Theme

Each term I will be sending home a knowledge organiser these can also be found in the 'Knowledge Organiser' tab. Please encourage your child to read through it and learn some of the vocabulary linked to the topics we will be learning. This will really them to engage in the lesson and will also help you to understand more about the topic we are teaching.

Autumn 1

Our theme is… There’s no place like home

Our Key Questions are:

• What are the human and physical features of our local area?
• How have human and physical features of the landscape changed in Pendle since the 1600?
• What do you know about the Pendle Witch trials of 1612?
• Where is Burnley?
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• PSHE 

  In PSHE we explored things that are safe and things that are not safe to share online. We took part in a quiz, actively answering questions. We folded our arms when we discussed things that we should keep to ourselves and opened our arms wide if we could share them with others.

  

  Music 

  One part of our music lesson is to Listen and Appraise the song Let Your Spirit Fly and other songs such as:
  ? Let Your Spirit Fly by Joanna Mangona
  ? Consider Yourself from the musical ‘Oliver!’
  ? Ain’t No Mountain High Enough by Marvin Gaye
  ? You’re The First, The Last, My Everything by Barry

  The children really enjoy exploring the different songs and givingtheir opinions on them. They aslo like listening to try to identify what instruments they can hear in the songs.

  We have learnt and performed the song  Let Your Spirit Fly by Joanna Mangona. Watch this space for our final performance that we will upload.

  We have also been exploring using musical intruments alongside the song. The children really enjpoyed using the glockenspiel.

  We have been very lucky to have a visit from our local Morris dancing group. The children loved it and can't wait to build on our dancing in our next PE dance topic.

  

   

  Autumn 2

   

  Autumn 2 - Healthy Humans  links - Science and Desgin Technology.

  

  Above is the knowledge oragnisers your child has been given to take home. We have asked the children to read through the key words we will be using throughout our Science and DT topic.

  We created a healthy meal for an athlete. We designed and created a pasta salad.

   

   

  Spring 1

  Rock and Roll: Spring 1. History

   

                                                

   

  Spring 1

  Our theme is… Rock and Roll - The Stone Age- History 

  

  Our Key Question is:

  -What was life like, in the Stone Age period?

  We looked at the chronology of the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age 

  

  We looked at the acheivements of Stone Age Man.

  We explored housing and how it changed during the diferent parts of the Stone Age.

  We explored cave drawings and the theories behind why they exsist. The children then created their oen in cave we made under our tables.

   

   

'Bring Yer Wellies'

As part of our Stone Age history topic. We went on our trip to 'Bring yer wellies'. In the morning we learnt lots of interesting facts all about the Stone Age. 

We then became archaeologists and dug up some artifacts. Afterwards we described what we had found.

In the afternoon we did some really exciting outdoor activities. We started of with some den building.

Volcanoes and Earthquakes

Spring 2

Geography

Children will investigate earthquakes and volcanoes: What they are; why they happen; and how they affect the landscapes. Children will learn that the earth is constantly moving and changing, inside and on the surface (plate tectonics) resulting in physcial features such as earthquakes and volcanoes. 

Key Vocabulary:

Mantle

Lava

Tectonic plates

Volcanoe

Earthquake

Dormant

Active

KL: How and why do earthquakes occur?

We went on to label the different parts of a volcano and describe how and why volcanoes erupt  To show just how confident we were, we labelled diagrams and described the process in our own words. We had fun learning about tectonic plates and fault lines.  In one activity we found out that the earth's crust is divided in many tectonic plates and where these plates meet are called fault lines.

KL: Physical geography

KL: How does a volcano erupt?

KL: Where are some of the world famous volcanos located?

KL: Research

Summer 1 

Our theme is... Romans - History - Focus: Cause and effect

Vocabulary 

We first spent some time immersing ourselves in the vocabulary.

KL: Chronology and change

KL: When and where did the Roman Empire begin and where did it grow? 

When and where did the Roman Empire began and how did it grow?

We looked at where the empire began and how its spread over the Roman era as more countries were conquered.

KL: Cause and effect

KL: Why did the Romans invade Britain?

We studied the five reasons that the Romans decided to invade Britain. We collected lots of information that we will use to write a non- chronological report in exteneded write. 

KL: Comparison

KL: Compare Roman life to Stone Age.

KL: Interpretion

KL: Explore two accounts and form an opinion.

We looked at the two different views and stories of Boudicca. We looked at the Roman's view and the Celt's view.

We then created our very own 'wanted' poster for Boudicca. 

KL: Explore Roman art

KL: Continuity and change

KL: How did the Romans change life in Britain?

What the Romans did for us

  We looked at all of the things that the Romans left behind when they left in AD410.