Class 13
Crazy Chronology
For this week’s recap and retrieval activity in History, Class 13 had to arrange periods of British History into a timeline and add the correct dates.
Class 14
Timeline Recap
Class 14 worked as a team to put a history timeline in order. Can you do it? Which came first: Anglo Saxons or Romans? Victorians or Georgians?
Geography
Exploring our School
In our Topic lessons, we have been exploring our school and classroom. We learnt about the different people who help us in school and went for a walk to visit some of those people. We had a look in the office and watched Steve cleaning the floors after lunch time. Read more…
History
Remembrance Visit to the Cenotaph
Nursery visited the local cenotaph for remembrance. We made crosses to leave at the cenotaph and enjoyed looking at the wooden carvings and remembrance flower boxes and benches.
History
In our topic lesson, we looked at images of our school now and in the past. We explored and compared similarities and differences between now and then and sorted the images. We looked at artefacts from schools in the past such as quills, inkwells, chalk boards and typewriters, and compare to Read more…
Class 10
The End of the Viking Era
Today we explored how the Viking era came to an end. We listened attentively to the story of Harold Godwinson, the Duke of Normandy and Harold Hardrada and the Battle of Stamford Bridge and the Battle of Hastings. We then had the task of reordering the events and creating these Read more…
Class 4
Remembering our soldiers
In class 4 today we remembered the soldiers that have fought for our country and learnt about what we do to remember and honour them. We made our own poppies and had a 2 minutes silence at 11am.
Class 11
Lest We Forget
Today in Classes 11 and 12, we joined with the rest of the country in marking Remembrance Day to remember those who had lost their lives at war in an effort to secure our futures. In assembly, we learnt all about why we have Remembrance Day and why we wear Read more…
History
Remembrance Day
Representatives from the school council went to Heywood Memorial Gardens this morning to lay a poppy wreath for Harwood Park. The children also enjoyed looking at the benches and reading the information on the memorial to learn more about the soldiers during the war. If you would like to see Read more…
Class 6
The Great Fire of London
The children have created some fantastic homework pieces based on our new topic in History – The Great Fire of London. Well done class 6!