STAR Workshops Planning: Autumn Term 1
Year 2, Georgina Webber
Film Text(s): Arrietty/The Borrowers – film and book
WEEK 1 THEME: Friends & Family – The Simpsons
Wednesday 7th September - Friday 9th September
Learning Experiences:
Whole school film immersion days. We will watch some episodes of The
Simpsons, take part in a range of learning activities based on The Simpsons
and make corridor display items for the whole school.
1.
Green Film Factory Folder Cover Sheet
2.
TV Film Quiz
3.
Test Card
4.
Storyboarding
5.
Sofa frames
6.
Sky opening sequencing
7.
Merchandising
8.
Portraits
9.
Character profiles
10. New Characters
11. Family Trees
12. Maths learning based around – ‘the answer is 10)
13. Extended writing – my favourite TV show
14. Corridor display creation.
Skills:
Writing for different purposes
-Proof-reading to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation [for
example, ends of sentences punctuated correctly]
-Read aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the
meaning clear.
-Re-reading to check that their writing makes sense and that verbs to
indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including verbs in the
continuous form
-Using questions and question marks appropriately
-Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
-Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas,
experiences and imagination
-Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern,
texture, line, shape, form and spaces.
WEEK 2 THEME:Meeting The Borrowers
Monday 12th – Wednesday 14th September 14th September trip to Borrowers Exhibition at Sutton House, Hackney.
Learning Experiences:
Skills:
Immersion in the text/genre. We will introduce our theme and ask our big
Writing for different purposes
questions about The Borrowers/Arrietty, stories about small people living
-Proof-reading to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation [for
amongst us and link this to our overall friends and family theme.
example, ends of sentences punctuated correctly]
Knowledge Harvest – what do we know already?
-Read aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the
Big questions for our display – what do we want to find out?
meaning clear.
Who are the Borrowers? What do they do? Why do they come into the
-Re-reading to check that their writing makes sense and that verbs to
house? What do they take and why?
indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including verbs in the
Create a pocket pal character. Design a pocket and describe your pocket pal. continuous form
We will make creative items for our class display based on film during the
afternoon.
Match box activity – make something for a Borrower.
GPS Focus: statements, questions, exclamations and commands
Reading Tree
Begin listening to our class story book – The Borrowers.
Reading Tree Groups
STEM:
All about the number 15. A Borrower is always measured at 15cm high so we
will do lots of activities involving the number 15.
Carousel of maths activities to consolidate, challenge and extend:
Place value
Making 15
Finding 15 things
More than less than
Find things that are 15cm
Compare things to a Borrower
Friday 16th September
Learning Experiences: Pocket Pal Adventures
Every Friday we will write an installment of our pocket pal adventure story.
This week will create our own pocket pal. We will describe our pocket pal
and write an introduction to them and describe their dreams.
-Using questions and question marks appropriately
-Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
-Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas,
experiences and imagination
-Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern,
texture, line, shape, form and space
STEM:
-count in steps of 2, 3, and 5 from 0, and in tens from any number, forward
and backward
-recognise the place value of each digit in a two-digit number (tens, ones)
-identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations,
including the number line
-compare and order numbers from 0 up to 100; use <, > and = signs
-read and write numbers to at least 100 in numerals and in words
-use place value and number facts to solve problems.
Skills:
Writing for different purposes
-Proof-reading to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation [for
example, ends of sentences punctuated correctly]
-Read aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the
meaning clear.
-Re-reading to check that their writing makes sense and that verbs to
indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including verbs in the
continuous form
WEEK 3 THEME: Making A Home Under The House
Monday 19th – Wednesday 21st September
Learning Experiences:
Following our trip to Sutton House, we will focus on items that the
Borrowers borrow from the ‘human beans’ to make a house. We will have a
selection of things that a Borrower might find in the house and think about
what we would use it for and what a Borrower would use it for.
We will describe/compare our homes and the home of the Borrowers under
the clock in the old house. We will write Arietty’s guide to her home
GPS Focus: Noun phrases and expanded noun phrases for description and to
specify. Adjectives to describe.
