Blog by Tag: History

This morning, Year 4 enjoyed a visit from the fantastic Professor Tuesday. They learnt all about the different city-states that made up Ancient Greece, created a human timeline showing how life changed through different time periods and investigated different artefacts. We even had some tyrants…

This afternoon, we were hunting for facts about Florence Nightingale.

Today we had a fantastic Egyptian Workshop with Professor Tuesday. She taught us all about the different roles that people had, the different kingdoms of Ancient Egypt and, most excitingly, all about mummification. As you can see from out photos we all had a wonderful time and learnt…

We went on a hunt around the classroom looking at a variety of different Anglo-Saxon sources. We decided if each piece of evidence was a primary or secondary source.

We have looked at the timeline of when Christianity spread throughout Anglo-Saxon England. We discussed the key people who influenced this.

Today we had a very knowledgeable visitor - Professor Tuesday!  He told us all about life in Britain from the Stone Age to the present day.  We also had the chance to handle artefacts and to make an Iron Age burial barrow for a very rich and special Iron Age chief.  Can you spot her in the…

Year 4 had the pleasure of welcoming Marcus the Roman Soldier into school this afternoon. He helped them begin their training to become future members of the Roman Legion! Year 4 showed off their skills and learnt lots too. They are going to be some excellent soldiers for the Roman Empire, well…

We had a great day today learning all about the Vikings. We looked at various artefacts, learnt to row a longship and create a shield wall ready for battle. We played ‘Knucklebones’ and a game called ‘Kubb’, which is similar to tenpin bowling. Our costumes were amazing too. 
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We are reading Stone Age Boy and today we acted out some of the scenes. As you see, we had lots of fun!!

We are learning about the role of archaeologists in our new history topic about prehistoric Britain. We found out that archaeologists often dig for clues about past civilisations. We decided to look for clues about the past by looking through the bins bags from the different classes in school. We…

Today we started our new topic which is the Stone Age to Iron Age in Britain. We created a timeline out of a toilet roll to show how incredibly long the period of prehistory (before written records) lasted. The Palaeolithic Stone Age period was by far the longest period we looked at. If each sheet…

Today, we started our new unit on Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. We were posed the questions ‘Why did the Anglo-Saxons invade Britain?’ We had to use our deduction skills by looking at various clues to work out the reasons.