Year 5 Viking WOW Day

By Etienne Hull24th February 2026

Year 5 had an incredible Viking WOW Day! We began by exploring the history of Viking shields, learning about their designs, patterns, and the meanings behind the colours they used. Using this knowledge, we created our very own shields.

We also looked at Viking runes. After discovering how the runic alphabet worked, we had a go at writing our names and even created secret messages for our friends to decode. It was amazing to see how Vikings communicated in such a unique way.

To finish off our busy day, we relaxed with some Viking word searches and even learned how to draw our very own Vikings.

Stone age

By Mrs K SMITH29th January 2026

Year 3 started our new topic this week by looking at items that were used during the Stoneage.

We had chance to look carefully at some artefacts from the Stoneage period. We had to discuss them and decide what we thought they were. Some artefacts were easy to identify such as a child’s shoes, others were a little more trick such as the wooden toy bison and the drinking vessel with an animal skin lid. We were really impressed that people could make these items with the little tools they had.

chronology

By Mrs K SMITH13th January 2026

Year 3 were very excited to find out what our new topi is this term.

We began by exploring the school time line. We quickly identified where we are now and could see lots of information that we have already discovered such as Queen Elizabeth II, Titanic sinking and man landing on the moon. WE noticed that many of these events happened a long time ago but they were only on the last little bit of the timeline. When we looked closer we saw that the time line had big periods many years ago called StoneAge, Bronze Age and Iron Age but we did not really know what these were.

 

 

 

 

This term we are going to be finding out all about these time periods and how life changed through the Stone Age right through to the end of the Iron Age. We discovered what prehistoric meant and how BCE and CE are used to distinguish these time periods, we also used AD and BC. These helped us to put some big events in chronological order such as the discovery of bronze and the use of iron. We are looking forward to finding out how life change so many years ago.

Year 1 My Local Area

By Mrs D O'LOUGHLIN13th November 2025

Our History unit for the Autumn term is ‘My Local Area’.  We began with a discussion about chronology, whereby the children ordered events from furthest back in time (the birth of our namesake Christopher Pickering) to the most recent (them starting year 1).

We fully embraced our topic during our ‘Wow’ Day which was themed ‘the swinging sixties’. The children pulled out all the stops with their outfits – they looked amazing! (Thank you parents for providing them).We started our day by exploring artefacts from the 1960’s. The children loved guessing what each object could have been used. They almost couldn’t believe it when we told them that there were only 3 channels on the TV and there was no internet! We had asked the children to bring in photographs of their grandparents from the 60’s and got a great selection which we loved looking at together. The children thought some of the cars, clothing and hairstyles were very funny!  We watched a very interesting clip Re:Livingwhich showed how our city has changed, not only since the 1960’s but throughout recorded history. The children were particularly surprised that the The Humber Bridge hadn’t always been there. The day ended with a 60’s disco complete with dance tutorials for us to learn the correct moves.

As part of this unit, we studied photographs of Hessle Square during the 1960’s and present day. The children worked in groups to sort the photographs into ‘then and now’. They than looked closely to see if they could identify any similarities or differences. Some of the main things they noticed were that the church looked exactly the same and that there were many more cars parked in The Square.

 

Y6 Maya calendar

By Mr J SUTTON2nd October 2025

In year 6 we have been looking at the Mayan calendar. Using their calendar round system the children successfully calculated specific dates. The children loved learning about the Maya numbers and worked really well!

The history of hull

By Mrs K SMITH12th September 2025

This week Year 3 have been discussing chronology and what this means.

We have discussed how chronology tells us the order things happened in.

During our history lesson we have begun to look at the history of Hull. We spent some time looking at some different pictures showing different points in the history of Hull. We then discussed the chronological order of these events.

We discussed how black and white photographs must be older than coloured ones and how paintings must be even older as these were created before cameras were invented.

 

 

 

 

 

Once we had created our chronological timeline we discussed the correct order of events in Hull and how over the Autum Term we will be finding out lots more about these events.

We then created our own timeline in our books ensuring we thought about the chronological order of the events.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We cannot wait to find out lots of information about these events that shaped the city of Kingston Upon Hull.

Y1 wow day: pirate adventures!

By Leonnie Carrick2nd May 2025

Ahoy there! Year 1 had an exciting start to our new topic Land Ahoy with a fantastic Pirate Wow Day! Everyone came dressed as pirates – hats, hooks, eye patches and all!

We learned how to talk like pirates and practised our best pirate voices. We even drew portraits of ourselves as fearsome sea captains! To kick off our topic, we learned a fun poem called ‘I Wish I Was a Pirate’, which got us all in the pirate spirit.

The highlight of the day was a treasure hunt around the school – What a swashbuckling start to our new adventure!

Chronology

By Mrs K SMITH12th January 2025

To start our new topic in Year 3, we have spent time looking at events and new items that were introduced between the Stone Age and the end of the Iron Age. We used the dates to help us put these things into chronological order. It got a little bit confusing as the dates we were looking at were BCE dates and we talked about how these count in a different way.

Stone Age to Iron Age

By Mrs K SMITH10th January 2025

Year 3 are starting our new topic this week. It is called Stone Age to Iron Age. Lots of us realised we are going to be learning about a period of history that happened a long time ago. We discussed the word ‘prehistoric’ and its meaning as well as how we use the letters BC/BCE and AD/CE to define what time periods we are discussing. We were all fascinated that ‘prehistoric’ means pre history and that archeologists are our key to that time period along with artefacts that are discovered.

We had the exciting opportunity to start our new topic by looking at artefacts that would have been used during these periods. We looked at things such as animal skins, shoes and tools that would have been used to make life easier during this time period.

Trawling heritage of hull

By Mrs K SMITH3rd November 2024

Year 3 enjoyed our trip to Hull city center to discover all about the fishing industry and how it shaped Hull as a city.

We were very excited before we even arrived at the KCOM learning zone as we saw a portrait of Big Lil and could say why she was important. We spent some time at the beginning of the day recalling all the facts we already knew about the fishing industry. We knew lots of facts such as Hull’s first dock was built for whaling ships and was called The Dock but we were all surprised when we discovered this is now Queen’s Gardens..

We found out lots more information from our session with Children’s University. We were all very shocked when we discovered that Hull was once the worlds largest port.

Once we had discovered these facts we had the opportunity to go and ask members of the public the same information. We found out that older people knew lots of facts about the fishing industry in Hull however younger people did not know as much.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We spent some time finding out even more information about the fishing industry by conducting our own research. We got to find out what life was like onboard a trawler and and that fishermen only spent 3 days at home between fishing trips. This helped to give them the name ‘3 day millionaires’. We also discussed how important the Headscarf Revolutionaries were in preventing  many deaths at sea.

After our morning of research we got to see the influence of the fishing industry around the city. We visited many important sites including ‘The Last Trip’ memorial, the fishing gate where fish was taken to the markets from the trawlers and we saw one of the fish shops where lots of fish was sold in Hull.