Welcome to Nanjizal Class. We are a mixed year 2 and 3 class which consists of 17 children and our teacher, Mrs King.
Cycle B - Spring Term
The Great Fire of London
In this history unit, the children will discover what London was like in 1666. They will make simple comparisons between then and the present day. The lessons will move on to discover what happened on the night of 2nd September 1666 when the Great Fire of London started. They will discuss why the fire spread quickly and how it was tackled. The children will be introduced to key historical individuals, such as Thomas Farriner, Samuel Pepys, King Charles II and Sir Christopher Wren. The children will consider how we find out about the past. They will have the opportunity to study evidence, such as Samuel Pepys’ diary and objects left behind after the fire, to help them form opinions about what happened over 350 years ago.
Cycle B - Autumn Term -
Cornish Mining
In this unit, children will learn about life in Cornwall in the past when it was known for its mining industry. They will discover the history of tin and copper mining in this region and its impact on the local community. The lessons will briefly introduce Richard Trevithick and his invention of the steam engine and discuss the lives of men, women and children at this time. Through these lessons, children will develop their historical skills of evidence and interpretation, similarity and difference, historical significance and change and continuity. There will be opportunities to look at photographs from the past and study them as evidence. Towards the end of this sequence of lessons, children will consider why the mines closed and how the mining heritage is celebrated and preserved in the present day.
Cycle A - Summer Term
This term, our topic is called 'Prehistoric Britain'. Throughout this unit, the children will learn about prehistory in Britain, and how we find out about prehistory. They discover what life was like through each of the main time periods of the Stone Age, right through to the Iron Age. Children find out about how civilisation started, how agriculture became a huge driving force for things like stone circles to be built and how different metals such as bronze and iron changed the way we interacted with each other and created huge defensive earthworks that we can even see and walk today.
Cycle A Spring Term
This term our topic is called ‘The Ancient Egyptians’. In this unit we will learn about the chronology of the Ancient Egyptians, about their civilised way of communicating through hieroglyphics, about some of their most significant gods and goddesses, about how and why they built pyramids, about their beliefs related to the afterlife, about how and why they mummified bodies and about their most well known pharaohs.
Cycle A Autumn Term
Hola Mexico!
'What makes Mexico
Magnificent?'
This unit is a comparative unit between where we live and Mexico. The children will use atlases and globes to discover about the world, including the seven continents and five oceans, the countries, capital cities and surrounding seas of the UK and the equator and poles. Children will develop fieldwork and map skills creating maps of the school and their local area. Children will learn the geographical human and physical features of Tulum in Mexico and compare them to the geographical features of their own local area. We will learn about Mexican culture, traditions and festivals. The children will make and taste traditional Mexican food, comparing it to well loved British food. In art, we will study about a famous Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo as well as well known local artists Barbara Hepworth and John Dyer.
Our up coming guided reading book!