Cross Curricular Planning

We plan and tailor our curriculum to make the most out of pertinent cross curricular links.  For example, when year 4 study the Romans in History, they study Italy in Geography and Mosaics in Art.

Please see our individual curriculum pages for more information.

Maths Across the Curriculum

Mathematics is a server subject and teaches children fundamental skills that allow them to access many other areas of the curriculum. Below are some examples of the links between Maths and other subject areas. These also demonstrate how making links between Maths and different subject areas can deepen mathematical knowledge, understanding and skill to develop true mastery.

Science and Maths

Maths and science are tightly linked together. Almost every scientific investigation is likely to require one or more of the mathematical skills of classifying, counting, measuring, calculating, estimating, and recording in tables or graphs. Statistics are used extensively in Science. Most charts and graphs used in science are initially taught in maths lessons.

Geography and Maths

  • Collecting and representing data from field work.
  • Grid references and coordinates.
  • Using scales on Ordnance Survey maps to establish the correct distance between two points.

Physical Education and Maths

  • Time, distance and speed of races can be incorporated into Mathematic sessions to enable children to work out averages and convert between different measures.
  • Data can be collected and analysed to assess performances.
  • As in Geography, maths skills are needed when orienteering: using grid references, angles and direction.
  • Averages (Mean, Mode and Median) can be used to assess an athlete’s performance.
  • Creating sequences for gymnastics.
  • Discussing symmetry on the football pitch or netball court.

Design Technology and Maths

  • Reading Scales.
  • Measuring ingredients and working out proportions.
  • Using ratios in recipes.
  • Being able to measure things accurately is an important skill in DT when making products.
  • Estimation is also important when working out quantities of raw materials.

Computing and Maths

  • Angles and direction which can be drawn and measured using floor robots and apps.
  • Information can be represented through Excel documents.
  • Logic is used in programming as is problem solving.
  • Logical Reasoning during programming.
  • Scratch Maths allows children to use their mathematical skills to program computers.

 

Art & Design and Maths

  • Symmetrical art can be analysed and the number of lines of symmetry can be found. Also, the order of rotational symmetry can be studied.
  • Ratio is used to mix paints. For example, to make purple, you mix 3 parts red to 7 parts blue.
  • Many artists and architects have proportioned their works to approximate the Golden Ratio, believing this proportion to be aesthetically pleasing.
  • Perspective can be used to show enlargement of shapes on square paper
  • Tessellations in different pieces of artwork.
  • Works of art from the Cubism era of the 20th century link to nets and 3D shapes.

History and Maths

  • Historical (scaled) timelines can be used as a basis for finding the difference in dates and giving an understanding of lengths of time over periods in History.
  • Historical dates can also be utilised for sequencing events.
  • Charts and graphs can provide extremely useful historical information, which children can analyse.

 

 

 

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Cross Curricular Chatter

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Does our arm span increase as we grow older?

13-12-2024

We took measurements of children from reception all the way to our eldest staff member! We then created a scatter graph of our results.

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Parent assembly and activities Year 3

10-12-2024

We had a lovely morning with our Hands assembly and our DT craft activities. Thank you to all our adults who turned up to support us.

 

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Calligraphy with the Arabic alphabet

06-12-2024

Today in our art lesson we looked at different examples of Arabic calligraphy and have had a go at our own.

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Pattern seeking – science

04-12-2024

In science today we put our ideas to the test. we either chose to either investigate if children with the longest femur could jump the highest or if the tallest children could jump the highest. We completed the post it challenge and made sure our investigation was fair. 

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Premier league workshop

04-12-2024

This morning we had a Premier League workshop to tell us all about the different jobs and skills we could get that are part of football. We learnt about football journalists, authors, medics, stewards, mascots, players and coaches. We then acted out being an interviewer, interviewee and clarifier.

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Celebrating differences 🌎

03-12-2024

For our PSHE lesson we are celebrating differences. In previous weeks we have spoken about racism, bullying and rumours and now we are researching a range of countries and what their culture looks like.

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Sequencing

03-12-2024

This week in Mathematics, the children in class RJP have been focusing on sequencing. We explored the vocabulary, how ‘sequencing’ means to repeat a pattern. The children used paint to create an ‘ABBA’ pattern firstly, following the pattern, ‘red, green, red, green’. We then had lots of fun demonstrating the ‘ababab’ pattern using Christmas pictures, and designing a colourful paper-chain. To extend the learning, we explored different patterns, expanding on the number of picture cards, colours, and using shapes which have been learned previously. This helps the children problem solve sequencing in a fun way.
Why not keep up this learning at home, by asking the children to make repeated patterns using different objects.

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A great way to start our Monday with a B -Tales Production. 🎄

02-12-2024

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A visit from B-Tales!

