FSU has been exploring the past. In Nursery, we have been looking at pictures of ourselves as babies and talking about how we have changed. In Reception, we have been enjoying learning about the Victorian school era and how different it is compared to the present day. The children have been using some incredible language to describe the two periods of time.
Year 1 has enjoyed going back to the land of the dinosaurs. We used our imagination to walk amongst them and described the setting using our senses. We then used our noun phrases to create an exciting list poem.
Year 2 has gone back in time to being a soldier in World War One, imagining life before, during, and after the War. We have written excellent poems about what we may have experienced.
In Year 3, the children stepped cautiously through the ash-covered ruins, back to where Mount Vesuvius had erupted centuries before. The devastation spoke loudly in the stories written by the children.
Year 4 studied the life of Florence Nightingale and journeyed through her eyes in a series of journal entries, traveling back to the 1850s when she volunteered as a nurse during the Crimean War in Scutari Hospital, Turkey. There, she first encountered the TARDIS, which transported her to the hospital at Chatham Dockyard in the 1850s, and finally to present-day Medway Hospital. The children were able to see how our local hospital has changed since the 1850s and to understand the impact Florence Nightingale has had on these developments. They thoroughly enjoyed leaping between different time periods and have produced fantastic writing—beginning with work on adjectives, then building sentences using expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases, and fronted adverbials, before moving on to structured paragraphs that supported them in creating impressive mini journal entries.
Year 5 and 6 have also been transported back to the land of the dinosaurs. They have considered how this time in history shaped the future and what it would have been like to live during that era. They have enjoyed writing in a variety of genres to portray their experiences and factual information.
