History: Blog items
Year 4- Together Time (Laurel)
Date: 4th Jul 2024 @ 5:42pm
In Laurel, we started our History Day in Together Time. Our key question was 'Who are Blackpool FC?' We started the morning by reasearching what the different elements of the Blackpool FC badge represent. Then, we began to research information about them such as their history, the name of their stadium, some famous players and their current manager.
Date: 4th Jul 2024 @ 2:23pm
This week we thought about how History linked to our local area. Year Three focussed on the local brand Fisherman’s Friends, and focussed on the work by Doreen Lofthouse. She was a local hero who donated lots to charity and funded many local projects in Fleetwood. We even tried some of the Fisherman’s Friends, the children’s opinions on them was very split!
Date: 4th Jul 2024 @ 1:52pm
For our annual Heritage Day, our key question was 'Who are Blackpool FC?' We started the day by researching what the different parts of the Blackpool badge represent and then researched things such as the name of their stadium, famous players, which trophies they've won and who their current manager is. We then used our artist skills to show our findings.
Date: 4th Jul 2024 @ 10:22am
For this year's Heritage Day, year 5 were asked the question, 'Why did Blackpool become a popular tourist resort?'
The pupils looked at a range of old photos to see how the town has changed over the past 150 years. Together we found out how the Blackpool Tower, Pleasure Beach, Winter Gardens and piers came about. Pupils used this information to support their writing of a newspaper to comemorate the visit of Princess Louise in 1912 - which was the beginning of the famous Blackpool Illuminations.
Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 7:58am
For Year 6's Heritage Day we looked at the history of LGBTQ+ in the town and how Basil Newby has played such an influential role in the growth of the town.
Date: 1st Jul 2024 @ 5:19pm
Today we explored the key question, ‘how has the Blackpool Tower Circus changed?' We began by learning about the circus in the past, the year it opened, what acts performed there and how it looked. We looked at both photo evidence and posters, discussing what clues we could see that gave us information about the past. We learnt about how the circus has changed over time and sorted a range of pictures into past and present. We then created a timeline of the promotional posters used. Finally we created our own posters for the present circus!
Date: 1st Jul 2024 @ 4:09pm
Today, Year Two had a heritage day where we explored a location in our town. We studied Blackpool Pleasure Beach, starting by looking at where it is and looking at some of the different things that are there before we put them in chronological order thinking about which parts are the oldest and which are from the present day. We put these in order on a timeline. Then, we compared photos of the Pleasure Beach from the past and present, including the flying machine which has been there from the opening day in 1894. Finally, we looked at the managing director Amanda Thompson and the influence she has had over the Pleasure Beach in recent years since she took the role in 2004. We have loved looking and learning about the Pleasure Beach in more detail.
Year 6 visit to Manchester Museum
Date: 12th Jun 2024 @ 8:09am
Today Year 6 visited Manchester Museum. There were lots of different areas to explore, including Ancient Egypt, Fossils, The Natural World and Ancient Asia. We were able to link our learning in Science to the fossil and dinosaur section as well as looking at how animals and plants have evolved over time. We had a great time and learned lots.
Date: 16th May 2024 @ 3:00pm
In History, we looked at VE day. We studied various sources to see what VE day celebrations were really like and we looked at similarities and differences between the celebrations and discussed in teams whether they were reliable sources or not. We also looked at why VE day was not such a happy time for everyone!
Date: 2nd May 2024 @ 2:43pm
In our History lesson we were exploring artefacts from World War Two. We were exploring their significance and discussed what they could teach us about how Britain stayed strong in the war. The children worked collaboratively and discussed which they considered to be the most important. They children used our ABC’s when sharing their ideas. We also explored what the artefacts could teach us about women in war, the home guard and schemes such as rationing.
Date: 25th Apr 2024 @ 2:52pm
In History this week, the children explored a World War Two museum and discovered what we could learn from artefacts. We were focussing on the question of how Britain stayed strong during the war. The children learnt about the Home Guard, shelters, gas masks, evacuation and blackouts.
Nursery and The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Date: 25th Apr 2024 @ 11:25am
We have been reading the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. The story is brilliant for teaching the children the days of the week, counting and exploring the life cycle of the butterfly. The children have been busy outside looking for caterpillars - we haven't found any yet! We have leanrt the caterpillar starts with a "C" and thought of other things that start with a "c". The children have also enjoyed leanring a new song that teaches us about the liec cycle of a butterfly.
Date: 11th Apr 2024 @ 2:47pm
In this lesson we started out new topic of World War Two. The children began by understanding where it fit into history by exploring timelines and ordered key events. We then went on to explore the key events that led up to the war happening. After that we discussed how Britain tried to appease Germany and considered the for and against arguments for appeasement.
