Welcome to Galapagos!

Galapagos Class is a class of Year 4 children and is taught by Mr Fisher and supported by Mrs Dell.

I am very excited to continue my career at Brading and cannot wait to teach Year 4, this year. We have lots to learn but will have plenty of fun along the way!

Galapagos class will start the year by looking, ‘All around the World.’ We must build an understanding of map skills and globes to locate countries around the world. We will look closely at our local coastline and how it has changed over time and see if we can unearth any more natural treasures or dinosaur bones. Watch out though! Our second topic is ‘Viking Invaders!’ We will look back at this period of history and make comparisons with Modern Britain. We shall look at aspects of archaeology and evidence that has been found from the past. Our skills will include looking at key events and features and evaluating different sources.

To start our Spring Term, we will be finding out about extreme environments in our ‘Water: Crazy Climates’ topic.  We shall make comparisons between familiar aspects of physical geography and study extreme and diverse places as well as understand the water cycle. Finally, we must explore how these environments are formed and how they affect the people living near them. After half-term, we will be studying ‘Ancient Greeks’ where we will be looking at the ancient civilization and making comparisons with our life today. We can investigate cultural differences and look at the chronology of the period.

As the Summer Term arrives, our topic ‘Somewhere to Settle’ will see us learn more about the human geography around us. We will see why the Isle of Wight is a very special place to live and compare the island to other settlements around the world. In our final topic of the year, Galapagos Class must be on best behaviour! ‘Crime and Punishment’ is our topic. We will be learning about different sorts of crimes that were committed in different time periods and how they were dealt with according to the laws of the time.

What a year we have ahead!