We have started our topic of Greek Myths by exploring one of the stories Theseus and the Minotaur. We learnt that Theseus had to travel through the labyrinth to the monster. We have been using our problem solving skills to help Theseus find his way through the maze. Here are Read more…
Anglo-Saxons were originally pagans, which means they believed in many Gods. They were later converted to Christianity with help from a monk named Augustine. Anglo-Saxons sometimes wore lucky charms called amulets and they believed these amulets would protect them from harm. During History lessons, we got the chance to make Read more…
What a fantastic morning we had for our shared lunch today! Thank you so much to all of the parents who could make it. We had a great time making oracle bones from our topic The Shang Dynasty. Oracle bones were what the Shang people used to write on and Read more…
This week we have been learning about Pocahontas in our computing lesson. In computing our unit is called ‘Effective searching’ so we have been using the internet to search for facts about Pocahontas. We worked really well together to complete the quiz questions about Pocahontas’ life.
Thank you to all the parents/ carers that came to our shared learning and lunch. We hope you had a great time, we certainly did 😃😃😃
We have been learning about Pocahontas this week and have been putting events in order on a timeline. We then discussed how she helped others or changed lives and what she did that was unusual or remarkable.
This half term we will be learning about the Shang Dynasty. We started our learning by going on an adventure to ancient China. We saw an ancient home, the ancient palace of the Emperor and the ancient barracks of the Great Wall of China. Here are some pictures of our Read more…
This week we have been learning about Remembrance Day and we created some lovely acrositc poems. The children also took part in the 2 minute silence to show our respect.
Today we recreated Stonehenge. We looked at the different types of stones that make up Stonehenge and discussed how prehistoric man could have moved them without the invention of the wheel. Here are some pictures of our yummy recreations
As part of our History topic, we have been learning about the famous monument Stonehenge. We thought about why it would have been so hard to build all those years ago and what it could have been used for. We then worked in teams to build our own Stonehenge and Read more…