Blog by Tag: History

Today we had a very special visitor, Professor Tuesday, who is an expert in prehistoric Britain. We made a human timeline showing all the different periods of British history from the Stone Age to modern Britain. We also looked at artefacts and worked out what they told us about the Stone Age,…

Today we read the book ‘The First Drawing’ which is all about the first art that humans made, using charcoal, in caves. We had a go at drawing our own animals from the Stone Age using charcoal. It was not easy as charcoal is very smudgy but we were very pleased with our pictures.

We have started our new class book - Stone Age Boy - which is all about a little boy who time travels to the Stone Age and meets a little girl there. Today we acted out some of the scenes where they meet. We then wrote down what we thought they might be thinking or saying to each other. 
 

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In our Stone Age topic, we are learning about the roles of historians and archaeologists and how they use evidence to find out about the past. Today we worked in groups to look through a bag of rubbish from one of the classes in school. Each group had a different bag and we were able to work out…

Our history topic this half-term is about the changes between the Stone Age and the Iron Age in Britain. Today we found out how vast the prehistoric period was, using a toilet roll!! Each sheet represented 5,000 years and we needed to open the whole toilet roll to show how far back the beginning…

Year 6 are currently learning about life in Britain during WW2. Today we focussed on what life was like for children who had been evacuated from cities and sent to live in the countryside. Using evidence from actual WW2 evacuees, we each took on the role of an evacuee and shared our experiences…

Year 6 have been learning about some of the World War 1 war poets in their literacy lessons. We have been interested to discover that one of the poets, Laurence Binyon, was born in Lancaster (and has a street named after him, just down the road from school). His most famous poem is “For the…

Year 6 were transported back in time this morning as they learnt about the secret work behind the scenes of code-breakers and spies during WW2. We learnt about the work of the aerial reconnaissance planes and the photographic interpreters back at base who checked photos for evidence of enemy…

Today, we were learning about the events of the Great Fire of London from when it started to when it ended. We made a big timeline in class and then made our own small versions.

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 this term’s Citizenship activities, we spent the morning with Mr. Mynott, who took us on a tour of County Hall…

The sun shone for Year 6 today as they walked into Lancaster. Having learned about the development of the settlement of Lancaster in class, we followed our maps (both a modern OS map and a 1610 version) down the A6 before walking past White Cross then down Penny Street and Market Street up to the…

We have been discussing the pros and cons for living in the Greek city-states of Athens or Sparta. We sorted a variety of statements into hoops to make a Venn diagram and decided which city-state we would have preferred to live in.