The topic for terms 5 and 6 is Africa. Please click here to see our topic web. For our chosen book we will be focusing on exploring a refugee’s ordeal. Christophe is a Rwandan child who has escaped the conflict in his country with his parents, although his baby brother Mathieu, has died. When eight-year-old Christophe arrives in England, he hasn’t been to school for two years and must cope with lessons in a third language (his parents speak French and Kinyarwanda). He is a quick learner, but he stubbornly refuses to read stories in class. When part of Christophe’s own dramatic story emerges in the playground, his teacher, Miss Finch, thinks she has found a way of reaching him by writing it down for him.
Christophe has a story inside him – and this story wants to be told. But with a new country, a new school, and a new language to cope with. Christophe can’t find the right words. He wants to tell the whole school why he had to leave Rwanda, why he has a scar made by a bullet from a soldier’s gun and what happened to his baby brother, but has he got the courage to be a storyteller? Christophe must find a way to break through all these barriers, so he can share his story with everyone.
This term in math and numeracy lessons pupils will learn to solve simple worded problems involving money & measures. Recognize and select coins and notes. To tell the time accurately incorporating quarter past and quarter to the hour. Pupils are to be challenged to extend their learning, add, and subtract numbers, using formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction. Understand and use numbers up to 100, and progress with up to three and onto four-digit numbers. Use everyday language to describe the properties of size and measurements including length, width, height, weight and make simple comparisons. Use everyday language to describe position, and name common 2D and 3D shapes. Sort and classify objects using a single criterion.
Regarding PSHE students will learn about Introduce the new topic of healthy lifestyles. To ask students to discuss what they think this term means. Ask individuals to think about how healthy their lifestyle currently is and create a poster about themselves, what foods they eat, what exercises they do etc.
Use power point presentations to provide information and allow discussions about what being healthy is and how we can help ourselves to be healthy. Introduce healthy eating, what is a well-balanced diet, why is this important? Look at the eat well plate and discuss the meanings of the different nutrients and what a well-balanced diet should consist of.
Students will also explore why exercise is so important, what are the benefits of exercising and how does this contribute to a healthy lifestyle. Students create posters about what activities they take part in, and how they could improve their lifestyle. They will also create a mind map of a variety of activities that they could get the college department to take part in, as part of promoting a healthy lifestyle: get fit campaign. E.g. a sponsored walk / dodgeball tournament etc. They should then plan the activity, setting dates and times of when they will hold this day, create advertising posters etc.
Vocational Pathways:
Each student will identify their skills and qualities and after we will discuss how they could be improved and the benefits from this. They will suggest how to become more confident and to help individual students in a caring nature through improving self-esteem. Pupils to give suggestions how they could improve their shyness and self-confidence.
ICT:
The students will learn about new software to order and edit audio clips. Students will also source sound effects to include in their PowerPoints to enhance the listener’s experience. The students will make a poster to advertise their chosen topics to their fellow students.
Home Management:
The pupils have been practicing hygiene routines (e.g., hand washing), Life skills (e.g., washing up / wiping tables etc.). Reading recipes and making a variety of different foods (choosing suitable ingredients and equipment for the specific recipe.
Below are photos showing Form 2 carrying out their reading and literacy abilities as well as some of the Life and Living skills they have participated in during this academic year.
Lee - Form 2 Teacher
