History
The Year One children found out about their new topic – The Great Fire of London. The children looked at pictures and used their senses to describe what they could see in the pictures. The children saw – a big fire, cloud of smoke, path, lots of smoke, thin doorways, big explosion, shop, fire over […]
On Wednesday 10th September, the Owls took part in a workshop on Ancient Egypt, run by Make The Classroom Disappear. They experienced writing the Egyptian number system on wax tablets and making mud bricks. We learnt about the layout of an Ancient Egyptian house too. The highlight for most of us was learning about the […]
This term in art we are looking at Prehistoric Art, focusing on the Stone Age! We are linking this in through forest school where we will eventually be creating our own cave art paintings using natural resources from the forest area!
As part of our Immersion Day, we made WW2 airplanes – German and British. The children worked really hard to create these from a plastic bottle and modroc – it wasn’t as easy as it may look!
The Owls started the new school year with a whole day of activities about Ancient Egypt, which is our first History topic. The children took part in an archaeological dig and made pyramids out of spaghetti and marshmallows. We also took part in an online drawing tutorial where we learnt to draw portraits of Queen […]
For our Art last half term, Owls made batik prints using colours and patterns inspired by the ancient Maya.
This half term in History the Year One children are focusing on the question – Why did people travel to the seaside years ago? The children became historians and thought about the enquiry question – Can we use photographs to find clues as to what seaside holidays were like in the past? The children were […]
Year 6 have been looking at images of Benin to deduce why Benin might be a significant society, worthy of study. They learnt that: This was a civilization of cities and towns, powerful kings and a large empire which traded over long distances. Craftsmen were skilful in bronze and ivory. They had a religious belief […]
On our trip to Flatford, we had a wonderful tour guide who spoke about John Constable and the history of Flatford. We created our own drawings, discussed the use of the river in the past and learnt about John Constable’s life. Here are some of the pictures from that day.
This week, in History, the Owls have been learning about the Spanish Armada. We had a go at re-enacting it!
In English, we have been using our senses to imagine what Victorian London may have been like. We thought about what we could see, hear and smell if we were there. In our writing we tried to use adventurous adjectives and some expanded noun phrases. After editing our work in our English books, we published […]
In History, we have been learning about the Transatlantic Slave Triangle. The children role played a British, An American and an African Slave trader. They were given various discussion points during the activity.