Art
The children will be completing their Art Project with Mrs Renton by learning how to paint their clay sculpture, using careful observation and colour mixing. They will revisit their learning as they draw and paint puffin artwork for the Puffin festival. The children will also have the opportunity to create their own art using the skills and ideas they have developed. Finally we will be looking at the work of craftmakers.
History
Enquiry: How do we know so much about where Sappho used to life?
This enquiry enables the children to explore a number of key historical concepts, particularly the nature of evidence and cause and effect. It also introduces the pupils to studying the past to understand the present better and to inform the future in a more enlightened manner. The children are able to think about how historians and archaeologists go about obtaining the evidence they need to reconstruct and interpret the past
and particularly the distinction between primary and secondary evidence. The destruction and reconstruction of the iconic city of Pompeii provides an ideal context for achieving this and this historical event is brought to life through the circumstances of one young person, to whom the children are able to relate easily. The enquiry also emphasises that the value of studying a specific event in history, such as the destruction of Pompeii, lies more in what the event tells us about the lives of ordinary people at the time rather than the specific and intricate details of the event itself.
