Key Stage 1
Paint Me a River
Art & Design
This course gives children the opportunity to develop skills working from imagination and observation. They will also be introduced to a wide range of artist’s work. Teachers choose from a combination of media ranging from screenprinting, drawing, painting and collage.
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The 3 R’s - River, Rowing and 'Rithmetic
Numeracy
• Find strategies to count, add, and measure
• Learn about capacity through practical hands-on activities
• Follow a shape trail through the Museum
• Use resources in the galleries to develop number skills
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Boat Trail
Science
This course focuses on boats in all their aspects, through a gallery trail, practical handling and making.
• Handle real objects
• Investigate the materials used in boat building
• Discuss methods of propulsion and the forces of pushes and pulls
• Think about the use of boats for leisure and work
• Use new vocabulary related to boats
• Make a model boat to take home
Materials
Science - Design & Technology
During this course, students look at the materials used in both building boats and the various objects to be found on boats by:
• Sorting and labelling materials and recognizing their properties
• Following a gallery trail in the Rowing and Thames Galleries to identify materials and to think about the processes in the construction of building boats
• Forming a plaster cast of their own and consider how some materials change irreversibly
Ugly Bug Ball (from January 2007)
Science
Investigate the plants and animals living in the water meadows around the Museum.
• Use a video microscope to examine minibeasts
• Go on a minibeast safari in the meadows outside the Museum
• Simple identification & classification
• Food chain games
