scargill infant school etwinning project
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Scargill Infant SchoolLondon Borough of Havering.
e-Twinning Project2014
Digital Fairytales
• Choose which project you want to carry out and find a school to partner with.
• Set up a project page that outlines what you are going to do and talk with your partner about what you would both like to gain from the project.
• It is important to remember how long you want your project to last for e.g. 3 weeks, 3 months, continuous.
Choosing a project
Project outline – Digital Fairytales:• Each school are going to choose a popular Fairy
tale and work with a small group of children to act out the story.
• The story will be filmed and sent to each others schools.
• The children can then choose and write alternative endings for each others stories, creating artwork or a piece of writing with their suggestions.
• The children can speak to each other through video conferencing to discuss their ideas.
Meet your new friends!
Share what you have been learning about.
Ask and answer questions.
My partner school.
• They sent pictures of the props and costumes that they had made and told the children about what they had been doing.
• When the children finished acting out their story they sent us pictures and then used video conferencing to tell us all about it.
Making props and costumes.
A house made of straw.
My school.
• We sent the children pictures of what we hade made and then sent a video recording of the story.
• We sent the recording of the story in separate parts so the children could have a go at guessing what was going to happen next.
• We decided to make a puppet theatre and puppets to perform our version of the Three Little pigs.
The puppet theatre.
“I’ll huff and I’ll puff…”
Exchange postcards.
Display them on a world
map for your whole school
to see.
Write a letter.
Reception/Foundation
StageAges 4-5
Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term
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Weather – All classes will have a
weather chart that will be
changed daily.
School grounds (inside and outside), playground.
Maps, local area, visiting the shops, library, church etc.
Links to We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.
Travelling further afield…Thorndon Country
Park/RSPB, minibeats, looking after the
environment, environments suitable for minibeasts to
live in.
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What is the weather like in
the other country today?
Keep a weather diary to compare
countries.
What does the school look like?
Share photographs and drawings. Take a video of a
walk around your school grounds.
Looking at maps of both countries. How are they
similar/different?
Where do they go on school trips?
What type of minibeasts do they have in your country?
Geography Curriculum Planning 2014/15 - Reception
Geography Curriculum Planning 2014/15 – Year 1
Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term
Natio
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Year 1 Weather –Measuring the rain, wind
socks, shadow work, Direction (NSEW).
London and the River Thames –
Using aerial photos.
We are an Island –River Thames runs into the
sea (Purfleet, Southend), other countries and the seas
that surround them.
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k Look at rainfall in both countries. How can it be measured? Compare the difference and investigate
why.
What rivers are there in this country? Are they famous and if so why? Swap photographs
of the rivers.
Is this country and Island? Do they know what an Island is? What seas
surround your country?
Geography Curriculum Planning 2014/15 – Year 2
Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term
Inter
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Year 2 Compass work and direction. Looking after the environment. Yours and Mine (pair up with a partner school in
another country) communicate with letters,
postcards, skype etc.
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Using video conferencing, work in pairs/small groups
and direct each other around the classroom using the
correct geographical language.
How do they look after their environment?
Do they have the same issues as the UK?
As above.