As members of a community we’ll be finding out:

- how our community was affected by the floods of 2007 and how some are still affected

As Enterprising people we’ll be :

- persuading people to keep our rivers clean and looking at how rivers can be used for leisure and transport

As people concerned with our environment we’ll be:

- finding out how we can all contribute to keeping rivers clean

As  Scientists we’ll be:

-          exploring different rocks found on land and in water to describe their basic characteristics

-          categorising things as solid, liquid or gas

-          looking at how some things dissolve in water but other do not

-          how we can separate materials in soil and in water by filtering, sieving or evaporating

As artists we’ll be:

-          looking at how famous artists have painted water and how they show weather changes on water

-          making paintings of our own to show water

-          observing and drawing objects related to water transport and leisure

-          making small detailed pictures in a range of media based on canal boat decoration

As Geographers we’ll be studying water and its effects on landscapes and people:

-      We’ll be exploring some of the major rivers in the world and finding out how they  have shaped the landscape.We’ll be looking at the Grand Canyon, Nile Delta and other amazing landscapes caused by water.

-      We’ll be studying erosion and deposition by looking at river features

-      We’ll be asking which processes have shaped our landscape and how people have used the features

-      We’ll map the rivers of the world

-      We’ll find the different shapes rivers have at the source, middle course and mouth

 

 

 

 

The Literacy skills we will use to demonstrate our understanding are:

-          stories, letters, a scene from a play

-          argument, persuasion, journalist, explanation, instruction, recount and report

In our spiritual and moral development we’ll explore:

-          the Christain significance of water

-          the sacred river, the Ganges, for the Hindu religion

As Information Technologists we will :

 

- be using graphics, text, multimedia and websites to present our work and improve our knowledge

As  Mathematicians we will be:

-          using databases and looking at big numbers, their composition and how we can add, subtract, round up and round down, and how they compare with each other

-          looking at simple scale