2025/26
Term 1
To start this academic year, Sycamores will be covering Ancient Egypt in history, electricity in science, watercolour in art and in PSHE, online relationships and being safe. Our English lessons will be based on 'The Day the Crayons Quit' by Drew Daywalt and 'James and the Giant Peach' by Roald Dahl, with a focus on 'writing to entertain'. This involves writing stories, descriptions, poetry and character or setting descriptions. We will also be focussing on handwriting and sentence work. Place value will be the focus of our maths lessons as well as 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 Mondays and Fridays for the first two weeks, after which, we will take a break to have swimming lessons every day in weeks 3 and 4.
Ancient Egypt
During this learning experience, Sycamores will answer the key enquiry of, 'What did the Ancient Egyptians believe?' This will lead us to explore different themes such as: Who were the Egyptians, and when did they live? Who were the Gods and Goddesses? How did they build the Pyramids? How and why did they mummify people? These questions should lead us to being able to answer the key enquiry. As part of the experience, we will be visiting Maidstone Museum!