History - Ancient Egypt

During our first history Learning Experience, Maples will answer the key enquiry of, 'What did the Ancient Egyptians believe?' To answer this question we will start by studying where Egypt is, who the Ancient Egyptians were and when they lived. We will go on to look at: Gods and Goddesses, the Pyramids, mummification and what they believe about the afterlife. As part of the experience, we will be visiting Maidstone Museum - where they have a real mummy!

Term 1

In term 1 Maples will be covering Ancient Egypt in history, electricity in science, watercolour in art and in PSHE, online relationships and being safe. In English we will be focussing on 'The Day the Crayons Quit' by Drew Daywalt and 'James and the Giant Peach' by Roald Dahl. We will be doing lots of work on sentence skills and handwriting and will be 'writing to entertain'. This involves writing stories, descriptions, poetry and character or setting descriptions. In Maths we will focus on Place Value for most of the term before moving onto Addition and Subtraction towards the end of the term. During our PE lessons, we will be covering fundamental movement skills, and they will take place on Wednesday and Thursdays. For the last two weeks of the term we will be having lots of swimming lessons and practice. This term we are also learning Spanish and have our trip to Maidstone Museum!