Blog by Tag: History
Week 6 More Falcons Fab Work
Lily has been learning all about World War 2 medals and made these very realistic examples. Well done Lily they look great.
Category: Falcons
What material in the best insulator for the inside of a Vikings' helmet?
In Hawks today, we used our Maths and scientific enquiry skills to find out which material would be best to insulate in the inside a Vikings' helmet.
What was your hypothesis? How did you test which material was the best? The did the results show? What was the conclusion?
Category: Hawks
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Falcons' Outdoor Learning
The children in Falcons have had such a fabulous outdoor learning week. Groups of children have worked with Mrs Hicks to re-create an Anglo-Saxon wall using wattle and daub. They used natural materials that were authentic and similar to how the Anglo-Saxons would have created it (even using cow…
Category: Falcons
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Outdoor Learning Assembly
To conclude such a wonderful Outdoor Learning Day, the children in KS2 all came together to share their outdoor learning experiences from the day.
Falcons started by explaining how they completed mathematical equations using natural resources. In the afternoon groups of children worked with Mrs…
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The Viking Day
This week we had the pleasure of meeting a real Viking Warrior! He came in to school to meet all of our Vikings in Year 5 and 6. We had a spectacular day and learnt an abundance of amazing Viking facts and took a step back in time to experience how Vikings would have conducted themselves in…
Category: Falcons
Viking Day in 5/6
Everyone looked amazing today in their Viking or Anglo-Saxon costumes (thank you to parents and carers) and we all had a fantastic time learning all about The Vikings and hearing from Hrothgar. Everyone was involved in the role play and there were lots of laughs along the way. What a wonderful way…
Category: Eagles
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Who's the Baby?!
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The Ducklings have been enjoying matching the baby photo to each child or teacher in our class.
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History Understanding the World
The Vikings are arriving!
The Vikings are arriving!
Last week, Hawks launched their new topic of the Vikings!
We saw the front of a longboat in the foyer of school and the outline of a longboat upstairs in the corridor.
We started off the day by finding out all about Viking longboats. In pairs, we then…
Category: Hawks
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*Owls Class learn about the tragedy of Pompeii
The children in Owls class have been learning about the devastation of Pompeii caused by Mount Vesuvius. Firstly they read a story detailing the events and then they created their own role play, to understand the details more clearly. Next the children will be planning and writing a recount all…
Category: Owls
Life as a Roman
Romans!
This term in Kestrels we are learning all about the Romans.
We have held our own Eat Like a Roman Day where we cooked our lunch on open fires and baked a libum cake which the Roman would typically eat for breakfast.
We also took part in a Roman Army Day. We began the day with…
Category: Kestrels
*Owls explore life before the Romans
Owls class took part in researching what life was like before the Romans invaded Britain by finding out about the Celts (known as the Britons back then). We researched in the classroom before taking part in orienteering to discover the different jobs which the Celts did. We then sat around our…
Category: Owls
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Titanic
In Hawks, we have started learning about the disaster of the Titanic. What do you know so far?
What do you want to find?
If you have any non-fiction books about the Titanic or any other disasters, please bring them into school.
In art we created images of the Titanic sinking using a range…
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