Geography
Art and D&T
Look at the layout of our school. Make a map of the school grounds and
plan an extension.
Self-portraits for our school magazine.
Create a 360° painting of school.
Focus on the school buildings and school grounds – how has school
changed?
Look at the school hall ad its role in the village. What does the village
need? Surveys, questionnaires leading to data handling and analysis.
Focus on St John’s Church. Take a tour of the church looking at its location
in the village, design and features.
Conduct a traffic survey of both roads in the village (link to the Roman
road).
Look at the nature around Plumpton (‘Plumpton Autumnwatch’) and
track animals in Scratchmere.
Pencil sketches of different buildings in the village including the church. Also look at illuminated letters.
Sketches of buildings in Penrith.
Road safety posters.
Mosaic art and Roman jewellery.
Create a collage using recycled materials and a river collage.
Diwali Week – Rangoli patterns, shadow puppets, masks, diva lamps.
Victorian Week – Peg dolls, slates and chalks, rag rugs.
Christmas craft – Christingle art, stained glass windows for the hall, Victorian Christmas cards.
Take a walk along the River Petteril and map the source to the sea.
Visit to Penrith to compare it to Plumpton. Why do we need to go to
Penrith?
Diwali Week – use atlases to locate India. Compare and contrast our
school with an Indian school.
History
Autumn Term 2013
‘Our School’
Victorian Week – look at how many schools were open in nearby villages
in Victorian times.
Science
Testing building materials for suitability.
Magnetism and navigation investigations.
ICT
Word processing and publisher (articles etc for magazines).
Use search engines to research village history.
Rocks and soils.
Data handing to collect info from surveys and
questionnaires. Create graphs to illustrate traffic survey
results.
Plants and animals.
Use search engines to investigate plants and animals.
Circuits, buzzers and lights, shadows.
Diwali Week - Research Indian recipes, take a virtual tour of
a Hindu temple.
Sound waves and noise pollution from traffic.
Electricity.
Use ICT in a cross curricular manner throughout all areas of
the curriculum.
Create a time machine!
Look at the history of the school and the village. Also look at
the history of families in the village.
Focus on the history of the church looking at births, deaths and
marriages.
Look at the Roman history of the village. Focus on the old
Roman road. Visit the site of Voreda fort. Look at the
importance of the river for Voreda.
Look at the history of Penrith. Visit Penrith museum.
Diwali Week – stories from the Hindu faith. Compare with
Bonfire night.
Victorian Week – take part in a Victorian lesson! Victorian life.
Christmas – advent, the advent calendar, the Christmas story,
stories form the Old Testament and the New Testament.
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