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? 

KL: Describe local, physical and human features.

KL: Where in the world do we live?

KL: Use an atlas to locate different countries on a map.

KL: Which local places are significant to Pendle witches?

KL: How has crime and punishment changed over time?

KL: How King James I was significant in the Pendle witch trials.

KL: Who were the Pendle witches and what happened to them?

Demdike family and Chattox family.

KL: Pendle Times news article.

Year 3 display board.

Spring 1

Rock and Roll

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  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.

Spring 2

Volcanoes and Earthquakes

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

Summer 1

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.

KL: Did the Romans settle in the Lake District?

Explore Roman artefacts

We are very lucky that our school subscribes to the Lancashire Loans Service. We were able to borrow some Roman artefacts that we could dress up in and explore. The children first had to predict what they thought the artefact was and then we went through each one and used the description to see if our prediction was correct.