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    • EYFS Spring 1 Wonderful World Topic
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    • Year 1 Spring 1 Going on Safari Topic
    • Spellings Year 1 Spring 1
  • Year 2
    • Year 2 Spring 1 Egyptians Topic
    • Spellings Year 2 Spring 1
  • Year 3
    • Year 3 Spring 1 Ancient Greece Topic
    • Spellings Year 3 Spring 1
  • Year 4
    • Year 4 Spring Term Inventions Topic
    • Spellings Year 4 Spring 1
  • Year 5
    • Year 5 Spring 1 Arabian Nights Topic
    • Spellings Year 5 Spring 1
  • Year 6
    • Year 6 Spring 1 The Storm of the Century Topic
    • Spellings Year 6 Spring 1

Year 4 Spring Topic


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Inventions


Read...

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Look out for these books in the Imagination Room or at Brierfield Library!  

Key vocabulary...

archaeologist
brooch
civilisation
convert
invasion
invention
kingdoms
pagan
settlement
tribes

Fantastic facts...

  • The Anglo Saxons came to Britain around the time the Romans were withdrawing.

  • Alfred the Great invented the candle clock, the first way people could tell the time without having to use the sun.

  • During the time of the Anglo Saxons, Britain was divided into many kingdoms.

  • In 2008, Sameual Thomas Houghton became the world’s youngest inventor for his ‘sweeping device with two heads’ at the age of 5.

  • Football was invented in China around 300-200 BC, over 2000 years ago!

Explore...

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Visit Wallace's workshop, a place where you can invent, build and crash-test contraptions! 
The official Wallace and Gromit website has fun games to play and lots of information about Wallace and Gromit.
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Visit...

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Bolton Steam Museum - Bolton
Museum of Science and Industry - Manchester
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National Science and Media Museum - Bradford

Do...

  • Create your own cracking contraption.

  • What is the best invention ever?  Write a persuasive speech to convince anyone who'll listen that you are right!

  • Invent a sweet treat or chocolate bar that Willy Wonka could make in his chocolate factory.      What would it taste like?  What makes it unique?  What would the wrapper / packaging look like?

In school...

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Class Novel - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
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Trip - Eureka Museum, Halifax
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