Outdoor Learning

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

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

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

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