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XX Weeks
Wk XX to Wk XX

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æi- Booklet:  “If I was born in ...!”
- Travel bag with their research about different cultures (can include crafts, costumes, manners, greetings, traditional recipes, etc.).
- Board Game about that specific culture.
- Pen pal.
- Exhibition with: games played around the world | crafts from around the world| they could even receive the visitants with costumes | Traditional festivals and celebrations in the country.
- World Food – Cook prepare food from other countries.
- International week of intensive language and cultural activities: learn the different languages spoken in the school.
- Debate.

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Stand alone.

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Strand: Continuity and change through time

Identify roles, rights and responsibilities in society

Assess the accuracy, validity and possible bias of sources.

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ORAL LANGUAGE_ LISTENING AND SPEAKING
Phase:4

Learning Outcomes:

argue persuasively and defend a point of view

Phase: 5
Conceptual Understandings:
Listeners identify key ideas in spoken language and synthesize them to create their own understanding.

Learning Outcomes:

argue persuasively and justify a point of view

show open-minded attitudes when listening to other points of view

appreciate that people speak and respond according to personal and cultural perspectives

VISUAL LANGUAGE_ VIEWING AND PRESENTING
Phase:5
Conceptual Understandings:

Individuals respond differently
to visual texts, according to
their previous experiences,
preferences and perspectives.

Learning Outcomes:

identify factors that
influence personal reactions
to visual texts; design visual
texts with the intention of
influencing the way people
think and feel

realize that cultural influences
affect the way we respond to
visual effects and explain how
this affects our interpretation,
for example, the use of
particular colours or symbols

realize that individuals
interpret visual information
according to their personal
experiences and different
perspectives

show how body language, for
example, facial expression,
gesture and movement,
posture and orientation, eye
contact and touch, can be
used to achieve effects and
influence meaning

identify the intended
audience and purpose
of a visual presentation;
identify overt and subliminal
messages

WRITTEN LANGUAGE_ READING
Phase:5
Conceptual Understandings:

Reading opens our minds to
multiple perspectives and helps
us to understand how people
think, feel and act.

Learning Outcomes:

locate, organize and synthesize information from a variety of sources including the library/media centre, the internet, people in the school, family, the immediate community or the global community.

WRITTEN LANGUAGE_ WRITING
Phase:5
Conceptual Understandings:
Synthesizing ideas enables us to
build on what we know, reflect
on different perspectives, and
express new ideas.

Learning Outcomes:
adapt writing according
to the audience and
demonstrate the ability
to engage and sustain the
interest of the reader

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ORAL LANGUAGE_ LISTENING AND SPEAKING
Phase: 4
Conceptual Undertsandings:
The grammatical structures of a language enable members of a language community to communicate with each other.
Learning Outcomes:
- recognize that different forms of grammar are used in different contexts.

VISUAL LANGUAGE_ VIEWING AND PRESENTING
Phase: 4
Conceptual Undertsandings:
Visual texts have the power to influence thinking and behaviour.
Learning Outcomes:
- experience a range of different visual language formats; appreciate and describe why particular formats are selected to achieve particular effects.

WRITTEN LANGUAGE_ READING
Phase: 4
Conceptual Undertsandings:
Checking and rereading and correcting our own reading as we go enable us to read new and more complex texts.
Learning Outcomes:
- appreciate that writers plan and structure their stories to achieve particular effects; identify features that can be replicated when planning their own stories.

WRITTEN LANGUAGE_ WRITING
Phase: 4
Conceptual Undertsandings:
The way we structure and organize our writing helps others to understand and appreciate it.
- Rereading and editing our own writing enables us to Express what we want to say more clearly.
Learning Outcomes:
- write independently and with confidence, demonstrating a personal voice as a writer.
- reread, edit and revise to improve their own writing, for example, content, language, organization.
- respond to the writing of others sensitively.

Reading The Ugly Duckling and its beliefs and values. Folktales.

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Open-minded
Principled
Reflective

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Integrity
Respect
Tolerance

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Causation
Perspective
Reflective

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Confidence
Resolution
Rights

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Phase:
Conceptual Understandings:
Learning Outcomes:

Fairy tales and performing a play. Write their own fairy tale. Fables from different parts of the world.

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Greek Vase Project

RESPONDING
Phase: 3
Conceptual Understandings: People explore issues, beliefs and values through arts.
Learning Outcomes:
- identify and consider the contexts in which artworks were made.

CREATING
Phase: 3
Conceptual Understandings: Arts have the power to influence thinking and behavior.
Learning Outcomes: make connections between the ideas they are exploring in their artwork and those explored by other artists through, time. place and cultures.

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Strand: Identity
Phase: 4
Conceptual Understandings:
The values, beliefs and norms of a society can impact on an individual's self-concept and self-worth.

Learning outcomes:
Recognize how a person's identity affects how they are perceived by others and influences interactions

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Thinking Skills
Social Skills

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The children will make a powerpoint presentation of a country/religion/cultural group - Judaism, India or Vegan for example.

In their ppt. the children need to cover:
§  What do they believe in and why?

§  How do they express their beliefs?

§  Core values

§  Flag / symbols and the history behind them.

§  Language (how to say: Hello, Goodbye, Please, Thank You);

§  Holidays, Traditions and Celebrations

§  Do’s and Don’ts

§  Food (are there any foods or meals special to your Country /Culture/Religion? Perhaps include a recipe.

§  Dominant religions;

§  Superstitions

§  Basic facts

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Understanding of different people’s beliefs and values lead to a more peaceful society.

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Understanding different beliefs and values.
The benefits of a peaceful society.
The impact beliefs and values have on society.