Curriculum Information

Key Stage 3

Autumn Term 2017

Miss Treska

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Subject: English

Topic: Macbeth

Instructor or Teacher: Miss Gosha Treska

Class: 3T

Skills students will be developing:

Fine motor skills and handwriting.
Matching skills including matching picture to picture, picture to symbol and picture/symbol to word.
Reading skills, including comprehension
Speaking and listening skills, including role play.
Communication skills
Working as part of a group / in pairs / turn-taking.

Brief description of activities:

Reading simplified versions of Macbeth, supported by visuals and signing.
visual storybooks and tactile stories
Recreate the stories through role play.
Ordering events in the stories.
Creating artwork related to the stories
Completing simple reading comprehension activities
Handwriting and name formation activities personalised according to the students’ needs
Independent reading activities supported by phonics, functional reading, letter recognition,
Communication activities including speech development activities and supporting the students’ existing communication systems.

Subject vocabulary:

Play, man, woman, boy, girl, king, queen, items of clothing, colours, dagger, blood, murder, witch, spell, curse.

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Subject: Maths

Topic: time

Instructor or Teacher: Miss Gosha Treska

Class: 3T

Skills students will be developing:

Students will develop matching and sorting skills.
Students will develop fine motor skills necessary to complete puzzle, stacking up and peg tasks.
Students will develop understanding of terminology used in Maths lessons including very simple concepts, i.e. in and out or more.
Students will develop number formation skills.
Students will develop their numeracy skills including number sequencing, counting and counting out amounts, simple addition, subtraction and fractions.
Students will develop their awareness of time and ability to sequence activities and routines, will develop understanding of the passing time
Students will develop skills to repeat and continue a repeating pattern
Students will sort and compare objects by height, length and weight
Students will develop understanding of the process of buying and money exchange, they will learn how to choose the right change
Students will develop simple problem solving skills

Brief Description of Activities:

Our topics this term is number, time, measurement, problem solving and sequence, position and movement.

Students will have weekly sessions focusing on individually differentiated numeracy work,
Developing understanding of time where students will sequence activities and daily routines.
session continuing on developing numeracy skills including counting and using money
comparing a range of objects using terms heavy, light, heavier, lighter, grams, kilograms
Students will use a range of objects to copy and continue repeating patterns.
Students will solve simple solving skills to promote their independence
Students will solve simple problem solving skills improving their understanding of position and movement

Subject vocabulary:

Prepositions of place, first, next, last, long, short, tall, big, little, heavy, light, more, less, one, lots, pattern, time, clock, before, after, numbers and colours, up, down, on, next to, in, under, gram, kilogram,

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Subject: Computing

Topic: Multimedia Presentations or Mouse and Keyboard skills

Teacher: MrAdrian Pascu

Class: 3T

Skills students will be developing:

Mouse skills using 2Simple draw, purple mash and help kidz learn.
Problem solving
Communication skills
Technical skills

Brief Description of Activities:

Learning about the basic computer system.
Researching about computer systems
With support, creating presentations about preferred electronic device.
Taking part in quizzes
Saving and storing work to the school network

Subject vocabulary:

Computer system, inputs, outputs, storage, save, safety, network, drag and drop, viruses.

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Subject: RE

Topic: domestic church, myself, families

Teacher: Miss Gosha Treska

Class: 3T

Skills students will be developing:

Their understanding of the concepts family, myself and church
Their knowledge about different types of families and families around the world
Knowledge how to be kind to others
Skills helping students to be come

Brief Description of Activities:

Our topic this term is domestic church, myself, families

Students will learn about families, church as a big family and different family units
Students will participate in sensory meditation and calming activities
Students will be encouraged to be kind and help each other
Students will participate in activities helping them become more active members of their community

Subject vocabulary:

Family members, love, care, kind, church, calm, myself, me, I,

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Subject: PSHE/C

Topic: people who help us

Mobility

Staying safe

Teacher: Miss Gosha Treska

Class: 3T

Skills students will be developing:

Their knowledge of safety at home and at school
Their knowledge of safety outside and on public transport
The understanding of how to say no and stating their preference
An awareness of traffic when crossing the road.
Basic self-help skills
Independence skills
Understanding people who can help in the community and at school

Brief Description of Activities:

Our topic this term is people who help us.

