Constantine’s Creative Curriculum

Tresillian Class - Summer term

This term, children will be immersed in everything Cornish! Through studying our local area, children will learn about the mining heritage of our county. Children will also learn about Pip Staffieri, Europe’s first stand up surfer from Newquay and explore about how surfing became so popular in our county. Through geographical enquiry, children will discover the diverse features of Cornwall and be able to locate famous Cornish landmarks. A trip to Geevor Mine will enable children to understand what life would have been like as a miner. Art will also be a large focus this term as we explore Cornwall’s most influential artists.

Constantine Primary School Topic: Cornwall Y6

What I should already know: Vocabulary:  Cornwall is a county in England in the South West Ordnance survey map – it creates up-to-date paper  Cornwall is surrounded by coastline and digital maps  Tourism is the main industry in Cornwall Aerial view – a viewpoint from great height  Cornwall has a rich fishing and mining heritage Wheal (Vyvyan) meaning workplace  Surfing is a popular sport in Cornwall Engine house building containing a the process in which tin metal is extracted

from black tin By the end of this unit, I will: Industry – the companies and activities involved in  Know the key events of the history of mining in the process of producing goods for sale Cornwall – the transition to new  Know the location of famous Cornish landmarks manufacturing processes  Understand the impact that a significant Cornish Heritage – values, traditions, culture and artefacts handed down by previous generations figure has had on Cornwall  Bal – a mine Understand the location of Constantine parish in the county, country and wider world Bal maiden – a female worker in the mining industry

 Be able to use OS maps to study a local area including Bonnet – a bal maiden’s traditional hat

the Helford and Kenwyn rivers. Buccas – piskies, fairies Dip – miner’s name for a candle  Be able to use OS symbols to identify human and Engine house – the building containing a steam physical geographical features engine  Be able to sequence key events of this period on a Extracted – to remove or take out with force time line Hand barrow – a barrow for carrying rock. It had no  Know and use some key vocabulary relating to tin wheels but had handles and both ends. Usually was mining carried by 2 boys  Understand how surfing came to Cornwall Kernow – Cornwall in Cornish  Cornwall has an internationally important art heritage Richard Trevithick – a British inventor and mining engineer from Cornwall. He lived from 1771 – 1833 Smelting – process where tin is extracted from black tin Steam locomotive – a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine. St Piran – the patron saint of tin miners Tull – an old mining hat, usually thick and hardened with resin Pip Staffieri - first stand up surfer in UK

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How does this topic fit into other areas of the curriculum?

This is a topic with a geographical and historical theme, strong links to art and lots of opportunities for local studies. Where there are no explicit links with National Curriculum areas, for example, RE, music, PE and PSHE, these subjects will be taught separately during the term.

Science English Electricity.  Explore, read and share Cornish Myths and legends Children will be able to:  Write non-chronological reports of the history of surfing  associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and in Cornwall (NCR) voltage of cells used in the circuit  compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the  Write narrative recounts of legendary Cornish surfing brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on/off position of switches pioneer, Pip Staff ieri  use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram.  Write in a range of styles inspired by William Light Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Children will be able to:  recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines  Explore the lives and works of significant Cornish  use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because historical figures they give out or reflect light into the eye  explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them.

Geography  Study the location of Constantine at History parish, county, country, European and global scale  Sequence Cornish significant events on a  Identify the human and physical timeline  Add famous Cornish historical sites to a map characteristics, key topographical of Cornwall features and land-use patterns of  Study the lives of famous Cornish people who Cornwall Cornwall shaped the  A comparison of the human and physical Tin Mining in Cornwall: geography of The Isles of Scilly and the Year 6 Term 3  Sequence key events on a time line Galapagos Islands  Understand developments in mining in the  Study Ordnance Survey maps of local wider context of the Industrial Revolution  area. Understand the national and international legacy of Cornwall’s mining past  Learn about 4 and 6 figure grid  Undertake an in-depth study of the history of references and symbols used in OS mining in Cornwall. maps  Visit Geevor Mine  Compare modern day and historical  Local History: study of a near locality using maps of Constantine and Cornwall primary and secondary sources  Undertake fieldwork to study the human and physical features in the local area Art  Lino printing: Pattern and line inspired by Maths waves and wave art Design and Technology  Painting, illustration and Graffiti based on ‘surf White Rose Scheme of Learning Year 6 art’ and surfboard design  Design and make moving cam term 3  Study Barbara Hepworth’s drawings for toys using a range of sculpture with colour and recreate using a woodworking skills range of media.  Visit Barbara Hepworth Museum Cookery:  Art inspired by the paintings and prints of Sir  Make a Cornish Terry Frost and other St Ives School artists PE  Visit Tate St Ives and Hepworth museum Real PE unit 5 – health and fitness Real PE unit 6 – personal skills

RE For Christian, what kind of king is Jesus? Music French Performing and Singing Sing with confidence and Curricilum Kerwenek How Café – food and drink – control Songs: End of Year Musical to school, does faith help people in how to order. PSHE Cornwall when life gets parents and community singing confidently, with Character descriptions – SRE To describe how and why the hard? clear diction, mostly accurate tuning and control masculine and feminine body changes during puberty and in of breathing. Composing and improvising Create forms. preparation for reproduction. Discuss music which demonstrates understanding of Listening different types of adult relationships structure and discuss the choices made. Listening comprehensions – with confidence. Explain basic facts Appreciate a wide variety of music and begin to revision of all topics. about how conception and pregnancy. develop a sense of the history of music. Be Computing Explore positive ways of perceptive to music and communicate personal communicating in a relationship. Know Digital Literacy Y6 thoughts and feelings through discussion and how to get support if an online Lesson 5: Selling movement. Notation Be able to follow basic relationship goes wrong. Stereotypes shapes of music including staff and other Espresso Coding Unit 6b notations through singing and playing. Digital Photography