Priestlands Heritage and Young Peoples Project

    Pennington Junior School: Curriculum Projects

DEPARTMENT
PROJECT OUTLINE
PROGRESS IN YEAR ONE
2001 / 2002
PROGRESS IN YEAR TWO
2002 / 2003
PROGRESS IN YEAR THREE
2003 / 2004
EVALUATION
English
To complete the build of the amphitheatre as part of the landscape project; to produce shape poems, non-chronological reports, use of reference text and tree poems as part of book week.
Amphitheatre plan incorporated into landscape project; pupils working on different mediums of writing
Funding for amphitheatre finalised; story telling and recording of Heritage Week activities; Book Week organised.
Amphitheatre build completed and opened for plays, assemblies and lesson activities; arts and writing days for upper and lower school with recording of all Heritage activities
  • Amphitheatre provides a tremendous asset linking the main school to the creative arts building.
  • Very high standard of work achieved in the writing activities.
Mathematics
To set up a Maths Trail to be undertaken by Y6 and Y7 pupils as a transition activity with Priestlands School.
See Priestlands' Maths.
See Priestlands' Maths.
See Priestlands' Maths.
  • Maths Trails have improved liaison and transition between schools.
PSHE / Citizenship
Developments of units of work in the lower school and upper school on safety.
Pilot projects on 'Keeping Safe at School (lower school Y3)' and 'Taking Responsibility for my own Safety (upper school Y6).
Pilot projects on 'Keeping Safe Outside School (lower school Y4)' and 'Being Involved in my Community (upper school Y5)'.
Year One projects reviewed, refined and repeated.
  • Development of 2 year cycle of PSHE curriculum.
Art
Arts Week; use of amphitheatre.
Development of units of work on drawing and printing flowers and leaves; painting a Greek mural on the old swimming pool boiler house.
'Take One Picture' activity, linking to Priestlands' Noah's Ark sculpture; stones and colour in the environment; willow weaving; tree painting; using the school grounds as inspiration for painting and paper collage; drawing / textiles using the environment.
Drawing and printing flowers.
  • Very successful Arts Week linked to 'Take One Picture' and staff development training at the National Gallery.
  • Units of work fully embedded into the curriculum.
  • Use of the amphitheatre and production of the mural enhancing school grounds.
History
To develop upper school units of work to celebrate anniversaries.
Upper school topic, 'Britain since 1930s' developed.
150th Anniversary celebrations, including Victorian Day (making sense of our past, Victorian costume, toys and school).
Upper school topic 'Britain since 1930s' reviewed, refined and repeated.
  • Units of work have provided opportunities to incorporate the history of the grounds into the activities and this will be built into ongoing curriculum.
Music
Development of lower school unit of work on painting with sound.
Pilot project to develop unit of work.
 
Use of new amphitheatre for musical events.
 
Science
To plan Environmental Days leading units of work.
Meeting of Science specialists; planning of quadrat survey; pilot project for writing poetry and non-chronological reports linked to Science topics.
Heritage Week organised; pond-dipping, Earth walk, weather activities, adopt a tree; development of pilot project in 'Moving and Growing Habitats and Life Cycles'.
Heritage Week incorporated into Trail blazers initiative and embedded into the curriculum across all four year groups.
  • Varied range of activities now being carried out each year.
Design & Technology
Development of cross-phase links and development of arts and writing days.
 
Pilot activity in liaison with the Forestry Commission to build bird boxes in the school grounds (Y5); development of unit of work to create an environment collage for each class out of textiles.
Bird boxes installed in the school grounds and monitored using video to be included on the website; development of upper school unit of work on Dream Catchers and environmental sculptures created using natural materials from the school grounds.
  • Arts and writing days provided very successful opportunity for pupils to develop their arts and writing skills.
Geography
To produce an upper school unit of work on the use of school grounds for creating "artificial" rivers; to produce a lower school unit of work on an environmental issue.
 Subject planning and investigation into units of work.
Lower school unit of work piloted on weather around the world.
Upper school unit of work on rivers piloted; lower school unit of work 'Our Magical School Grounds' built around a sequence of environmental issues, eg pollution; lower school unit of work 'Welcome to our Place - Lymington' piloted.
  • All units of work becoming well established as part of ongoing curriculum.
PE
Development of an Adventure Trail for outdoor and adventurous activities (Y3).
 Adventure Trail investigated and piloted.
Adventure Trail reviewed, refined and repeated as an activity.
Adventure Trail established as a unit of work.
 
RE
Development of upper and lower school units of work on symbolism and community.
Lower school unit of work (Y3) on symbolism using trees in the school grounds; development of upper school unit of work (Y6) on community and belonging.
Development of upper school unit of work (Y5) on responses to the natural world using the local environment as stimulus.
Year One projects reviewed, refined and repeated.
  • Development of 2 year cycle of RE curriculum.

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