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The topic for terms 3 and 4 Oceania and Australasia. Please click here to see our topic web. 

 

Stimulus synopsis: Kensuke’s Kingdom. This book will feed projects in literacy, ICT, math’s, art via academic and creative projects. Our chosen book for this term is Kensuke’s Kingdom. The book tells the story of Michael's parents who buy a yacht and take him off to sail around the world. Washed overboard in a fierce storm, Michael finds himself on the shore of a remote island - and soon discovers he is not alone. Kensuke, a former Japanese soldier, survived the war and the bombing of Hiroshima, but his family perished. As an extraordinary bond forms between the two, Kensuke faces a heart-breaking choice: can he give up the secluded life he has built for himself to help reunite Michael with his parents? Knowing the pain of losing his own family, Kensuke knows which way he must decide.


This term in math and numeracy lessons, pupils will learn to solve simple worded problems involving money & measures. Their learning objectives will be to recognize and select coins and notes. To tell the time accurately incorporating quarter past and quarter to the hour. Pupils to be challenged to extend their learning in adding and subtracting numbers, using formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction. Understand and use numbers up to 100, and progress with up to three and onto four-digit numbers. Use everyday language to describe the properties of size and measurements including length, width, height, weight and make simple comparisons. Use everyday language to describe position, and name common 2D and 3D shapes. For Position and Direction, they will describe position, directions, and movements, including half, quarter, and three-quarter turns. Incorporating fractions. We will also be looking at statistics and interpreting data.


 

Regarding PSHE students will learn about the new topic of healthy lifestyles. Students will discuss what they think this term means. They will need to think about how healthy their lifestyle currently is and create a poster about themselves, what foods they eat, what exercises they do etc.

 

They will also use power point presentations to provide information and allow discussions about what being healthy is and how we can help ourselves to be healthy. They will examine questions such as what is a well-balanced diet, why is this important? Look at the eat well plate and discuss the meanings of the different nutrients and what a well-balanced diet should consist of. Students are to investigate what makes a balanced diet and create a variety of menu options that would meet balanced diet criteria. Students will also explore why exercise is so important, what the benefits of exercising are and how this contributes to a healthy lifestyle. Students will be asked to create posters about what activities they take part in, and how they could improve their lifestyle. They will also create a mind map of a variety of activities that they could get the college department to take part in, as part of promoting a healthy lifestyle and a get fit campaign. They should then plan the activity setting dates and times of when they will hold this day, plus create advertising posters etc.

 

They will also be creating a movie or book trailer for their stimulus book. This will use a variety of skills across ICT, literacy, communication n and interaction, drama, and art.


                                                                            

 

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