Our topic this half term is Explorers and Adventurers with a focus on the Tudor explorers.

• In history we’ll be finding out about
• Explorers and adventurers from the past
• Different views about explorations
• An ancient Egyptian journey of exploration
• How we know about explorations

In geography we’ll be finding out about

• How to locate routes and places on maps
• How to compare old and recent maps
• How to use different projections

In art we’ll be finding out about

• The work of explorer Margaret Mee
• The work of Georgia O’Keefe
• The comic-strip work of Roy Lichtenstein

In music we’ll be finding out about

• The music used for films about space adventure
• How to improvise our own space adventure music

We’ll also be finding out how to use ICT to research, organise and record our work, and how exploration can be an international venture.