What will my child study?

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 547.

Principal Concepts

Carrying Capacity

According to Moran (1979:326), carrying capacity is "[t]he number of individuals that a habitat can support." This idea is related to population pressure, referring to the demands of a population on the resources of its ecosystem (Moran 1979:334). If the technology of a people changes, the carrying capacity is altered. An example of the application of carrying capacity within ecological anthropology is demonstrated in Rappaport's study of the Tsembaga Maring.

Culture Core

Julian Steward (1955:37) defines the cultural core as the features of a society that are the most closely related to subsistence activities and economic arrangements. Furthermore, the core includes political, religious, and social patterns that are connected to (or in relationship with) such arrangements (Steward 1955:37).

Year 3Number – bonds to 20, times tables, place value HTU, four rules written methods, fractions and equivalents, decimals through money problems. Topic– Time, 2D shape, area, measuring length, weight and capacity, data handling and constructing graphs, tallying, pictograms.

Year 4Number – rapid number recall, times tables, place value to six digits, addition/subtraction to six digits, multiplication/division by single digit, negative numbers, ordering fractions, fractions of amounts, decimals work including place value, addition and subtraction. Topic– shape properties of circles and triangles, perimeter and area, angles, reflective symmetry, review of time, timetables, converting length, capacity, weight, data handling.

Year 5Number – place value to millions, square and prime numbers, multiply by multiples of 10, rounding, BIDMAS, indices, adding/subtracting decimals and fractions, percentage of amounts. Topic – 2D and 3D shapes, constructing triangles, reflective/rotational symmetry, co-ordinates, angles, converting measures, area and perimeter, volume, 24 hour clock, extended graph work.

Year 6Number – four rules to millions, factors, add/subtract/multiply and divide fractions, convert fraction/decimal/percentages, percentage increase and decrease, ratio and proportion, speed time and distance. Topic – Pi and circles, area and perimeter of compound shapes, area of triangles, co-ordinates in four quadrants, angles of elevation and depression, imperial measures, volume of 3D shapes, data handling investigations.

Curriculum: ICT

AimThe aim of the ICT department is to ensure that all the pupils have the ability to use IT tools and information sources effectively in order to analyse, process and present information.In addition they should be able to use ICT to model, measure and control external events.

ApproachThe curriculum is taught through a series of mini projects to give pupils the opportunity to use ICT in real life situations. The scheme of work is designed to cover:

• Communicating information, Handling information, Controlling and monitoring
• Modelling