South Norwood Primary School

In Vanishing Rainforests, we will be learning about how diverse, wonderful and unique our rainforests are as well as what we need to do to ensure their survival. Did you know that rainforests once covered 14% of our world’s surface? Now sadly they cover between 3-4% of the world. Why are they vanishing? During the unit, you will need to be geographers, scientists including being botanists who explore the plant world to find out the answers to critical real-life problems. If we don’t act soon it could be too late!

We all belong to different communities - groups of people that come together for different reasons such as sports, interest groups, learning groups etc. We will be thinking and learning more about how our own communities are made up and sharing how we contribute towards our communities and how we can support and work with others to become valuable contributors to the communities we are a part of. We will be learning how important it is to respect each others’ different communities. 

In Vanishing Rainforests, we will be learning about how diverse, wonderful and unique our rainforests are as well as what we need to do to ensure their survival. Did you know that rainforests once covered 14% of our world’s surface? Now sadly they cover between 3-4% of the world. Why are they vanishing? During the unit, you will need to be geographers, scientists including being botanists who explore the plant world to find out the answers to critical real-life problems. If we don’t act soon it could be too late!

Dinosaurs lived millions of years ago – long before people lived on Earth. No one has ever seen a dinosaur so how do we know anything about them? Fossil evidence and dinosaur bones provide our only clues. 

We will be learning about what dinosaurs looked like, what they ate and what might have happened to them in the end. To do this we will need to become palaeontologists! We will need the skills of a scientist, historian and geographer combined to explore the Mesozoic Era successfully and the talents of an artist to sketch and model our finds. 

We all belong to different communities - groups of people that come together for different reasons such as sports, interest groups, learning groups etc. We will be thinking and learning more about how our own communities are made up and sharing how we contribute towards our communities and how we can support and work with others to become valuable contributors to the communities we are a part of. We will be learning how important it is to respect each others’ different communities.