Why combine units?

Combining units can:

a) enhance pupils’ learning by providing planned opportunities for
them to apply knowledge, skills and understanding in different
contexts

b) enhance pupils’ learning by helping them to make significant
connections between aspects of the subjects being linked

c) help teachers to link subjects in their planning, without
compromising on focus, rigour and progression in each subject

d) support schools in developing a coherent, whole-school
curriculum plan that exploits the most powerful opportunities for
linking subjects.

Click on the steps to open the QCA unit planning documents
'Who's Been Sitting In My Chair' is a new cross curricular planning unit by Jane
Moat and Lynn Kelsey from the East Riding of Yorkshire. It is designed to enable
teachers to plan for children to learn through creative, practical responses along
a 'Learning Pathway', making connections between learning and utilising a real
local history source to bring the past to life. As part of planned whole school
provision for history, art and literacy, 'Who's Been Sitting In My Chair?' allows
children to explore the past creatively.