Has crime always been treated fairly in the past?

Come with us on a journey through time.  We will be finding out how our ancestors treated criminals and also how laws that we think have always been in place to protect us have in fact changed.  Out exciting trip to Lincoln Castle will consolidate our learning and help us to understand whether crime has been treated fairly, or not. 

Our class newsletter will help you to see what exciting plans we have for the term. 

Week 5

This week, we invited parents in to join us in a class project.  Celebrating our fantastic artwork, we divided Highwayman illustrations into grids and each person was given a section to enlarge.  The children taught the adults they have been learning this term and the enlarged versions looked fantastic. 

Week 4

This week we completed our Charles Keeping style illustrations in art.  These amazing sketches have been based upon our poetry unit where we have created our own retelling of "The Highwayman".  Using a selection of media from charcoal to graphite pencils, the children have painstakingly layered their art to give an emotive, energetic feel to their work. 

Week 3

This week, we celebrated VE Day in school.  We learnt about why it is so important and made bunting for our party.  As part of our learning, we put ourselves in the position of a soldier writing home about our feelings that peace had come at last. 

Week 2

This week, we've been learning about the artist Charles Keeping.  This famous illustrator created lots of amazing, emotive art, often as illustrations for books.  We've been studying "The Highwayman" this term, which uses many of his illustrations. 

After finding out about him, we created some fact-maps to explain what we found out. 

Week 1

This week we have begun our English learning about narrative poetry.  We are using the book "The Highwayman" to inspire us.  Working in groups, we freeze framed the key parts of the story, ready to organise into a storyboard later in the week.