Leatherhead Trinity School and Children's Centre

Topic (History and Geography)

Autumn 1 - (Geography)

Visit –  Visit to The ‘Pirate themed’ park

Autumn 2 –  The Victorians  (History)

Victorian day

Spring 1 – China (Geography)

Chinese Take Away

RE - Features of a church

Visit to local church

Spring 2 – Transport (History)

Visit – Brooklands Transport Museum

Summer 1 – The World Around Us (Geography)

Visitor – Minibeast Hunt (Year 2 Visit to Nower Wood)

Summer 2 – The Seaside (History)

Visit – Goring Beach

Autumn Term

Our topics in the Autumn term are Pirates and The Victorians

Pirates

•  Mapping including making treasure islands.
• Story writing involving pirates based on “Jack and The Flum Flum Tree” and “The Night Pirates.”
• Science involves learning about animals including humans.
• Instructional writing about our treasure maps.
• Collaged islands using natural materials
• Using programmable toys to develop an understanding of algorithms

The Victorians

• Writing a non-chronological report about The Victorians
• Research
• Learning about a Victorian artist
• Using artefacts to find out about the past
• Sequencing events on a timeline
• Making pop up cards

Experiences

Pirates

We launched this topic with a pirate day. The children enjoyed dressing up as pirates, making pirate ships, making parrots, learning songs and making Wanted posters.

Victorians

The children began this topic with a Victorian school day experience. They dressed up as Victorian children and spent their morning learning as a Victorian child would including using chalk boards, learning by rote and discovering the “punishments” used in Victorian times.

At Christmas we visit Polesden Lacey to see how the house is decorated and learn how the people of the house would have celebrated Christmas in Victorian times.

SPRING TERM

Our topics in the Spring Term are China and Transport

China

We will be learning to

• Use map skills to identify China on a world map and compare it's features with U.K.
• Compare cultural and physical features of China with cultural and physical features in U.K.
• Explore Chinese art and design make and evaluate own 'Willow Pattern' plate in clay.
• Use IT research skills to find information
• Write own story based on story of "The Runaway Wok" (looking at typical story features; story structure,adjectives and descriptive vocabulary, conjunctions to join ideas, repetitive langauge structure, punctuation etc.
• develop reading and comprehension skills through reading and discussing guided reading book'The Firework Maker's Daughter".

PHOTOS OF OUR CHINESE IMMERSION DAY IN GALLERY

Transport

We will be developing history skills by comparing transport in the past to transport today.