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Curriculum Resources for Teachers

This is a specific FACE Resource to support teachers and provide curriculum-based ideas and teaching aids to cover all key stages.

Key Stage 2 Key Stage 3
Key Stage 1 - Schemes of work
Year 1 D&T Unit 1D - Homes for Farm Animals
Gives children opportunities to develop their understanding of structures and how they are used on the farm
Year 2 Geography - Unit 3 - The Farm
Shows how a farm can be used to develop children's understanding of geographical features
Year 3 Geography - Unit 4 - Going to a farm in the countryside
Uses a historical perspective to help children understand how farms have changed over time
Key Stage 1 Food Farming and the Countryside within the Curriculum
Art & Design
Use the school grounds and in particular any wildlife area with different colours and shapes as source of inspiration for art
Geography
Knowledge and understanding of environmental change and sustainable development
History
Understanding of events, people and changes in agriculture and differences between ways of life at different times
ICT
Utilise the FACE image bank to introduce simple terms to pupils - crop, wheat, cow, calf etc
Literacy & Numeracy
Opportunities for storytelling, oral work, group work, talking with peers and adult leaders
Music
Pupils explore sounds outside the classroom in the school grounds or in the countryside
PE
Set up a basic orienteering course/treasure hunt around the school grounds
PSHE & Citizenship
To realise that people and other living things have needs
Science
To relate life processes to animals and plants found in the local environment
Key Stage 2 QCA schemes of work
Art & Design
Pupils record from experience and imagination, select and record from first-hand observation
Design & Technology
Working with tools, equipment, materials and components to make quality products
Geography
Ask georaphical questions, collect and record evidence, analyse evidence and draw conclusions
ICT
Pupils link with schools in other parts of the UK/promote urban - rural links
Literacy & Numeracy
Group work, talking with peers and adult leaders
Music
Pupils explore and respond to the ways people, places and environments (natural and man made) stimulate composers to create music
PE
Pupils research what they eat and drink (and what it contains) and how they might improve their diet
PSHE & Citizenship
Take responsibilities (planning and looking after the school environment)
Science
Pupils to be taught the life processes common to humans and other animals including nutrition, movement, growth and reproduction
Key Stage 3 QCA - Schemes of work
Food and Farming for sustainable development
Study aspects of food and farming - types, distribution, change, production of food and raw materials
Curriculum Resources for Teachers
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