In one of my previous blogs, I had contemplated potential ways forward for teachers at Sommerville by suggesting deliberate use of our termly "Team Release" days to plan collaboratively within our pathway team.
This was a successful session alongside my colleagues where we approached our Term Topic: Wind with an interdisciplinary lens. We started off the session by first asking ourselves the big question "What key concepts do we want our students to know and do across the main curriculum areas for Numeracy, Literacy and Science?" By identifying how the element 'Wind' would align within each discipline, had us looking at targeted areas that we can interconnect:
- Literacy: Poetry, Drama and Dance - Using poetry features alongside body/gesture to mimic wind conditions, patterns and movement.
- Science: Wind related experiments using observation and hypothesizing.
- Technology: Technological Product - Understand that technological products are made from materials that have performance properties.
- Maths Strand: Geometry - exploring 2D and 3D shapes (also connected to Visual Arts in creating artwork)
- Visual Arts: Represent the movement of wind in an artwork.
Team planning in motion:
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