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National Curriculum Links – Global Tribe Workshops

Key Stage 2 & 3 PSHE/Citizenship and RE

The activities in these workshops link to the following aspects of Key Stage 2 & Key Stage 3 PSHE/Citizenship, Values Education, and RE.

PSHE / Citizenship:
Developing confidence and responsibility and making the most of their abilities

1b
to recognise their worth as individuals by identifying
positive things about themselves and their
achievements, seeing their mistakes, making amends
and setting personal goals

Preparing to play an active role as citizens

2e
to reflect on spiritual, moral, social, and cultural issues,
using imagination to understand other people’s
experiences
2h
to recognise the roles of voluntary, community and
pressure groups
2i
to appreciate the range of national, regional, religious
and ethnic identities in the UK

Developing good relationships and respecting the differences between people

4b
to think about the lives of people living in other places
and times, and people with different values and
customs
4f
That differences and similarities between people arise from a number of factors, including cultural, ethnic, racial and religious diversity, gender and disability

Values that can be learned through these workshops:

  • develop an understanding of our own characters, strengths and weaknesses
  • develop self-respect and self-discipline
  • respect others
  • care for others and exercise goodwill in our dealings with them
  • show others they are valued
    • work co-operatively with others
    • understand and carry out our responsibilities as citizens
    • refuse to support values or actions that may be harmful to individuals or communities
    • respect religious and cultural diversity
    • make truth, integrity, honesty and goodwill priorities in public and private life.

RE Guidelines:

Learning about religion
Exploring and understanding religious beliefs and practices and their influence on society
Finding meaning in religious language and imagery

Learning from religion
Exploring and understanding spiritual, moral and social issues

National Curriculum Links – Global Tribe Workshops
Key Stage 2 Art, English (Drama/Storytelling), PE (Dance), Music

The activities in these workshops link to the following aspects of Key Stage 2 Art, English (Drama/Storytelling), PE (Dance), and Music.

Art:
During the key stage, pupils should be taught the Knowledge, Skills, and understanding through:

5a
exploring a range of starting points for practical work
5b
working on their own, and collaborating with others, on projects in two and three dimensions and on different scales
5c
using a range of materials and processes, including ICT
investigating art, craft and design in the locality and in a variety of genres, styles and traditions.

Dance:

1b
Perform actions and skills with more consistent control and quality.
2a
Plan, use and adapt strategies, tactics and compositional ideas for individual, pair, small-group and small team activities
2c
Apply rules and conventions for different activities
3a
Identify what makes a performance effective
3b
Suggest improvements based on this information
4b
To warm up and prepare appropriately for different activities

Music:

Pupils should be taught how to:
sing songs, in unison and two parts, with clear diction, control of pitch, a sense of phrase and musical expression
play tuned and untuned instruments with control and rhythmic accuracy
practice, rehearse and present performances with an awareness of the audience.

Pupils should be taught how to:
improvise, developing rhythmic and melodic material when performing
explore, choose, combine and organise musical ideas within musical structures

Pupils should be taught how to:
analyse and compare sounds
improve their own and other’s work in relation to its intended effect.

Pupils should be taught:
how the combined musical elements of pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture and silence can be organised within musical structures and used to communicate different moods and effects
how music is produced in different ways and described through relevant established and invented notations.

During the key stage, pupils should be taught the Knowledge, skills and understanding through:
a range of musical activities that integrate performing, composing and appraising

c
working on their own, in groups of different sizes and as a class
e
a range of live and recorded music from different times and cultures.

Pupils should be taught how to:
sing songs, in unison and two parts, with clear diction, control of pitch, a sense of phrase and musical expression
play tuned and untuned instruments with control and rhythmic accuracy
practice, rehearse and present performances with an awareness of the audience.

Pupils should be taught how to:
improvise, developing rhythmic and melodic material when performing
explore, choose, combine and organise musical ideas within musical structures

Pupils should be taught how to:
analyse and compare sounds
improve their own and other’s work in relation to its intended effect.

Pupils should be taught:
how the combined musical elements of pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture and silence can be organised within musical structures and used to communicate different moods and effects
how music is produced in different ways and described through relevant established and invented notations.

During the key stage, pupils should be taught the Knowledge, skills and understanding through:
a range of musical activities that integrate performing, composing and appraising

c
working on their own, in groups of different sizes and as a class
e
a range of live and recorded music from different times and cultures.

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