Summer: How Does Your Garden Grow?

Our fingers go green for this topic! We plant strawberries and sunflowers and learn how to look after them ourselves. We learn all about life cycles and the parts of flowering plants and trees. 

 Painting inspired by Eric Carle

 How tall have our sunflowers grown so far?

 Taking care of our plants

 Science afternoon at Inkersall Primary

 What types of tree are on the school grounds?

 Creating a sunflower circle

 Highlighting features of information texts

 Parts of plants and trees

 Lifecycle of a sunflower

 Planting sunflowers

 Planting strawberries

 What can we find?

 Acting out scenes from Percy Parker: The Treasure Hunt

 Creating treasure maps 

 Designing posters to advertise our treasure hunts

 Role play

Spring 2: Chocolate

This topic involves learning all about where our food comes from, including the origins of chocolate. We also explore Fairtrade and how we can help farmers get a fair price for their produce.

 Fairtrade!

 Taste test...

 Chocolate fountain mania!

 Farm to Fork Project at Tesco

 Trip to the chocolate shop

Spring 1: Pocahontas/Native Americans

This topic dives into the history of Christopher Columbus and his discovery of the Native Americans. We learn all about their way of life and how they survived by living off the land.

 Making totem poles

 Homework exhibition

 Role play

Autumn 2: Does it Snow in Summer?

This topic is all about the weather and how this is effected by the four seasons in the UK. We learn about different climates across the world and why animals live in different places. 

 Which animals live where?

 The Snowman

 Exploring areas of heat on a world map

Autumn 1: Castles

"Would our school be a good place to build a castle?"

This topic involves learning all about the medieval times including sport, food and clothes. We also look at how and why castles were built and how knights fought for their King.

 Making shields #3Rs

 Trip to Bolsover Castle

 Making our own castles

  Medieval Day!

  Role play