Class 2 - Bolton Abbey

Welcome to Bolton Abbey Class

Hello and welcome to Bolton Abbey Class!

We have great fun learning and growing together in our welcoming, vibrant and stimulating learning environment. Our teachers, Mrs Anderson and Mrs Townsend and teaching assistants Mrs Porter and Miss Rodgers take great care of us each day and plan exciting, purposeful and challenging learning linked to creative topics that we love.

We will keep you updated with all our fantastic learning so keep visiting our page.

The grid below shows an overview of our class learning for the Autumn Term:

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Main topic Focus

Movers and Shakers

This project teaches children about historically significant people who have had a major impact on the world. They will learn to use timelines, stories and historical sources to find out about the people featured and use historical models to explore their significance.

Foundation Stage Main topic Focus

Let’s Explore / Me and My Community

This project teaches children about the environments that they share with others, including their homes, school and places in the local community. EYFS children: • Talk about themselves and the significant people in their lives • Learn about the people who work in the school community • Learn about people who help them in the local community. As well as the people who help us in our everyday lives, they will also learn about famous explorers and discover how their journeys helped us understand more about our world and beyond.

Art/EAD

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Mix it

This project teaches children about basic colour theory by studying the colour wheel and colour mixing. It includes an exploration of primary and secondary colours and how artists use colour in their artwork.

Still Life

This project teaches children about the work of significant still life artists and still life techniques. They explore a wide variety of still life images and learn about the use of colour and composition. They create still life arrangements and artwork.

DT/EAD

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Remarkable Recipes

This project teaches children about sources of food and tools used for food preparation. They also discover why some foods are cooked and learn to read a simple recipe. The children choose and make a new school meal that fulfils specific design criteria.

Science/UW

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Human Survival

This project teaches children about the basic needs of humans for survival, including the importance of exercise, nutrition and good hygiene. They learn how human offspring grow and change over time into adulthood.

Habitats

This project teaches children about habitats and what a habitat needs to provide. They explore local habitats to identify and name living things and begin to understand how they depend on one another for food and shelter.

Geography/UW

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Let’s Explore the World

This essential skills and knowledge project teaches children about atlases, maps and cardinal compass points. They learn about the characteristics of the four countries of the United Kingdom and find out why there are hot, temperate and cold places around the world. They also compare England to Somalia. Children carry out fieldwork, collecting primary data in their locality to answer geographical questions.

EYFS children: • Explore and begin to learn about their immediate environment • Create sketch maps to represent real and imaginary journeys • Use Google Maps to explore their local area and locations around the world • Use world maps and globes to identify the UK and make comparisons with other locations • Are introduced to positional language, such as under, over, above, below, through and next to.

This term the Children in Bolton Abbey class are going to be following the main topic Movers and Shakers. Please see the topic tab on the right-hand side of the page to find out more about this topic.

Key Stage One Knowledge Organiser:

Please see the topic tab for more information about how you can support your child's learning on this topic. There is information about home learning that can enhance your child's engagement with this topic on this page as well as suggestions for further reading and websites to explore.

EYFS children will follow mixed-age planning which links to the topic of Movers and Shakers.

This term, EYFS children will be learning about significant people who have explored, discovered and changed the world, as well as the people who help us in our everyday lives. They will learn about famous explorers such as Amelia Earhart, Charles Darwin and Neil Armstrong, and discover how their journeys helped us understand more about our world and beyond. The children will take part in their own explorations by investigating the school grounds, observing plants and animals, taking photographs and recording their findings. They will also learn about how transport has changed over time and how these developments helped people travel further and explore new places. As part of their learning about people who make a difference, the children will be introduced to inspiring figures such as Sir David Attenborough, Rosa Parks and Floella Benjamin, exploring how they helped others and influenced positive change. Throughout the term, children will reflect on their own families, friendships and communities, developing an understanding of the different groups they belong to and how they can be kind, helpful and responsible members of their class, school and wider community. Through stories, discussions, creative activities and outdoor learning experiences, children will develop their curiosity about the world and an appreciation of the people who have helped shape it.

Outdoor learning with Bolton Abbey Class

The children in Bolton Abbey Class have regular opportunities to explore learning outside. Our classroom has direct access to a fabulous outdoor area which the children love to use to build creations with loose parts and explore mixing and concocting in the mud kitchen area. Whenever possible, we take our learning outside to make connections to the local environment and explore ideas on a larger, more exciting scale. On Tuesday afternoons, the children visit the local Pilsley Woods for Forest school activities learning about the seasons, the trees, plants and animals that live there and building deep connections to the environment over the school year. Children enjoy the opportunities to enjoy storytelling, hands-on exploration, investigation, and discovery, stimulating their curiosity and creativity.