Stone Age, Bone Age! Were Stone Age people just simple hunter gatherers?
What we are up to
In the Autumn term the children started the year with an amazing hunt for cave paintings around our school. We immersed ourselves in Satoshi Kitamura’s Stone Age boy to found out about how Stone Age people lived. Through our History lessons will found out how much Stone Age people’s lives have changed over time and we will investigate how they weren’t just simple hunter gathers living a nomadic lifestyle to survive. They were a people of art, culture and possible religious ceremonies and rituals. This will culminate in a History workshop at the end of the half term with a local palaeontologist who will show the children real life Stone Age artefacts which is part of our school’s valued experiences. We will also be creating narrative stories based on the Stone Age boy and creating a survival guide for the Stone Age for a time traveller.
In Science we will be investigating forces specifically looking at the effects of friction and non-contact forces like magnets. In French the children will be introduced to greetings along with different salutations. In PSHE the children are starting off by looking health and wellbeing and what makes them unique. This then develops into living in the wider world and what it means to be part of a community. In the final week the children will be undertaking an exciting Geography week investigating our local river the Adur and will catch the train to Shoreham to investigate the different features of the river.
Key Dates for Autumn 1
History workshop with Jon Sygrave 16.10.24
Geography field trip to Shoreham w/c 21.10.24 exact days TBC