Our whole school topic this term is, All Things Bright and Beautiful. Year 4 children will be exploring the enquiry question of “What makes our Earth special?”. The children shared lots of interesting and exciting ideas and together, we have begun to plan our learning journey for Autumn Term.

Through Expressive Arts, Health & Wellbeing, Humanities and Science & Technology we will be exploring Earth and space.

Expressive Arts

We will be exploring and experimenting with appropriate tools and techniques to create a range of artwork based around the topic of Earth and space. We will also be focussing on movement and how a specific rhythm may impact how you move. We will be relating this to space events and how different musical pieces may represent different aspects of space.

Science & Technology

We will identify all of the wonderful things that make up our beautiful Earth and how we should treat them. We will explore the difference between the living, non-living and never-lived, as well as natural and man-made materials, before focusing closely on the rocks and soils that make up our Earth.

Health & Wellbeing

Through our exploration of our Earth, we will celebrate the things that we believe makes our Earth so special and begin to understand how our experiences affect our emotional well-being.

Humanities

We will explore how different people view our world and identify how they interpret to look after our world. In particular, we will discover the views of Marcus Rashford, Greta Thunberg and Malala Yousafzai. We will use this opportunity to recognise the feelings and viewpoints of others.

These are just a few of the ideas the children have shared with us in the early stages of planning our topic. We will go with the children’s ideas throughout the term to explore the key question further.