In today’s History lesson we learnt about Stonehenge. We talked about the history of the monument and the names of the different parts of it. We then tried to create the different parts using biscuits to represent the stones. We made the outer circle, the bluestones and the horseshoe. Read more…
This week and have planned and created our own cave paintings. We learnt why cave painting were so important to Stone Age people and we researched what Stone Age cave paintings looked like so we could draw some inspiration from them in our own work. Here are some pictures of Read more…
This we have been learning about the role of a historian and had the chance to be a historian. We worked with Stone Age artefacts and used our knowledge of the Stone Age to work out what the artefacts were are what they were made out of. Here are some Read more…
Today, we recognised Remembrance Day. We watched Year 6 do a fantastic assembly via teams in our classroom, took part in the 2 minute silence and created some beautiful art work. We created silhouettes by shading the back of a printed silhouette and pushing the pencil into our art work Read more…
Remembrance day is a Memorial Day when we pay our respects to the brave men and women who gave their lives in the line of duty. We went through a PowerPoint on Remembrance Day and learnt lots of different things about it. During choosing we made poppy flags using Read more…
This afternoon in Topic we learnt about the role of an archaeologist. We looked at the process they undertake which taught us new vocabulary like excavate. We then took on the role of an archaeologist and excavated various artefacts.
Parents: As part of our WW2 topic, Year 6 wrote a letter, describing what it was like to be evacuated. They had to talk about the journey to, and arriving at, the station, what their host family was like, and how much they were missing you. The children have Read more…
Year 6 have been looking Arvada amours landmarks across London which were targeted or damaged during the Blitz. We looked out how cityscapes take the landmarks and place them side by side to create a silhouette of a city. We then looked at how to paint clean water onto paper Read more…
Today we were lucky enough to be joined by Keziah from the Anne Frank Trust, who delivered and informative and inspiring lesson via MS Teams. The he lesson looked at how we can use the story of Anne Frank to discover what stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination mean, what they Read more…
This week we have started on our new topic about the Stone Age. We have started reading the Stone Age boy and have started writing our own Stone Age adventure story. In the afternoons, we have been creating art work for the front of our Topic books. Here are some Read more…