RoK

Autumn 2025: Let’s Celebrate!

This term we will be exploring different cultures, celebration and festivals through our theme of My world, your world. Our history work  will focus on a range of festivals, exploring about how they are celebrated today and the history around them. We will begin with developing our understanding of Harvest, looking at the origins of this and how this has developed as farming has modernised. This will lead to learning about the Gunpowder Plot, helping us to develop our knowledge of chronology, and how past events influence the modern day. We will look at significant individuals and explore the reasoning behind the plot.

Spring 2026: Treasure Seekers!

In our humanities lessons, we will explore our local area, mapping our Victorian school and thinking about how it used to look compared to today. We will note how the rooms have changed use and create a floor plan. We will also map our school grounds, as well as the local area, using keys and compasses.

After half term, in our History sessions we will look at what homes in the past were like, focusing on the Edwardian/Victorian era, when Peter Pan was written. Please save any shoeboxes you have for our dolls’ house project.  For a hands-on experience, we will visit Christchurch Mansion to find out how children lived and what was expected of them.

RoK words: Below is a list of topic based vocabulary for this term.  We will learn the meanings of these words and include them in our writing where possible.