Bearwood Primary and Nursery School The build was a lot of fun and engaged everyone involved with active problem The solving. You can find out more about the build, what we did and how we did it on the Poole Museum learning blog [https://poolemuseumlearningteam.wordpress.com/2016/06/09/building-a- Roundhouseroundhouse/]. We held a community day to tell people about the project and gather memories of the local area. The school summer fayre was dedicated to the project Projectand provided a showcase for the children to display their work. Bearwood Primary and Nursery School Roundhouse Project Contents 1) Introduction—Why we chose to build a school Roundhouse. 2) Lesson Plan - Life Inside a Roundhouse. 3) Planning a Roundhouse Worksheet to accompany Life Inside a Roundhouse. 4) Lesson Plan—Round, Round We Go Again. 5) Record sheet for Round, Round We Go Again 6) Answer sheet for Round, Round We Go Again 7) Lesson Plan—The Importance of the Sun. 8) Instructions for making a sundial 9) Sundial Gnomon 10) Sundial Base 11) Roman Numerals to 100 12) Lesson Plan—Sequencing the Building of the Roundhouse. 13) Pictures for Sequencing 14) Lesson Plan - Why Bearwood? 15) Lesson Plan—Iron Age Clothes and Textiles—Poole Museum 16) Lesson Plan—Iron Age Food and Clothes—Poole Museum 17) Bearwood Roundhouse Project Summary 18) Teacher Fact Sheet 19) QR codes links to Videos of the Roundhouse 20) Schools Pre-History Blog 21) Examples of Children’s work from Bearwood Primary and School. 22) Risk Assessment A teacher’s pack will be released shorty with lots of the lesson plans that the teachers at the school used throughout the project. There will be more information on the Bearwood School Inwebsite association [http://www.bear with wood.poole.sch.uk/ ]. WILD ABOUT POOLE What is particularly exciting about the project is that it has initiated a sea change in how staff at the school plan and teach. Our research indicates that many schools take a cross-curricular approach to subject delivery, but still teach maths separately. However, what our project has shown is that maths can be delivered in this way and not only is it possible, but it helps with coverage and creates an inspiring context for problem solving. Laura Bennett and myself are really keen to develop the approach and share what we have learned. Please get in contact if Wallacecopyright: Memorial Fund. you would like to find out more ([email protected]). Image Image Contents 3 Introduction - Why we chose to build a school Roundhouse 4-6 Archaeology, Algebra and the Iron Age 7 Life inside a Roundhouse 8 Planning a Roundhouse 9 Round, Round we go again - A Maths problem for year 3/4 10 Round, Round we go again - A Maths Investigation 12 The Importance of the Sun 13 Instructions for making a sundial 15 Roman Numerals to 100 16 Sequencing the Building of a Roundhouse 21 Teacher Fact Sheet - Life in a Roundhouse 22 Why Bearwood? 23 Iron Age Clothes and Textiles 24 Iron Age Food and Cooking 25-27 Bearwood Roundhouse Project Summary and FAQs 28-36 Outcomes for children 38-39 Risk Assessment for Bearwood Primary and Nursery School Iron Age Replica Round House and activities relating 2 Bearwood Primary and Nursery School Roundhouse Project Contents 1) Introduction—Why we chose to build a school Roundhouse. 2) Lesson Plan - Life Inside a Roundhouse. 3) Planning a Roundhouse Worksheet to accompany Life Inside a Roundhouse. 4) Lesson Plan—Round, Round We Go Again. 5) Record sheet for Round, Round We Go Again 6) Answer sheet for Round, Round We Go Again 7) Lesson Plan—The Importance of the Sun. 8) Instructions for making a sundial 9) Sundial Gnomon 10) Sundial Base 11) Roman Numerals to 100 12) Lesson Plan—Sequencing the Building of the Roundhouse. 13) Pictures for Sequencing 14) Lesson Plan - Why Bearwood? 15) Lesson Plan—Iron Age Clothes and Textiles—Poole Museum 16) Lesson Plan—Iron Age Food and Clothes—Poole Museum 17) Bearwood Roundhouse Project Summary 18) Teacher Fact Sheet 19) QR codes links to Videos of the Roundhouse 20) Schools Pre-History Blog 21) Examples of Children’s work from Bearwood Primary and School. 22) Risk Assessment Introduction At the start of 2015, Bearwood Primary and Nursery School, began The Roundhouse, thinking about the ways in which they could develop the children’s “ learning experiences: engaging them in real life problems that would that you will see on develop a passion for not only history but other aspects of the entering the school curriculum, such as English and Maths. field, is a project that Working in conjunction with Poole The Roundhouse, that you will see Museum, we started to think how on entering the school field, is a the whole school maths could be incorporated into project that the whole school were were able to take the history that the school taught. able to take part in. Every pupil part in. Every pupil in in the school played a part and Whilst doing so, the idea of creating the learning that took place was the school played a a Roundhouse on the school astounding. part and the learning grounds emerged as a way to “ engage, stimulate and motivate In this pack you will find lessons that took place was pupils with their learning. So when that pupils took part in that can be astounding. September 2015 came, we already used with other groups of pupils Laura Bennett had a vision of where we would - supporting not only Historical Headteacher Bearwood Primary like to go! With support from a learning objectives, but Maths, and Nursery School dedicated group of staff, parents Geography, Art, Design Technology and volunteers and the funding from and English. The Heritage Lottery Fund, we were able to turn our vision into reality. We hope you enjoy learning through Bearwood School Roundhouse, After months of planning, research as much as we did, and hope that and form filling, we were able to future generations continue to do begin the build - which started May so. half term 2016. 3 Bearwood Primary and Nursery School Roundhouse Project Contents 1) Introduction—Why we chose to build a school Roundhouse. 2) Lesson Plan - Life Inside a Roundhouse. 3) Planning a Roundhouse Worksheet to accompany Life Inside a Roundhouse. 4) Lesson Plan—Round, Round We Go Again. 5) Record sheet for Round, Round We Go Again 6) Answer sheet for Round, Round We Go Again 7) Lesson Plan—The Importance of the Sun. 8) Instructions for making a sundial 9) Sundial Gnomon 10) Sundial Base 11) Roman Numerals to 100 12) Lesson Plan—Sequencing the Building of the Roundhouse. 13) Pictures for Sequencing 14) Lesson Plan - Why Bearwood? 15) Lesson Plan—Iron Age Clothes and Textiles—Poole Museum 16) Lesson Plan—Iron Age Food and Clothes—Poole Museum 17) Bearwood Roundhouse Project Summary 18) Teacher Fact Sheet 19) QR codes links to Videos of the Roundhouse 20) Schools Pre-History Blog 21) Examples of Children’s work from Bearwood Primary and School. 22) Risk Assessment Archaeology, Algebra and the Iron Age Archaeology, Algebra and the Iron Age 2014 saw the introduction of a new primary curriculum. 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