P.S.E.

D
RE - Festivals: Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year Celebration

Sampling Chinese Food,
exchanging envelopes, flying kites
etc.

PSHE Association Theme: Living in the Wider

World Different Groups & Communities
Chinese Culture; SEAL Theme: Going for Goals
Blue Set Y1 (Just Because )
Revisit achievements/goals set as New Year
Resolutions for Chinese NY; Going for Goals
Blue Set Y1 (Setting our Goals the Miracle
Learner and Y2 Putting it Altogether Going For
a Goal)

Kung Hei Fat Choi

Link to the idea of New Year resolutions being

goals/targets

Music
Learn rhymes linked to traditional tales
Listen to and compose Chinese music

Design & Technology

Kites observation/disassembly/designing
Designing & making shadow puppets
Designing & making fillings for Chinese
pancakes/dumplings
Class Chinese Lion

Kite investigation tails

Sorting materials for puppets
Mixing and changing materials
Sound investigation

Tai-chi
The Lion Dance/Crane dance
Flying Chinese Kites

OUTCOME

Science

The Willow Pattern Story

The Six Suns
The Turtle and the Crane
Sampan (poem)
The Lion Dance
Character voices & expressions
Voice overs on video
Retell Willow pattern story
Giving instructions/directions
Dragon Descriptive Writing
Retell Lion Dance story

PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT
Art
Willow pattern/story telling plates
Chinese characters/writing
Draw/paint/collage sampans
Draw/paint the Nien
Make Chinese lanterns

LITERACY/
LANGUAGE/COMMUNICATION

INSPIRATION DAY

Dragon Dance Performance

Geography
NUMERACY

Time
Using Timers
Timetables and
calendars

Locate China & discuss human and physical

features
Compare China/Asia with Britain/Europe
Route to Yim Sungs underwater home mapmaking

Computing

Internet research
Roma navigate the river

ROLE PLAY

Chinese home corner

Kitchen in the Chinese
restaurant
Chinese Restaurant
Puppet Theatre