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This half term has been a very busy few weeks and the Rainbows have achieved so much. Their topic has been Colour and Light and each week they have focused on a different learning area. There have been special learning days including Road Safety week and Antibullying week and they have enjoyed their Christmas craft afternoon, Christmas party and their AMAZING Nativity performance! Their learning journey is shown below and every week they add examples of the children's learning and review key knowledge and vocabulary as a team. This not only helps strengthen their knowledge but helps them develop chronology and see changes over time, including new things they have learnt and how they have progressed onto learning new skills. Have a look below at all their fabulous learning! 
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Although the majority of history learning will take place in the Spring Term when year 6 explore what life was like in Ancient Egypt, they have covered lots this term too. They have learnt about the work of significant figures in history such as Ben Franklin who researched the link between electrical charge and lightning. They have also looked at historical sources such as translations of diaries and letters, artefacts from archaeological digs to piece together the events surrounding the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE and the impact on the people of Pompeii.
Today the Rainbows talked about the importance of everyone being different and know that being different makes them special and that is wonderful! They talked about how people like different things, such as unicorns or cars, and how some people aren't interested in these things and that is ok. They looked at how they are different and could identify that some people wore glasses and some don't, some have blue eyes and some don't and they know that it makes us all unique! They know that if everyone looked the same and everyone liked the same things, the world would not be as wonderful and interesting as it is now! The Rainbows know to treat everyone the same and to be kind. We should celebrate being unique and special!
The Rainbows were shown a picture of Rosa Parks and know that she lived in the past. They heard about how hard she fought for equality which means that everyone is treated just the same even though we are all unique! What a special lady! Today the Sunshines learnt about the significant individual Rosa Parks. They started by listening to an adapted version of Tusk, Tusk by David McKee and spoke about how it wasn't nice to treat people differently just because they were different. The Sunshines even said that the elephants in Tusk Tusk wouldn't like Elmer as he was a brightly coloured patchwork elephant! After the story they discussed how they have previously learnt about how everybody is different and that this is what makes us special and unique and just because we are all different doesn't mean we can't all be friends. They thought about how they are different those they were sat next to - they could identify that some people wore glasses and some don't, some have blue eyes and some don't and that some people had long hair and other had short hair. They said that this is all okay.
Sunshines learnt that Rosa Parks lived in the past and that when she was alive people were treated differently for being different - just like the elephants. They learnt that when Rosa Parks was alive people were kept apart from each other because of their difference - they discussed how they would feel if they were kept apart from their friends for being different. They heard how Rosa Parks fought for equality and said this meant she fought for everyone to be treated the same despite their differences. They ended with the following positive thoughts using MTYT:
Mrs Allen met with history ambassadors to discuss the profile of history in school. They talked about ways in which they could monitor history during terms when history wasn’t the main subject focus. They decided that Mrs Allen and Miss Clementson would meet the history ambassadors again after time to think of any questions / further ideas.
So far they discussed- Pupil voice questions as decided by ambassadors Checking regularly on history display in hall Ensuring vocabulary was displayed Making sure that significant times in history were delivered during autumn and summer term ie. Remembrance Day, gunpowder plot, black history month and that these were blogged. |
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