Long Term Plan

2018 Year overview Navigators Pods 1, 2 and 3
Learning Area	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4
Values	Respect, Caring, Responsibility, Personal Best and Learning Focus: on Well-being for individual students and community.
SMART LEARNER’	Growing independent self regulated learners through the St Martins School SMART Learners profile, key competencies values and Habit of mind and Growth Mindset. Being a SMART Learner Switched on Thinking for myself Learning together
Inquiry / Problem Based Learning
Inquiry Based Learning ‘SMART TASC’	Conceptual Focus:             ‘The Pacific’ Hands across the Pacific- reaching out!! Curriculum - major link Social Science	Conceptual Focus: ‘Sustainability’ Ecosystems Environmental Sustainability Making connections/changes What’s happening on top of the world Ecological or sustainability Harnessing natural resources from a scientific point of view Curriculum - major link – Science and Technology	Conceptual Focus: “Dr Seuss ” Curriculum - major link – Performance Arts and Spoken Text Process Collaborative Skills Smart Learners Profile	Conceptual Focus: “Hauora” Context – Teams to decide! Curriculum – major link Health (Notes: The Whole Person- Needs Based Values and Key Competencies Based Celebrating Me! Moving On/Stepping Up (Y8)) Teams to decide based on what the needs are! Footnote: In health and physical education, the use of the word hauora is based on Mason Durie’s Te Whare Tapa Whā model (Durie, 1994). Hauora and well-being, though not synonyms, share much common ground. Taha wairua relates to spiritual well-being; taha hinengaro to mental and emotional well-being; taha tinana to physical well-being; and taha whānau to social well-being.
Community Engagement	Celebration of Learning So What?	Celebration of Learning So What?	School Wide Production	n/a
English
Possible Context:	Inquiry topics to form contexts	Inquiry topics to form contexts	Inquiry topics to form contexts	Inquiry topics to form contexts
Instructional Writing Focus:	Text Forms - Persuasive, Information  Explanation, Narrative, Instructions Descriptions, Recounts, Reports Please select from the above text forms to best meet the needs of the learning context and student needs. Please remember, Teaching about text forms can help students understand how text is structured and why. Teachers need to be careful, however, to be flexible about the features in a text form. Authentic text forms are often mixed. Text forms evolve and change.
	Poetry throughout the year.
	Reports Descriptions Instructions & Persuasive letters (Eco Action)	Reports Explanations Instructions & Persuasive letters (Eco Action)	Arguments and persuasion Instructions & Persuasive letters (Eco Action)	Adverts   Narratives Instructions & Persuasive letters (Eco Action)
Instructional Writing	Make cross curricular links along side deliberate acts of teaching.
Instructional Reading	Instructional reading programme - include inquiry problem based topics and writing genre and cross curricular topics.
	Poetry throughout the year.
	Reports Descriptions Instructions & Persuasive letters (Eco Action)	Persuasive / Arguments Explanations Instructions & Persuasive letters (Eco Action)	Arguments and persuasion T3          Narratives  Adverts Instructions & Persuasive letters (Eco Action)
Listening and Speaking Possible Contexts:Choose from the following contexts that best suits student needs and cross curricular purposes.	Information Literacy Guidelines for computer use Library layout and catalogue Searching for information Keywords/points Skimming and scanning Visual Language Critical thinking Caring thinking Current events Creative thinking Include within aspects of presentations:	Information Literacy Graphic organisers Visual Language Critical thinking Caring thinking Current events Creative thinking	Information Literacy Searching a variety of resources Cross checking information, valid sites, written information Encyclopedia Visual Language Critical thinking Critical thinking Caring thinking Current events Creative thinking	Information Literacy Searching a variety of resources Cross checking information, valid sites, written information Encyclopedia Visual Language Critical thinking Caring thinking Current events Creative thinking
	Oral Language Question - tools related to questioning Speaking - respectful Active listening	Oral Language Oral reporting oral explanations	Oral Language Performance skills listening to and giving opinions Valuing opinions	Oral Language Speeches Debtes
Presenting	Students will develop a range of visual presentation skills to creatively, artistically and digitally to present new learning appropriate to a specified audience.
	Interviews Neatness of     presentations Presentation guidelines graphic organisers	Diagrams Charts Symbols	Performance to an audience eg. drama, speaking to an audience.	Speeches Debates
Spelling	Included with the writing programs Individual spelling programme as required for those students not achieving as expected Individual weekly lists Class and group teaching of specific spelling topics
Mathematics and Statistics
Number, Algebraic Thinking and Problem-solving	Number, Algebraic Thinking and Problem - solving concepts will be taught through the concepts within each of the strands. Development of number knowledge and strategies Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions and ratios through all terms.                Algebra (4 wks focus), Addition (2 week focus)
Strands (These can be move to suit the needs of the students/cross curricular considerations)	Measurement - time, units, weight, mass, capacity, length, area, temperature, angles (Making Comparisons)		Geometry  – Shape, position, orientation and reflections, translations and  transformation	Statistics – Statistical Investigation, and literacy, Probability
	Statistics: Students will tell the class story with supported evidence.  They build an understanding of the statistical cycle by posing investigative questions, collecting and displaying multivariate data
Health and Physical Activity
Health	Cyber Safety Kia Kaha	KOS and Cybersafety	Safety in the Environment First Aid Risk management Sun Safe Cyber Safety	Safety in the Environment Safe Cycling Introduction to Puberty Beach Ed Cyber Safety
Health	Hauora and Kia Kaha  (Brave?)
Daily Fitness / Energisers	Please place your topic areas
PE	Kiwi Bowls Hansen Park sports coaching with teachers Invasion Games -	Aquatics - Water safety Summer Games - striking, throwing and catching. (Team Spirit, fair play and healthy competition.)	Aquatics ? Winter Games - Throwing, striking, catching, running. (Team Spirit, fair play and healthy competition.)	Aquatics ? “Run, Jump,Throw” - skills for successful participation in Athletics
Sport	Swimming sports Tabloids Duathlon	Cross Country Winter Sports	Winter Sports	Athletics
The Arts (Outside of Inquiry)
Performance Arts	Drama Student devised Exploring Gavin Bishop’s work of Aotearoa	Dance Cheerleading	Production focus Choreography	Reading and playing music
Visual Arts	Printmaking Motifs and Symbols and Design	Photographs and Moving Images Trip to the Art Gallery - various techniques	Artists and Art Forms Painting	Sculpture 3D modeling or carving
	Drawing
Te Reo Maori National topics	Treaty of Waitangi	Matariki – Māori New Year	Māori language week	Poroporoaki Farewells
Te Reo (Level 1)	Nga Mihi (Greetings) Te Whānau (The Family)	Ngā Rā  o te Wiki (Days of the Week) Ngā Marama o te Tau (Months of the year) Te Tatau (Counting)	My class/my school building objects Nga Tae (Colour)	Atawhai /Caring Whakaute/Respect Hinengaro (Feelings) Whakanui (Celebrations)
Blended e-learning Opportunities	Introducing Gmail, Google Drive, Hapara and other Google apps; use of Banqer for financial literacy; Digital Learning Journals

Special Contexts	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4
VISUAL ART	Me Art; Pasifika Art	Art Gallery Trip
MATHEMATICS
LITERACY
TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE
EOTC	Swimming Sports, Duathlon	Trip to the Museum		Beach Ed, Cycle Safety Y6, Athletics

• “Hauora1 – a Māori philosophy of well-being that includes the dimensions taha wairua, taha hinengaro, taha tinana, and taha whānau, each one influencing and supporting the others.