At Sevenbanks we use a text enhanced approach to learning. In year 3 used the text The Stone Age Boy.

This text was chosen to support and engage the pupils in learning about the history of the Stone Age, rocks in science and cave drawings in art using their painting skills. 
The text supported the children in writing instructions, letters and sequencing their story writing.

 

 

 

 

We are authors. 

            

 

We are artists.  We creat prehistoric cave paintings using our drawing skills and painting techniques. 

 

        

"We visited Museum in the Park to enhance our learning of the Stone Age.

We began by handling some tools from different periods of the Stone Age, understanding what these were used for and discussing how and why these developed over time.

We used flint, a useful material in the Stone Age, to practise cutting and chopping some real vegetables. This could be very tricky and took a long time, not like using a regular kitchen knife today! We tried many different methods of cutting until eventually we chopped off some fine pieces of vegetables.

       

We took a walk around the museum, finding out about pre-historic artefacts. We started to look at food, clothes and tools from this time.

 

In the afternoon, we created some Stone Age-inspired art. We used flint on slate to draw cave-style paintings, lots of us drew mammoths and deer as these were very common animals during this time.

We finished the day by learning more about why mammoths were so important in pre-historical times, looking at different body parts and what these were used for.

A wonderful, educational trip!"

In RE we learn about Diwali, we create our own Rangoli patterns. 

   

D.T  We are designers.

The children look at fruit from around the world. They find out where food originates from and how it is transported. Following on, the children make their own fruit kebabs, using strawberries, bananas, watermelon and a drizzle of honey. These are then grilled and the children all have a go at tasting the yummy kebabs.

We are mathematicians. We learn about number patterns and numbers to 1000.We create a human number line!  We identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations. 

  

 Lights on Cotton Rock links very well to our Science topic of light! We have been reading this in term 2. 

 

We  read The Egyptian Cinderella and The Ancient Egypt Sleepover.  This enhances our knowledge and understanding of Ancient Egypt and we are Historians. 

Summer 2 sees the classic text Charlotte's Web being read and a stimulus for great writing. 

We are scientists. We learn about the human body and labelled the bones of the skeleton.    

We are athletes.  In PE (autumn 1) we learn  passing and receiving skills/ invasion and defence skills. 

         

In term 2, we learn how to be a gymnast. We focus on gymnastic skills. 

      

 

We love learning French. We are linguists. We learn the names of fruits and use these in sentences. We then have a fruit party but have to ask for fruit in French. 

           

   

 

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