KS1 Reading Tree Groups
STEM learning: Adding things to make Arrietty’s home
Carousel of maths activities to consolidate, challenge and extend:
Counting and adding activities
Crossing 10
Column addition
Addition problems
Students work together to work in groups to create the different rooms in a
home for a Borrower family and write descriptions to go with it and students
will work on sewing skills to make a quilt for Arrietty.
KS1 STEM Groups
Skills:
Writing for different purposes
-Proof-reading to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation [for
example, ends of sentences punctuated correctly]
-Read aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the
meaning clear.
-Re-reading to check that their writing makes sense and that verbs to
indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including verbs in the
continuous form
- Noun phrases and expanded noun phrases for description and to specify.
Adjectives to describe.
STEM Skills:
-solve problems with addition:
-using concrete objects and pictorial representations, including those
involving numbers, quantities and measures
-applying their increasing knowledge of mental and written methods
-recall and use addition facts to 20 fluently, and derive and use related facts
up to 100
-add numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and
mentally, including:
-a two-digit number and ones
-a two-digit number and tens
-two two-digit numbers
-adding three one-digit numbers
-show that addition of two numbers can be done in any order (commutative)
-Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
-Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas,
experiences and imagination
-Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern,
texture, line, shape, form and spaces.
Friday 23rd September
Learning Experiences:
Chapter 2 of pocket pal adventure story. This week we will describe the
home that their pocket pal makes using items that they have borrowed from
the human world.
WEEK 4 THEME: Going Outside
Monday 26th – Wednesday 28th September
Learning Experiences:
Arrietty is desperate to join her father on a borrowing trip and she is even
more desperate to go outside and see the real world. She wants to be
running in the grass and to see the blue sky and sunshine for herself.
Students will write about Arrietty’s first trip outside using vivid descriptions.
We will also discover how suffixes can help make our writing more exciting.
As well as writing beautiful descriptions, we will write some going outside
poems.
GPS Focus: similes and suffixes
KS1 Reading Tree & STEM Groups
STEM learning:
Arrietty needs a bag to take borrowing or she might drop things along the
way, especially when she is climbing the curtains or running through the long
grass. Because she is new to borrowing, Arrietty quite often drops and loses
things she finds. So this week we will look at the wonderful world of
Skills:
Writing for different purposes
Proof-reading to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation [for
example, ends of sentences punctuated correctly]
-Read aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the
meaning clear.
-Re-reading to check that their writing makes sense and that verbs to
indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including verbs in the
continuous form
- Noun phrases and expanded noun phrases for description and to specify.
Adjectives to describe.
-Using exclamation phrases.
Skills:
Writing for different purposes
Proof-reading to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation [for
example, ends of sentences punctuated correctly]
-Read aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the
meaning clear.
-Re-reading to check that their writing makes sense and that verbs to
indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including verbs in the
continuous form
- Using similes and suffixes
STEM Skills:
-solve problems with subtraction
-using concrete objects and pictorial representations, including those
involving numbers, quantities and measures
-applying their increasing knowledge of mental and written methods
subtraction.
Carousel of Maths activities to consolidate, challenge and extend:
Counting backwards
Using a number line and objects to consolidate subtraction knowledge
Subtraction activities and garden word problems.
Students will investigate the science concept of living things and their
habitats. We will go out with a borrowing bag and see what we can find in
different habitats around the school. We will look at what living things we
can find there and why they are suited to that particular habitat. We will
compare this to the Borrowers and why they live in their particular habitat.
Following our work on going outside, we will work on creating some
beautiful pictures inspired by Arrietty’s garden.
Friday 30th September
Learning Experiences:
Chapter 3 of pocket pal adventure story. This week we will describe the
journey our pocket pal takes as they venture outside for the first time and
feel the warmth of the sun on them and the grass beneath their feet.
-recall and use subtraction facts to 20 fluently, and derive and use related
facts up to 100
-subtract numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and
mentally, including:
-a two-digit number and ones
-a two-digit number and tens
-two two-digit numbers
-subtracting three one-digit numbers
-show that subtraction of two numbers cannot be done in any order
-Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
-Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas,
experiences and imagination
-Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern,
texture, line, shape, form and spaces.
-explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead,
and things that have never been alive
-identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and
describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds
of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other
-identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including
micro-habitats
-describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using
the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of
food.
Skills:
Writing for different purposes
Proof-reading to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation [for
example, ends of sentences punctuated correctly]
-Read aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the
meaning clear.
-Re-reading to check that their writing makes sense and that verbs to
indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including verbs in the
continuous form
- Noun phrases and expanded noun phrases for description and to specify.
Adjectives to describe.
-Using exclamation phrases.
- Using similes and suffixes
WEEK 5 THEME: Japanese Borrowers
Monday 3rd - Wednesday 5th October
Learning Experiences:
This week we will focus on Japan – where Arrietty the film stems from.
Students will learn about the country, the landscape, the culture and we will
even try to learn some of the language. We will visit the local Japanese
bakery on Askew Road and hopefully visit the Kyoto Garden in Holland Park.
Students will write about our experiences using time words to help sequence
and structure their work.
This week we will make lots of Japanese food and crafts including origami.
These activities will also include lots of writing using instructional language.
Skills:
Writing for different purposes
Proof-reading to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation [for
example, ends of sentences punctuated correctly]
-Read aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the
meaning clear.
-Re-reading to check that their writing makes sense and that verbs to
indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including verbs in the
continuous form
-Time words and instructional language.
GPS Focus: time words and instructional language.
KS1 Reading Tree & STEM Groups
STEM learning:
Carousel of maths activities to consolidate, challenge and extend.
Making amounts of money using different coins
Recognizing coins
Adding and subtracting amounts of money
Finding change
Problems involving buying items from our Japanese shop.
STEM:
-recognise and use symbols for pounds (£) and pence (p); combine amounts
to make a particular value
-find different combinations of coins that equal the same amounts of money
-solve simple problems in a practical context involving addition and
subtraction of money of the same unit, including giving change
-Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
-Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas,
experiences and imagination
-Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern,
texture, line, shape, form and spaces.
Friday 7th October
Learning Experiences:
Chapter 4 of pocket pal adventure story. This week we will describe the
journey our pocket pal takes as they travel to Japan! Students will write
about what their pocket pal sees in Japan, describe the different things they
see there and all the interesting food they get to eat.
Skills:
Writing for different purposes
Proof-reading to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation [for
example, ends of sentences punctuated correctly]
-Read aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the
meaning clear.
-Re-reading to check that their writing makes sense and that verbs to
indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including verbs in the
continuous form
- Noun phrases and expanded noun phrases for description and to specify.
Adjectives to describe.
-Using exclamation phrases.
- Using similes and suffixes
-Time words
WEEK 6 THEME: Trapped In A Jam Jar
DC1 Week
th
th
Monday 10 – Wednesday 12 October
Learning Experiences:
DC1 week
In between our data capture assessments; we will wonder what it would be
like to be trapped in a jam jar. Arrietty’s family is always worried about being
seen and captured by the ‘human beans’ as they know lots of stories about
other borrowers that this has happened to. Students will put a cut out of
themselves into a jam jar and write a wonderful account of how they came
to be trapped in the first place and how they came about their great escape.
Students will need to insert their photo and decorate their jam jar before
they embark on their writing.
GPS focus – verbs, adverbs
KS1 Reading Tree & STEM Groups
STEM learning:
This week, students will make a special drink for Arrietty and a human bean
to take on a picnic. They will learn about capacity – how to read scales and
measure amounts of liquids.
Carousel of maths activities to consolidate, challenge and extend:
Using droppers and pipets
Choose appropriate units of measure
Carefully pour and measure amounts of liquid
Compare amounts of liquids
Add and subtract different amounts
Solve capacity problems
We will also link this theme of being trapped to look at trapped wildlife and
endangered species. Students will find out what wildlife is endangered and
how changes to their habitats have contributed to this situation. Students
will create an endangered species information pack.