02-12-2024

B-tales shared the story of Jonah and the Christmas twist.

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NRG! Our power pledges.

28-11-2024

Last week we had a visit from NRG to tell us all about our use of electricity and what we can do to help. We have signed a pledge to use less electricity and water to help with waste of non-renewable energy.

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Extra work at home!

28-11-2024

Some incredible examples of extra work done at home. I have loved seeing how passionate we are about negative numbers, Olaudah Equiano and Roman numeral – keep it up, we love proudly displaying your work!

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International Slavery Museum trip

21-11-2024

Yesterday we had a great time at the International Slavery Museum. We had a workshop in the ‘legacies of the transatlantic slave trade’ and then had time to explore the museum with our task sheets. 

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NRGenius’s

19-11-2024

Year 3 had a great workshop this afternoon on how to save energy and how to be NRGenius’s. They had to create a powerful image representing why we use fossil fuels. We learnt all about renewable energy and how these are better for our environment. We ended the session by making a pledge to try our best to save energy. 💡⚡️

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Children in Need 2024

15-11-2024

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We learnt all about Remembrance Day and made some poppies to help us remember❤️

15-11-2024

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Our wonderful campfire 🪵

15-11-2024

Today we have loved our class campfire. We enjoyed toasting the marshmallows, creating a s’more and having some hot chocolate. We even had a blast from the past with some children’s songs and rhymes.

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RE: The importance of the mosque in Islam.

14-11-2024

We’re now in the Islam section of our RE unit and we are learning all about the sense of community and how the mosque plays an important part in bringing the community together. We took the opportunity to utilise our artistic skills too.

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PSHE: Anti-Bullying Week Activities with Everton in the Community

14-11-2024

We took part in a workshop this morning discussing values which are important in life such as respect, patience, tolerance and understanding.

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Remembrance Day

12-11-2024

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Some completed pencil poppy sketches

11-11-2024

Some of this work is stunning!

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Remembrance Day 2024

11-11-2024

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Huge respect in our class to recognise the soldiers that have fallen in the past. We did a minute silence in the morning and then created amazing poppy art work based on our art topic ‘painting with scissors’ in the afternoon.

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Amazing homework!

11-11-2024

Superstar 🌟sisters! Both have done work at home based on their current topics 👏. Well done guys.

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Remembrance Day Poppy Art

11-11-2024

After learning about Remembrance Day and importance of the symbol of the poppy, we had time to sketch our own poppies using pencil and oil crayons.

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To celebrate Diwali, we made some Rangoli patterns!

24-10-2024

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Charles Darwin

24-10-2024

In Science, Year 6 have been learning about Charles Darwin as part of their ‘Evolution and Inheritance’ unit. Look at this incredible writing they have produced!

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Diwali Celebrations

22-10-2024

Year 4 had such a great morning at our Diwali workshop. We wore some traditional Hindu clothing, learned some traditional dance, and even got to paint and create our own diya lanterns. 

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Diwali Workshop

22-10-2024

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Diwali lanterns

22-10-2024


We are having so much fun making our Diwali lanterns with rangoli patterns.

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Diwali lanterns

21-10-2024

Today we are designing our Diwali lanterns for next week. We have learnt the story of Rama and Sita and thought about why Diwali is celebrated in Hindu religion. We are trying to focus on using Rangoli patterns.

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In Maths,we reinforced our counting skills through finger painting!

18-10-2024

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Incredible writing from Year 6

11-10-2024

We are simply blown away by the writing we have recently produced. Our Year 6 classes are so invested in world issues – saving habitats and animals in particular. Have a read of some of the letters we wrote to the Rwandan Government, asking them to help protect the magnificent mountain gorillas 🦍

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Amazing Work on Renewable Energy Sources

10-10-2024

In Geography, we have been finding out about renewable energy sources: why they are needed alongwith the advantages and disadvantages of each.

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Palm Oil – Positives and Negatives

03-10-2024

We simply had to share a few more pieces of work as we think they are truly fantastic! Detailed information which is extremely well presented. Great work Year 6!

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Using a combination of skills today…

01-10-2024

In Year 6 today, we combined our learning from Geography and English by using our computer skills to present the information we have discovered into Google Sites to create our own web pages.

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Year 3 Hands

01-10-2024

Year 3 had another great ‘Hands’ practice. We are really enjoying learning new sign language.

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Black History Month ‘24

12-09-2024

Some AMAZING entries for the Merseyside Police competition! Children have worked hard creating lovely pieces of work with great messages as well. Well done to everyone who has submitted already. Last day tomorrow (Friday 13th September).

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Year 5 Primary Engineer Award

17-07-2024

Earlier in the year, year 5 took part in a project with Primary Engineer and built moving locomotives with an electrical circuit. Today we celebrated each child taking part, awarded awards for best group work and also two boys took home the ‘Best communicator’ award. Well done, year 5!

