Did you know? The Maya civilisation began long ago in a place called 'Mesoamerica'. This huge area is made up of Mexico and part of Central America. The Mayas built amazing cities like Tikal (which they called 'Yax Mutal') and Palenque. Even though they lived in...
Did you know? The Mayans consumed chocolate by first harvesting the seeds -- or beans -- from cacao trees. They fermented and dried them, roasted them, removed their shells, and ground them into a paste. (Much of that process remains unchanged to this day.) They often...
I hope you agree that our Stone Age houses look great. We researched the materials that Stone Age people used and experimented to understand why certain materials were good for particular jobs. What did they use too keep out the bad weather? At the end of term we...
We were lucky enough to be invited to Mrs Lynch's class' museum this afternoon, which they have set up in Hall 2. They have displayed a range of artefacts from the Stone Age and they have written some excellent descriptions of them too. Thank you 3L, for our invite!
After observing the two minutes silence on Sunday, Lewis went home and made a Cenotaph out of blocks and said “Mammy I’ve made this for the people that died in the wars” In school, the children listened to The Poppy Story and watched 'Poppies' on CBBC. The children...
We all worked very hard on our Neolithic clay tiles and I'm sure you will agree that we did a fantastic job. All of the tiles are unique and individual- just like us! Mr Proud helped us make a fabulous display which we are all so proud of.
In KS1 and 7B, we got a visit from Lynn Boyes who told us all about her childhood and what life was like when she was a child. Although we were learning about the past, we used modern technology to overcome not being able to have visitors in the classroom. The...
When we couldn't go to the museum for History, we brought the toy museum to us.
We have had a great afternoon playing with a range of different toys from the past.
It has been a very exciting afternoon in 2W. We were very lucky to get our hands on a resource box from Beamish Museum. This box was filled with 20th Century toys. Some of them, Miss Winskill had when she was little- she said this made her feel old! Have a lovely...
