1. Coastal Habitats and Seasonal Changes
ENGLISH
Labelling collections
Sequencing / describing photos sequences from beachcombing visits
Non-fiction seashore books
Tongue
Exploring seashore via senses & use to generate expanded vocabulary for writing
Letter in a bottle
Traditional tale – Rapunzel (Brothers Grimm not Disney!)
MATHS
Sorting, matching & classifying
Comparing & ordering
Estimating and weighing using standard & non-standard measures
Sugar cube towers
Rain gauges
Coastal Habitats and Seasonal Changes
ILPs: Science / Art & Design
Beachcombing and seashore with rock pools and micro-habitats; Scarborough Castle as a historical habitat; summer season & weather; seascape art work
ART & DESIGN
Making a beachcomber’s treasure book
Planning, designing & making sea creatures
Make a new home for a hermit crab
Beachcomber art using shells, pebbles & driftwood
Seascape art works – paint & mixed media
Building stacks & towers with sugar cubes, stones, sticks etc.
Berndnaut Smilde’s Moving Cloud Installations
MUSIC
Soundscapes – weather sounds / natural sounds
Weather songs
SMSC & BRITISH VALUES
SCIENCE
Identifying / naming plants and animals including micro-habitats
Sorting & classifying dead / alive / never been alive
Simple food chains (in rock pools)
Identifying & classifying sea life
Basic needs of animals (e.g. hermit crab)
Observing seasonal changes
P.E.
Playing defend and attack games; fire ‘arrows’ )bean bags); play dodge
‘Castle’ assault courses
GEOGRAPHY
Identifying & naming coastal features
Making models of coastline for small world investigation
Using world maps & atlases to place towers
TV weather reports / symbols / extreme weather
View from a cloud
PSHCE & SRE
Seaside safety code
Caring for the environment
R.E.
NY Agreed Syllabus Unit
COMPUTING
Using search engines to organise, store and retrieve information
Search for live web cams / footage of seabirds etc. DT
Cutting and joining: seabird felt finger puppet
Building models of castles
AQA Units to be selected as appropriate at KS4
HISTORY
Visit to Scarborough Castle & learn about events beyond living memory
Secondary Year 2 (2016 – 2017) Summer Term