Humanities
At Burnt Oak Junior School we focus our teaching of History and Geography through the International Primary Curriculum (IPC) topics across each year group.
Geography
Every year group chooses a new unit of work each half term and Geography is taught through these units in blocks.
Year 3 topics include; ‘Saving the World’, in which children visit the Rainforest exhibition in London Zoo, to examine the rainforest environment.
Year 4 topics include; ‘Active Planet’, in which children study their local environment and go into the woods to build their own shelters.
Year 5 topics include; ‘Going Global’ in which children visit the Thames Barrier and study the effect of living near a river.
Year 6 topics include; ‘What a Wonderful World’ and ‘Going Global’ where children learn about international migration, tourism and trade.
History
The IPC provides certain key learning goals, which we use to help plan a varied and exciting curriculum for the children.
During their time at Burnt Oak Junior School, children learn how:
- To gather information from a variety of sources (including books, video, internet, drama and role play, visiting speakers and trips.)
- To place events, people and changes into chronological order.
- To describe and identify reasons for and results of historical events.
- History affects lives of people in the present.
- The history of one country affects another.
Highlights of our history topics include:
Year 3: Learning about people from history who have made a real difference to the world and dressing up as their favourite historical figure.
Year 4: Spending the day on “The Golden Hinde” and dressing up in role to experience life as a Tudor explorer 500 years ago.
Year 5: Shooting off into the starts to learn about “The Space Race” and how discoveries from the past have a major influence on the present.
Year 6: Travelling through the “Time Tunnel” to experience life as a child evacuee during World War Two.