Humanities Curriculum Team Celebrating Success Action Plan for 2014

KS1 Topics History- How we used to live –Great Fire of London- Tudor houses –Titanic- Drama –Victorians- Victorian Day & parents assembly Geography- Wonderful World –Local/ National/ International –Arctic- Igloo –Habitats –Food around the world –Links with Africa- sponsorship KS2 Topics History- Time Machine –Romans- Tortoise, mosaics & Toga day –Vikings- Viking visitors and longboats –Greeks- Acropolis Geography- – Local knowledge – Links with Africa- sponsorship

Cross Curricular links Drama – Titanic Ofsted Graded Good Charles Dickens/ authors Workhouse based on Oliver Twist Non fiction texts- Arctic Dictionaries, glossaries, index - Plague, GFOL G&T – Diary of a chimney sweep or working down a Victorian mine. Roman numerals Houses- shape space and measure

Actions Resources sorted Progression of skills and coverage of curriculum KS meetings Evidence gathering – photos and displays

Assessment SubjectClassEmergingExpectedExceeding HistoryAM17%70%13% D/S38%63%0 CT076%24% B/C37%63%0 DB093%7% GeographyAM22%78%0 D/S42%58%0 CT079%21% B/C28%66%6% DB4%96%0 Expected levels -Year 1: Working within Level 2 -Year 2: Secure Level 2 -Year 3: Working within Level 3 -Year 4: Secure Level 3 -Year 5: Working within Level 4 -Year 6: Secure Level 4 Range of Levels majority of pupils expected –NC KS1 Levels 1-3 KS2 Levels 2-5 Attainment: Age 7 -Level 2 Age 11- Level 4 Age 14- Level 5/6

Assessment- Evaluation of topics, Pupils judged as Emerging, Expected and Exceeded not just numbers. Keep track and provide for more able, less able. Linking with questioning development. Use of higher level questioning. Challenge for more able Use of ICT- maps, research, s Cross curricular learning- e.g. humanities developed/ recorded through literacy. Funding- Grant available for WW1 centenary? Next Steps: Action Plan for