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In History, year 5 have been learning all about Ancient Greece. Today, we focused on a fearless Macedonian king and military genius, Alexander the Great. The children worked in groups to piece together a timeline of Alexander the Great’s life and important achievements.
We learnt lots of knew sticky knowledge and gathered the causes and consequences to his actions in Ancient Greece.
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 sources of evidence and discussing what these sources showed us. We then had a go at putting our sources into the correct chronological order.
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.
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.
During our migration topic this term, Year 6 have been learning about how different groups of people have migrated to Britain for various reasons. The United Kingdom is so diverse and inclusive, made up of millions of people from all different backgrounds and beliefs. This week, we have been learning about citizens from the Caribbean who were encouraged to migrate and come work in Britain to help rebuild our country after WW2.
We took part in an online Zoom session with Floella Benjamin who spoke about her experiences as a migrant to Britain travelling from Trinidad and how sadly, back then, she faced lots of racism. It was a great opportunity to learn about the challenges migrants faced and how Britain has come a long way in treating everyone with the respect they deserve.
To celebrate the coronation of KIng Charles III on Saturday 6th May our little Hubbers made our very own crowns fit for a King!
A gold tablecloth was draped over our working table where we sat together to make our crowns. We knew it was a special occasion as all our new sequins and jewels were laid on the table for us to use. They dazzled us with their beauty of rich colours and sensory textures.
Everyone in the school wore red, white and blue clothes, the same colours as our national flag, to show our support for our amazing country. Our National Anthem played during our activity.
We also joined in with our school activities including a ‘Royal Bake Off‘ and ‘Royal Tombola’ with our families.
GOD SAVE THE KING!
We have had such a wonderful day celebrating the King’s Coronation. We’ve learnt about the King, listened to the National Anthem, joined in the celebrations with red, white and blue cake and joined in with Coronation activities.
Some of us braved the rain and built a coach, with 4 horses, to carry King Charles to his palace. We hope it doesn’t rain as much tomorrow!
On Thursday, Year 3 and 4 were very lucky as we had local artist, Charlotte Eldred in to work with us and we took part in a ‘Doodling Workshop’ based on the invitations for the Coronation.
A man called Andrew Jamieson designed the invites and before coming into our school, Charlotte asked permission to create doodles inspired by his work and he said yes! He also asked her to send some of the finished pieces to him so some of our work will be with the man who designed to invites! How exciting!
In Mrs Yardley’s class we worked hard on drawing outlines of crowns and lions (lions based on the crest) and then spent time doodling our own designs into the crowns!
As King Charles will be the third king as Charles and as he loves the environment so much we used these things to inspire our doodles. We think they all turned out pretty good!
Today, the children in Year 4 explored, discussed and debated a range of photographic sources of evidence with the aim of identifying the significance of historic coronation events for British citizens of the past.
We first explored the Timeline of British Coronations over the last 200 years and utilised our mathmatical skills to determine the length of each British monarch’s reign.
In teams, we then explored, discussed and grouped our sources of evidence in a range of ways:
Photographic evidence
Paintings and portraits
Black and white photographic evidence
Colour photographic evidence
Celebratory images
Comparisons were made in relation to the validity of photographic evidence with that held within paintings of a monarch’s coronation. From this, the children deduced that paintings of historic coronations may not be a true representation of the event as some of the detail could have been enhanced or omitted by the artist; whereas the more modern photographic evidence provides a truer representation of each event due to it being recorded instantly.
Further observations of the ways in which British citizens celebrated historic coronations as a nation over time allowed the children to identify that each celebration was similar in that people dressed smartly, a special feast was shared and that communities were decorated with flags and bunting to honour the monarch of their time.
To complete our lesson the children then created a group mindmap to identify ways in which they will celebrate the coronation of our monarch – King Charles III on Saturday 6th May 2023.
From this, we were able to infer why the upcoming coronation of King Charles III continues to be an important event within British society today and deduced that it is an event which many British citizens continue to take pride in celebrating as a nation just like the historic celebrations of past monarchs were for our ancestors.
This term Year 2 have built their art work up to create a final piece portrait of Samuel Pepys.
We began by looking at painting of Samuel Pepys so that we could sketch our own version.
We continued by drawing on our ability to create secondary colours with paint. We used the influence Julian Opie, who we have been looking at this term, before block filling our sketches.
Our portraits of Samuel Pepys look very much like the pop art that Julian Opie is famous for creating. We have completed our final piece of art work by adding pen detail. This had made our portraits more detailed and we have added texture to the final portrait.
We are very proud of our work and we held a walking exhibit for our peers to view all portraits that were created.
Year 3 have had lots of fun this week completing our end of term history and geography quizzes.
We could recall lots of facts about what happened in history during the period spanning from the stone age all the way through to the end of the iron age. We remembered what hillforts are and why they were used along with why Stonehenge was built and what it was used for. We also remembered lots of information about ‘The Cheddar Man’ and ‘The Amesbury Archer’.
We used our geography knowledge to answer lots of questions including ones about the 8 points of a compass, human and physical features and the different types of land use we witnessed on our field trips.
Some of us were very happy that we got great scores.
Year 6 have worked incredibly hard studying British crime and punishment through the ages within our history lessons this term. We have covered so many time periods, including Anglo-saxon and Vikings, Normans, Tudors, Victorians, WW2 Britain and modern day Britain.
We have really developed our enquiry skills by studying a range of primary and secondary sources of evidence and carrying out independent research.
As we have now finished our history unit of work, we competed in a Kahoot! quiz to check how much we had remembered from this term and then completed a ‘double page spread’ to showcase our knowledge.
The top scorers on Kahoot! along with the 3 of the most impressive double page spreads won themselves an Easter egg for their great efforts! Well done Y6.
