Year 3 – Stone Age to Iron Age
This half term, Year 3 have learnt about changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. They have enjoyed looking at different cave paintings and creating their own marks using a range of different materials including sticks, stones and leaves. They have thought about the meaning of the marks and what stories have been told. They worked in small groups to create their own cave paintings.
The children know that a lot of changes took place during the Stone Age. They found out that Stone Age people made their own tools, shelters and clothes. They learnt about changes throughout the Stone Age including the introduction of farming and metals such as bronze and iron which led Britain into the Bronze and Iron Ages.
At the end of the topic, we had a Stone Age Day. The children enjoyed making their own bread and cooking it over a fire, they whittled sticks and built dens to experience life as a Stone Age person and they made and decorated their own bowls from clay, as they would have done in the Stone Age, to hold crops and food.