Students will learn about safety at home and how to make the environment safe
Students will learn about safety when out and possible dangers and how to avoid them
Students will learn about who can help them in various situations.
Students will engage in a range of sensory activities to help reinforce learning.
Students will use our mobility bike track on school premises to practise crossing the road and using the road safely

Subject vocabulary:

Danger, safe, hot, cold, fire, careful, bus, train, plane, slowly, careful, help, home, school, road, stop, look, listen, car, safe, community workers

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Subject: science

Topic: electricity

Instructor or Teacher: Miss Gosha Treska

Class: 3T

Skills students will be developing:

Their understanding of how electricity works
How to use electricity safely
Knowledge about dangers when using electricity
Independence skills when using household appliances
Independence skills when turning appliances and battery-operated toys on and off
Practical skills when using household appliances, i.e. changing a battery in a remote control

Brief Description of Activities:

Our topic this term is electricity

Students will learn about safety at home and how to make the environment safe
Students will learn about safety when out and possible dangers and how to avoid them
Students will learn about who can help them in various situations.
Students will engage in a range of sensory activities to help reinforce learning.
Students will use our mobility bike track on school premises to practise crossing the road and using the road safely

Subject vocabulary:

Plug, socket, switch, electricity, safe, dangerous, battery, wire, names of various household appliances, on, off, broken

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Subject: ART

Teacher: Mrs Nayyar

Class: 3T

Skills students will be developing:

To identify different colours in the environment.
To discover natural and man-made colours.

To identify colours used in works of art.
To analyse works of art.
To take part in classroom discussions.
Will contribute to class room routines by setting up and putting away materials.
To work both independently and collaboratively.
To mix secondary and tertiary colours using primary.
To understand the difference between warm and cool colours.
To discover the difference between colour and tones.
To learn to make light and dark shades.
To increase their proficiency in the handling of different materials.
To analyse and evaluate their own work, and that of others, in order to strengthen the visual impact or applications of their work.

Brief Description of Activities:

To observe primary colours in the environment.
To match, label, name different colours.
To analyse works of art- look at Picasso’s blue period and Van Gogh’s use of warm and cool colours.
To paint examples of secondary and tertiary colours using primary colours.
Will use water to make light shades of black.
To look at works of art and answer questions about the colours they can observe.
To paint a colour wheel using primary, secondary and tertiary colours.
To paint a monochrome bar.

Subject vocabulary:

Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, colour wheel, warm and cool colours, Picasso, Van Gogh, artists, colours, monochrome, light, dark, tones, monochrome, water, watercolours, paint brush.

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Subject: DT

Teacher: Mrs Nayyar

Class: 3T

Skills students will be developing:

To analyse different products.
To take part in classroom discussions.
Will contribute in class room routines by setting up and putting away materials.
To work both independently and collaboratively.
To design and create a product to meet ‘needs’ and ‘wants’.
Develop an understanding of ways to critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others.
Use research and exploration, such as the study of different cultures, to identify and understand user needs.
To discover ways of modify products.
To meet the demands of a brief.
To discover different types of jewellery and art from Egypt.
To respond to an artist’s exhibition.

To test, evaluate and refine their ideas and products against a specification, taking into account the views of intended users and other interested groups.

Brief Description of Activities:

To design create a robot wall hanging for the Science Museum shop. To cut shapes and join them together to create parts of a robot.

To tie together pieces of wood to create a wall hanging.
Will cut and combine shapes to create a 2d paper robot.
To cut and assemble various sponges shapes to create a bath toy shaped like a robot.
To join lollipop sticks together to create different parts of a robot.
To print on a canvas bag, to create a printing block by cutting and sticking pieces of string on a cardboard block.
To print geometric patterns on a on a scarf.
To model their creations: jewellery and scarves.
To look at various jewellery from Egypt and join various materials such as paper, sequins, cardboard and string together to create a choker necklace and bracelet.

Subject vocabulary:

Robot, design, product, museum, wood, colour, testing, British Museum, Tate museum, exhibition, artists, canvas bags, pencil case, jewellery, Egypt.

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Subject: History

Topic: Making of the United Kingdom 1500 – 1750

Teacher: Mr Tomasz Kacperski

Class: 3T

Skills students will be developing:

Chronological understanding; using dates, vocabulary and conventions that describes historical periods and the passage of time.
Historical inquiry; asking questioning about the past.
An understanding of experiences, ideas, beliefs and attitudes of men, women and children in past societies and how this have shape the world.
Use a range of sources to communicate about the past and present.
Visual recognition of people and events in the past.
Reading skills including use of symbols and picture cues to identify events and people in the past.

Brief Description of Activities:

Use images/CD ROMs/Role-play/discussions to investigate major events and personalities e.g. Henry VIII.
Use images/CD ROM/Role-play/discussions to explore the way of life of people at different levels of society e.g. Rich and poor people in 1500.
Use images/CD ROMs/Role-play/discussions to explore some of the major political, social and religious changes that shaped the history of Britain e.g. Civil War, formation of the United Kingdom, different groups in society and the religious tension between Catholics and Protestants.

Subject vocabulary:

words associated with time, e.g. old, new, leading to older, oldest, newer, newest, today, a long time ago, ancient, history, next, before, after, now, then, the past, the present,
key words associated with the United Kingdom 1500-1750, e.g. King, Queen, beheaded, Henry 8, Charles 1, rich, poor, Catholic, Protestant, Civil War, Parliament, ruffle, corset, executioner, royalist, parliamentarians, roundheads, Cavaliers.

