History

NELI: Franklin Frog🐸

This week in Nursery, the children have been enjoying the story ‘Franklin Frog’ during our NELI sessions. We explored the story through a range of fun activities, including painting frog paper plates, investigating frogs in the water tray, and creating frog life cycles through cutting and sticking.

Our special words this week were grow, push, jump, and protect, and the children have been practising using these new words during their play and discussions. It has been a fantastic week full of creativity, language development, and learning about the life cycle of frogs.

Albert Dock trip for History

Today we had a trip down to the Albert Dock to ask members of the public about why they are visiting the Albert Dock today. We got to ask if they were from Liverpool or if they were tourists and what they were visiting for, whether it be, museums, restaurants, cafes etc… We got lots of information to make a bar chart with.

Ancient Egypt

History

Class 3 had an amazing trip to the museum today, exploring fascinating Egyptian artefacts and stepping back in time to Ancient Egypt! 🏺✨ The children loved investigating real objects, asking thoughtful questions, and learning about life thousands of years ago. A fantastic hands-on learning experience for everyone! 

Ancient Greece workshop

The children enjoyed examining artefacts from Ancient Greece today, looking at how objects from the past can tell us about how people lived.

History – Ancient Greece

The class discussed the differences between Sparta and Athens and used reasoning skills to decide which city-state they prefer.

History

Ancient Egypt

Year 3 have been exploring Ancient Egypt in history this week 🏺✨
From pyramids and pharaohs to mummies and hieroglyphics, we’ve been discovering what life was like thousands of years ago. They have shown great curiosity and enthusiasm, future historians in the making!

Trip to Faulkner Square Gardens

Today we went on a trip to Faulkner Square Gardens where we learnt lots to do with our current history topic. We learnt all about Edward Faulkner and his father, Thomas and lots about the Seaman’s Memorial that is in the same area.
We learnt a lot to do with Slavery and why Liverpool was so important during the Slave Trade.
We completed a worksheet helping us to gain facts and make a timeline and we also wrote our own poem about our surroundings.

Anglican Cathedral

Class 2 enjoyed their trip to the Anglican Cathedral today. They looked at the design, purpose and what the building was from. They learnt some facts about Giles Gilbert Scott who was the architect and found of some significant dates related to the Cathedral. The children are looking forward to learning more throughout their topic.

FEPOW

Class 6 have been learning about FEPOW-Far Eastern Prisoners Of War-this term. We have looked at the conditions of the camps through secret art hidden in bamboo. We found some secret art of our own hiding in the bamboo in our classroom…

Viking settlements

The class used their map skills this afternoon to find some Viking settlements.

Vikings

The class had the opportunity to take part in a fascinating presentation on the Vikings today, delivered by a special guest. Pupils greatly enjoyed the session and gained a deeper understanding of this important period in history.

Ibn Battuta

Today, we began learning about Ibn Battuta and discussed his significance in History. We located the year of his birth on the timeline and looked to see what events were occurring around that time. We then sorted facts about him as true or false.

Chinese New Year Celebrations 🐴🐲

Nursery had a fantastic time celebrating Chinese New Year. The children enjoyed making colourful lanterns, tasting delicious noodles, and watching exciting dragon dances. We also went to visit the beautiful Chinese arch, which helped us learn more about the traditions and celebrations. It was a wonderful opportunity to explore a different culture through creativity, food, and movement.

Mayan Research

Today we did some research on The Mayan’s Life and how they created civilisation in their time. We researched how they built their homes and made their clothes. This was very interesting to see how different things are today.

Mayans in History

Today we worked out with our pieces of work in what order the Mayan’s did certain activities to help their crops grow or live life in the way that they did. This helped us with our timelines.

Mayan Museum in Class

Today we created a mini museum in our classroom to be able to look at our Artefacts and discover new information about the Mayans. This was lots of fun to be able to have our own mini museum.

