We have had a wonderful few weeks learning all about The Great Fire of London for our history unit. We loved learning all about the key facts and creating our own diary entry. We placed The Great Fire of London on our timeline and chose what jobs we would like Read more…
This week in Reception we have been learning all about Remembrance Sunday and its significance. The children have been making their own poppies, as well as molding play dough into poppies! We have written all about Remembrance Sunday in our story scribing, saying thank you.
Today Year 3 have been learning about the importance of remembrance day and why it happens. We completed our 2 minutes silence as a class and then this afternoon we created some art work around poppies.
This afternoon in History, Year 6 put themselves in the shoes of Victorian prisoners by completing various hard labour tasks! Afterwards we collected a bank of words describing how the tasks made us feel and wrote a diary entry from the perspective of a Victorian prisoner- the children really captured Read more…
Today, Year 3 visited Brockholes nature reserve in Preston and what a day they had going back in time to the Stone Age – even the weather didn’t spoil our day. Here are some pictures from across the day. First was shelter building, after all, to survive you need a Read more…
Today we have been finding out what life would have been like living in the Early Stone Age. We discussed how people were known as hunter gatherers and just how tough life would have been. The children thought about objects in terms of assets and threats and we then explored Read more…
Well what a day we have had. The children have really enjoyed all the activities we have done today, from baking Roman bread and making shields, to learning Roman numerals and holding our Roman banquet. Here are a few pictures from across the day Designing and making a Roman shield Read more…
This week in English and History, we have been exploring at Greek myths. To enhance our understanding we turned a Greek myth into a playscript, we worked in small groups to rewrite the myth as a playscript. Once we had created a playscript we then performed our plays to the Read more…
This week, year 5 have been studying the mummification process and the Ancient Gods and Goddesses from the Ancient Egyptian times. Firstly, they focused on the different Gods and Goddesses, especially looking at Anubis, God of mummification. Then we took part in role play… mummification!! After that, we completed a Read more…
This week in History we got to meet a Roman Soldier (all be it via Google Meet). He told us all about the Roman Empire and how the Roman army helped this to happen. We got to see some of the weapons used in Roman times and found out about Read more…
Today, I was finally able to welcome all the pupils in Year 4 back to school. It was so lovely to see them all in the flesh instead of over a screen! It was great to see them all back together as a class and they have clearly all missed Read more…