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Key Stage 4
Autumn Term 2013
4S
Ms Schnackenberg
English
Teacher: Mrs Schnackenberg
Topic: Fairytales – The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
Skills students will be developing:
 Fine motor skills and handwriting.
 Reading skills, including comprehension.
 Speaking and Listening skills, including role play.
 Imaginative writing.
 Working as part of a group / turn-taking.
Brief description of activities:
 Learning about the life of Oscar Wilde: when and where he lived, what he did.
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Reading a simplified version of ‘The Happy Prince’ by Oscar Wilde.
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Creating character profiles of the Happy Prince and the Swallow.
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Dramatising sections of the story.
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Ordering events in the story.
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Responding imaginatively to the story through writing letters and monologues.
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Answering comprehension questions related to the story.
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Creating artwork related to the play including crowns and city scenes.
Subject vocabulary:
 Oscar Wilde, author, fiction, story, royalty, statue, friendship, kindness, honour, city, migration, Mayor,
fairytale, moral, monologue.
Maths
Teacher: Mr Doherty
Skills students will be developing:
 Numbers , addition and subtraction
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Using money
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Telling the time
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Measuring height/length.
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Recognising, continuing and creating patterns
Brief description of activities:
 Recognise coins and begin to total amounts
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Use money to pay for items
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Addition by counting on from larger number
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Subtraction by taking away and saying how many are left
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Using numberlines to add and subtract
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Mental addition and subtraction using fingers
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Reading numbers to 100 in numerals and words
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Partitioning numbers into tens and units
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Ordering and comparing numbers
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Reading time from analogue clocks (o’clock/half past), months of the year, using ordinal numbers (first,
second, third, last) to sequence e.g in lists
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Compare length and height and use appropriate vocabulary. Measure length using non standard units
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Continue simple repeat patterns e.g threading beads, making paper chains, printing
Subject vocabulary:
 Tens, units, more, less, double, pounds, pence, add, count on, hundred square, numberline, o’clock, half
past, months (month names), centimetres, longer/shorter/ taller, half, quarter, pattern
ICT
Data Handling
Skills students will be developing:
 Mouse and keyboard skills
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Data collection, including surveys
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Creating graphs and charts
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Using graphs and charts to answer questions
Brief description of activities:
 Recording information on data collection sheets
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Asking clear questions
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Counting responses
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Using 2Simple applications to create graphs and charts
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Presenting data in different formats
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Using graphs and charts to find information
Subject vocabulary:
 Information, data, data collection sheet, pictogram, graph, most, least, surve
PSHE/C
Teacher: Miss McKenzie
Skills students will be developing:
 Their ability to manage the confusion produced by traffic noise and crowds of people.
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Their awareness and ability to walk more safely on the pavement and cross roads as a member of a
supported group.
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Their ability to demonstrate safe and sensible behaviour when working off of the School site
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Familiarity with different forms of public transport including buses and trains.
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Greater awareness of the value of money and the cost of everyday items.
Brief Description of Activities:
o Students will work together to visit local shops.
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They will take their turn to
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Find safe road crossing places
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Look and listen to ensure that there is no traffic coming.
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Cross busy roads using Pelican and Zebra crossings and bollards.
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Crossing quiet side roads with greater independence and less prompting.
We will extend their mobility by using buses and tube trains to access other areas, thereby developing
awareness and safe practice on public transport.
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Students will be supported in their use of their Freedom Pass or Oyster Card.
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Students will gain experience of managing money and safeguarding their valuables.
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Many students will have the opportunity of extending their understanding of air travel through a
training session at British Airways Community Training Centre.
The student may need to bring their Freedom Pass/Oyster Card for some lessons.
Subject vocabulary:
 Pavement; kerb; Zebra Crossing; Pelican Crossing; bollard; traffic light; bus stop; timetable; bus route;
towards; Freedom Pass; Oyster Card; Touch-in; escalator; lift; travel plan; area map; street map; site
map.
Science
Teacher: Miss Mobbs
Topic: Living Things/Life Processes, Mixing & Separating
Skills students will be developing:
 Scientific thinking skills.
 Practical scientific experiment skills.
 Careful use of equipment.
 Fair Testing.
Brief description of activities:
 Breathing activities.
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Making models to show where our blood flows.
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Use of stethoscope and heart-rate monitor.
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How to look after our bodies – general activities of self-help.
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Looking at water and how to change between solid, liquid, gas.
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Mixing and Sieving.
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Mixing and Filtering.
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Mixing and Evaporating.
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Separation work with magnets.
Subject vocabulary:
 Alive, breathe, move, feel, eat, grow, heart, healthy, strong, happy, clean, movement, reproduction,
sensitivity, nutrition, excretion, respiration, growth, dissolve, evaporation, filtration, magnet, change,
mixture, funnel, sieve, melting, solid, liquid, gas, temperature, reversible, non-reversible, soluble,
insoluble, compound.
