The Operation Spitfire Secondary Curriculum has been designed for Key Stage Three pupils. It’s aims are to improve pupils understanding of why the Spitfire is important to people in Stoke-On-Trent and to give them an understanding of basic engineering principles so they can access a career in engineering in the future. Our guiding principles are creativity, curiosity, inclusion and relevance. The curriculum encourages your pupils to be creative and curious. It ensures they feel included in the Spitfire story and the skills learnt in the lessons are relevant to a career in engineering today. All the resources needed to teach the lessons are accessible online and you will be provided with an activity kit which contains the physical resources you will need.
Each lesson is linked to the National Curriculum and you can find a link to the curriculum mapping document below.
The lessons are designed so they can be co-ordinated and taught by a member/members of the staff in the Science or Engineering department of your school with help from a member of the Design and Technology team to run the extra-curricular project. The lessons could be delivered over two days off timetable or during the Science or Engineering lessons over two weeks in school as part of a Local History week or British Science week. Alternatively you may choose to incorporate the lessons into the curriculum you already teach over the year. The lessons are accompanied by two self-guided lessons in the form of booklets which you could choose to set as homework or to use during form time.