Cramlington Village Primary School

REAL projects template: Summer Term

Project Name / Project summary
What you’re going to do and why / Essential question
This should be inspiring, not able to be ‘googled’, requiring you to conduct in depth research and relate to a real world issue / Final project outcome
Deadline date?
How you will promote?
Who will be invited?
Traditional Tales- Once upon a time... / Exploring traditional tales in the story of ‘The Jolly Postman or other people’s letters’ as well as based on the children’s interests. / Is all the World a Stage? / Performance in school for parents and Hartford Court care home residents. The children will produce tickets for the event to share with parents.
Wow moment
This needs to happen within the first week of term - preferably on the first day / Key staff / Key contact numbers/websites/resources / Classroom environment
What will you be doing to your classroom?
What resources do you need / Key text
Classroom Environment- role play area and home corner traditional story areas. / Abigail Leaver, Danielle Mowbray / Theatre Royal- Newcastle Upon Tyne
Contact: Kim Hoffman 0191 244 2502 / Role Play area indoors- to create a stage area inside the classroom to enable the children to perform our Traditional Tales using costumes.
Changing Home Corner- designing and creating three areas in the home corner to represent different fairy tales.
Outdoor area- creating a ‘Three Little Pigs’ construction are in the outdoors.
Writing area to be created into post office area- using post box for the children to post their own letter to our characters from the ‘Jolly Postman Story’. / The Jolly Postman or other People’s letters
Other Text Examples:
3 billy goats gruff, the troll by Julia Donaldson, Cinderella, 3 little pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
Key milestones to achieve the final project
Include specific dates / Products
What are you going to do/write/create/build? / Learning goals
What key parts of the curriculum will this include? (long term plan holds all of the curriculum content)
What skills will be practised? / Exhibition venue
Where will this take place? / Exhibition plan
How will you promote the exhibition?
How will you exhibit your work?
Who will you be inviting?
Launch Day- / Wearing pajamas for our launch day- children will be exploring exploring texts from the ‘Jolly Postman’ story including Goldilocks and the three bears, Jack and the beanstalk, Cinderella, Little Red riding hood. / Expressive Arts and Design- Being Imaginative:
Plays cooperatively as part of a group to develop and act out a narrative (40-60 months).
They represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role play and stories (ELG). / In school
Learning Expedition- Theatre Royal Newcastle Upon Tyne
Workshop based on Traditional Tales- acting workshop. / The children will be taking part in a workshop based on a Traditional Tale. Competing workshop to practise our acting for our final performance. / Expressive Arts and Design- Exploring and using media and materials:
Constructs with a purpose in mind, using a variety of resources (40-60 months).
Children sing songs, make music and dance, and experiment with ways of changing them (ELG).
Communication and Language- Understanding:
Able to follow a story without pictures or props (40-60 months).
Listens and responds to ideas expressed by others in conversation or discussion (40-60 months). / Theatre Royal Newcastle Upon Tyne
Designing and Creating our own story sacks to share in the community. / Creating our story sacks including stories from the ‘Jolly Postman or other People’s Letters’ (Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Cinderella, Witches.
Including making simple puppets, designing our sacks, character profiles, acting and recording our stories to include on CD’s, growing instructions, instructions for cooking. / Communication and Language:
Able to follow a story without pictures or props (40-60 months).
They answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about their experiences and in response to stories or events (ELG).
Literacy- Reading:
Uses vocabulary and forms of speech that are increasingly influenced by their experiences of books (40-60 months).
Enjoys an increasing range of books (40-60 months).
They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read (ELG).
Literacy- Writing:
Attempts to write short sentences in meaningful contexts (40-60 months).
They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others (ELG).
Understanding the World- Technology:
They select and use technology for particular purposes (ELG).
Expressive Arts and Design- Exploring and using media and materials:
Constructs with a purpose in mind, using a variety of resources (40-60 months).
Children sing songs, make music and dance, and experiment with ways of changing them (ELG). / In school- schools in the community and Hartford Court care home.
Fundraising for Book Aid International (throughout our topic) / Throughout our topic the children will be raising money for Book Aid which sends books to children’s schools as well as community libraries. / Understanding of the World: The World and People and Communities.
Mathematics- Numbers:
Uses the language of ‘more’ and ‘fewer’ to compare two sets of objects (40-60 months).
Finds the total number of items in two groups by counting all of them (40-60 months).
Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer (ELG).
Mathematics- Shape, Space and Measure:
Beginning to use everyday language related to money (40-60 months).
Children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems (ELG). / In school- throughout our topic this term.
Final Outcome- production in schools- EYFS children. / Performing our Talk for Writing story, songs, poems and raps from over our topic. Including stories of The three little pigs etc.
Using tux paint to design backdrop for our performance. / Expressive Arts and Design- Being Imaginative:
Plays cooperatively as part of a group to develop and act out a narrative (40-60 months).
They represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role play and stories (ELG).
PSED- Self-confidence and self-awareness:
Confident to speak to others about own needs, wants, interests and opinions (40-60 months).
They are confident to speak in a familiar group, will talk about their ideas, and will choose the resources they need for their chosen activities (ELG).
Communication and Language- Speaking:
Uses language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences in play situations (40-60 months).
Children express themselves effectively, showing awareness of listeners’ needs (ELG).
Understanding the World- People and Communities. / In school- inviting parents and residents from Hartford Court Care Home. / Parents to be invited to final performance.
Children to make their own tickets and program to produce for parents.
Connecting with local library / Workshop at Cramlington Library to encourage children to visit the library with parents. Signing all of the children to library membership whilst at the library. / Literacy - Reading:
Enjoys an increasing range of books (40-60 months). .
Knows that information can be retrieved from books and computers (40-60 months).
Children read and understand simple sentences. They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately (ELG). / Cramlington Library / -
Classroom and Outdoor Environment / Role Play area indoors- to create a stage area inside the classroom to enable the children to perform our Traditional Tales using costumes.
Changing Home Corner- designing and creating three areas in the home corner to represent different fairy tales.
Outdoor area- creating a ‘Three Little Pigs’ construction are in the outdoors.
Writing area to be created into post office area- using post box for the children to post their own letter to our characters from the ‘Jolly Postman Story’. / Physical Development- Moving and Handling:
Handles tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control (40-60 months).
They handle equipment and tools effectively, including pencils for writing (ELG).
Mathematics- Shape, Space and Measure:
Orders two or three items by length or height (40-60 months).
Orders two items by weight or capacity 40-60 months).
Uses familiar objects and common shapes to create and recreate patterns and build models (40-60 months).
Children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position (ELG).
Expressive Arts and Design- Being Imaginative:
Plays cooperatively as part of a group to develop and act out a narrative (40-60 months).
They represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role play and stories (ELG).
PSED- Making Relationships:
Explains own knowledge and understanding, and asks appropriate questions of others (40-60 months).
Children play cooperatively, taking turns with others. They take account of one another’s ideas about how to organise their activity (ELG). / Classroom Environment
Talk For Writing Story / The Jolly Postman / Literacy- Writing:
Writes own name and other things such as labels,captions (40-60 months).
Attempts to write short sentences in meaningful contexts (40-60 months).
They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible (ELG).
Literacy- Reading:
Uses vocabulary and forms of speech that are increasingly influenced by their experiences of books (40-60 months).
Enjoys an increasing range of books (40-60 months).
They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read (ELG). / In school- performed during our final legacy.

Summer Term One- Week Beginning 16th April- 21st May, Summer Term Two- Week Beginning 11th June- 16th July