RE
Topic: Myself and my Family
Teacher: Miss McKenzie
Skills students will be developing:
 Recognising characteristics of themselves.
 Recognising characteristics of others.
 Developing an awareness of the differences in people.
 Developing and awareness of what makes them different.
 Listening, Speaking and turn taking skills involved in group discussions. Developing conversational skills.
 Recognising the cues for prayer and reflection time and responding to these cues appropriately.
Brief Description of Activities:
 Singing and signing songs about ‘Me’.
 Creating Art work showing how important and special their name is.
 Asking others questions about their lives.
 Answering questions about their own life.
 Prayer and reflection time at the end of every lesson
Subject vocabulary:
 Same, Different, Pray, Qualities, Love.
Multi-Media Studies
Skills students will be developing:
 Development of formatting skills.
 Internet safety.
 Research skills.
 Teamwork.
 A flexible, creative and independent approach to tasks.
 Development of creative work in writing, audiovisuals and other electronic media.
 The awareness of media equipment
 Decision making skills.
 Communication skills
Brief description of activities:
 Accessing information on the Internet.
 Downloading Images from the Internet.
 Saving work appropriately.
 Making logos, letterheads, posters.
 Developing animation skills with support.
 Using media equipment.
 Learning how data can be protected.
Subject vocabulary:
 Internet, data, graphics, text, animation, video, sound, safe, protect, file, folder, multimedia, layout.
Music - African music
Teacher: G. Farrell
Skills students will be developing:
 Performing music
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Creating/composing music
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Listening attentively to music
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Appraising skills
Brief description of activities:
 Singing familiar songs and learning new ones
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Take part in call/response songs and pieces
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Creating repeated rhythms
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Take the role of leader
Subject vocabulary:
 Call, response, leader, copy, rhythm, solo, ensemble
Environmental Studies
Teacher: Tomasz Kacperski
Skills
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Students will be developing
Identifying living and non-living things
Importance of following the rules e.g. Countryside code, the classroom rules
Respond appropriately to their local environment.
Identify a local environmental problem and possible solution
Team work: solutions to the local issues. .
Expressing opinions in relation to a local environmental project or issue.
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description of activities:
Exploring living and non-living things in a local environment.
Examining rules in a local environment and the importance of following them.
Improving a local surrounding: litter picking, looking after the plants, recycling.
Using internet to gain some ideas to improve a local environment
Visiting an established local environmental project.
Importance of thrift in use of resources: electricity, water, gas
Recycling
Subject vocabulary:
 Environment, Living things, non-living things, recycling, thrifty, rules, local environment, surrounding,
countryside code, issue, resources, poster.
Mini Enterprise
Running a Cafe
Teacher: Miss Yasmine Bouabdallah
Skills students will be developing:
 Communicating in appropriate manner when meeting and greeting
customers
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Knowledge of working in a cafe environment
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Develop knowledge of catering
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Follow visuals recipes to bake cakes
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Assist in baking cakes
Brief description of activities:
 Setting tables, choosing appropriate dress
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Designing menus
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Dress up before welcoming customers
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Taking orders
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Preparation of food / snack
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Ability to work in pairs or independently
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Clear up tables
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Wash up after clearing
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Use various utensils to prepare orders
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Identify appropriate utensils to take orders
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Visiting the local cafe
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Follow health and safety procedures
Subject vocabulary:
 Baking, Cafe , recipes, Waiter, Waitress, Drinks ,Serve customers, Taking orders, Clearing up tables,
Welcoming customers, Bonjour, au revoir, merci
Work Experience
Grounds Keeping
Teacher: Tomasz Kacperski
As part of Vocational Learning offered in KS4, students will have opportunities
to access Work Experience
This term students will be working within the Schools Grounds Keeping environment.
They will be:
 Recycling
 Undertaking basic grounds maintenance
 Gardening
Skills students will be developing:
 An awareness of the world of work
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An awareness of their own skills and strengths
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Communicating and working with others
Ability to following instructions
Following and completing routine tasks
Following health and safety guidelines
Brief description of activities:
 Students will be working in small groups or individually with support
 Work experience support will be presented through verbal reminders and visual job descriptions,
allowing students can take ownership of their work and develop independence
 Students will be given a demonstration of expected tasks and they will carry out various tasks on a
weekly basis
 Students will keep a diary of the tasks they have been set and the skills they are developing
Subject vocabulary:
 Work, job description, skills, task, duties, instructions, working safely, keeping safe, helping others,
equipment, environment, routine
Textiles
Teacher: Claudette De Aguiar
Skills students will be developing:
 Show awareness of the vocational area.
 Interact with others in an appropriate way.
 Show a development in textile skills.
Brief Description of Activities:
 Experiencing design.
 Identify appropriate equipment for set tasks; recognise basic tools and fabric requirements for each
project
 Demonstrate awareness of correct use of equipment, for example, scissors, templates, fabrics, needles,
sewing machine, pins.
