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Workshops - Home Learning 👨👩👦👦
Autumn 1 - City Life

In Autumn 1, the children have learn all about City Life.
We have looked at:
- Local study - Southampton
- Southampton in the past, present and what we think it will look like in the future
- London in the past, present
- Famous landmarks
- Physical and human features of Southampton and London
- The Great Fire of London
- How to build a bridge - inspired by all the amazing bridges in London
- What is waterproof - inspired by the leather buckets used to put out the fire in 1666
- What houses are made of - comparing 1600s to now
- Building our own 1600's houses and bakeries
- Recreating the GFoL - we set the houses and shops out to recreate Pudding lane and set fire to the bakery
- Writing instructions and baking bread
- Writing warning posters to make people leave London during the fire
- Character descriptions
- Setting descriptions
- Recounts of a trip to the park (we designed our own parks and took a teddy on a trip)
- Writing a letter to a parent/carer to tell them about the events of the GFoL
- Place value - we have been learning the difference between ones and tens
- Addition - column addition with regrouping
- Subtraction - column subtraction without regrouping
- Lots and lots of READING!
