BedlingtonStation PrimarySchool

Portal Travel:

Africa

Year 1 Term 3A

CONTEXT

What ho! Regina Flowerton here - world-famous explorer, botanist and historian! Welcome to Portal Travel, my a worldwide travel company. As Travel Agents working at Portal Travel, you will complete a range of different tasks for me including the running of Portal Travel.  I also need you research and  advertise a new trip to Africa for Portal Travel. Let's go... adventure awaits!

CLASS READER

Julia Donaldson

BROADENING EXPERIENCES

Posting Postcards Home

PSHE ‘Relationships’.We will learn about all kinds of relationships, including, family, friends and people who help us and about how we show respect to others.

Curriculum Overview

Oracy Development Opportunities

ENGLISH

Focus Narrative:

Travel Stories

Key Text/Stimulus:

Meerkat Mail

Focus Non-Narrative:

Information Text (Poster)

Key Text/Stimulus:

Tourism Brochures/Posters

Curriculum support genres:

Recounts

Instructions

ART

Artist:

Tinga tinga - patterns and colours

Medium:

Drawing

Painting

Collage

Pastels

What is Tinga Tinga?  

Tinga Tinga is a colorful style of painting from Africa that tells stories about animals and nature with fun shapes and bright colors.

Tinga Tinga – A colourful painting style from Africa that tells stories using animals and nature.
Colourful – Full of bright and bold colours.

Pattern – Shapes, lines, or colours that repeat – often used in Tinga Tinga designs.

 

RE

Jigsaw RE

Is Shabbat important to Jewish children?

(Northumberland Agreed Syllabus - What does it mean to belong to a faith community?)

 

What is Shabbat?  

-   Shabbat (Sabbath) is celebrated both in the home and the synagogue and the main requirement is that no work should be attempted from sunset on Friday until sunset on Saturday.

- The start of Shabbat is marked with a special meal and ceremony in the home.

- When worshipping, Jews wear a skull cap called a kippah. This is usually worn by men as a sign of respect to God.

Shabbat – A special day of rest for Jewish people, from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset.Synagogue – A place where Jewish people go to pray and worship.Kippah – A small cap worn, usually by Jewish men, to show respect to God.

 

HISTORY

National Curriculum:

No focus

 

 

Content:

No focus

GEOGRAPHY

National Curriculum:

the location of hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles

understand geographical similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of a small area of the United Kingdom, and of a small area in a contrasting non-European country (Bedlington Station compared to village in Botswana)

use simple compass directions and locational and directional language to describe the location of features and routes on a map

Where is Botswana?

Africa

Hot part of the world

Near the equator  

How is Botswana similar to the UK?

People live there.

People work there.

People live in families.

How is Botswana different to the UK?

Food, Houses, Animals, Weather, Flag

 

What is are maps and compass directions and what do we use them for?

A map is used to show where places are. Compass directions help us to find the right way to go (direction)Maps can be used to find a way from one place to another.

Africa – The continent where Botswana is located.Equator – An imaginary line around the middle of the Earth; places near it, like Botswana, are hot.Compare – To look at things to see how they are the same or different (like Botswana and the UK).

Map – A drawing that shows where places are and helps us find our way.Direction – The way we go, like north, south, east, or west.Compass – A tool that shows direction using the four main points: north, south, east, and west

PE

Real PE Unit:

Unit 5

Cog Focus

  • Physical Skills

Fundamental Movement Skills

  • Coordination: Sending and Receiving
  • Agility: Reaction/Response

Planning Link

Sport:

Multi-skills

Football

DT

National Curriculum:

Focus objectives:

Cooking and Nutrition

Focus skills:

  • Mix
  • Pour
  • Sieve

 

Recipes:

Pancakes 

 

 

SCIENCE

National Curriculum:

Working Scientifically

 

Investigations:

Exploring magnets - What is magnetic?

(Link to Geog - compass and previous Science -materials) 

 

Ongoing:

observe changes across the 4 seasons

observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies

 

COMPUTING

National Curriculum:

Computer Science

Coding (Purple Mash Unit 1.7)

Information Tech

Mondrian inspired paintings (Drawing Kit - iPad)

Digital Literacy

Online Safety - Hector's World -Heroes

Planning Link

MUSIC

Singin

Specialist singing teacher

Performing/singing/evaluations