 

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To the beach, let’s go… 🐚🏖

15-07-2024

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Greek Pottery

09-07-2024

We are starting to learn about all the different styles, colours, shapes and uses of Ancient Greek pottery here in Y6.

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Spanish day! 🇪🇸

08-07-2024

Amazing dancing from Year 3, everyone really got into it.

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Spanish Day!

08-07-2024

What a great Spanish day! Red and yellow everywhere 🇪🇸. Can’t wait for food and dancing later.

 

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Blooket fun in Year 2

07-07-2024

In Year 2 we have discovered Blooket and we can’t get enough! We’ve used it to test our times table knowledge this week (as well as lots more too.)

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Cooking time again!

01-07-2024

We had our second group to make our traditional Italian bolognese. They had a great time preparing the ingredient and seasoning it to perfection! Thanks to our amazing head chef once again – Monica.

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1MS had the best time at the farm!

28-06-2024

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1CP had the best time at the farm on Thursday!

28-06-2024

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5EHD Geography statistics work

28-06-2024

This week year 5 have compared Liverpool to the city of Manaus in Brazil and plotted data and different style graphs.

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Year 3 Volcano eruptions!

27-06-2024
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Volcanoes Eruptions!

27-06-2024

We had an amazing afternoon erupting our volcanoes! We even had a very dangerous and violent composite volcano with thick magma which increased the pressure when erupting.

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Eid Mubarak!

25-06-2024

Happy Eid to all our families celebrating! We had a lovely day and week celebrating with all our children and adults.

 

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Spaghetti Bolognese time!

25-06-2024

Our first group created their very own authentic traditional bolognese sauce! We have linked our DT unit with our Geography topic of Italy. Super behaviour and sensible cooks.

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Volcanoes!

25-06-2024

We have created our volcanoes and painted them. They look amazing! We are going to erupt them this week and see what happens when an active volcano blows. Watch this space…

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Finding out about the PEGI age rating system

24-06-2024

What are age ratings? How do they apply to us? What do they mean? Where are they used?

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Modifying Text and Images

24-05-2024

We created posters on Word.

We shared our favourite animals, changed the font, colour, size and style and even added images too,

Amazing work Year 2

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Liverpool Skyline

22-05-2024

Here is a FABULOUS finished skyline picture to accompany our Geography work on our ‘Walking Tours Around Liverpool.’ Amazing work from this young artist.

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Bell Beaker Pottery

07-05-2024

Super work creating our Bronze Age Bell Beaker pots. We created a similar shape and added patterns to them.

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The History of Telling The Time for Science Week

14-03-2024

We combined science with history with our TIME topic and looked at how tools to tell the time have changed over the years. We created a timeline of discoveries and measured out our own sundials with our protractors.

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Buzz Buzz

14-03-2024

We’ve had a great afternoon making circuits with a light and a buzzer to help us when making our buzz wire game. We also got to have a go at a buzz wire game!

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Supertato’s House

27-02-2024

This afternoon we created Supertato’s house using icing sugar and gingerbread. We mixed the icing sugar and water to use as glue to stick the house together.

 

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Chinese New Year celebrations

21-02-2024

To celebrate the new lunar year, we have been getting crafty in class making representations of dragons using a variety of resources. Look at our fabulous dragons! We also made our own lanterns after learning about the significance of the colour red.

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We had a great morning preparing for Chinese New Year!

31-01-2024

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Great afternoon with our LJMU students and our sustainability project.

31-01-2024

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RLMc Tesco Trip

26-01-2024

This week we have been learning all about chefs. We took a trip to Tesco to get ingredients to create vegetable soup.

 

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Mosques Around The World

18-01-2024

As part of our RE unit, we are finding out about mosques around the world and presenting our findings in Google Slides.

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WWII Liverpool Skyline ‘The Blitz’ Scenes

18-01-2024

We created our own versions of the Liverpool skyline one night during The Blitz in World War Two.

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year 1 Zoolab visit

30-11-2023

Year 1 had a visit form lots of animals today to celebrate our learning in science.

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Year 1 had a visit from zoolab

30-11-2023

Year 1 were very excited to have a visit from lots of animals today!

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Bulb Planting in Crown Street Park!

23-11-2023

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We have been busy learning about Diwali the festival of light. We have moulded dough into Diya lamps. Made marks to create Rangoli patterns and wrote our names in our cards we have decorated.

13-11-2023

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Happy Diwali

13-11-2023
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Remembrance Day – ‘We will remember them’

13-11-2023
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Remembrance Day

10-11-2023

We have created some beautiful poems after reading Flanders Fields and used watercolours/charcoal/pencils to create some poppy artwork to mark Remembrance Day.

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