Rowan Gate School.
Medium term planning for.
Topic:
Communication/
literacy focus
Application of
number
focus
ICT focus
Working with others
focus
Improving own
performance focus
Problem solving
focus
Speaking & listening
during group
discussion.
Recording activities.
Understanding of
different datesVictorians, old & new.
Taking photographs.
Interactive
activities-espresso
Printing pictures.
Operating DVD’s
Group & paired work
opportunities in DT,
Geography, History,
music & Art
Making choiceswhich picture do I
choose, which model
shall I make?
Evaluating work &
making changes.
How to create
models, which
materials to use,
how to join parts
together.
Rowan Gate School.
Medium term planning for.
Topic:
Group 2 P8/BL: LB, KL,HA
Group 1 NC1: SD, SB
To know where our school is in
relation to the wider world.
To know who is in our school!
To find out what is next to our
school.
To know what facilities there are in
our local area.
End of Unit Objectives:
Investigating our Local Area
Group 3 P6/7: TW,JW,JS
To begin to discover where our school
is in relation to the wider world.
To discover who is in our school!
To find out what is next to our
school.
To discover what facilities there are
in our local area.
To discover where our school is in
relation to the wider world.
To discover who is in our school!
To find out what is next to our
school.
To discover what facilities there are
in our local area.
Rowan Gate School.
Medium term planning for.
Topic:
Group 1 NC1: SD, SB
To recognise that the Victorian
period was a long time ago; recall
some details about Victorian life;
identify some of the ways the
Victorians changed Britain.
End of Unit Objectives: The
Victorians
Group 3 P6/7: TW,JW,JS
Have opportunities to sequence
some key events from historical
stories and begin to learn about
significant people and different
periods.
Group 2 P8/BL: LB, KL,HA
Learn about different periods and
places in the past and make
distinctions between lives now and
then. They have opportunities to
answer questions about the past using
a range of sources.
Rowan Gate School.
Medium term planning for.
Topic:
Group 1 NC1: SD, SB
To explore ideas about journeys;
collect information about signs and
symbols for their work; investigate
lines, shapes, colours and textures to
produce work on the theme of
journeys; combine a variety of
painting, print-making and collage
techniques to enhance their work;
comment on ideas, methods and
approaches used in their own and
others’ work; adapt and improve their
work
End of Unit Objectives: Journeys
Group 3 P6/7: TW,JW,JS
To begin to use signs and symbols in
their work; combine lines, shapes,
colours and textures to create simple
patterns; use basic art vocabulary to
explain their ideas and work
Group 2 P8/BL: LB, KL,HA
To begin to explore ideas about
journeys; collect information about
signs and symbols for their work;
investigate lines, shapes, colours and
textures to produce work on the
theme of journeys; combine a variety
of painting, print-making and collage
techniques to enhance their work;
comment on ideas, methods and
approaches used in their own and
others’ work; adapt and improve their
work
Rowan Gate School.
Medium term planning for.
Topic:
Group 1 NC1: SD, SB
To use different methods and
techniques to explore their ideas and
communicate experiences.
Cooking
Model making
End of Unit Objectives:
Group 3 P6/7: TW,JW,JS
To experience different methods &
techniques to explore their ideas &
communicate experiences.
Cooking
Model making
Group 2 P8/BL: LB, KL,HA
To begin to use different methods
and techniques to explore their ideas
and communicate experiences.
Cooking
Model making
Rowan Gate School.
Medium term planning for.
Topic:
Group 1 NC1: SD, SB
To describe different moods.
To extend their range of sound
vocabulary.
To make sound effects.
End of Unit Objectives: Painting
with Sound
Group 3 P6/7: TW,JW,JS
To be supported to begin to describe
different moods and extend their
range of sound vocabulary; make
sound effects.
Group 2 P8/BL: LB, KL,HA
To begin to describe different
moods.
To begin to extend their range of
sound vocabulary.
To make sound effects.
Rowan Gate School.
Medium term planning for.
Topic:
Week 1 Theme: Where is our school?
Group 1 : NC1 SD SB
Geography Independence encouraged.
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
History
Art and
design
Children to record name of each area
as we visit.
Group 2 : P8/BL LB HA KL
Intro: we have moved into a new school!
Where is it?? Use Google Earth to show
children RGE is.
Using Espresso, Geog 1 Around our
school, introduce children to the
concept of ‘mapping’ our school. Children
to walk around the school taking
photographs of each area in order to
create a class map.
We are going to create a large map to
show what is in our school-prepare large
scale drawing.
Children to match photographs to key
areas.
Support available.
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
Group 3 : P6/7: TW JS JW
Adult supported
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
Children to tour the school, taking
photographs of key areas-playground,
hall, library, offices,
Use of CIP grid to support naming of
Use of CIP grid, to tick each area as it
is visited.
Rowan Gate School.
Medium term planning for.
Topic:
each area.
Design
Technology
Music
Differentiation through adult
questioning.
Week 2 Theme: Who is in my school??
Group 1 : NC1 SD SB
Geography Independence encouraged.
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
Warm Up:
 Copying rhythms-adult bangs
drum, children ‘reply’
 Song Bag: children take turns to
choose a song using objects to
prompt.
Main: to explore how music can portray
mood.
Play children a variety of music, they
indicate using feelings symbols, how the
music makes them feel.
Which type of song best describes their
move to their new school?
Support given to encourage pupils to
remember songs/feelings.
Group 2 : P8/BL LB HA KL
Parents visiting
Remind children of last week’s work,
what is in our school, today we are going
to take photographs of ‘who’ is in our
school?
Who do the children think is in our
school-can we list them-IWB?
Children to split into 2 groups, & to
Group 3 : P6/7: TW JS JW
Adult supported
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
Rowan Gate School.
