Egyptian workshop

16th April 2024Emily Ibbotson

We have had a fantastic day today meeting an Egyptian and doing a range of fun activities which have helped us develop our understanding of the Ancient Egyptian Civilisation. First, we watched a demonstration on how to mummify a body. Next, we got to handle and learn about a range of interesting Egyptian artefacts. After that, we had a question and answer session where we got to have all of our burning questions answered. Our favourite session was next where we got to play a couple of Egyptian board games. After lunch, we even got to build and Egyptian city and use ink to draw hieroglyphs on papyrus. As you can tell, it was a jam-packed day but we really enjoyed it and learnt so much in preparation for our next expedition.

Maya Timeline

16th April 2024Laura Hamill

We kicked off hook week by learning what is was to be a historian and the skills people need to research things from the past. We then began learning some information about Maya.

As part of this learning, we worked in mini crews to order key events into a timeline, with a reminder of BC and AD to ensure we ordered them correctly.

Did you know that when you order BC numbers go in descending order but when you order AD numbers they go in ascending order?

Maya Timeline

15th April 2024Ruth Shields

Our hook week started with us learning about the skills needed to be a historian and starting to learn some information about the Maya.

As part of this, we looked at the timeline and ordering key events. We had a reminder about the correct way to order based on BC and AD.

For BC, we order in descending order whereas for AD, we order in ascending order.

Egyptian BBK with parents

15th April 2024Emily Ibbotson

This afternoon, parents came in to support the children in building their background knowledge on the Egyptians. We explored the Ancient Egyptian civilisation through the Childrenā€™s University of Manchesterā€™s resources.

Year 5 become Victorian childrenā€¦

29th January 2024Emily Ibbotson

We really enjoyed becoming Victorian children where we experienced what is was like to attend school in Victorian times. We think Mrs Ibbotson and Mrs Boswell liked being the strict teachers quite a bit haha!! We learnt that if children did not attend school, then they had to work in the factories which we also had a go at this afternoon- this was hard work! After all of that, we then played a range of Victorian games the children would have played back then such as hop-scotch, giant snakes and ladders, Blind manā€™s bluff and pass the slipper.