Throughout this term, we are going to be looking at the Romans and learning about when they invaded Britain and what influences they had on our lives today e.g. roads and our language. In Art and Design Technology we will be learning to sketch a Roman bust using different pencils and how to make bread similar to the Romans. In our Computing lessons we will be learning about the parts of a computer and how we can search for information about the Romans using the internet.

King Midas is granted one wish and he chooses the ability to be able to turn anything he touches into gold. At first this is amazing but soon things turn bad. He cannot eat or drink because his food and water turn to gold. He cannot hug his children because he fears they will turn into statues. Eventually he asks the Gods to remove his ability but he does not learn from this experience. King Midas upsets the Gods and they give him a pair of donkey ears.

The Hook

This term our book is all about having a wish granted so for our hook we watched a video called ‘The Wish-granter’ and then we thought of what our three wishes would be.

Our Experience:

For our experience we will be visiting the Derby Museum to look at the artefacts they have related to the Romans.

More information to follow.

This half term, children will be learning more about the City of Derby. In History, they will investigate the past by studying significant buildings –  the Silk Mill and Derby Cathedral. Geography will focus on map skills. In Art we will explore graffiti and the works of Banksy and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Our key text this term:

The Hook

We watched a video of lightning striking buildings and discussed how we felt and what warnings we would give other people to protect them from being struck by lightning.

Our Experience:

We will be taking a tour of Derby City centre, looking at significant places, buildings and monuments. We will be carrying out a traffic survey in the local area to establish how much traffic is contributing to climate change through emissions.

Our key text this term:

The Sound Collector

A poem about collecting different sounds.

The Hook

We will listen to lots of different sounds and see if we can decide what they are.

Our Experience:

We will be taking a walk around the local area to check on the levels of noise pollution.

This half term we are learning about light in Science and how it travels and investigating light using data loggers in Computing.

In Art we will be looking at cave paintings and attempting our own versions and in History we will be learning about the Stone Age through to the Iron Age – How did people live then? How did things change along the timeline?

Focus text

Matale comes to supper

This is a tale about a boy who is greedy and selfish but with the help of his Grandmother he begins to think about his behaviour.

The Hook

We are going to listen to the story of the Hare and the Tortoise. We will think about the moral of the story and then attempt to write our own story with a moral.

Our Experience:

Stone Age workshop

To start off our topic on Stone Age to Iron Age we have taken part in a special workshop. During the experience we took on the role of Archaeologists and created a class Museum.  We learnt about early pottery and made our own pot to take home. We also had the opportunity to learn about weaving, making bread and making string from plants.

In Predator, we are going to be looking at animals including humans, looking at their food chains. We will also conduct fieldwork study in Geography, looking at human and physical features. In addition, we will study the Amazon, Amalfi Coast and the Peak District. In art, we will look closely at the work of Albrecht Durer and produce our own art work inspired by his. 

Our key text this term:

The Explorer by Katherine Rundell

Fred, Con, Lila and little Max’s plane is on the way to Manaus when it falls out of the sky. Now, lost in the Amazon rainforest, they must figure out the basics of survival: water, shelter, food. Do they wait for rescue, or find a way to rescue themselves?

The Hook

We watched ‘Adrift’…

Click the link and see what you think!

https://www.literacyshed.com/adrift.html

How important is dialogue in our writing?

Our Experience:

We will visit Padley Gorge and look at human and physical features.