 Communicate with peers and tutors.
 Demonstrate ability to work effectively individually or with a partner
 Identify suitable fabrics and threads, equipment to be used and appropriate techniques used in textiles.
Subject vocabulary:
 Sew, needle, sewing machine, tack, scissors, thread, and tape measure, calico.
Projects:
 Placemats, Pillow/Pillowcase and Christmas ornaments.
Personal Care
Personal Care and Hygiene
Teacher: Miss Yasmine Bouabdallah
Skills Students will be developing:
 Understand the need for personal hygiene
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Know the uses of toiletry products
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Regular changes of clothes
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Importance of oral health, washing our face and hands washing hands
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Changes to our bodis
Brief description of activities:
 Recognise and name products used for personal hygiene
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Experience uses of skincare and toiletry products
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Select appropriate products and items to wash face
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Take part in practical activities to wash face, brush teeth and hands
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Brush hair in pairs or using models
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Take part in lotto and bingo games to match products with their uses
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Take part in non mixed groups to develop independent skills
Subject vocabulary:
 Hygiene, brush, teeth, wash face, bar of soap, flannel, towel, dry, rub, lather, rinse, put away, pads,
sanitary towels, body changes
Daily Living Skills
Household Cleaning
Teacher: Yasmine Bouabdallah
Skills students will be developing:
 Knowledge of what needs cleaning
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Awareness of products used for cleaning
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Awareness of equipment used for cleaning
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Know when to clean
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Keep a log book of cleaning tasks
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Identify different areas in the house that need cleaning
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Health and safety procedures when cleaning
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Students will focus on cleaning the floor and the toilets
Brief description of activities:
 Use equipment to clean various areas in school
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Wash the floor using a mop
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Wash and squeeze mop before cleaning the floor
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Use the cap to measure soap
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Dispose of dirty water and wash the mop
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Select appropriate products before cleaning
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Handle equipment safely
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Handle products safely
Subject vocabulary:
 Germs, dust, mop, bucket, spray, cloth, wash, sweep, broom, hoover, switch on, plug, unplug, rinse, dry
areas,
Art: Portraits, Distortion & Identity
Teacher: M. Escribano
Skills Students will be developing:
 Observation skills when collecting information and communicating ideas.
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Analytical and intuitive capabilities through the appropriate use of materials, processes and techniques.
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Skills when using digital media and developing an individual response.
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An understanding of the formal elements.
Brief description of activities:
 Introduction to the theme of portraits.
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Discuss and demonstrate how to construct a portrait using measuring techniques.
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Try to challenge preconceived ideas of how a face should look.
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Pupils pictures will be taken using the department digital camera.
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Each pupil will be given a brightly coloured image of themselves created in PhotoShop.
They will be shown how to use colour media to recreate the images and will complete a colour image of
themselves
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They will construct a self identity photomontage using collage techniques.
Subject vocabulary:
 Portrait, background, middle ground, front ground, Photoshop, zoom in, zoom out, photomontage.
Social Skills
Speech & Language Therapists: Caroline Lacey and Neera Bhanshaly
Speech & Language Therapy Assistant: Reshma George
Talkabout for Children – Developing Self Awareness and Self Esteem
(Alex Kelly 2011)
 Assessment – all students will carry out assessment relevant to their Talkabout programme in the form
of student interview, student self assessment or observation.
 Folders – all students will prepare their own folder in which worksheets will be filed during the year.
Activities - Talkabout Me
 1 This is me! – aims to improve basic self and other awareness through thinking about likes and dislikes,
the starting point for developing self-identity.
 2 People in my life – aims to continue to improve self and other awareness by exploring what other
people look like and then what we look like.
 3 The way I look – aims to develop self-identity by exploring what other people look like and then what
we look like.
Key vocabulary:
 Feeling words (happy, sad, excited, tired, angry), like, dislike, vocabulary to do with physical attributes
(e.g.tall, short, slim, stocky, straight, curly, blonde, dark)
P.E.: Football / Fitness
Teacher: Ms Donaldson
Skills students will be developing:
 Ability to play and interact with the group and be part of a team.
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Ability to wait, share and take turns.
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Explore and use basic ball skills individually and in combination.
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Understanding of fitness and how to improve it.
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An ability to recognise and describe how their bodies feel during exercise.
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An ability to recognise good performance.
Brief description of Activities:
 Individual ball skills and practices.
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A range of kicking activities to develop technique.
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Passing skill practices in pairs and small groups.
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Relays, competitions to develop speed and control.
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Conditioned games to help learn the rules of football leading to basic games.
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Take part in a range of tests learning about the different elements of fitness.
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Learn how to use a fitness gym safely and improve fitness by using the different equipment.
Subject vocabulary:
 key words associated with football, e.g. Team, dribble, goal, shoot, goalkeeper, pass, kick, tackle, key
words associated with fitness, e.g. heart, lungs, endurance, speed, flexibility, strength, reaction time.