Year 3 looked at the famous Caves of Lascaux, in France. These paintings are estimated to be 17,300 years old. They consist mostly of primitive images of large animals, most of which are known from fossil evidence to have lived in the area at the time. The images include bison, bulls, horses, mammoths, etc. 

The children learned that the Stone Age was a period of history before we had written or photographic records of life and so they are an important source when looking back at that time.

Historians are still not entirely sure why people in the Stone Age created cave art, although lots of people have different theories about it. Some ideas are that they were used to communicate messages to other people or to keep a record of important events like hunts.

The children each created their own cave art using examples of different images and designs.