Year 5 treated us to a fascinating assembly about Ancient Greece this week! They shared lots of information about their learning with us and even performed a song they had learned. Thank you Year 5!...
This week, Year 4 took a trip to the London Mithraeum. We were able to take a look at some Roman artefacts and deduce who the artefacts might have belonged to. We then had to try and communicate to the other groups who our person...
In history this week, Year 4 were learning about the push and pull factors that led the Anglo-Saxons to invade Britain after the Romans left. They began by identifying what some of the reasons might have been and determined which reasons were likely, unlikely and...
In History this week, Year 2 decided whether they would take a golden ticket to travel into space if given the chance. Some pros that we came up with were the experience of low gravity, fulfilling childhood dreams and an interest in science. On the...
This week in Humanities we have been learning about Amy Johnson's historic flight from London to Australia. The children learned all about her route and the amount of days it took her! Afterwards, the children loved following detailed instructions to make paper plane origami. We...
This week, Year 3 entertained and educated us with a fantastic sharing assembly all about the Ancient Egyptians, who they have been learning about in their history lessons this term....
This week, we launched our Moon Landings History topic by thinking about why a person might want to go to space. We imagined all the reasons—fame, curiosity, and scientific experiments! Then, we had fun making a Diamond 4 to debate why Buzz Aldrin would have decided to go...
In History this week, Year 4 finished their unit on the Roman Empire by finally answering the question: Why did the Roman Empire fall? We looked at 6 different reasons why the Roman Empire finally fell and then connected reasons together with common themes. We are...
This week we have been using our skills as historians to investigate sources. We looked at four sources linked to Howard Carter uncovering Tutankhamun and thought about what each source told us. We learned that Tutankhamun was an important pharaoh because he had so many...
In History this week, Year 4 have been Roman architects. They looked at the needs of Roman people and designed their towns accordingly. We made sure that each town had: a forum, a bathhouse, a place to worship all the gods and goddesses and super straight roads....