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Year of Humanities
This year, the children will be learning though History and Geography. Our topic is Faces, Spaces, Places.
 2009 is a special year for science. It will be the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species'. It will also be the 400th anniversary of Galileo's use of a telescope to study the night sky and 40 years since the first moon landing.
Teachers are currently planning units of work for each term in 2008-2009 that are based around six themes. But as well as celebrating our scientific and technological discoveries and advances, we will also be asking the children, ourselves and you to consider the issue of sustainability. Life has transformed Earth and continues to support life. We all depend on Earth - but at what cost and can we continue to behave in the same way?
The six themes are as follows, together with a hint of what the children may be investigating:
The Story of Life - looking at plant and animal ecosystems and human biology.
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