October – December
2015
PE
We will be exploring Stravinsky’s
Firebird composition through dance.
ART and DESIGN
Events
We will be learning to experiment with hot and cold
colours. We will be creating silhouettes. We will be
studying famous paintings of the Great Fire of London.
We will be looking at 17th Century homes and rebuilding
London. Please keep any large cardboard boxes and bring
them into school for the week beginning 30th of
November.
We will be creating a fire collage for our display and role
play corner.
ENGLISH
Visit from the Fire Service.
We will be learning to write a diary and a newspaper
article.
We are going to be creating
a section of old London
with the Tudor houses we
have made at home, and
will be setting fire to them
during the week after half
term.
We will be discussing life in 1666.
We will be role-playing the main events of the Great
Fire of London.
Fiction texts:
Visit from Rainbow Theatre
on the 7th of December.
Masha and the Firebird by Margaret Bateson Hill
HISTORY
We will be learning about famous people in history
(Samuel Pepys, Charles II, Thomas Farynor).
We will be learning about life in 1666.
GEOGRAPHY
We will be locating London on maps.
SCIENCE
How the Rabbit Stole the Fire by Joanna Troughton
We will be sorting and grouping
materials. We will look at how
materials can change. We will be
looking at materials for building.
Fire Cat by Pippa Goodhart
Non-Fiction Texts:
The Great Fire of London by Gillian Clements
Eyewitness: The Great Fire of London
People who help us: The Firefighter
We will be looking at the geography of London at
the time of the Great Fire.
MUSIC
Learning to play London’s Burning on the
Ocarina and practising our nativity songs.
MATHS
We will be learning about measuring capacity and mass
through cooking in our Pudding Lane bakery. We will be
practising telling the time and exploring shape.
RE
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