Planning

Our topic in the Autumn Term is It All Started in a Cave!

The children will read texts such as Ug and Stone Age Boy which will help to bring the topic to life. 

The focus this term is on History. We will begin to find about what life was like for Stone Age man. The pupils will learn about hunter gatherers and how they began to "domesticate" animals. Our studies will look at how Great Britain changed over time from Stone Age through to Bronze Age and then to the Iron Age. Pupils will look at the similarities and difference between these time periods. This will help them to answer the enquiry question - would you rather be a Stone Age Man or and Iron Age Man. Our Geography studies will be limited this term, but we will look at Stone Age settlements across the UK and focus on the famous settlement of Skarae Brae.

Our Design and Technology project will focus on textiles, where will make our own felt and thn design and make some trousers for Ug. In Art, the children will use fossils to create their own printing blocks and repeated patterns. 

In Computing the intial work will be on networks and learning about the World Wide Web. Then, we will learn how to create our own audio media via pod casts that link to our topic. 

As we are focusing on Stone Age it makes sense that we learn all about Rocks and Soils in our Science. We will compare and group rocks based on their appearance and physical properties, know how soil is made and fossils formed and explain the difference between sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rock.