Pirate food Sea biscuit Hard tack Transport materials - Pirates Ships – look at materials - Wood
Modern day Bread Transport materials - Modern day Ships – look at materials - Metal
Geography
Literacy Links Nonfiction unit – instructions
Following/ giving clear instructions – captain
Reading instructions – map work
Writing instructions – Pirate food
Theme Overview Spring 1 2014
Outcome/ TASC
Counting money
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Sharing loot
TASC –Pirate ships (materials/ floating and
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Cost of food – ordering amounts
sinking)
Solve problems in the context of money – treasure
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Counting in 2s/5s/10s – money
Following a route on a treasure map
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Archeologists, Pirates, Adventure stories
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2e Make maps and plans (for example, a pictorial map of a place in a story)
Numeracy Links
Block B: securing number facts, understanding shapes (3 weeks)
Describing features on a simple map
map)
Enhance – message in a bottle/ wanted posters (character
Block A: Counting, Partitioning and calculating (2 weeks)
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Treasure Hunters
Beach/ desert island/ ship – Treasure island/ marooned descriptions)/ diary entries in role
2a Use geographical vocabulary (for example, hill, river, near, far, North, South) 2c Use globes, maps and plans at a range of scales (for example, following a route on a
Narrative unit– stories with familiar settings
1d Communicate in different ways (for example, in pictures, speech, writing)
Outcome – Treasure hunters display
Block C: Handling data and measures (2 weeks)
Treasure maps/ pirate maps/ tea bags/ burnt edges etc.
History 2b Identify differences between the ways of life at different times Comparing a Pirates meal with a meal we would eat today Comparing transport/ materials used 6c The lives of significant men, women and children drawn from the history of Britain and the wider world Famous Pirates; Blackbeard, Anne Bonney etc. 5c Pupils should be taught to select from their knowledge of history and communicate it in a variety of ways Verbal presentation (pirates), ICT – map work, writing - captions
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Sorting jewels
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Weighing gold
Art
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Comparing capacities – Pirate drinks
5a explore a range of starting points for practical work (e.g. experiences and stories)
Science Grouping and changing materials -
that some materials occur naturally and some do not the names of some naturally occurring materials that some naturally occurring materials are treated (shaped, polished) before they are used that objects made from some materials can be altered by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching to describe ways of making materials or objects change, using appropriate vocabulary to explore materials using appropriate senses and making observations and simple comparisons that materials often change when they are heated to make observations and simple comparisons to construct a table to record observations to use their knowledge about what makes ice melt to plan what to do to recognise what would make a test unfair to use results to draw a conclusion about which place is warmest to use a table to make a record of observations that many materials change when they are cooled to suggest how some materials might change when they are cooled to decide whether their observations matched their prediction to decide whether what happened was what they expected that water turns to steam when it is heated but on cooling the steam turns back to water
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Enrichment Pirates dress up day Pirates day inc. treasure hunt (map work)
End of week 2/ week 3
5b to explore a variety of ICT software (e.g. floor turtle, adventure software) 2c How to plan and give instructions to make things happen -
Beebot
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Instruction programs
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Floor turtle
5c Talking about the uses of ICT inside and outside school -
DS/ Wii games related to ‘Treasure hunters’ such as Mario / Temple
run etc. could allow children to achieve 5c
Design Technology 5a Investigating and evaluating a range of familiar products (E.g. talking about how they work, and whether they do what they are supposed to do) TASC wheel – pirate ships (exploring materials and floating and sinkng) 5c Designing and making assignments using a range of materials, including Food o Sea Biscuit/ Bread Items that can be put together to make a product o Pirate ships (exploring materials)/ raft building
Parent Workshop Further skills include; 1a, 1c, 1d, 1e, 2a, 2d, 2f, 3d, 4a Week 7 – Marooned on an island, children must make a small raft that will float on water and carry the most loot. The raft with the most loot/ weight carried will be the winning raft. Pirate ships could also be used rather than rafts. Time should be left to test rafts.
ICT
Pirates/ treasure hunters/ The Night Pirates/ maps/ flags
PSHE 3b to maintain personal hygiene
D&T – food; pirate food/ breads/ biscuits
4b to listen to other people, and play and work cooperatively
Raft building/ following and giving clear instructions
Limited resources will be available. NB: Children will use prior knowledge to support (TASC wheel) P.E – Rawmarsh scheme of work
Music 5a A range of musical activities that integrate performing, composing and appraising 5c Working independently and in groups of different sizes and as a class -
Composing music to go with a Pirate story – shipwreck, treacherous seas etc.
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Chanting songs
Further skills include; 1a, 1c, 2b, 4b