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Term 1
Topic
This term, our topic focus has been ‘Movers and Shakers’; learning about historically significant people who have had a major impact on the world.
We have learned about many significant people, including Rosa Parks, Mary Anning, Mahatma Gandhi, Emmeline Pankhurst, Joseph Lister and Neil Armstrong, using timelines and other historical sources to find out more. We are really enjoying reading the Little People, Big Dreams books and have read over 50 different ones so far!
We used Dawson’s Model of Significance, which gives five statements to help us decide who was the most significant person and who had the biggest impact on the world. These statements are:
- They made big changes in their lifetime.
- They made lots of people’s lives better or worse.
- They changed the way people think.
- Their ideas are still used today.
- They were a good or bad role model.
We then worked in groups to rank some of the significant people to discover who could be the most significant. There was a lot of debate, with several groups choosing Joseph Lister because his ideas have saved many lives over the years and the principles behind them are still used today.
English
In English, we have been learning to write a persuasive poster using all four sentence types: commands, statements, questions and exclamations. Our model text was about Votes for Women, linked to our learning about Emmeline Pankhurst and the Suffragettes.
We used story maps and actions to support our sequencing and recall of this information. Maggie Magpie reminds us daily, “If you can say it, you can write it!”
We then innovated on this to write a new persuasive poster about how children should be able to vote for Junior Leaders.
Science
In Science, we have been investigating habitats. A habitat is a place where living things, such as plants and animals, live. It includes non-living things, such as rocks and water, as well as the resources and conditions that living things need to survive, including shelter, space, food and water.
We tried to identify different plants and animals by studying their features and using spotter guides.
We learned how some animals are herbivores, some are carnivores and some are omnivores. We also discussed how living things depend on one another for food and made food chains. Food chains typically start with a producer, such as a plant. Producers use energy from sunlight to make their own food through photosynthesis.
Art
We have very much enjoyed colour mixing this term, learning how primary colours can be mixed in different quantities to produce a range of colours and hues.
We then applied this knowledge to help us make our fundraising Christmas cards by painting trees in different shades of green that we had mixed ourselves.
We thought carefully about how to apply the paint to show the texture of the branches.
When the paint had dried, we added decorations using felt tips or colouring pencils.
D&T
We have been learning how to read a recipe in D&T. We started by learning about food sources. French Hares were keen to learn more about where milk comes from and how cheese is made.
When we learned how to cut safely with a knife, we used our ‘bear claw’ to hold the food being chopped, kept our ‘eagle eyes’ on the knife and kept the tip of the knife ‘superglued’ to the chopping board. We followed a recipe and worked in groups to make apple crisp, which is similar to apple crumble.
As part of our food sources lesson, we learned about mixed diets, vegetarian diets and vegan diets. The apple crisp recipe we followed is suitable for vegans because all its ingredients are from plant sources.
