This half term, Maples class started their new topic 'Britain At War'. We looked at the causes of World War 1 and studied how views of war changed over time. Also, we have looked at different examples of persuasive posters during wartime and created our own! After this, we looked closely at life in the trenches, where we wrote fantastic fact booklets, diary entries and to top it all off, had our own trench fight in the hall! 

Maples have worked very hard on their Art unit, where we looked at different types of abstract art and created our own. During Computing, we have been using Tinkercad software and creating 3D models. Additionally, we have looked at various inventors and scientists during our Science lessons. A big well done to our Year 6s, who took part in their end of year SATS this half term, we are really proud of all your resilience and hard work!

This half term, we have continued our topic 'Frozen Kingdom', looking into the lives of famous polar explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton. The children created some fantastic biographies and learnt about the Terra Nova expedition and Endurance. After this, we started our Titanic unit, where the children studied what happened to the Titanic, the impact of this and analysed historical sources and evidence. After this, we had our own class debate, where each group had to defend themselves. In the end, it was decided that Bruce Ismay would be the culprit! The children also produced some wonderful historical narratives and fact pages based on the features of The Titanic. During Art, we created our own models out of recycling materials, representing environmental Art. In our DT sessions we learnt about the different types of bridges, engineers and constructed our own bridges. The children have engaged extremely well in this topic and look forward to starting our new topic, Britain At War, during the summer term.

Maples have had a fantastic time starting our new topic, ‘Frozen Kingdoms’, where we have been looking closely at the Arctic and Antarctica, identifying key features of the land and creating our own fact booklets. Additionally, we had an amazing session with the Polar museum, where we learnt about different expeditions in the Arctic and looked at many fascinating artefacts. During our art topic, we learnt about the Inuit tribe and even had a go at our own carvings using soap!  We  also looked at stencil art and created our own artwork using different polar animals.  The children have been enjoying our class book study, the Wolf Wilder by Catherine Rundell and have created some amazing diary entries, explorer logs and non-chronological reports about wolves. We look forward to continuing our learning and looking closer into the lives of polar explorers and the sinking of The Titanic.