At All Saints’ we recognise the importance of making the curriculum real and relevant for our children by incorporating an understanding of the geography and history of our locality. Topic work often includes visits to places that help the children’s learning really come to life, particularly those which are local and thus make the most of our environment.
Humanities Progression Document (Years 3 – 6)
| Isla (Reception) | I showed everyone where I live on Google Earth. |
| Oscar (Year One) | We enjoyed learning about the countries in the UK and their flags. |
| Harrison (Year Two) | I liked learning about the Great Wall of China. |
| Eliza (Year Three) | Designing and building volcanoes and watching them erupt was so much fun. |
| Matthew (Year Four) | I love to discover new places when looking at maps. |
| Daniel (Year Five) | I particularly liked learning about the water cycle. |
| Felix (Year Six) | Learning about rivers and valleys on our residential to Swaledale was great: the fieldwork was interesting. |
| Thomas (Reception) | We went to a big museum to learn about dinosaurs; Mary Anning was a scientist who found dinosaur bones. |
| Lucas (Year One) | I have enjoyed learning about a local person called Grace Darling which inspired me to visit the Grace darling museum. |
| Ben (Year Two) | I liked learning about Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London. |
| Jessie (Year Three) | My favourite topic has been the Egyptians because I enjoyed writing in hieroglyphics |
| Rhys (Year Four) | I loved our Anglo Saxon day and working with Durham University, especially seeing the artifacts. |
| Brogan (Year Five) | I liked learning about the steelworks because it was close to us. It was interesting learning about our local area. |
| Madeleine (Year Six) | I loved learning particularly about Britain’s timeline from 1945 to the present day. |
The children receive opportunities to explore materials and use a variety of media. Art, along with Music and PE are seen as important developmental points for primary aged children and we seek to show them enjoyment of the arts as well as learning practical skills.
Children learn to both compose and perform musical pieces and appreciate different styles and forms of music. In some year groups we have specialist teaching such as African drumming, samba drumming and brass teaching. A significant number of the children have individual or small group lessons (on a fee paying basis) during the week on the guitar or brass instruments.
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| Joshua (Reception) | I can find the rhythm and dance. |
| Hannah (Year One) | I have enjoyed learning about high and low pitch. |
| Oliver (Year Two) | I liked learning the ocarina because you can make different sounds. |
| Maddison (Year Three) | I liked playing the glockenspiels and learning different tunes. |
| Daisy (Year Four) | We sounded so good performing the Djembe drums. |
| Sarah (Year Five) | I love to play my brass instrument. |
| Harry (Year Six) | Making sounds using each of our body parts was fun. |
| Kasper (Reception) | I like mixing glitter for my pictures. |
| Theo (Year One) | I liked drawing self-portraits like Picasso. |
| Emily (Year Two) | I like art because it is creative and colourful. |
| Isla (Year Three) | I liked learning about Salvador Dali and looking at this work. |
| Libbi (Year Four) | I like expressing my feelings through art. |
| Aria (Year Five) | I enjoyed learning about Alfred Wallis and how he painted with what he had at home. |
| Ellie (Year Six) | I loved our whole school watercolour art gallery project. |
| Isaac (Reception) | I made a brilliant jellyfish today. |
| Finan (Year One) | I loved making a moveable skeleton. |
| Faith (Year Two) | I liked designing and making my lighthouse. |
| Martha (Year Three) | Making a sandwich was good because there were lots of options. |
| Rhys (Year Four) | I love designing and making my own creations. |
| Poppy (Year Five) | I liked weaving with a loom to make Viking bracelets. |
| James (Year Six) | I loved being able to design our robots, seeing them be created and working on them in real life. |
