History of Heywood

Class 9 were history detectives this week finding out how Heywood had changed over the past 130 years. Using historical maps, we investigated the land use in Heywood in the present day, the 1950s and the 1890s. We discovered that over time, Heywood has become more urban, with more houses Read more…

Viking Life

Today we jumped into the second part of our history topic and it was all about the vikings! we had lots of fun looking at the different artefacts including a drinking horn and some bone needles too. We wrapped up by trying on different clothes from the Viking era. Similar Read more…

Hands-on History

This week, Class 9 were lucky enough to get hands on with some Viking artefacts. The children were challenged to see if they could work out what each artefact was and what it was used for. Some were quite easy, but others were a little bit more challenging.

History in Class 6

Today we have been finding out about historical sources and how they help us to find out about things that have happened in the past. In groups, we looked at different sources about the 1969 moon landing such as newspaper reports, photographs, magazine covers and special stamps from this time. Read more…