Transitus Base Teacher Information Transitus Year

Literacy - 

• Term 1 Introduction to persuasive techniques and writing. Identifying techniques used in texts, Writing and presenting a persuasive talk. Introduction to textual analysis.
• Term 2 Novel study. Examining characters, setting and themes.
• Term 3 Newspaper articles. Developing skills of skimming, scanning, and summarising. Taking notes. Writing a report.

Numeracy - 
The opportunity is given to use maths in an everyday context; for example, measuring furniture to fit a space, converting currencies and reading flight paths and directions of planes.

• Term 1 Basic Numeracy Skills, Fractions.
• Term 2 Ratio. Decimals. Percentages.
• Term 3 Project/theme embedding the above skills.

Topic/ IDL skills - 
This is very much lead by the learners, both the topics to study and the way in which they would like to present their learning.

• Term 1 History based. Looking at how we used to live. Topics can include Britain during the Second World War, fashion through the decades and the sixties. 
• Term 2 Keeping safe. Topics can include drug education, bullying, online safety helping stay mind and body fit.
• Term 3 Geography based. Topics can include an island, study of a country, living things.