Class Information
- Children are expected to read at home for pleasure. Reading comment tasks are done in school at 8.45-9.00am daily.
- PE: The children will need their PE kits on a Tuesday (Modules 1, 3 and 5) and a Friday, and their swimming kits on a Tuesday (Modules 2, 4 and 6).
Please ensure all belongings are clearly labelled.
Unit of Inquiry
Transdisciplinary Theme: Sharing the Planet
Central Idea: Tourism can bring benefits to an economy; however, it can cause problems in a local environment.
Lines of Inquiry
- The environmental regions found in North America.
- Similarities and differences between our location and a place in North America.
- How areas of natural beauty are changing due to tourism.
Previous Units
Unit of Inquiry
Transdisciplinary Theme: Who We Are
Central Idea: The work that charities do can change a person’s life.
Lines of Inquiry
- What we are taught about charity through different communities.
- How charitable organisations are organised.
- Causes that charitable organisations support.
- Where charities have promoted change to legislation.
Unit of Inquiry
Transdisciplinary Theme: How The World Works
Central Idea: Scientific and technological advances can change quality of life.
Lines of Inquiry
- Scientific and technological advances.
- The impact of these on our daily lives.
- The choices people make.
Unit of Inquiry
Transdisciplinary Theme: Where We Are in Place and Time
Central Idea: Human migration is a response to
challenges, risks and opportunities.
Lines of Inquiry
- Reasons for exploration
- The effects of Tudor exploration
- Migration in the modern world
- Our families and migration
Unit of Inquiry
Transdisciplinary Theme: How We Express Ourselves
Central Idea: People express their culture and beliefs
through Art.
Lines of Inquiry
- How personality, culture, and image can be portrayed in a portrait. (Form)
- Different types and styles of Art: How they are similar and how they differ. (Connection)
- Art that reflects me. (Perspective)
Unit of Inquiry
Transdisciplinary Theme: An inquiry into the rights and responsibilities in the struggle to share finite resources with other people and other living things.
Central Idea: Tourism can bring benefits to people, but also cause problems in a local environment.
Lines of Inquiry
- The environmental regions found in North America (Form)
- How the areas of natural beauty are changing due to tourism (Change)
- How people can create sustainable tourism (Responsibility)
Unit of Inquiry
Theme: Where we are in place and time
Central Idea: The effects of migration can have an impact upon society.
We will inquire into:
- Main causes of the Industrial Revolution
- Migration as a result of the Industrial Revolution and its impact on the wider society
- Migration in the modern world
- Our families and migration
Unit of Inquiry
Theme: Who we are
Central Idea: The work that charities do can change a person’s life.
We will inquire into:
- What we are taught about charity through different communities
- How charitable organisations are organised
- Causes that charitable organisations support
- Where charities have promoted change to legislation
