Nelson Mandela - Spring 1
In Spring 1, the children learnt about Nelson Mandela.
In Literacy, they learnt how to present a balanced argument around whether Nelson Mandela was a hero or criminal.
Autumn 2 - The Vikings
We learnt so much about the Vikings in the Autumn term; we dressed up as Vikings and wrote adventure stories about them.
The Windrush - Local History Week
Pretending to write a letter to someone in the Caribbean.
Anglo-Saxon Shields
The children in Birch class studied the Anglo-Saxons in their first half-term. They designed, made and evaluated their shields.
Materials and their properties
Birch class have been finding out about mixtures and solutions in science. We also looked at how to separate these substances once they had been mixed together. Some of the changes were reversible and we could get them back to their original states and some were irreversible and we couldn’t change them back.
Maths
Birch class have been using lots of concrete resources to learn about rounding in a practical and creative way.
Sutton Hoo exhibition (British Museum)
Birch class enjoyed their trip to the British Museum where they began to find out all about the Anglo-Saxons.
The centuries AD 300–1100 witnessed great change in Europe. The Roman Empire broke down in the west, but continued as the Byzantine Empire in the east. People, objects and ideas travelled across the continent, while Christianity and Islam emerged as major religions. By 1100, Europe as we know it today was taking shape.
The children saw an overview of the period and its peoples. The collections ranged from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea, and from North Africa to Scandinavia. The gallery’s centrepiece was the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk – one of the most spectacular and important discoveries in British archaeology.
Why not ask the children if they can tell you about the artefacts in the gallery?