History

All aboard! 🚆
This term, Year 3 are learning about the introduction of railways and how they transformed Britain. From faster travel to connecting communities, we are discovering why railways were such an important development in British history.
Lots of great discussions, questions and curiosity along the way! 😊

Our trip

Class 1 went to the museum to look at old and new toys. The children played with the old and new toys and talked about why they are old and new.

History: Old items

Our Nursery children have explored a collection of old items as part of our history learning. They were fascinated by objects such as a typewriter, an old radio, and a vintage camera. The children loved investigating how these items work, comparing them to the technology we use today, and asking curious questions about how people used them in the past. It was a wonderful hands-on introduction to history and how everyday objects have changed over time.

WW11 Propaganda

Class 6 are talking about propaganda today. We’re looking at various posters that were used by the government during the war to persuade people into thinking or acting a certain way to help with the war effort. We compare the two pictures below and talk about which one sends out the most positive message in order to encourage people.

Romans trip!

Today Year 4 went on a trip to Chester to visit a Romans Museum! We got to do a lot of activities in the museum and learn about the food they ate and a lot of the activities they did during that time. We also got to walk down to the Roman Gardens and pretend we were Romans with shields and swords!

History Hot Seat

Today in History we have been creating our very own questions to ask our partners about the Stone Age. We sat opposite our partners interviewing them as if we had created our own podcast.

Sources

We looked at different sources and thought about what information each source gave us about The Great Fire of London. We discussed each source and enjoyed learning about how they were used in the past.

Anglo Saxon workshop

The children enjoyed a visit to the Museum of Liverpool, to learn about the daily life of Anglo Saxons and handle artefacts.

Anglo-Saxon settlements

The class worked hard this afternoon to find places of Anglo-Saxon origin. They located places on a map and thought about the meanings of these place names.

Firefighters then and now.

Today we was very lucky and had a chance to go visit our local fire station.We looked at all the different equipment on a fire engine and what they are used for . We also looked at the difference of what they had during the Great fire of London compared to now.

The great fire of London.

We started to learn about how The Great Fire of London began.

Anglo Saxons

The children worked hard this afternoon to consider reasons why the Anglo Saxons came to Britain.

History: Stone Age

This term Year 3 are looking at The Stone Age. The Stone Age is a period of time when humans used stone to make tools. It covers a huge period of time, over 3 million years. Stone Age people were hunter- gatherers. They followed and killed animals and gathered seasonal food. They made clothes from animal skins and created cave art. We have enjoyed creating our own timeline plotting different key points throughout history

History

Stone Age

This term our class will be looking at the Stone Age. We created our own timeline and discussing the time span across an enormous period of time. We have looked at the large timeline in our school trying to locate past history topics we have covered.

The Great Fire of London

Counting down to the year 1666 on a timeline.

Family houses

This week we’ve been exploring our own family histories, inspired by the story Owl Babies, which celebrates the comfort of family and belonging. The nursery children talked about the people who are important to them and how families can be the same or different over time.

Using lolly sticks, they carefully built little houses and then drew their families inside, sharing stories about parents, grandparents, and siblings. It was a lovely way to connect our learning about families in the past and present while celebrating what makes each home special.

Albert Docks Survey

Yesterday, as part of our history topic, we visited the Albert Dock to conduct a survey with the people we came across there. We wanted to find out why they were at the docks and if they were local or had travelled further to visit. After looking over all of our collected data and discussing it as a class we concluded that, in contrast to the past, when most people would have been at the docks to work, it is now more of a destination for tourists.

Ancient Greece workshop

The children enjoyed looking at artefacts from Ancient Greece – sculptures of Gods, pottery, objects of daily life and weapons. The museum workshop was full of information about the past!

Significant People

Over the past few weeks class 2 have been focusing on historical significant people. We have been looking at Ibn Battuta the famous explorer, Neil Armstrong the first American to walk on the moon and Amelia Earhart who was the first female pilot to fly across the Pacific Ocean. We have really enjoyed plotting these three historians within our own timeline, learning all about their achievements and why we remember them.

