Mason
Curriculum Planner 2025 -2026
Autumn Term 2
What is our Earth made of?
This term, we are going to be finding out about different types of rocks and how we can classify them. We will also investigate differences and similarities in soil and study the process of fossilisation. We will also be learning about Mary Anning, who discovered some incredible fossils along the Jurassic Coast over 200 years ago. We will find out about her determination to find out about her discoveries and how she never gave up looking for answers.
You will need to wear your PE kit on Thursdays and Fridays
Please remember to read at home, practise your tables and learn any new spellings.
Reading records and spelling sheets in on Fridays please.
This term you could:
Write an information poster about Mary Anning
Make a rock pet –you could use paint and add googly eyes.
Find out all about the Jurassic period. Remember to search safely
Create a word search all about fossils and rocks.
Make a poster all about dinosaurs.
Imagine you are on a fossil hunt and write a diary entry about your day.
Design a dinosaur mask.
Bake some rock cakes.
Design a stamp using fossils as your theme.
Knowledge Organiser
Chatter Topics
- Imagine you could go back in time to the Jurassic period. What do you think you would see?
- What might be beneath our feet?
- Why don’t all rocks look the same?
- Do rocks stay the same forever?
- Why do you think fossils are important?
- What do you think a rock would say of it could talk?
- How can big cliffs become tiny grains of sand?
- Who was Mary Anning?
- What if fossils didn’t exist?
- Why don’t all soils look the same?
Autumn Term 1
What changed in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age?
Welcome back to Mason Class and we are looking forward to a busy and exciting term.
This term, our new topic is all about The Stone Ages; we will also explore what happened afterwards and how and why the Bronze and Iron Ages were so significant and how they differed to The Stone Ages. We will be finding out about archaeologists and how they use evidence to explain the past. In addition to this, we will be practising our sketching skills and exploring out how to create light, shadow, tone and texture.
You will need to wear your PE kit on Thursdays and Fridays.
Please remember to read at home, practise your tables and learn any new spellings.
Reading records in on Fridays please.
Our class reader will be:
We will also be reading Stone Age Boy, Glog and The Secrets of Stonehenge.
Knowledge Organiser Autumn Term 1
Medium Term Plan Autumn 1
