Investigating the sinking of an unsinkable ship!

During Term 3, children took part in a cross-curricular theme around the Titanic.

In English, children undertook a number of activities around reading and writing historical non-fiction and carried out speaking & listening activities. Children carried on building their skills around explicit and implicit text, empathy, descriptive writing (with a particular focus on adjectives and adverbs), newspaper codes and conventions, different forms of communication (postcards, letters etc) and read an account of that fateful night by a survivor, from which they were able to write their own accounts.

Children also researched specific characters who they used for Speaking & Listening, by dressing up and visiting each classroom, introducing themselves to adults and children in character and being able to recount a bit about their life, such as who they were, what class they were travelling, why they were travelling, and who with.

Over the holidays, Amelia’s English classroom was transformed into a Titanic Learning Zone. The Scheme of Work was topped off with a trip to the Titanic Experience in Southampton. Below is Seth’s write up of the trip!

On the last week of term 3, I went to the Titanic exhibition in Southampton with my class. We travelled by coach all together. We were doing a work related end of term trip because we were learning about the Titanic.

When I first entered the Titanic exhibit I saw a wall of people’s names (some had photos with them) these were all the staff on board the Titanic who died on the night of 14th April 1912. I was shocked at how many members of crew were lost on that night.

The Titanic hit an iceberg that was not seen until it was too late due to crew not having their binoculars to spot free flowing icebergs.

There was a Lego Titanic Sculpture that someone had made.