Skills:
Writing for different purposes
Proof-reading to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation [for
example, ends of sentences punctuated correctly]
-Read aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the
meaning clear.
-Re-reading to check that their writing makes sense and that verbs to
indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including verbs in the
continuous form
-Verbs and adverbs
STEM:
-choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure
length/height in any direction (m/cm); mass (kg/g); temperature (°C);
capacity (litres/ml) to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers, scales,
thermometers and measuring vessels
-compare and order lengths, mass, volume/capacity and record the results
using >, < and =
-Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
-Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas,
experiences and imagination
-Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern,
texture, line, shape, form and spaces.
-explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead,
and things that have never been alive
-identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and
describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds
of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other
-identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including
micro-habitats
-describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using
the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of
food.
Friday 14th October
Learning Experiences:
Chapter 5 of pocket pal adventure story. This week we will describe the
journey our pocket pal takes as become trapped! Students will write about
who caught them, how they were seen, what they were put in and how they
escaped.
Skills:
Writing for different purposes
Proof-reading to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation [for
example, ends of sentences punctuated correctly]
-Read aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the
meaning clear.
-Re-reading to check that their writing makes sense and that verbs to
indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including verbs in the
continuous form
- Noun phrases and expanded noun phrases for description and to specify.
Adjectives to describe.
-Using exclamation phrases.
- Using similes and suffixes
-Time words
-Verbs and adverbs
WEEK 7 THEME:
Friends and Enemies
Monday 17th - Wednesday 19th October
Learning Experiences:
The book and the film both feature a mean housekeeper character. She is
always trying to capture the ‘little people’ that she is convinced live within
her house. This makes her the enemy of the borrower family. Arrietty’s
family know that borrowers should never be seen by the humans and there
is certainly no way that they should ever be friends. However, Arrietty makes
friends with the boy and they help each other. Arrietty writes notes and
reads to him, he finds and delivers useful items to her family. This week we
will look at these different relationships and write contrasting poetry with
repeating chorus patterns.
Skills:
Writing for different purposes
Proof-reading to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation [for
example, ends of sentences punctuated correctly]
-Read aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the
meaning clear.
-Re-reading to check that their writing makes sense and that verbs to
indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including verbs in the
continuous form
-repeating patterns in poetry
GPS focus – repeating patterns in poetry
KS1 Reading Tree & STEM Groups
STEM learning:
We will focus on numbers and number patterns this week.
Carousel of maths activities to consolidate, challenge and extend:
Number sequences
Odd and even numbers
Picture patterns
Times table patterns
Arrietty’s family are worried that they might be some of the few remaining
borrowers left. How would you feel if you were the only ones left of your
kind? We will link this learning to our science theme of living things and
endangered species. Students will create a thoughts and feelings map and
design and make a range of friendship bracelets to share with our friends.
We will finish with a reflection task to look back and celebrate all of our
learning this term.
STEM:
-count in steps of 2, 3, and 5 from 0, and in tens from any number, forward
and backward
-recognise the place value of each digit in a two-digit number (tens, ones)
-identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations,
including the number line
-compare and order numbers from 0 up to 100; use <, > and = signs
-read and write numbers to at least 100 in numerals and in words
-use place value and number facts to solve problems.
-recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10
multiplication tables, including recognising odd and even numbers
Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
-Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas,
experiences and imagination
-Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern,
texture, line, shape, form and spaces.
Friday 21st October
Learning Experiences:
Chapter 6 of pocket pal adventure story. This week we will finish our stories
as our pocket pal tells us who their friends and enemies are. We will finish
with a closing reflection.
Skills:
Writing for different purposes
Proof-reading to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation [for
example, ends of sentences punctuated correctly]
-Read aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the
meaning clear.
-Re-reading to check that their writing makes sense and that verbs to
indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including verbs in the
continuous form
- Noun phrases and expanded noun phrases for description and to specify.
Adjectives to describe.
-Using exclamation phrases.
- Using similes and suffixes
-Time words
-Verbs and adverbs.