Year 3 Learning Challenge- Autumn 2

Year 3 Learning Challenge Autumn 2

Who first lived in Britain?

Below is the significant person, painting, piece of music and poem which are related to this half term's themes - Who first lived in Britain? and  The Human Body.

It would be brilliant to see as many completed projects as possible in Year 3!

Significant Person

Rosalind Franklin

 

 

 

 

Painting

‘The Cave Paintings of Lascaux, France’

Music

‘Radetzky March, Op. 228’ by Johann Strauss Sr

Poem

 ‘Stonehenge’ by Brian Moses

I remember Stonehenge

in the days where you could still

get close to the stones.

I remember being there, seeing their bulk

and feeling their solid substance.

It was the past brought close,

I could hear the tick of time,

the heartbeat of history.

If only the stones were transmitters,

they could broadcast their story,

answer the ‘whys’ of Stonehenge,

why Salisbury Plain gained

such a monument, why it was built,

was it temple or tomb?

It only we could summon solutions

from the sky, the clouds, the hills,

from those witnesses to the march

of these monoliths, to their positioning

and their raising.

And if only we knew who built this circle,

who mourned the winter sun

as the solstice darkened the day.

Did they ever imagine the puzzle

they were leaving behind?

And I wonder again at the thread

between present and past,

at all those who have stood

by these stones, hoping to hear

some sort of message

to the living from the dead,

so one of history’s mysteries

might be solved at last.