Literacy
Pupils should:
- Listen carefully to information to be able to acquire relevant information and make informed contributions in class.
- Interact in a group, taking turns be able to assess others comments.
- Consider poetic forms and their effects.
- Look at a variety of texts both fiction and non-fiction.
- Make connections when reading for example between the beginning and end of a story
- Infer and deduce from written work
- Recognise how vocabulary choice can affect meaning and tone.
- Write in a number of forms including poetry.
- Draw on their reading to write in similar style.
- Use language effects and vocabulary effectively.
- Plan, draft, revise, proofread, present and discuss work.
Mathematics
Pupils should:
- Through practical activity see the importance of standard units of measure. They should be able to select an appropriate unit of measure and be able to convert one metric unit into another.
- They should use maths in a ‘real life’ situation and in other subjects.
- They should solve problems involving ratio.
- They should show they are able to break down more complex calculations into simple steps.
- Also show ability to check results by using different procedures.
- Make estimates and approximations of distances and measures.
- Create and interpret frequency tables. Drawing inferences from data.
Geography
Pupils should:
- Carry out a fieldwork investigation outside the classroom.
- Use maps at a range of scales.
- Become familiar with features of maps including contents and keys.
- Draw a basic map.
- Look at other sources such as historical documents to get extra information about an area.
- Be able to explain how and why places change.
- Consider how places fit into a wider context, local, national and global.
- Explain the effect of human physical processes on an area, and how these can lead to change in the environment.
- Consider the effect humans can have on the environment and why we should attempt to promote sustainability.
History
Pupils should:
- Learn about characteristics of certain periods including ideas, beliefs and attitudes of men, women and children alive at the time
- Look at reasons for and results of historical events. Focusing on consequences locally.
- Use a range of sources.
- Study a local area and how and why it as changed over a period of time.
Science
Pupils should:
- Ask questions that can be investigated scientifically, decide how to find the answers.
- Look at locally plants and animals and learn how to identify and group them.
- Also consider why it is important to identify and group plants and animals
- Use observations and measurements to draw conclusions.
- Learn about different habitats, the plants and animals found in them and their suitability to their own habitat. Consider the importance of maintaining different habitats and protecting the environment.
- In looking at the history of the coalmines and coke production, they should look at how materials change when they are heated.
Consider the role science has played in developing the industry.
Art & design
Pupils should:
- Investigate the visual and tactile elements of materials and consider them in their designs.
- Look at materials that has been produced locally and in the past, and use it as a starting point for their own designs.
- Explore a range of starting point for their work and use a range of materials.
Design & Technology
Pupils should:
- Explore the sensory quality of materials.
- Look at how the working characteristics of products affect the way they are used.
Citizenship/Personal, social & health education (PSHE)
Pupils should:
- Have the opportunity to show they can take some responsibility for themselves and the local environment.
- That other living things have needs and consider what improves and harms the environment.
PE
Pupils should:
- Take part in outdoor activity challenges, including following trails, in familiar, unfamiliar and changing environments.
- Use a range of orienteering ad problem solving skills.
- Work with others to meet challenge.