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Subject: Music

Topic: African Music and Christmas

Teacher: Petra Voniatis

Class: 3T

Skills students will be developing:

Instrument specific skills – African drums and other tuned/unturned percussions, Piano keyboards.
Singing and signing - Social skills, promote self-expression, develop communication skills.
Develop rhythmic ability.
Listening and recognising salient features in music.
Performance skills – develop self - confidence, role of the audience.
Learning how to read a simple graphic score using letters and colours – literacy skills.
Improvisational and compositional skills.

Brief Description of Activities:

Rhythmic circle activities using percussions and African drums, incorporating, call and response, creating their own rhythms, revising the musical elements, tempo, dynamics, pitch, timbre.
Listening/watching extracts of African traditional music and identifying instruments through choices of pictures.
Singing traditional African songs and dancing/ making movement to African music.
Play African percussions and drums – keeping a beat, call and response, dynamics and tempo.
Performing and rehearsing as a group using tuned and un-tuned percussion, following simple music notation using colours and letters to represent different notes and keys and following a leader.

Subject vocabulary:

Instruments: African Percussions- Djembe drum, Piano keyboards, Xylophone - Balafon, Glockenspiel, Maracas (shakers), claves, guiro (scraper).
Musical elements: Pitch (high/low), tempo (fast/slow), dynamics (loud/quiet), melody (tune), call and response (copy), rhythm, performance.
Master drummer, A cappella, gospel,
Musical instruments: Djembe, Sakara, Talking drum, Double bells, Shekere

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Subject: Cookery

Topic: Making breakfast

Ms Yasmine Bouabdallah

Class: 3T

Skills students will be developing:

Knowledge of ingredients used to make breakfast
Awareness of techniques used to make porridge boiled eggs and omelette
Measuring oats using a table spoon
Awareness of basic hygiene
Listening and communication skills when working in the kitchen
Count to 3 when measuring oats
Awareness of the use of utensils and electrical equipment
Take turns when measuring ingredients
Team work when clearing up and washing up utensils
Develop fine motor skills when cracking up eggs

Brief Description of Activities:

Mixing milk with oats
Wash hands and use of apron before manipulating ingredients
Follow health and safety when making breakfast
Follow visual and verbal instructions when following recipes
Chop and slice fruits to make smoothie
Use the blender with an adult
Use the hob or cooker safely with an adult
Mix ingredients using a wooden spoon
Use the timer to boil an egg
Manipulate the cook or hob safely
Clear out and tidy up after cooking
Experience and taste various ingredients
Peel and chop fruits in small pieces

Subject vocabulary:

Health and safety, healthy snacks Preparing, ingredients, chopping, washing, juicing, squeezing, cutting, tasting, blending, smoothie, fruit kebabs, chopping boards, aprons, wash hands

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Subject: Personal Care

Topic: Personal Hygiene

Ms Yasmine Bouabdallah

Class: 3T

Skills students will be developing:

Awareness of ways to enhance ourselves
Awareness of skincare products available for them to use
Awareness of looking after skin, hair and part of face
Understanding of ways to look after our body
Experience ways to look after hair, skin and part of face such as eyes and ears
Awareness of good appearance from a bad appearance
Communication skills and vocabulary related to toiletries products
Take turns when experiencing products
Pair work when using toiletry products

Brief Description of Activities:

Match and label face features
Take part in role plays and demonstrations when using products
Cut and paste features of the face into the correct place
Experience use of products to enhance our face
Match letter to pictures
Copy letters to pictures using captions
Take part in lotto and matching activities
Explore products used to treat skincare conditions
Select products used to treat skin conditions from a small selection

Subject vocabulary:

Skincare, face , cotton buds, cotton wool, water, soap, wipes, flannel , cream, face mask, brush, comb

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Subject: PE

Topic: Touch Rugby Skills and Swimming

Teacher: Ms Donaldson

Class: 3T

Skills students will be developing:

Ability to play and interact with the group and be part of a team.
Ability to wait, share and take turns.
Explore and use basic ball skills individually and in combination.
An ability to recognise and describe how their bodies feel during exercise.
An ability to recognise good performance.
The ability to respond to instructions and commands.

Water confidence and safety in the pool.
Stroke technique on front and back.

Brief Description of Activities:

Individual ball skills and practices.
A range of ball handling and kicking activities to develop technique.
Passing skill practices individually, in pairs and small groups.
Relays, competitions to develop speed and control.
Conditioned games to help learn the rules of touch rugby.
Observing others performance and thinking about their own.
Water confidence activities.
Activities to develop the use of arms & legs to propel themselves.

Work on technique to on their front & back developing correct strokes.

Subject vocabulary: