History

King Charles’ Coronation

King Charles’ Coronation

What a wonderful week the children have had learning all about King Charles' Coronation. The children learnt all about British Values, all about the Royal family, what will happen during the Coronation, the names of all the crown jewels used and made their own crown...

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All Aboard the Titanic

All Aboard the Titanic

Today we arrived to our classroom to find we had all received a ticket for the Titanic. We discussed what we thought the Titanic was and how long ago we thought the ticket might have been printed. We discovered that the Titanic was a ship that was built over 100 years...

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Ancient Greek philosophical debate

Ancient Greek philosophical debate

In Year 5 History we have been learning about the Ancient Greeks. One of our lessons was to look at ‘What were the ancient Greek philosophers famous for?’ We made sure we understood the vocabulary of philosopher, philosophy and debate before we had our own class...

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Sharing our knowledge of the Life of Granny

Sharing our knowledge of the Life of Granny

Year 1 have been busy learning all about the life of Granny, including what technology our parents may have used and the jobs they may have had. We have compared it to the technology we can us now and they jobs we might like to do. We invited Reception to a gallery of...

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Technology from the past

Technology from the past

Year 1 had lots of fun exploring different items of technology from the past including old phones, a gramophone, a cassette player, cassettes and records. We worked out what they were for and compared them to objects from the present day. We even had a little dance to...

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Our Nativity

Our Nativity

We were so proud of our children in their first live Nativity performance In school.

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A meal of thanks

A meal of thanks

Today Reception celebrated the American thanksgiving, learning about the American traditions then comparing it to traditions of our own. All of the children were thankful for something that meant a lot to them.

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Beamish Working Museum

Beamish Working Museum

We had an excellent time at Beamish Working Museum, seeing how people lived in the past and the types of toys they played with. We were able to play with and make different toys that our grandparents may have played with and we compared them to the types of toys we...

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KS1 Trip to Beamish

KS1 Trip to Beamish

We visited Beamish Museum today and took part in a workshop that gave us the opportunity to learn about toys of the past. We even got to play some of the games! We also enjoyed exploring the houses and schools and comparing them to life as we know it today.

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