Topic Overview: Cross-Curricular Links Spanish: Greetings,
feelings, food, colours, numbers etc
Art: Day of the Dead sketching, painting and printing
Topic Overview: Cross-Curricular Links Literacy: Stories
from Other Cultures Maths: Mayan place
value, constructing 3D Mayan pyramids, symmetrical Mayan masks.
Topic Overview: Cross-Curricular Links Geography: Locating
countries, using an Atlas. Physical and human geography of specific Latin American countries.
Science: Habitats
History Focus: The Maya Civilization
Heavy focus on History skills and becoming “History Detectives”
Children generating questions to explore during the topic; at the start and throughout History lessons
Skills Covered from new National Curriculum
Ask questions about the past Suggest suitable sources of evidence for
historical enquiries Use evidence to find answers to questions
about the past Use more than one source of evidence for
historical enquiry in order to gain a more accurate understanding of history
Describe the social, ethnic, cultural or religious diversity of past society.