Literacy Links
Theme Overview
Playscripts Journalistic writing
Rivers
Poetry
Canals and People Numeracy Links Framework Outcome/ TASC
Geography All about Canals – what is a canal, how have they been adapted today? What is life like living on a boat? Working on the waterways – what jobs have taken place on the waterways in the past? Waterways Today – How are canals used today? 1a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6c History Life on English Waterways – What is life like for adults and children? Conditions on the water way. Health. Building and Carrying – How do canals work? Boat Horse Billy. – What was a horse’s role? 1a, 2a, 3, 4a, 4b, 5c
Habitat Art
Science
Design a creature and its habitat.
1b, 2b, 4a,
Interdependence and adaptations 5a, 5b, 5c
Design Technology
Enrichment DVD – British Narrow boating
ICT
Watercolour and perspective – English Canal
Virtual Canal Trip - Doncaster
Spreadsheet Modelling (Part 2 first aspects done before Christmas)
Habitat – Create and design and create to live on a canal and their habitat. 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 2a, 2b, 2d, 3a
PSHE / Circle Time People who help us in and around school.
Parent Workshop R.E. Judaism and Sikhism
Week 3 – Habitat Music
Design a creature and its habitat.
English Country Music 3a, 3b, 4a, 4d