In Anning Class, our aim is to provide all of our children with memorable, informative and challenging learning across the whole of the National Curriculum. We are inspired by the children’s interests, as well as ensuring they are securing life skills and social development. In the autumn term, we look forward to exploring our first topic of the year: War and Conflict. It provides us with many exciting opportunities to learn about such interesting, complex and important themes. 

Within English lessons, it is imperative that we ensure all children are provided with the opportunity to share and explore high-quality texts; using these as stimuli will generate many forms of writing. Some of this term’s fiction and non-fiction texts will include: “Letters from the Lighthouse”, “Once”, “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “War Horse”. The children will be inspired to produce various pieces of writing, such as diary entries, newspaper reports, speeches, stories and biographies.

In maths, we will focus on fundamental arithmetic skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division), as well as reasoning and applying. We will begin with place value and number, including fractions, decimals and percentages. Once this is complete, we will move on to geometry.

Using our project title as inspiration, we will be able to cover many other exciting areas of the curriculum too. Science lessons will revolve around light - we will explore reflection, refraction and shadows - and electricity. In history, we will learn about the key timeline of events during World War 1, World War 2 and the Cold War. Some examples of lessons include: what life was like for a Jewish child in Nazi Germany; who Hitler was and how he rose to power; the Treaty of Versailles; and communism in Eastern Europe. We will study some influential figures in history too, such as Neville Chamberlain, Anne Frank and Alan Turing. Art lessons will focus on a study of L S Lowry and colour theory (primary, secondary and tertiary colours). In music, the children will learn about composer Edward Elgar alongside notation and classic war-time songs. In D&T, the children will design, make and evaluate their own Anderson shelters and in cooking, we will explore rations to produce savoury dishes.

This is a tremendous project for the autumn term. It promises to provide the children with a fantastic historical knowledge alongside developing cultural awareness. It will provide plenty of opportunities for creative learning and memorable experiences.

SATS Presentation

You can find a copy of the SATS presentation below: