Mrs Chapman will be teaching the class on Mondays and Tuesdays and Mrs O’Grady will be teaching the class on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Mrs Griffiths is our full-time teaching assistant and we  have lots of help from other adults. We also have a class pet - Bubbles Junior - who keeps a close eye on ereyone !  

Here's a brief over view of this half term's learning. 

History
For our history mantle drama this half term we will become a team of anthropologists and archaeologists. In our dramatic fiction our team finds an old Stone Age (Palaeolithic) cave painting in a cave. We will learn about the famous Lascaux cave paintings in France. Our team will be commissioned to uncover the story of the people who made these images and left these remains and create a museum exhibit showing their story.
Stepping back into prehistory we will become a tribe of cave dwelling hunter-gatherers, then follow the progress of mankind through the middle Stone Age (Mesolithic) and new Stone Age ( Neolithic) development of agriculture and the technological achievements of the Bronze and Iron Ages. We will retell the story of the doomed ‘Doggerland’ people, who lived in the stretch of land that once joined the UK. We can guarantee some exciting dramatic events along the way as we find out all and find out what happened to this now submerged land.
As part of our historical learning we will be visiting the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre on Tuesday 16th September. We will become palaeontologists and study the skeleton of the Condover Mammoth and discover what life was like for hunter gathers in Stone Age Shropshire.

In literacy, we will cover a range of fiction and non-fiction reading and writing genres which will be inspired by our Mantle of the Expert commission and our class novel, “The Mammoth and the Moonstick” by Simon E Wilkinson about a boy who magically time travels to the ice-age and becomes involved in an adventure with a group of woolly mammoths. We will have an author visit from the author during the term. We will be using the novel and our historical research in class to inspire our literacy work.

Art
Our artwork this term will be inspired by the ancient cave art of the French Lascaux Caves. We are going to use the lovely story book “The First Drawing” by Caldecott Medalist as our inspiration. We will use a variety of tools and mediums to create our own cave walls and cave drawings. Our DT project, after the half term break, will be to design a hunter gatherer diet.

Science
Mrs O’Grady will be teaching science this term. Your child will be learning about light during the first half term. We are going to find out about different light sources and investigating reflections, finding out how the human eye works and investigating how shadows are formed.