Medium term planning for.
Topic:
photograph people in our school.
History
Art and
design
Design
Technology
Music
Independence encouraged.
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
Week 3 Theme: What is next to our school?
Group 1 : NC1 SD SB
Geography Children to write about 2 key areas
discovered for our display.
Children to use the cooking trolley to
make biscuits for parents visiting on
Tuesday afternoon-link to Englishinformation texts-‘How to make Biscuits’
Warm Up:
 Copying rhythms-adult bangs
drum, children ‘reply’
 Song Bag: children take turns to
choose a song using objects to
prompt.
Main: To create a ‘welcome song’ To use
instruments to accompany our ‘welcome’
song-‘I hear thunder’-‘We’re in
Rushden….’
Group 2 : P8/BL LB HA KL
What do the children think is around our
school? Using Google Earth, ask the
children what they can see?
Children to explore the local area, using
‘Eye Spy’ sheets to identify local
amenities. Children to take photographs
to add to display of ‘Our School’
Adult supported
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
Group 3 : P6/7: TW JS JW
Children use CIP to create a sentence to
describe a feature they have discovered
next to our school-for display
Rowan Gate School.
Medium term planning for.
Topic:
Children to dictate a sentence to
describe a feature they have discovered
next to our school-for display
History
Art and
design
Design
Technology
Children to paint/draw part of our
school for our display-play area, class
room…..
Independence encouraged.
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
Children to paint/draw part of our
school for our display-play area, class
room…..
To choose a room in our school to make
using junk craft materials/lego
Adult support available.
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
Children to choose a photograph to
enlarge, then to create a collage of a
feature of our school-a room/person
Adult supported
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
Group 2 : P8/BL LB HA KL
What do the children know about
Rushden?
Watch PP showing facilities the town
has.
Children to match each facility with its
purpose-swimming pool-swim, hospitallooking after people.
Template/worksheet, CIP wordbank.
Group 3 : P6/7: TW JS JW
CIP symbols & worksheet.
Music
Week 4: What is in our Town?
Geography
History
Art and
Group 1 : NC1 SD SB
Template/worksheet.
Rowan Gate School.
Medium term planning for.
Topic:
design
Design
Technology
Music
Independence encouraged.
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
Independence encouraged.
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
Children to use junk craft boxes to
create a building in Rushden-CIP symbols
to decorate-windows, signs, doors.
Adult support available.
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
Warm Up:
 Copying rhythms-adult bangs
drum, children ‘reply’
 Song Bag: children take turns to
choose a song using objects to
prompt.
Main: To use different instruments to
describe the ‘mood’ in the different
rooms in RGE-hall, library, playground,
classroom-to use CIP mood symbols to
support.
Adult supported
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
Adult supported
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
Rowan Gate School.
Medium term planning for.
Topic:
Week 5: The Victorians-old & new buildings.
Geography
History
Art and
design
Design
Technology
Music
Group 1 : NC1 SD SB
Group 2 : P8/BL LB HA KL
Group 3 : P6/7: TW JS JW
Independence encouraged.
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
Introduce children to new topic-The
Victorians. Watch PP depicting life for
children in this era.
Ask: Is this building the same as RG
Wellingborough? What is the same?
What is different?
Children to walk around the school &
outside, taking photo’s of things they
identify as ‘same’/different.
Children to choose from a black & white
selection of photographs of RGE. Once
they have a photograph they use black
coffee ‘paint’ to create a Victorian‘sepia’ effect painting.
Adult supported
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
Warm up: follow the leader/conductor.
Main: to listen to songs from the film
‘Oliver Twist’, describing key features in
the film, depicting Victorian Life. Group
discussion.
Adult supported
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
Independence encouraged.
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
Independence encouraged.
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
Adult supported
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
Rowan Gate School.
Medium term planning for.
Topic:
Week 6: The Victorians-toys
Geography
History
Art and
design
Design
Technology
Music
Group 1 : NC1 SD SB
Group 2 : P8/BL LB HA KL
Group 3 : P6/7: TW JS JW
Children to sort pictures & annotate
Children to watch TES PP showing old/new
Toys & changes over time.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory
/victorian_britain/toys_and_games/
Children to sort pictures/symbols of old/new
toys.
Selection of Victorian Toys for the children
to explore-marbles, puppets, dolls, dolls
houses, tea sets, jigsaw puzzles.
Children to make a Victorian ‘scrap album’ on
the topic Toys, children to create a small
booklet showing toys from this era, using
photographs.
Children to sort pictures with adult
support.
Warm up: follow the leader/conductor.
Main: to listen to songs from the film ‘Oliver
Twist’, describing key features in the film,
depicting Victorian Life. Group discussion.
Adult supported
Differentiation through questioning &
support.
Children to make a Victorian ‘scrap
album’ on the topic Toys, children to
create a small booklet showing toys
from this era, using photographs &
sketches, with simple annotation.
Independence encouraged.
Differentiation through questioning
& support.
Children to make a Victorian ‘scrap
album’ on the topic Toys, children to
create a small booklet showing toys
from this era, using photographs.
Rowan Gate School.
Medium term planning for.
Topic:
Rowan Gate School.
Medium term planning for.
Topic:
Learning intelligences considered (highlighted).
Verbal linguistic-
Visual spatial-
Intrapersonal-
Mathematical-
Bodily kinaesthetic-
Naturalistic-
MusicalDesignated music and
EAD sessions, hello
songs/activities,
songs to support
learning, action songs,
Instruments
(including junk
instruments) in
outside music area
Interpersonal-
Existential-
How this unit of work fosters links with the community:
Coffee morning for parents
Visiting local shops, cafes, parks