Shakespeare Class

From a historical perspective, we will learn about historical evidence; rulers; inventions; and methods of farming in each of these three civilisations.

From a geographical perspective, we will learn about the location of these civilisations; and their main cities.

This term our topic is “Ancient Civilisations”. This project teaches children about the history of three of the world’s first ancient civilisations; ancient Sumer, ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley civilisation. Children will learn about the rise, life achievements and eventual end of each civilisation. To find out more, view our Ancient Civilizations Knowledge Organiser

We are delighted to continue our French lessons with Mrs Cackett, our resident native French speaker. Over the course of the spring term, we will be thinking about two main topics: birthdays and food. Term 3: Birthdays Throughout this topic, we will revise and learn numbers 1-100. We will also revisit and consolidate: the days

Play Percussion – Ripples Water ripples, ocean swells, rainstorms, rivers flow… water gives us great inspiration for music making. The piece Ripples uses ascending arpeggios to create the idea of rippling water. Drops and bubbles form by playing scales running up and down the keys. Colours shift as the chord shapes move between major and minor. A

Following the GetSet4PE scheme of learning, our Physical Education (PE) lessons for term 3 will focus on gymnastics and hockey. Our PE lessons for term 4 will develop our gymnastic skills and begin tennis. Our PE lessons will be on Monday and Thursday; children can wear their PE into school on both of these days.

Over the course of term 3 and 4, we will continue to follow our Jigsaw PSHE scheme of learning. Jigsaw, the mindful approach to PSHE is a progressive and spiral scheme of learning. In planning the lessons, Jigsaw PSHE ensures that learning from previous years is revisited and extended, adding new concepts, knowledge and skills,

Our Religious Education lessons will continue to be based upon our “Love to Celebrate” projects. Basing the “Love to Celebrate” projects around festivals, gives a real-life context to the children’s learning and a structure to the projects. However, the celebration itself is only a small part of each “Love to Celebrate” project. Each set of