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Gifford Primary School

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Class Names

Our classes names, all relate to our wonderful, diverse curriculum. Below is the rationale for each name in each year group:

Year 1: Colours (Art Link)

Magenta
Emerald
Ochre (say ‘oaker’)
Indigo

Year 2: Aviation Pioneers (History Link)

Johnson - Amy Johnson was a British woman aviator who was the first woman to fly solo to Australia.
Wright - Americans Orville and Wilbur Wright (the Wright brothers) made the first controlled flight of a powered, heavier than air aircraft.
Blériot - Frenchman Louis Blériot made the first powered monoplane and flew it across the Channel.
Coleman - Bessie Coleman was the first African American woman to gain a pilot’s license.

Year 3: Cities (Geography Link/Consolidation from KS1)

Cardiff
Belfast
Edinburgh
London

Year 4: Rivers (Geography/History Link)

Nile (link to the Y4 history topic on Ancient Egypt)
Amazon (link to the Y4 geography topic on the rainforest)
Thames (link to Y6 geography topic children will do)
Tigris (link to Y6 history topic children will do on Early Islamic Civilisation)

Year 5: Greek city-states (Ancient Greece History Topic)

Athens
Sparta
Corinth
Olympia

Year 6: Astronomers (History Link)

Al Biruni (Iranian scholar of the Islamic Golden Age/10^th century)
Copernicus (15^th century Polish astronomer and mathematician)
Galileo (17^th century Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer)
Bell-Burnell (Northern Irish astrophysicist, discovered the first radio pulsars; became president of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Institute of Physics)