History and Geography

Spring 1 - Magical Mapping Skills

This Magical Mapping unit will develop key map skills through a range of engaging geographical skill based activities. Children will explore a range of maps at a local, national and global level, developing their understanding of how to navigate around an atlas to find key countries, continents, oceans and seas along with devising their own maps and routes. They will learn how to ‘view from above’ looking at aerial photographs to spot human and physical features, understand simple map symbols, compass directions and develop key geographical vocabulary throughout the unit. 

Why not try the map symbol spotter activity at home?

Autumn 2  - History: Significant People

This History topic links with out literacy text, 'Fossil Girl'. We will learn about Mary Anning, one of the most famous palentologists of our time.

Who was Mary Anning?

• Anning was born in Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast, in 1799.
• The area where she was born is now known as the Jurassic coast due to the incredible fossils she discovered.
• Mary Anning was a fossil collector and palaeontologist
• Anning became famous for her finds made in Jurassic marine fossil beds.
• Some of Mary Anning's discoveries include the Ichthyosaur, the Plesiosaur and the Dimorphodon.

Autumn 1 - Travel and Transport

In this Travel and Transport unit children will learn about the development of travel and transport throughout history. Alongside consolidating the children's understanding of chronology through using timelines and making comparisons between old and new forms of transport, the unit focuses on early travel methods of the Vikings, through to the invention of cars, trains and aeroplanes. It also looks at the significant individuals George Stephenson and the Wright brothers.

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