| Summary: | Henry Frankel is a third-year trainee teacher at Edge Hill University in Lancashire, where all students are encouraged to include cross-curricular planning in their Professional Values and Practice module. Now on placement at Burscough Methodist Primary School, Henry is given the opportunity to put cross-curricular planning into practice. He has been asked to teach a Year 5 PE lesson, and he wants to use the Spanish he picked up during his gap year as the cross-curricular element of the lesson. We follow him as he meets with his Edge Hill tutor, Shirley Gaskell, and Burscough's headteacher, Barbara Taylor, to plan how to deliver Spanish through PE, and the practicalities of putting these two subjects together. We see Henry's introductory Spanish lesson as well as the final PE lesson, and we hear his reflections on how it went.
Rachel Jenkinson is a third-year trainee teacher at Edge Hill University in Lancashire. She has chosen a specialism in art, and is keen to include a Year 2 class visit to a gallery as part of her placement plan. Cait Simpson, her tutor at Edge Hill, and Lucy Price, the class teacher at Garswood Primary, support her through the process of formulating a scheme of work and putting it into action, around a central theme of farming. We see the results of all her preparations when the class spends a day at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, where she has planned activities based around a detailed look at a painting of a farm in the nineteenth century. This visit is closely followed by another to a working farm, where the children meet live farm animals and learn about where food comes from.
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