Our Stunning Start
this term involves
activities over a
couple of days. We
will be taking part in
exciting outdoors
challenges: building
shelters, making
tools and even
making fire, like
early ‘man’ would
have. On our dressup day we will have
a range of fun
activities – cave
painting, playing a
survival game, and
exploring what we
think we already
know about the
Stone Age – and we
will be correcting
some
misconceptions!
Our learning for the term will be
split into 4 chapters:
Stone Age Survival; Onto the Ice
Age; Bring on the Bronze Age and
Into the Iron Age. In each, we will
be exploring key questions about
what the world was like at the
time, how and why ‘man’
developed as he did, and why this
occurred at different times across
the world.
Most of our English work will be
based around this. For example,
we will be writing ‘A Day in the
Life’ reports and our own short
stories based on ‘Stone Age Boy’
by Satoshi Kitamura, and
playscripts based on ‘Ug’ by
Raymond Briggs.
In addition to this,
later in the term we
will be taking part in
workshops with
‘Portals to The Past’,
and going on foraging
expeditions to Wish
Park and St. Anne’s
Well Gardens, to keep
us immersed in the
Pre-historic lifestyle.
To end, we would like to invite you to our Fabulous
Finish on Tuesday 15th December - a Performance
combining aspects of our learning throughout the
term, with a sprinkling of Christmas cheer!
Thinking
skill
Remember
Factual
answers,
recall and
recognition
Task
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Write a list of artefacts from the Stone,
Bronze and Iron Ages with a short
description.
Create a comic strip of a typical day in
the Stone Age.
Were there supermarkets in the Stone,
Bronze, and Iron Ages? Carry out some
research about how cave men/women
got their food.
Find out and write a paragraph about
the tools that were used in each of the
Ages (Stone, Bronze and Iron).
WE WOULD LIKE EVERYONE TO
COMPLETE AT LEAST ONE TASK
FROM EACH SECTION OVER THE
TERM
Thinking
skill
Understand
Translating
Interpreting
Showing
understand
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Task
Invent an outfit for a cave man/woman thinking about the
materials that would have been available.
Create your cave painting that tells us a little bit about your life
story.
Design a typical Stone, Bronze or Iron Age house.
Draw or paint a portrait of yourself as a cave man/woman.
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Thinking
skill
Evaluate
Judge, use
criteria, rank
substantiate.
Thinking skill
Create
Combine
information to
create new
products and
ideas
Task
Devise a quiz on the
Stone, Bronze and Iron
Ages for a friend.
Describe the differences
between the Stone and
the Iron Ages.
Create a fact file about
the Stone, Bronze and
Iron Ages.
Task
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Write a letter home from the
boy in the story of 'The Stone
Age boy' to inform your family
where you are and what you
have been doing.
Compare what life is like today
to what it was like in the Stone,
Bronze and Iron Ages. What is
the same? What is different?
Which age would you prefer to
live in?
Create set of ‘Top Trumps’
cards comparing life in the
different Ages.