Spring term Curriculum
During the Spring term we will explore deserts, adaptation and the early Sikh society.
This curriculum topic aims to develop pupils’ understanding of how environment shapes life, exploring both the natural world and human societies through the lens of dry land environments. Pupils will investigate desert biomes, learning how living things are classified, how they adapt to survive, and how adaptation can lead to evolution over time. Through geographical enquiry, pupils will explore the physical characteristics, global distribution, uses, and threats facing desert environments.
Alongside this, pupils will study the Sikh Empire as an early non-European society, examining how belief systems, leadership, and settlement were influenced by environment and historical context. Pupils will develop historical skills such as chronology, interpretation, and evaluating significance while making connections between human adaptation, cultural values, and environmental challenges.
Across the topic, pupils will strengthen key disciplinary skills in science, geography, and history, including enquiry, comparison, analysis, and evaluation. The topic supports pupils in understanding resilience, sustainability, and respect for diversity, enabling them to make meaningful links between the natural environment, past societies, and the modern world.
Our learning interconnects and offers pupils the oporunity to develop a broad and creative vocabulary bank to use in their narrative adventure stories, non-fiction texts and biographies.
We will be focusing on ratio in maths and revising all our multiplicative links through a range of problem solving activities.
The spring term goes so fast so let's make the most out of each and every day!
