Exploring the life of Bessie Coleman and creating collages in Year 1
As part of Black History Month, Year 1 have been creating collages of Bessie Coleman flying in her plane which she called Jenny!...
As part of Black History Month, Year 1 have been creating collages of Bessie Coleman flying in her plane which she called Jenny!...
In History, we learnt about the different perceptions of Vikings. We compared the same picture but from different viewpoints. One viewpoint was from the Vikings and the other was from the Anglo-Saxon monks who were the target of many Viking attacks. We also spent the...
We looked closely at photographs of Dalston High street, taken at each decade from the 1950s until the 2020's. We arranged the photos into a chronological timeline and discussed the signs that tell us that the photos were not a modern scenes. Finally, as a...
In History, we became archeologists and discovered artefacts from the Stone Age. Once we found an artefact we passed it around and made predictions about what life was like in the Stone Age. ...
We started our history topic learning all about Walter Tull. We looked at pictures of him and as a group we discussed what we thought he might have done in his life and why he is a significant person in history. Then we read all...
In Writing we are learning how to write an adventure story about a chariot race. For our immersion lesson we made our own chariots and raced them around the running track pretending to be Romans....
Year 5 enjoyed a visit to Hackney Museum. We built on our learning about the Windrush generation by looking at primary and secondary sources from Hackney during this period. We had fun using drama to re-enact people’s experiences and imagine how they felt....
1H and 1T had their trip to the Queen's Gallery. We learnt about how people would pose for portraits and the clothes that they might wear in the past. We then drew some sketches of our own! We looked carefully at what we could see...
In history our topic ‘Space Race’ , we were learning about Apollo 11’s journey to the moon! Afterwards, we had a debate using the question ‘Is it a good idea to go to the moon?’ The children came up with lots of very interesting arguments...
In history, year 2 have been focussing on creating accurate chronological timelines. We placed the key moments of the Apollo launch in a timeline and put the matching pictures with them. ...