Outdoor Learning
Class 1 Sand Hutton (Rec/Year 1)
Theme: Woodland Theme
Activities:
- Tree rubbings
- leaf art/models
- stick men
- tree identification
- leaf mobiles
- mud faces
- bug hunting
- flower hunt
- blackberry picking
- den building
Skills Coverage:
Science:
Working scientifically –
- observing closely, using simple equipment
- identifying and classifying
- gathering and recording data to help answer questions
Plants –
- identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees
Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees
Class 3 Sand Hutton (Year 4-6)
Theme: Romans
Activities:
- Focus on Roman Siege artillery
- Video and Quiz on Onager (Roman Catapult) – practise note-taking and listening skills
- Creating Onagers – stripping sticks to create the structure and joining using elastic bands. Chn to use acorns to catapult. Chance for competition to see which catapult is the most effective.
- Celts v Romans
- Debate about which side to join – overview of advantages/disadvantages of being on both sides. Opportunity for further research.
- Create Roman dwellings using sticks
- Roman Cooking – Preparation, instruction writing and cooking
Skills Coverage
DT
- Select from a range of tools to perform practical tasks
- Select and use a range of materials and components
- Evaluate their own and others finished products
- Apply knowledge as to how to reinforce more complex structures
Cooking and Nutrition
- Prepare and cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes using a range of cooking techniques
- Understand seasonality and where ingredients are grown
History
- The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain
- The Roman Empire and the power of its army
British Resistance – Boudica
Infant Class Warthill (Rec/Year 1/Year2)
Theme: PSHE – Working with others cooperatively
Activities:
- Team building games
- creating leaf giants
- leaf relays
- team scavenger treasure hunt
- create castles/boats using Kitcamp
Skills Coverage:
P.E
- Participate in team games
Science Plants –
- identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees
- Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees
PSHE
- Getting to you know
- Working with others
- Being able to overcome difficulties
Junior Class Warthill (Year 3-6)
Theme: Stone Age
Activities:
- Fire pit – hunter gatherer lighting fires
- Creating spears and using them to hunt a woolly mammoth, cave painting using charcoal from old fire
- Focus on cave paintings and how they were made
- Den building creating stone age dwellings
- Making mini dwellings using sticks, grass, moss and full size using poles, tarpaulin.
- Stone Age cooking using fire pit, preparation and instructions.
Skills Coverage
DT
- Select from a range of tools to perform practical tasks
- Select and use a range of materials and components
- Evaluate their own and others finished products
- Apply knowledge as to how to reinforce more complex structures
Cooking and Nutrition
- Prepare and cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes using a range of cooking techniques
- Understand seasonality and where ingredients are grown
History
- Britain from Stone Age to Iron Age
- Neolithic hunter-gatherers
- Iron age hill forts
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