Category: History

13 February 2020

This week Year 2 were visited by Florence Nightingale. Miss Nightingale was very impressed by the children’s courteous manners. Year 2 now know about the symptoms of cholera, tuberculosis and typhoid. They went back in time and recreated Scutari Hospital which was in quite a state! The nurses did a fantastic job of caring for…

13 February 2020

Last Thursday the Year 4 Emeralds had the best time on their trip to Butser Ancient Farm. Here, we travelled back in time, immersing ourselves in the Anglo-Saxon and Viking time periods. We had so much fun spinning our own yarn, excavating as archaeologists, sewing Anglo Saxon runic letters and carving our own lucky talismans…

23 January 2020

Reception Diamonds first trip was bravely to face the cold and go to Buckingham Palace, Wellington Barracks and St James’ Park to see the Changing of the Guard. We marvelled as the band played, and we gazed at the marching soldiers and listened to the clip-clopping of the mounted Police. We also had time to…

23 January 2020

Year 4 Emeralds were honoured with a visit from our resident Scot, Mr Wright, who shared captivating tales about his famed countryman, Robert Burns, whose literary works are celebrated around the world on the 25 January each year. We also heard tales about the land and its history and culture, as we studied a map…

17 October 2019

On Monday, the Year 3 Rubies were transported across the seas to join a curious egyptologist in unlocking the secrets of an Ancient Egyptian tomb. As we embarked on a historical adventure to lift the curse and escape the tomb unscathed, we drew on our wealth of knowledge gathered in our learning over the term…

16 May 2019

Our curious Year 4 historians trotted off to The Museum of London on Monday. There, they investigated the different stages of our prehistoric home town in the ‘London Before London’ gallery, actively locating artefacts and diligently recording their findings in a chronological fashion. There was even an iron age shield from Battersea! Following this, they…

21 March 2019

Year Four were thrilled to have our own resident Northern Irish national, Mrs Keenan, visit them on Monday. Cloaked in green, Mrs Keenan was keen to share her extensive knowledge of the life of St Patrick, the patron saint of her homeland Ireland, with us. We thoroughly enjoyed our visual tour around the Emerald Isle and heard…

7 March 2019

Year 4 were treated to a visit from our own Mrs Gates last Friday. Not only is she the lovely mummy of Edward and Rachel, our marvellous POD lead and an allround supersonic busy lady but she has another claim to fame. She is also, in fact, from the land of giant red dragons and fluffy white…

15 February 2019

On Monday, Year 3 Rubies enjoyed a wonderful visit to Windsor Castle. The sun shone down on us as we marvelled at the height of the battlements, saluted the guards and scampered under murder holes. While tucked away in a secret corner of St George’s Chapel, we got our imaginative juices flowing in a lively…

31 January 2019

Recently in Relationship Time, Y5 continued their exploration of the Gospel of Matthew by acting out some well known parables. Both classes enjoyed unpacking the stories and the children were full of ideas when discussing what each one meant. Here is one group acting out “The Parable of the Mustard Seed.”