students will be developing:

  • Communication Skills
  • Social skills: working with others
  • Recognising public information signs.
  • Thinking Skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Decision Making Skills
  • Improving Own Learning and Performance.
  • Functional numeracy skills (money and time)
  • Road Safety awareness
  • Stranger Danger
  • Travel Training (buses)
  • Independent skills

Brief Description of Activities:

  • Awareness of countryside, town and local shops
  • Learning countryside and town rules of safety.
  • Understand the benefits of walking in the countryside
  • Understand the benefits of going to local shops and town
  • Study cases
  • Role Play of Stranger Danger
  • Road safety practical activities
  • Prepare for a countryside walk.
  • Prepare for walking to local shops
  • Use of public transport
  • Group Discussions and evaluations
  • Walking safely around the local community

Subject vocabulary:

  • Safety, Rules, Road Signs, Risks, Countryside, Town, Pedestrian crossing, Journey, Public Transport, Stranger Danger, Buses, Bus stop, Traffic, Traffic lights, Road, Pavement, Shops,

Curriculum information

Subject: Music

Topic: Film Music and Christmas music

Teacher: Petra Voniatis

Class: 4P

Skills students will be developing:

  • Some singing/signing/vocalising – social skills, promote self-expression, communication skills using visual prompts.
  • Instrument specific skills – tuned/unturned percussion, African drums, Piano keyboards.
  • Listening with awareness, appreciation to identify preferred instruments using sounds mats different music genres and moods.
  • Performance skills – develop self-confidence and sharing.
  • Some will learn how to read a simple graphic score using colours.
  • Making choices through pictures/symbols about their favourite compositions.

Brief Description of Activities:

  • Rhythmic circle activities using percussion and African drums, incorporating call and response, creating own rhythms, revising the musical elements such tempo and dynamics.
  • Learning about how music developed in film through listening, watching film clips with and without music.
  • Listening to extracts of Film music, identifying some musical elements, create variety of mood using freeze frames.
  • Singing/signing and moving to songs.
  • Some students performing music from films with some support using colour-coded score on the keyboards.
  • Group composing tasks – arranging colours to create a mood for a character.
  • Responding to music from films using feelings.
  • Relaxation through music.
  • Music Therapy.

Subject vocabulary:

  • Instruments: Percussions – triangle, drums, claves, ukulele, piano
  • Musical elements: tempo (fast/slow), dynamics (loud/quiet), call and response (copy), rhythm, performance, audience.
  • Film Music: Soundtrack, Character, Silent Film, Mood/Feelings, Comedy, Sad, Romantic.

Curriculum information

Subject: ASDAN

Topic: Sport & Leisure

Teacher: Ms Donaldson

Class: 4P

Skills students will be developing:

  • Speaking and listening skills
  • Working as part of a group
  • Researching using the internet
  • Showing development in a leisure activity
  • Health & Safety awareness for indoor and outdoor activities
  • Decision making

Brief Description of Activities:

  • Students will participate in a range of indoor and outdoor leisure activities
  • Develop ability to work individually or as a group
  • Identify appropriate equipment
  • Demonstrate awareness of the correct use of equipment for chosen activity
  • Identify appropriate techniques in participation

Subject vocabulary:

  • Bowling, Fun, Golf, Team, Individual, Sports, Clothing, Equipment, Ball, Rules, Fair Play, Safe, Technique, Kit, Confidence, Play.

Curriculum information

Subject: PE

Topic: Touch Rugby Skills

Teacher: Mr Pascu

Class: 4P

Skills students will be developing:

  • Ability to play and interact with the group and be part of a team.
  • Ability to wait, share and take turns.
  • Explore and use basic ball skills individually and in combination.
  • An ability to recognise and describe how their bodies feel during exercise.
  • An ability to recognise good performance.

Brief Description of Activities:

  • Individual ball skills and practices.
  • A range of ball handling and kicking activities to develop technique.
  • Passing skill practices individually, in pairs and small groups.
  • Relays, competitions to develop speed and control.
  • Conditioned games to help learn the rules of touch rugby.
  • Observing others performance and thinking about their own.

Subject vocabulary:

  • Key words associated with rugby, e.g. Team, try, kick, tackle, ball.