14
Oct
Year 3 ‘Saluting Our Sisters’: Artists
Year 3 learnt about the life of Althea Mcnish. They created artwork inspired by her works using wax patterns and paint....
History
14
Oct
Year 4 ‘Saluting Our Sisters’: Authors
Year 4 explored the life of Maya Angelou. They explored her poetry and wrote biographies detailing her life and achievements. They also created beautiful night sky artworks....
14
Oct
Year 5 ‘Saluting Our Sisters’: Campaigners
Year 5 explored the life of campaigner Olive Morris and generated biographies detailing her life achievements and why she was such an inspirational Black woman. They also generated ‘Black Lives Matter’ campaign posters....
14
Oct
Year 6 ‘Saluting Our Sisters’: athletes
Year 6 looked at many female black British athletes, such as Dina Asher-Smith, many of whom have gone on to receive MBEs or OBEs for their work within the community. They generated detailed biographies and wrote about their reasons for why particular athletes had inspired...
06
Oct
Portraits and biographies of inspirational Black Sportswomen in Year 6
In Year 6, even though we have been incredibly busy going swimming every day, we have still found plenty of time for learning. In our writing lessons, we have been writing biographies for our cultural evening displays. We have been writing about inspirational black, British...
05
Oct
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!...
29
Sep
Exploring different perceptions of the Vikings in Year 6
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...
29
Sep
Exploring Dalston through the ages in Year 1
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...
22
Sep
Learning about history through archeology in year 3
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. ...
22
Sep
Investigating historical people in year 2
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...