The Romans Enquiry Display

An old display from my previous school. As a class we studied the Romans. Here is a display themed around the Romans. Again you will see a KWLH grid was used to elicit the children's prior knowledge, find out what they want to know, record what they learnt and record how they did this. A useful tool to use to make your teaching and learning child centred.

Spanish Display - Animal Theme

As part of the Animals enquiry topic the children are learning how to say and describe animals in Spanish! Here is the accommpanying display.

Animals Enquiry Display

The first enquiry topic this year is animals and how they are different. The children have produced some descriptive writing based on a painting by Rousseau 'Tiger in a tropical storm'. 

On the main enquiry board you will find key words, photographs, KWLH grid and explanations of key topic vocabulary! 

Animals Display for September!

In September I am moving Year groups to teach a mixed Year 3/4 class. I am very excited about teaching the younger ones after 3 years of teaching Year5/6 children! Our first whole school topic is 'animals and classification'. Has anyone got any good ideas for my first enquiry display? Maybe you might have some resources you could share or a website you could share that has fab resources on?

Watch this space for my display...

Charlotte's Web Enquiry Display

This half term we are studying the novel Charlotte's Web by E.B.White. On display are key extracts and images from the novel showing different parts of the plot. I have included photos of different farm animals found in the book as well as painting my own spiders web! In art the children have created their own spiders web by using straws to blow white paint into a web shape onto black sugar paper. I think this looks particularly effective! 

Along with studying the novel the children are learning all about farming. Here is a photograph of the farming display which includes key information, photographs and key vocabulary. 

For both of these displays I created my own lettering using word art and inserting my own image! 

Finished Choices Enquiry Display!

Here is the final product! I have added children's paintings, a world map and a poster of world flags for the children to refer to!

Choices Enquiry Display - Step by step...

So far on my blog I have posted photographs of finished displays. This post follows the process of making my most recent enquiry display all about choices so you can see how the display progresses. In Year 5 and 6 we are focusing on the 'choice' of where you could go on holiday. In essence the work in our enquiry unit is based around the children becoming travel agents! This is the display so far...

Step 1: Backing the display board with pages from holiday brochures - I thought this would be a unique way to back the display board and catch the children's attention...

 

 

Step 2: Bordering the display and adding the title. I tried to create the effect of the sun beaming from the title by adding yellow sun beams above it.

 

 

Holiday brochures were laid out on the spare table in front of the display for the children to look at in their spare time - I can assure you they have loved looking inside at all the beautiful holiday destinations!

Step 3: Key questions, images and other topic information is added to the display.

Step 4: With my class we are making a giant ice cream and a giant pair of sun glasses to add to our display. The children's first enquiry lesson included thinking about their fantasy holiday destination and they had to paint it. This work will be placed on the display shortly.

Photograph of Step 4 COMING SOON!

Invaders and Defenders - World War 2 Enquiry Display

Here are some photographs of my Invaders and Defenders display. During this topic we focused on the key events of WWII and the key people involved. We learnt about the Blitz and created our own Blitz artwork!

Who Am I Enquiry Display

Another whole school curriculum theme adopted this year was Who Am I? The children worked across the curriculum to find out who they were spiritually, morally, culturally and socially. They compared themselves to others in similar and different places in the world. They analysed data of our school to see if there were any trends or similarities to the nature of the students in our school. They looked closely in art at what they looked like and produced self portraits. The children thoroughly enjoyed being the centre of attention in this whole school topic!

As the topic progressed I added children's work to 'Our Learning Journey' above our enquiry display. This helped the children see over the course of the topic what they had learnt and achieved. Quite a powerful tool in revisiting / evaluating learning at the end of a topic.

Self portraits display

 

Out of This World Enquiry Display

Out of This World was a whole school theme adopted by all classes. It encompassed themes such as the universe, planets, aliens, God, religious beliefs, creation stories and mythical creatures. The children were very enthusiastic about this topic and enjoyed learning about the history of space travel and discussing whether aliens really do exist. Here are photographs of the Out of This World display and our RE display about how we see God.

As part of all my enquiry displays we complete a KWLH grid as a class at the beginning of the topic. It stands for K (what we know) W (what we want to know) L (what we have learnt) and H (how we learnt about the topic - resources, skills we used etc). This gets added to as the enquiry progresses and the children can come and add a post-it note to the learnt column any time they wish. At the end of the unit we discuss how we have been learning and what skills we have used - such as researching using books or laptops, using ICT to record our learning or discussion with our peers.

How we see God display - I was amazed at the variety of images the children produced.