Viking workshop

The children enjoyed a Viking workshop today!

History: Old and New

Reception have been exploring old and new items through history, the children had a go at trying out the items and explaining why they were old and what the new version of the item could be.

Mayans’ life

We worked in teams to research and create a presentation about Mayans’ life. We shared our work with the rest of the class.

The Mayans

We are finding the Mayans fascinating.
Today, we worked in groups to determine how did the Maya manage to become so important.

History

Looking at old toys

History

Old and new toys

History

sorting images of old and new toys

History – hot task

The class produced some wonderfully detailed and illustrated information leaflets this afternoon, to demonstrate their learning of our Anglo Saxon topic!

Romans in Britain

We created our own Roman shield. Lots of fun!

History – mysterious objects

The children became history detectives, looking at images of objects found at a mysterious burial site at Sutton Hoo. They came to the conclusion that they belonged to a King or an important person.

A museum in class

We have looked at different artefacts and we have discussed the relation with the Romans.

Fire Station

What a fantastic trip to the fire station this week! We were able to compare what we have learned about The Great Fire of London to the equipment they use today.

Trip to Chester – Romans in Britain

Trip to Chester- Romans in Britain

Old and New Toys

This week Reception have been exploring old and new toys in history , the class discussed what they think are old and new toys and what toys they play with now and what they’re families might have played with when they were younger. Reception then used their knowledge of old and new toys to cut and stick which toys were from the past or present.

Visit to Mere Tun – Anglo Saxons

The children tasted what life was like for the Anglo Saxons, with a visit to Mere Tun, at Martin Mere. The class experienced settlement life – practising weapons skills, thatching, weaving and foraging.

Analysing sources

In History this afternoon, the children examined a variety of statements describing reasons why the Anglo Saxons came to Britain. They had to think carefully about whether each reason was likely or unlikely!

Topic table

Lots of interesting items have arrived on Class 5 topic table! There are lots of clues to what our topic is!

Timeline

Class 5 have been looking at timelines in preparation of our Anglo Saxon topic

History of Transport

In History the children worked really hard looking at old and new images. We looked at bikes, boats, cars, prams and buses. We spoke about the features of the old items and how they may be similar or different to modern day.

Egypt trip to the Museum

Class three enjoyed a trip to the museum for their Egyptian topic. We mummified a mummy and looked at all the tools used in the process.

History – Cathedral visit

As part of their History topic ‘Changes in our city’ the children visited Liverpool Cathedral today to learn more about this famous landmark and its history.

Ancient Greece- Democracy and Olympics

Today we worked in two teams to gather information about Democracy and The Olympics. We presented it to the rest of the class.

Y1 Beatles Trip

Y1 enjoyed visiting Strawberry Field, John Lennon’s childhood home and Penny Lane as part of their History topic based on The Beatles. They viewed artefacts and information, took part in a sing-a-long with a musician and had the chance to ask the expert guide, Chris, lots of questions along the way.

Beaumaris Gaol

During our visit to Anglesey, we went to Beaumaris and took the opportunity to experience what a Victorian Jail was like for the inmates. We were shocked to see some of the punishments given to inmates, discovered interesting facts about how water was filtered in the jail grounds and were a little spooked by some of the ghostly tales!

History: The Mayans

Today we enjoyed looking at all the ancient artefacts related to the Mayans. We particularly enjoyed learning how they created chocolate using the cacao plant and also the Large Triple Death Mask which represents the vital cycle of life.

History

Mayans

We are enjoying being introduced to our new history topic ‘ The Mayans’. We first refreshed our memories on some past events on our school timeline before we dive into our topic.
We are looking forward to learning more about the Mayans and their civilisation.

Y1 Museum Trip

We enjoyed a trip to the museum to take part in a workshop about toys. We compared toys from the past with modern day versions and spoke about the difference in materials and design.

History

Some exciting household objects from the past arrived in class today. We looked at the items and discussed how we know they are from the past.