History 2021

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Ancient Greece Year 5 have been studying Ancient Greece, investigating how the Ancient Greek Games evolved into our modern Olympics.

...and to give examples of the natural resources provided by the Nile.&nbsp;

Egyptian History and Art Our self portraits in the style of Pharaohs.

We have also enjoyed learning about and exploring different celebrations such as, Diwali, Remembrance Day and the Chinese New Year.

The Great Fire of London Year Two learnt all about The Great Fire of London in Autumn term. They developed their understanding of timelines by ordering events in their own lives and then the events of the Great Fire. The children rebuilt London following on from its destruction by the fire and understood the importance of Sir Christopher Wren's work in rebuilding St Paul's Cathedral. They used their knowledge of London in 1666 to then compare to life in London now and linked this to British Values through understanding the Royal Family and their traditions (in particular the ceremony for Remembrance Day). The children joined in with the Remembrance Day silence whilst watching the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall live from London and also watched the Remembrance Day memorial laying of the wreaths at the Cenotaph. The children developed their understanding of the importance of the Cenotaph and Remembrance Day by learning about WW1.

Ancient Egypt This is example of cross-curricular&nbsp;history.&nbsp;Children learnt about a range of Egyptian musical instruments.&nbsp;We compared the similarities of these ancient instruments with modern day ones.&nbsp;Using knowledge from the lesson, children designed and labelled their own Egyptian instrument.&nbsp;

The Nursery children have loved learning all about Dinosaurs! 

We learnt about Dinosaur habitats, fossils and explored frozen Dinosaur eggs!&nbsp;

Chestnut class have also been busy historians so far this year! We have also investigated the gun powder plot, learning all about Guy Fawkes and his plotters.

Remembrance Day Our Year 4 pupils used water colours to paint their Remembrance Day poppy wreaths.

This learning is to understand the importance of the River Nile...

World War 2 Under the umbrella of our topic 'World War 2', Year 6 have been developing their chronological understanding throughout this prime area of world&nbsp;history. During the topic, evacuation, the holocaust, the Blitz and other key areas have all been covered. The children have developed their investigative skills throughout, studying a wide range of primary and secondary sources, applying their reading inference and deduction skills helping them to understand with greater clarity. We have also worked in a cross-curricular way investigating how Europe has changed in terms of its borders. The children have applied their prior statistics skills to create a bar chart on their learning of the holocaust. In music, we have listened to, appreciated, compared and understood the context of famous World War 2 songs. Our English writing has linked directly to our&nbsp;History&nbsp;learning: having focused on&nbsp;Carrie's War, Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;Invictus&nbsp;poem. Our Science learning built up to the point where we could answer our big question: What was the relationship between light and WW2?&nbsp;We enjoyed reading&nbsp;When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit&nbsp;by Judith Kerr as our class book.&nbsp;

As part of our Brilliant Bodies topic we have been learning about nurses in&nbsp;history. So far we have learned about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. There has been a good response both at home and in school with children interested in what hospitals were like in the past and changes these nurses made.&nbsp; We have been collecting our new learning on pictures of the two nurses.

On Remembrance Day, we explored different ways to celebrate and remember people who are special to us, creating a field of poppies in our classroom!&nbsp;

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We have also started our new topic of Nurturing Nurses where we are looking into the lives of Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and Edith Cavell.&nbsp;

The Romans Here are the Year 4's performing the poem 'The Romans in Britain' by Judith Nicholls.&nbsp;

In Apple Class we have enjoyed learning about the story of Rama and Sita as part of our Diwali topic of learning. We also did some Diwali dancing which we thoroughly enjoyed as part of our PE session. We learnt about Diwali celebrations and made beautiful Mendhi hands where we drew patterns on hands.&nbsp;

At Christmas the children enjoyed recreating the Christmas story within their fantastic Nativity performance.&nbsp;

....and produced drawings of intricate Greek urns.

The children had to use their newly acquired knowledge to answer questions  in a board game about Mary Seacole.

In Reception, we enjoy exploring and finding out about the past, celebrations and significant stories. Recently, the children enjoyed an interactive workshop with the RAF Museum in London (Teddy Bear Travels).&nbsp;The children enjoyed the age-appropriate insight into transport artefacts. A&nbsp;teddy&nbsp;bear&nbsp;led us through different parts of the museum, including various modes of transport used within the military. The children were engaged and inquisitive about what they were seeing. They had to help&nbsp;teddy&nbsp;find his medals and enjoyed joining in the sing and sign element of the activity too.

History provides all children with the ability to delve deeper and make connections to the past and the world in which they live now. At Sandy Hill, we teach children the skills required to be a good historian; how to research and gather information, how to question information for authenticity, perspective, and reliability.&nbsp;We are proud to share with you a snapshot of the historical learning that has taken place so far this year.&nbsp;&nbsp;

“The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future." – Theodore Roosevelt.&nbsp;

Exploring Chinese New Year and how it is celebrated around the world.  Some of the children at home created masks and decorations.&nbsp;

The children created their own Greek temples....

The Celts Year 4 drawings of Boudicca Queen of the Celtic Iceni Tribe.

One pupil and his mum were so interested about the life of Mary Seacole that they decided to purchase a book to learn more about her. The child recorded a video sharing his new knowledge and discussing his opinion of the racial prejudice she faced.

Quote from parent left on pupil's Tapestry account:

"It's the first time we’ve really talked about racial prejudice with Adam in a bit more detail and he was asking so many wonderful questions and his innocence moved me. As we are a mixed race family it was a nice way to touch on this, and I told him I’m going to buy her book and read it as mummy didn’t know about her."

Year 1 learned about the Gunpowder plot in&nbsp;History. The children enjoyed putting themselves in the place of Guy Fawkes and Thomas Percy to explore their characters further. 

Further self-portraits in the style of pharaohs.

The Christmas Story The Nursery children all had the opportunity to participate in our Nursery Nativity Performance. During this experience, the children were able to learn more about The Christmas Story.

Extended writing using picture prompts to retell the story of the Gunpowder Plot.

Creating our own poppies for Remembrance Day.

An example of home learning, demonstrating Art history.  An art fact file on the artist L S Lowry.

The Great Fire of London

Comparing present day life to life in 1666.

In Nursery History is incorporated within the Understanding the World aspect of the EYFS curriculum. We continuously learn about people who are special to us and why we remember special times and events throughout the year. The children in Nursery have loved learning about different historical events and how they have had an impact on our lives today. Practical activities and experiences are provided for the Nursery children in order for them to effectively learn about and understand historical events and celebrations.&nbsp;

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