National Curriculum Programmes of study
KS3

History

Knowledge and understanding of events, people and changes in the past

This project provides opportunities to explore the experiences, range of ideas and attitudes of men, women and children in the Victorian period. Pupils will investigate some aspects of the social diversity of society through looking at adverts about cholera, learning about children's play and reading about the match girls' strike. (2a,b)

Historical enquiry

Pupils will use a range of appropriate sources of information including documents, printed sources, the media and ICT based sources as a basis for independent historical enquiry. (4a)

Pupils will evaluate the sources used and reach conclusions.

Information and communication technology

Developing ideas and making things happen

Pupils will develop and explore information through interactive material in the Children's Zone. (2a)

Citizenship

Developing skills of enquiry and communication

Pupils will justify orally and in writing a personal opinion and contribute to group and exploratory class discussions in the match girls' strike. (2b,c)

Developing skills of participation and responsible action

Pupils will use their imagination to consider other people's experiences and be able to think about, express and explain views that are not their own in "How are you feeling?" (3a)

English

Speaking and listening

Speaking - pupils will structure their talk clearly. (1a, d)

Listening - pupils will distinguish features of presentation where a speaker aims to explain, persuade, amuse or argue a case in the debate on the match girls' strike and through listening to children's voices.

Group discussion and interaction - pupils will take different views into account, modify their own views in the light of what others say and take different roles in the organisation, planning and sustaining of groups in the activity to do with the match girls' strike. (3b,e)

Drama

This project provides opportunities for pupils to use different ways to convey action, character and atmosphere. "The theatre", "How are you feeling" and the "match girls' strike" provide the opportunities for this. (4b)

Breadth of Study

This project provides a range of purposes for speaking and listening individually and in group discussions. (8a,b, c, 9c, 10a,b)

Reading

English literary heritage

Pupils will discuss the appeal of the website and evaluate how the information is presented. (4a,b)

Media and moving image

Through using Words Alive! website, pupils will learn how meaning is conveyed in texts, print and images. They will look at how form, layout and presentation contribute to effect. (5a,b)

Writing

Composition

Pupils will draw on their experience of good fiction and of reading.
They will consider what the reader needs to know, they will learn to present materials clearly and persuade using logical arguments and persuasive devices in their work on the match girls' strike. (1a,g, h, and j)

Planning and drafting

This project encourages pupils to draft, redraft and proof-read their work on paper and screen. (2a)

Breadth of study

Pupils will have a variety of purposes for writing. These include persuasive arguing and advising through letters. (9c)

Listening - pupils will recall and re-present information, respond to others appropriately, taking into account what they say. (2c, e)

Group discussion and interaction - during circle time and debating sessions pupils will make contributions relevant to the topic and take turns in discussion. They will deal politely, present opposing points of view and take up and sustain different roles, including chair, scribe, spokesperson. (3a,d, e)

Drama

The project will provide opportunities to create, adapt and sustain different roles, use character and action to convey a story and use dramatic techniques such as hot seating to explore characters and issues. The match girls' strike encompasses all of this.

Breadth of study

Pupils will present to different audiences.
This project provides a range of purposes for speaking and listening. They are investigating, selecting, planning, explaining, improvisation and responding to performances. (10a, b,c, 11a,c)