In this year, the Class Five child explores an incredibly rich range of topics, incorporating the stories, myths, inventiveness, daily life and early history of various Ancient Civilisations, a continuing broadening of Geography and History that covers their home nation or continent and an introduction to a scientific understanding of Botany and Fungi.

Our range of blocks for Class Five integrate these key themes by supporting the child to connect how botany and the world’s biomes relate to geography and how history, mythology and culture are also closely linked to geography, developing a curious, inspired and compassionate understanding for the world and it’s inhabitants in the Class Five child.

Class Four further explores the natural world and a sense of the pupils place within it, through an array of main lesson blocks that explore the Local Geography and History around them and that find a creative initial sense for what it means to be Human and how it relates and compares to the Animal Kingdom.

Class Four also explore the vibrant mythological polarities portrayed within Norse Mythology to underpin the literacy learning for that year, practicing the use of alliteration embedded within rich descriptive language and story, typical of these northern myths and sagas and further enriched with guided drawings, paintings and form-drawing that enhance artistic skill, spacial awareness and motor skills.

Math main lesson blocks for this year, retain a practical element in their initial exploration of fractions but then move into also including gradually more complex topics, such as factors and multiples.

Our Class Four blocks and feedback are designed to support, inspire and accompany the pupil and their family through this year.

A year that accompanies a developmental shift for the child of nine. Typically, this grade embed themselves in an array of practical-learning based main lesson blocks such as; Cooking, Weights and Measures, Building and Dwellings, Farming and Time. All developing a sense of practical knowledge, skill, self-awareness, confidence and a compassionate curiosity towards the natural world immediately around them. This emerging physical confidence in themselves through outdoor and practical learning, can then be further embedded with a range of main lesson book tasks to develop reading and writing, organisation and artistic skills, all through both documenting their practical work and observations and through the powerful and imaginative emersion in creation mythology. Our Class Three blocks and feedback are designed to support, inspire and accompany the pupil and their family through this year.