CROSS CURRICULAR THEME/PROJECT:
Unique UK and Marvellous MertonTEXT BASED LEARNING:
Fabulous Fergus – Chris Hoy
Benjamin Zephaniah
Katie and the British Artists
Michael Rosen / MOTIVATIONAL “WOW” STARTING POINT:
Launch – children come dressed to school as a Victorian
REAL LIFE/MEANINGFUL END PRODUCT:
Grace –Understand the similarities and differences between ourselves in Oak Class and across our school.
Love – Use empathy and a growing knowledge of our local community through working with others.
Fellowship –Celebrate the diversity of living in the UK through learning across the curriculum. / PBL QUESTION TO BE INVESTIGATED AND/OR CHILDREN’S LEARNING QUESTIONS
- Who has helped the UK?
- Why is Merton Marvellous?
- How has the UK changed?
Classroom Environment:
Our Classroom Environment will consist of:
- Art from different era’s
- Famous British people.
- A welcoming book area that celebrates UK authors and illustrators
- Examples of children’s’ work and ideas
- A Victorian Classroom
As Critical and Creative Thinkers we will:
- Investigate how times have changed and compare and contrast different decades.
- Create our own Victorian Toys
- Compare and contrast Victorian and present day school.
- Compare Morden to Brighton
- Compare Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II and create our own criteria for what we believe makes a successful Queen.
- To perform poetry and dramatic scenes.
As Explorers we will:
- Tea party to celebrate the queen’s birthday
- Investigate minibeasts at Morden Hall Park
- Explore the map of the UK and understand our location
- Learn the name of some common plants and animals
Innovation Driver 4:
As Positive Risk Takers we will:
- Perform poetry and drama
- Have a go at learning we may find challenging
- Show resilience in daily tasks
- Design and create a Victorian Toy
- Use our growing knowledge to develop our writing
- Develop our numeracy skills especially in multiplication and division.
As Independent Learners (Leaders of Learning) we will:
- Take responsibility for our own learning
- Show empathy towards others
- Take risks with our learning
- Ask for help from others
- Work on our next step learning
- Celebrate our individual uniqueness through learning about history and the UK
As Interdependent Learners (Team Players we will:
- Work together to create drama and music
- Support others in daily tasks
- Use Physical education work as a team.
- Work together on trips e.g. to Morden Hall Park
MEDIUM TERM CURRICULUM THOUGHTS (Making Innovative Links Across the Curriculum)
Project Theme: Unique UK
Mathematics and Logical Thinking- Identify important dates in UK recent history.
- Understand chronological order.
- Solve time problems using journey times form places on the UK.
- Solve one step problems involving multiplication and division using objects, pictures and arrays.
- Practical problem solving for height, length, weight, mass, capacity and volume.
- Count in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s using music – Beatles.
- Design a Victorian toy
- Select appropriate tools
- Use tools to construct a Victorian toy
- Evaluate the construction of the toy
- Explore and evaluate examples of inventions from the UK – e.g Percy Shaw’s invention ofcats eyes.
- To create a simple document on a chosen famous Briton.
- Plants, mini beasts
- To enquire about different plants and animals
- To name some common wild and garden plants indigenous to the UK
- To describe and compare some common animals found in the UK
- To participate in and evaluate the workshops at the Morden garden Centre
- Tocreate and maintain the class planters
English and Creative Imagination
- To create a biography of Queen Victoria
- Letter writing to the queen/king.
- Design and advert of Cat’s Eye’s.
- Create lyrics for a song using the tune of a popular Beatles Song.
- Create a booklet – ‘Through the Decades’
- To read the book by Chris Hoy.
- To discuss what is being read.
- To read a variety of texts.
- Investigate the poetry and other writing of Michael Rosen and Benjamin Zephaniah.
- ‘Flying Fergus’ by Chris Hoy – create a poster of an imaginary bike you can use and present it to the class.
- Write a story based on this book.
- To design and write a newspaper report about Tanni Grey-Thompson’s Olympic win!
- To learn about and comment on the work of William Morris
- To learn about British Artists through – Katie and the British Artists book
- To use different art techniques when creating art based on William Morris repeated patterns
- To create a dramatization/song based on the Wombles of Wimbledon Common!
- To use materials and other tools to produce decorations for the Queen’s birthday tea
- Appreciate and comment on the music of the Beatles
- To perform a poem by Benjamin Zephaniah
Humanities (History/Geography/Environment)
- Queen Victoria and the key features of her reign and use simple sources to find out information.
- Compare Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II.
- To identify similarities and differences between Victorian toys/games and those we have today.
- Understand and become familiar with the map of the UK and identify some important landmarks.
- To use and understand maps of the local area and how areas are linked.
- To create my own map.
- Compare Morden to Brighton.
- Understand the activity of Skipping and links to Victorian schooling.
- To participate in athletics and other team games.
- To use balance, agility and co ordination
- To understand and enjoy the Wimbledon Tennis fortnight as part of Unique UK
- To learn about Olympian Tanni Grey-Thompson and her impact on UK sport.
- Modern day Olympics and influence of the Victorians.
- Understand and investigate the religious diversity of Merton
- Understand what different religions understand by Creation
- Look at the Christian Bible
- Investigate Belonging
- Demonstrate mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefsin a multi faith, multi-cultural classroom.