As members of a community we’ll be: ¨ Examining public buildings in our community (library) ¨ Researching public events (galas, celebrations) ¨ Interviewing local residents about their experiences in Thorpe Hesley	As Enterprising people we’ll be : ¨ Planning and running a museum to present our knowledge of the local area ¨ Looking at commercial designs of books	As Design Technologists we’ll be: ¨ Making models of local buildings, using a range of materials ¨ Studying stiff and flexible sheet materials – we’ll be making books, exploring bindings and how to make the pages come to life using a variety of techniques
As Mathematicians we’ll be: - Using scale to work out appropriate sizes for models and distances on maps - Talking about profit and production costs in the printing industry - Collecting, presenting and interrogating data	As artists we’ll be: ¨ Creating observational artwork based on the local area ¨ Illustrating our books using a mixture of observational and narrative art, with paint, pencil, biro, ink and felt sticks	As people concerned with our environment and as Geographers we’ll be studying: ¨ Analysing maps and images of the local area ¨ Exploring sustainable paper sources including hand made papers
We will explore the spiritual and moral aspects of: - Community and local environment, contrasting local and global issues - Being a member of a community	As Information Technologists we will : - Be using graphics, text, multimedia and websites to present our work and increase our knowledge	As Scientists we will be: - looking at a place in the local environment to see how life forms adapt to their surroundings and how and why some environments need to be protected. We will need to look at food chains and find how most start with a green plant - looking at micro-organisms which can harm our books, such as mildew, foxing, mould, damp
As historians we will be studying: ¨ How an aspect of the local area has changed over time ¨ How features have changed and why ¨ How the past is presented and how we interpret it ¨ And we’ll be presenting all of this in our books and in the museum	The Literacy skills we will use to demonstrate our understanding are: - argument, persuasion, journalist, explanation, instruction, recount and report