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Dosbarth Coala Term: Spring Theme: Big Wide World

This project has a geography focus and teaches children about a contrasting location overseas and how it may have similarities and differences to the place in which we live. Language, Literacy & Communication Skills  Listen to and re-tell traditional stories from Wales and the chosen place. Talk about the characters and whether their lives are similar or different to their own.  Learn techniques of simple report writing and analyse how they are set out. Write simple weather reports for both countries.  Critical Literacy – Looking at a tale from a different character’s point of view.  Fortune Lines- Plot characters’ feelings. Personal & Social Development, Well-Being & Cultural Diversity  Communicate and reflect on the decisions made in stories, situations or personally, suggesting alternative responses.  Develop skills of perseverance, concentration and motivation, and competence in identifying and solving problems through Outdoor and Adventure activities and work as a team to record what they have found out about their locality and record a group song.  Reflect on their own work and suggest ways to improve. Mathematical Development  Recognise half, quarter and whole turns.  Describe and extend number sequences.  Begin to complete simple multiplication and division sums and problems.  Solve a given problem by collecting, sorting and organising information in simple ways. Physical Development  Outdoor Activities – How can we get Kira the Koala over the bridge safely?  Using the school field the children to use maps to navigate safely around, through, and over obstacles to reach different destinations. Creative Development  Learn the skills of paint mixing. Use these skills to paint a range of landscapes from direct observations and of the contrasting locality using photographs.  Listen to traditional music from Wales and the contrasting location. Understand how music is used and created.  Learn traditional songs from Wales and the chosen place. Knowledge & Understanding of the World  Use globes and maps to show where the chosen place is. Look at names of rivers, cities and other physical features shown on a map.  Look at maps of Taffs Well and Nantgarw and make comparisons of the physical features.  Make a simple map of their own locality using simple symbols to show geographical features. Recreate using an ICT package.  Develop an understanding of how and why places change when affected by weather, disasters, tourism or building. Welsh Language Development  Children produce weather reports in Welsh on the chosen locality and Wales.  Learn about the clothes, food, homes, places of their chosen locality and make simple fact files in Welsh.  Role play being in a Travel Agent or Tourist Office and talk about their chosen locality.