Date: 2nd Apr 2024 @ 1:48pm
Today, Year 4 learnt about stages of embalming. We discussed how Egyptians tried to preserve the bodies to keep them as life-like as possible. We learnt that the organs of the person were removed before placing them in capopic jars. They then covered the bodies in a special type of salt and wrapped them in linen. Once we had discussed the process of embalming, we tried to remember the order of the key stages in our table groups. After this, we asked a set of instructions for an embalmer to use which outlined the stages that they must follow to carry out embalming process.
Year 3- The Day the Dinosaurs visited Boundary!
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 11:24am
What a day we have had!
Year 4 - When dinosaurs arrived at Boundary
Date: 21st Mar 2024 @ 2:40pm
Wow! What an amazing day for Science day today. We started the day with a wordsearch of lots of tricky dinosaur names. Then together in groups we wrote down lots of adjectives to describe dinosaurs. All of the words we used described dinosaurs as being extremely big. So our teachers showed us a variety of dinosaurs and we were surprised at how small some were - some as small as chickens! After a discussion about it, we then thought of more words to describe the variety of dinosaurs we had just looked at. After break, we went into a KS2 assembly where we met Jam. We learned about how Jam hunts for food. We found out that he had a great sense of smells and good eyesight. Next, we used our Maths and teamwork skills to do a scale jigsaw of a Tyrannosaurus Rex's head and a Sinornithosaurus. The children worked brilliantly together and we couldn't believe how big a T-Rex's head was in comparison to Year 4 children! After lunch, we went to the green screen workshop with the Teach Rex team and learned how to edit videos. Lastly, we used all our learning from the day to write fact files about a dinosaur of our choice. What a great day!
Year 4 - Who built the pyramids?
Date: 12th Mar 2024 @ 9:09am
Who built the pyramids? A lot of people believed that it was slaves who built the pyramids. We investigated whether that is true or not! Then we used our museum loan boxes to create a tomb and explore artefacts.
Year 4 - Ancient Egyptian Dancing
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 2:43pm
Today we looked at hieroglyphs and used our bodies to represent the symbols.
Date: 5th Mar 2024 @ 10:26am
As part of our DT unit, Shell Structures, we have looked at nets. We carouselled around the room completing a series of activites. These included usingmagnet shapes to make shell structures, deconstructing 3D shapes, cutting and folding nets and finally we made nets to replicate real life objects! We even linked it to History and made some historical landmarks!
Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 4:00pm
This week in History, we used our History, Geography and oracy skills. We started by locating Egypt and England on a world map and then zoomed in on Europe and North Africa to see how far away Egypt is. Next, we were given a map of Egypt and in groups we had to discuss and decide where we think we would have been best to build the pyramids and Pharaoh tombs. We came up with some sentence starters to support our discussions. We decided that near the River Nile was the best option because of the supply of water for building and living whilst building the tombs/pyramids.
Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 11:16am
The children in Reception were invited to bring their favourite teddy bear into school. As a class we talked about our teddies, what they were called. what they looked like and why they were special to us. We discussed how teddy bears have changed over time, comparing teddy bear in the past to teddy bears in the present day. Mrs Clark showed us her mum's teddy bear which was sixty years old. We then sorted the different pictures of teddy bears into past and present.
"Teddy bears now are colourful" Mathew
"Teddy bears in the past are made from brown material" Oliver
"You can get lots of different characters" Isabelle
""Present means it is today" Summer
"The past mean it has already happened" Isla
"Mrs Clark's teddy was made a long time ago" Esmai
Year 4 - Discovering Ancient Egypt
Date: 21st Feb 2024 @ 2:30pm
We started to learn about Ancient Egypt this week. Firstly, we located where Ancient Egypt was on a chronological timeline. Then, we completed an information run around the classroom to gather as much information about Ancient Egypt as possible. At the end of the lesson we listened to a Now, Press, Play activity.
Date: 1st Feb 2024 @ 1:37pm
This lesson focused on what we could learn from evidence left behind in the Iron Age. The children carefully labelled key evidence and discussed what we could learn from it.
Year 3- The Mystery of Stonehenge!
Date: 25th Jan 2024 @ 8:56am
In History this week, we investigated Stonehenge. We looked into why it is so difficult to know why Stonehenge was made. In groups we used our oracy skills to discuss 4 different theories around Stonehenge. Using our previous knowledge on The Stone Age, we discussed if we thought these theories were plausible and which we felt was most likely.
Date: 22nd Jan 2024 @ 7:31pm
In History today we explored how recent excavations can help us to change the way we viewed the Vikings. We learned that they were skilled craftsmen, who were able to make items such as weapons, clothes and jewellery. We also learned about the excavaiton in \york in 1978 that led to the discovery of a whole Viking settlement right under the streets of the city. We were then given the opportunity to look at a range of replica artefacts and discuss what they told us about the Vikings.
