Art & Design
Recreating famous artwork
Year 6 recreated famous paintings by John Singer-Sergeant whilst exploring the stories told through artwork.
History
Anglo-Saxon houses
The Anglo-Saxons used to build their houses using wattle and daub, so we decided to try recreating the technique ourselves. It was messy, tricky and much harder than we expected! It really made us appreciate just how skilled the Anglo-Saxons must have been to build entire houses this way.
History
Anglo-Saxon workshop
We had some lovely visitors from Touchstones museum come to our school and deliver an Anglo-Saxon workshop to our Year 4’s. They taught us lots of interesting facts about the Anglo-Saxons, brought a box full of artefacts that we enjoyed looking at and showed us how to do some Anglo-Saxon Read more
History
Wattle and daub houses
When the Anglo-Saxons built their houses, they used something called wattle and daub. For our History lesson this week, we tried to recreate the technique ourselves. It was very messy and we only made a little one, so it made us realise how skilled the Anglo-Saxons must have been to Read more
History
Anglo-Saxon Workshop
This morning we had some lovely visitors from Touchstones museum come to our school and deliver an Anglo-Saxon workshop to our Year 4’s. They taught us lots of interesting facts about the Anglo-Saxons, brought a box full of artefacts that we enjoyed looking at and showed us how to do Read more
History
Year 4 Maple The Romans and Anglo Saxon shields.
Today in Year 4 Maple we have learned some key information about the Roman Empire and Roman Britain, in order to give us some historical context and chronological awareness for our new theme about the Anglo Saxons. We then researched some Anglo Saxon shield designs and created our own shields.
Careers Related Learning
Significant people
In history, we have been learning about notable people from Heywood and exploring why they are remembered. Working in groups, we chose one individual to research and created a detailed fact file about their life, achievements, and impact. After completing our research, each group presented their findings to the rest Read more
History
Shared learning
Thank you to the parents who joined us for shared learning this week. We all enjoyed showing you our skills builder skills problem solving by figuring out what the ancient Chinese characters said. And our history/ art skills by making our own oracle bones which ancient Chinese people used to Read more
British Values
Cenotaph Visit
Year 6 took our school poppy wreath to Heywood Cenotaph this morning. We had the chance to share a poem and a prayer, observe a moment of silence and explore the grounds and monuments to better understand the stories behind Remembrance Day and those who lost their lives during conflicts Read more