Miss Stainton’s English set have loved getting into character as WW2 soldiers and have been reenacting a scene from The Battle of the Bulge. They experienced what it would it would have been like out in the cold and enjoyed getting into character using the props. Excellent acting skills guys!
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Today Miss Stainton’s class were finding fractions of a group of objects. They then created their own problems for a partner to solve and became the teacher as they marked their answers. Well done!
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Miss Stainton’s English set have been working hard creating a story linked to the Battle of the Bulge which took place in WW2. They started off by studying evidence gathered from the battle which helped them piece together a story and main character. They then used the immersive learning area to help get their imaginations working as they produced some amazing creative writing linked to the storyline!
To celebrate the launch of Hull City of Culture 2017 and our new Spring Topic ‘Made in Hull’, each year group created their own wooden letter. Each letter had to represent a certain aspect of Hull culture. The letter have the following themes:
M- Hull City- Year 2
A- Needler’s Sweets- Ganton
D- Hull Fair – Year 1
E- Famous People – Year 3
I- Hull Rovers – FS
N- Hull Docks – Year 4
H- Hull FC – Year 6
U- Hessle Foreshore- iPass
L- Landmarks- Year 5
L- Fish- FS
During our Made in Hull topic each phase will be learning about a piece of Hull history. FS and KS1 will be learning about Hull’s Polar explorers, Y34 will be learning about what life was like during Hull in the Blitz and Y56 will be learning about Hull’s Docks. It’s going to be an exciting term!
Miss Stainton’s class enjoyed working in pairs to research important historical battles which involved England. They have been doing lots of comparison work within topic lessons exploring the differences between WW2 and battles which happened a long time ago. They are becoming really confident using search engines effectively on the iPads to help them learn more about history and especially enjoy working in our immersive WW2 themed pod! Great work!
Today our Year 4 Historians made a visit to the Hands on History museum to learn more about the Amazing Ancient Egyptian Civilisation.
We began with a tour of the Egyptian Quarter. We were able to look at a range of artefacts that Historians have used to conclude what life in Egypt must have been like and what was important to the Egyptian people.
Many artefacts dated back to the 1920’s when the world was gripped with interest in Howard Carter’s Dig! Interestingly, these artefacts date back to the time of when Lil lived in our Guided Reading Text, The Secrets of the Sun King by Emma Carrol.
Here we learned that some artefacts on display were replicas of the originals and others were original artefacts that were donated to the museum…. such as the Mummified Body!
We silently entered the dimly lit room and peeped through the thick glass casing to wonder who the person was that now lay mummified before us in a Museum in Hull! It was very exciting!
After the tour, we worked in teams to handle, examine and discuss a range of artefacts. We were able to make informed predictions as to what that artefact told us about life over 3000 years ago.
Finally we looked at the Rosetta Stone and learned how this significant discovery helped us to decode the magnificent Hieroglyphics that the Egyptians cleverly used to communicate.