Topics

Geography - Planet Earth

This term, the children will explore the world around them, learning to name and locate the seven continents and five oceans.

They will discover where the continents are located, learn about different countries, capital cities, famous landmarks, landscapes, climates and native animals, and explore what makes each continent unique.

The children will also learn about the Equator, the North and South Poles and the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, helping them to understand why some parts of the world are hot while others are cold.

Through maps, discussions and activities, the children will develop their geographical vocabulary and map-reading skills, while celebrating the diversity of people, cultures and environments around our world.

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History - The Great Fire of London

This term, the children will travel back in time to 1666 to learn about the Great Fire of London. They will discover what London was like during Stuart times and explore how people lived, travelled and worked compared with today.

The children will learn about the events leading up to the fire, how it spread so quickly, and the devastating impact it had on the people and buildings of London. They will develop their understanding of chronology, cause and consequence by placing key events in order and considering why the fire became such a major disaster.

Using historical sources, including the diaries of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, the children will investigate how we know about the Great Fire and what these eyewitness accounts can tell us about life at the time.

Finally, they will explore how London changed after the fire, including improvements that helped to make the city cleaner and safer. Throughout the unit, the children will develop their skills as young historians by asking questions, examining evidence and explaining their ideas about the past.

DT - Textiles - Pouches

In this unit, the children will explore different examples of textiles and learn a simple running stitch, in an introduction to sewing. They will create a template for a pouch and cut out their fabric, beginning to think of who the pouch could belong to and what it should look like. The children will sew their fabric together using a running stitch and design what the front will look like, and finally, they will add decoration to their pouches using their own design ideas.

Art - Quentin Blake - Drawing: Tell a story

During this topic, the children will learn about and explore the artwork of the famous illustrator, Quentin Blake. Using storybook illustration as a stimulus, they will develop their mark-making to explore a wider range of tools and experiment with creating texture to add detail to drawings.