Blog by Tag: History

In History, we have been using our inference skills to look at different photos of artefacts from the Kingdom of Benin and decide what they could be. We answered questions such as ‘What is it?’, ‘’Who would use/own it?’, ‘What is it used for?’ and ‘What is it made…

We have been learning about the Kingdom of Benin and today we discussed the hierarchy of jobs. We worked with our partner to decide which jobs we thought were considered more important and which were of less importance. Then we had the answers revealed. We were surprised that acrobats were…

Today we have combined history with our computing skills to work on creating slideshows on the topic of evacuation in WW2. We used Google Classroom to work in pairs on the same slideshow, but on different Chromebooks.

As part of our history work on WW2, we have been investigating the experiences of children who were evacuated from the big cities to the countryside in September 1939. We took on the roles, and the real-life stories of evacuees, and shared them with the rest of our class. We rated the different…

October is Black History Month, we have been learning about people who have influenced others through sport, arts, actions or their work. We have learnt so much about the good deeds of others.

This afternoon, we were drawing a picture of Ludgate for our 3D Great Fire of London art piece. We used rulers to make our lines straight and accurate. Everyone did a really good job!

October celebrates Black History Month, so today Year 5 took part in the online assembly that lots of schools across the country also joined. We discussed the theme of ‘Standing Firm in Power and Pride’.

Year 6 went for a local history walk today. As we walked into town, we compared a modern OS map of Lancaster with one from 1610. We walked to the Castle via Penny Street and Church Street, both of which were built more than 400 years ago (appearing on the 1610 map). We learnt how the castle has…

Year 6 had a long but interesting day today on their visit to County Hall. We began bright and early by walking down to the station and catching the train to Preston. As part of Multi-cultural Week, we spent the morning with Mr. Mynott, who took us on a tour of County Hall before showing us into…

This week in Year 3, it's been all about the Egyptologist, Howard Carter, and his amazing discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.  We have a surprise visit from "Howard Carter" (AKA Mrs Redmayne!) yesterday and found out all about his life and what happened in 1922 when he found a tomb in the Valley of…

We had a fantastic history day today learning about the Ancient Egyptians. All morning we had a workshop with Professor Tuesday, who is an expert in Egyptology. She told us about the importance of the River Nile, some of her favourite pharaohs, the timeline of Ancient Egypt and, of course, all…

We have had a really fun afternoon learning all about the ancient Greeks. Professor Tuesday told us all about the different city-states and we acted out key parts of each one. We also made a human timeline showing the main periods of history during the Ancient Greek times. She then gave us lots of…