Blog by Tag: History

Willow class have had two special theme days to enjoy this week- Remembrance Day and Children in Need.

On Wednesday 11th we looked at what Poppy Day means to us and how it’s nice to show we are grateful and show respect. We all are very respectful in Willow class and are trying to hard to…

10G have a busy and fun filled week this week. We have enjoyed writing a letter to Miss Bamber and Mrs Lilley inviting them to video call with us so that we can ask them lots of questions all about being a new parent. We also enjoys learning all about Remembrance Day. We read a story all about why…

This week 8R having been learning all about why we celebrate Remembrance Day. We made our own acrostic poems about this subject and discovered that we have some budding poets in our class. We made some lovely poppies wreaths along with some great silhouette soldier paintings. On Wednesday we…

7A Remember

At 11:00am yesterday morning, 7A stopped their work to have a minute silence in remembrance of the soldiers who lost their lives for us. Out of respect, Connor chose to stand up throughout.

In the afternoon in our World About Me lesson, we started by discussing…

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 11R remained silent for two minutes to remember those who have died, or fought, or lost loved ones whether serving in the armed forces or as civilians, as part of conflict to protect our democratic freedoms.

We were proud of 11R’s mature…

VE Day is a shortened name for Victory in Europe. This year we are celebrating 75yrs when Germany surrended (gave themselves up) to end the 2nd World War. This was a very happy time in England and many parties were had. 

If you would like to learn more about this special occasion here is a…

We missed History Day while we were at Calvert Trust, so we decided to hold our own History Day in class today. The topic was the Ancient Romans. Students started off looking at where Rome is on the world map. We then looked at different styles of dress for different Ancient Roman people e.g…

Today 7R celebrated “History day” as we missed it last week due to our Calvert residential trip. We have had a fantastic day!

This morning, Mrs Crouch split us into research teams. Each team was given research questions to find out the answer to. The teams had to delegate roles to decide a…

Last Thursday was our first history day of the year and all primary phase classes learnt about the Victorians.

Willow class learnt all about what it was like to be a child in the Victorian era, looking at Victorian schools and workhouses for children. The children loved learning about all the…

8G took part in their first History themed day on Thursday, and what a fun day it was!

We put our fine motor skills to practice by covering our initials with mosaic stickers.

We used Lego to recreate the city of Pompeii that Mrs England had read us a story about on Tuesday.

We made our…

Yesterday was our first history day of the year and we got to learn all about the Victorians.

Oak class got busy finding out that; 

• A lot of victorian people were poor.
• Children would work in the factories.
• Some Victorian people were very clever and invented things that we still…

9G have been fantastic day being Romans today. In the morning we learnt all about Roman Mosaics, who had them and what they looked like. We then made our own Roman Mosaics using glue and different coloured seeds. In the afternoon we then learnt all about Roman soldiers, what life was like for them…