As members of a community we’ll: - find out about people who have settled in our community. We will ask how we make them feel welcome and embrace their culture and experiences	As Enterprising people we’ll be : Growing some vegetables, marketing them, selling them and re-investing to plant next season	As Geographers we’ll be: ¨ Practising map skills by looking at the Scandinavian countries that Vikings came from ¨ Exploring geographic features especially the lack of farming land, to try to understand why Vikings settled in Britain
As people concerned with our environment we’ll: - explore how Vikings grew their own food and how many people are now returning to this as a sustainable way of living	As Information Technologists we will : - be using graphics, text, multimedia and websites to present our work and further our knowledge	We will explore the spiritual and moral aspects of: - our own buried treasure and finding out about others’ talents
As Mathematicians we’ll be: - estimating and measuring seeds and rows, areas of ground for our planting - Looking at scale on maps and plans - Weighing - Collecting and analysing data - Ordering dates and finding differences between them	As Scientists we will be: - investigating the life of plants, through the effect of air, light, water and temperature - Seeing how the parts of a plant work together and how they increase - Making keys and looking at how plants can be grouped together - Looking at he processes common to plants, animals and humans - Devising a magnetic tray game, which will incorporate a buzzer	As historians we’ll be studying: The Vikings as settlers in our country in the 8th-11th centuries. We’ll be looking for evidence of what life was like during these times. We’ll be finding out how archaeologists and historians have found buried treasure from the past that reveal secrets from these times. We’ll also explore life today and find out about houses/culture and leisure/clothes/beliefs/rich and poor and look into local street names and how Viking culture can still be seen in some places. We’ll also be exploring the arguments historians have about the different opinions of what the evidence tells us. Finally we’ll be presenting our work in a lively and interesting way.
As artists we’ll be using pencil, paint, ink, biro, felt sticks and fabric to: ¨ Represent everyday objects by close observation ¨ Make pictures that tell a story of daily life from the past and present, looking at how this may change in the near future	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