Blog by Tag: History

What a wonderfully time 9R have had this week…

Yesterday we travelled on the mini bus to The Fylde rugby club to take part in a Tag Rugby inter schools competition alongside nine other schools.

What a fabulous fun and very active time we had, the pupils played so well and it was heartwarming…

This week 7A have been looking at the Anglo Saxons and what weapons they used to fight in the battle against the Vikings. At the start of the week they looked at what they used to defend themselves. The children made some amazing shields and designed their very own pattern to go on the front of…

Today we celebrated St David’s Day in Willow Class. 
We learned all about St David and then tested our knowledge with a quiz. 
Following the quiz we made beautiful daffodil sun catchers and coloured in some Welsh flags. 
At snack time some of us tried Welsh cakes and others smelled them. 
What…

To celebrate Chinese New Year class started by learning about the legend of the monster named Nina who would attack the villagers. The monster was afraid of loud noises, bright lights and the colour red. We discovered this is why fireworks and dragons play a huge part in celebrations of…

We were all excited today in 11G for two reasons- tomorrow we can officially start to talk about Christmas and today we were going to learn all about St Andrew.

At the beginning of the lesson we really didn’t know very much about the patron saint of Scotland, but after listening to a…

On Tuesday 30th November, we will be celebrating St Andrew’s Day in classes. Some classes will be celebrating this through sensory play with water, some will be focusing on the story of the Feeding of the Five Thousand, whilst others while be exploring the life of St Andrew using information…

On this special day, the pupils of Astley Park have been getting very artsy producing some amazing arts and crafts ideas to pay respect on Remembrance Day! The children have all had their creative hats on and have made some fantastic tributes!

Willow class have worked hard this week looking at our safety skills coming up to Bonfire night to stay safe at Bonfires and around fireworks. Earlier in the week we looked at the history behind bonfire night and the story of Guy Fawkes along with finding out how exactly fireworks work and how…

We have been busy looking at Black History Month.

We looked at article’s, watched video clips and power points.

Then as a class we discussed things we had seen.

We where shocked with some of the things we saw.

We made books about Rosa Parks, a very brave women who changed the…

This week we have been looking at families, how they're different and who belongs in our families. From this we have talked about familiy relationships and identified who are important to us.

Leading up to making our family tree we considered what different families may look like in our diverse…

This half term in My Communication, as part of our Bright Sparks theme during Black History Month, 8A will be learning all about the three inspirational black women who helped build NASA. We will be learning all about the lives of Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson & Christine Darden…

Happy Eid everyone! 10G have had a lovely time this week learning all about Eid. First we all had a chat about what we thought Eid was and what religion celebrated it. Then we watched a video of children explaining all about what Eid is and learnt some fantastic facts about it such as the fact…