Literacy Links
Theme Overview
→Out of the Deep – Hook →Incorporate Topic into Literacy →Specific wri ng & S/H outcome Link to Powerpoints
Mining Autumn 1 – 7 weeks
Numeracy Links → Unit Blocks (Unit Plans) →AT1- Friday
Outcome/ TASC Pasty afternoon – celebration of topic coverage with parents
Geography →Coal deposi on/loca on Locally and Nationally Effect on community History →Census data for occupa on →Importance of Mining/decline of industry →Miners’ strike
Art →Charcoal Drawings
Science – Micro Organisms →Significant Artist – who was a miner →Food hygiene →Illnesses linked to coal dust/white finger →Science Report – Each half term ICT → Powerpoints – fitness Note format (could they present to Year 5 in groups?) →Internet searching – reliability
R.E.
Enrichment
Turn classroom into mine to begin with – Read story ‘Out of the Deep’ to set the scene/hook the children. Caphouse Colliery Visitor – from miner in local community
Parent Workshop
Pasty Afternoon – design and create pastry.
Design Technology →Food technology →Packaging – packed lunch box for miners
PSHE →Sense of community/changes that have taken place. →What happens when the coal is gone? Alterna ve energy. Music → Miner songs/singers →Welsh Singers?