brighton lesson plan and medium term plan-group 7 b

Medium Term PlanSUBJECT Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6

History Holidayspast andpresent

Devt oftheRailway

ComparingBrightonPast andPresent

Role of The Pier

HolidayEntertainmentOf the past

Healthand socialhistory

Geog. Where isBrighton?Maps & Co-ordinates

Create ownMap forBrighton

Features ofUKCoastline

Features ofCoastline

ChangesIn Coastline

LongshoreDrift/CoastalErosion

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Trip to Brighton takes place in week 2

Holidays past and present

• Where do the children go on holiday?• How do they get there?• What sort of accommodation do they stay in?• What entertainment/amusements do they

engage in?• What do they think the Victorians did on

holiday? Where did they go? How did they get there?

History

• On the day of the trip the children will be asked to find out facts from the History Trail when visiting the pier. KS2 NC 4(a) Historical Enquiry

• They will be asked to find clues in the museum that reveal Brighton’s past – fishing town, then royal retreat in Regency times when the Pavillion was built, then fell from favour under the reign of Victoria and reinvented itself as playground for the middle classes, aided by the development of rail transport linking London to Brighton.

Development of the Railways

Brighton: past and present

Brighton: past and present

Brighton: past and present

• Show pictures of the pier and its attractions/amusements. Ask children to consider how much they have changed over the years. Which attractions do the children think would have originally graced the pier?

• Children to write a postcard they would send today from Brighton. Then, imagine they were living in Victorian times. Write about their Victorian holiday.

Health and Social HistoryKS2 NC unit 2b: Social Diversity

Workers supporting the tourist industry didn’t have such an easy life

Social History

Social History

Social History

Health

Geography

Maps and co-ordinates: maps of Brighton – 2 week unit of workKS2 NC Units 1(a) and 2(e) Geographical Enquiry Skills - what landscape is like, drawing

mapsKS2 NC Units 3(b) and 3(g) Knowledge of places, location places and fit within wider

geographical context

http://www.visitbrighton.com/maps-guides-and-interactive/mapshttp://brightonillustrators.co.uk/portfolios/illustrator/Angela_McKay_portfolio/8/

• Locate Brighton on a map of the UK• Different maps for different purposes: road map, street map, pictorial map,

geological, ordnance survey. • Get children to examine these and notice features – scale, legend, contours, grid

references. Chn produce concept maps.• What do they think each map would be useful for?• Introduce trip to Brighton – which map would be most useful to us? Why?• Working with maps of Brighton, chn use grid references to find places of interest,

and take it in turn to be tourist and local Brighton resident, giving directions to different places of interest.

• Chn sketch map of Brighton to follow from Station to Museum.

Geography

Pebbles from Brighton beach

• What do children notice about them?

• How do they feel?• Are they all the same? • In what ways do they differ from

each other?• Why do you think they are

different?• How do you think they got to

Brighton beach?• Basic geology of the S. Downs• Beach formation

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/08433• Geog KS2 NC, Unit 4b, Knowledge of

patterns and processes

Geography

• Coastal features and Coastal erosion – 2 week unit of work• Geog KS2 NC, Unit 4b, Knowledge of patterns and processes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/an-introduction-to-the-coastline/8429.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/coastlines-erosion/8430.html

• Brighton beach - pebbles, groynes.• Are all beaches like Brighton?• Longshore drift• http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/coastlines-longshore-drift/8440.html• What other beaches are the children familiar with?• Are those beaches pebbly or sandy?• Jurassic coast of Dorset – caves, arches, stacks

Art: the inspiration for the Stained Glass Project