Topics

Geography

How does the geography of Kampong Ayer compare with the geography of where I live?

During this sequence of learning, the children will look at the location of Kampong Ayer and make comparisons between their own lives and those of people in a small diverse community in the country of Brunei on the tropical island of Borneo in southeast Asia. They will consider the similarities and differences that exist, look at what going to school is like and compare the natural environment of Kampong Ayer with their own immediate environment.

History

Great Explorers

The children will learn about the exploits of a range of famous explorers and develop their knowledge of people’s lives at various points in the past, ranging in extent from 16th century Europe to the 1930s in Britain and the 1960s in America; the explorers include: Ranulph Fiennes, Amy Johnson, Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong.

DT

Textiles - Pouches

In this unit, the children will explore different examples of textiles and learn a simple running stitch, in an introduction to sewing. They will create a template for a pouch and cut out their fabric, beginning to think of who the pouch could belong to and what it should look like. The children will sew their fabric together using a running stitch and design what the front will look like, and finally, they will add decoration to their pouches using their own design ideas.

Art

Quentin Blake - Drawing: Tell a story

During this topic, the children will learn about and explore the artwork of the famous illustrator, Quentin Blake. Using storybook illustration as a stimulus, they will develop their mark-making to explore a wider range of tools and experiment with creating texture to add detail to drawings.