This Heritage Day 2025, Year 5 explored the proud sporting history of Blackpool FC, with a special focus on their remarkable achievements in 2010. The class learned about the club’s journey to the Premier League and what it meant for the local community. To bring their learning to life, pupils were challenged to create either a website or presentation to showcase what they had discovered. The creativity and enthusiasm shown in their work was truly impressive and reflected a great understanding of Blackpool's football heritage.
History: Blog items
Year 4 - Maple - Heritage Day - Trip to Showtown
Date: 30th Jun 2025 @ 11:59am
Wow! What a great morning at Showtown museum in Blackpool. We were first greeted by Snappy a 1950s photographer who showed us lots of pictures she took back then. Then we split off into four groups to explore the museum and learn more about Blackpool Tower and its construction. Back in school we did a double page spread on everything we learned about how Blackpool became a popular seaside resort.
Date: 25th Jun 2025 @ 3:26pm
Ahead of Heritage Week, Year 3 went to Hangar 42 in Blackpool. We learnt so much about Blackpool during the Second World War and how the RAF operated during the war. We had sessions on code breaking, evacuees and woman at war. The children really enjoyed looking at the different aircrafts and learning how they operated.
Year 3- Why did Britain go to war?
Date: 17th Jun 2025 @ 9:53am
To begin our History journey the children looked at timelines. We looked at what chronological order meant and put key events that we have looked at in KS1 and Year 3 in order. We then went into the hall to see where World War Two was in relation to other key events.
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 4:22pm
Today Year 6 visited Manchester Museum. There were lots of different areas to explore, including Ancient Egypt, Fossils, The Natural World and Ancient Asia. We were able to link our learning in Science to the fossil and dinosaur section as well as looking at how animals and plants have evolved over time. We had a great time and learned lots.
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 12:14pm
This week, pupils in year 5 have had the chance to investigate a range of artefacts from Ancient Greece thanks to Lancashire County Council’s museum loan service. Pupils made observations of the objects and discussed what they were. The children sketched the artefacts and made notes about them from research and their own ideas. They also had the chance to dress up as a Greek hoplite and hold the weapons they would have used.
Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 4:04pm
Year Two has been learning all about Mary Seacole. We have looked at the key events in Mary Seacole's life and why she was famous. This week, we explored how life changed for Mary after the Crimean War and thought about how she would have felt at those different moments.
Year 4 - Who built the pyramids?
Date: 19th Mar 2025 @ 10:59am
This week, we looked at the questions "Who built the pyramids?" There's a lot of opinions and films which depict them being built by slaves, however, we looked at some other evidence which historians have discovered and decided for ourselves...
Date: 18th Mar 2025 @ 11:10am
In this History lesson, the pupils in year 5 were in-role as ancient Athenians debating whether Athens should use their wealth to build the Parthenon. Half of the class were supporters of Pericles, who wanted to create a great monument, whereas the rest of the class thought the money could be put to better use: i.e. defending Greece against Persia. Pupils used their oracy skills to instigate a conversation; to agree, build or challenge others opinions; or ask for clarification if they are not clear on what was said. Pupils also learned about ostracism and how Ancient Athenians voted.
Date: 11th Mar 2025 @ 4:38pm
This half term we have been learning about Amy Johnson in History. We began by learning about who Amy Johnson was and how she ended up flying solo to Australia! We retold the story of Amy's life and picked out lots of qualities that Amy showed throughout her life. We also went on to look at why flying to Australia was so difficult for Amy and the hazards that she faced! Finally, we turned into detectives to solve the mystery of what happened to Amy. We looked at different sources of information, before using this information to make our own decision to solve the mystery!
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 11:59am
This week the children we invited to bring their favourite teddy to school. Our focus was to compare how teddies have changed and evolved over time. Mrs Clark brought a very old traditional teddy bear in from home and the children identified siliarities and differences with their bear. We recapped some key vocabularly 'past' and 'present' and used these words to create our own sentences.
"My teddy is different because it has sequins on it"
"Teddy bears from the present can be different colours"
"My teddy is a Ninja Turtle. They only made bears in the past"
As a follow up activity the children collaged their own traditional teddy bear at the creative table, sorted pictures correctly into past and present and dreew and labelled their bears explaining to an adult how it was similiar or different to Mrs Clarks.
Year 4 - Introduction to Ancient Egypt
Date: 25th Feb 2025 @ 3:35pm
Information we found on our information run:
- The people that ruled are called Pharaohs
- The ancient Egyptians used a form of picture of writing called hieroglyphics
- The pharaohs stopped ruling when Romans took control about 2000 years ago
- Pyramid contained the dead pharaoh who was buried with jewels and objects that were often robbed
- The ancient Egyptians lived in mud houses with flat roofs
- Most of Egypt is a desert of sand and rocks
- The river Nile floods every year. As the water goes down after the flood it leaves behind very rich soil
- The boy king Tutankhamun is the most famous pharaoh
- The ancient Egypt had lots of gold
- The people were ruled by a king called a pharaoh
- There were people living in Egypt about 5,000 years ago
- The ancient Egyptians used a form of picture writing called hieroglyphics
- The most important crops to the ancient Egyptians were wheat and barley from which they made bread and beer
In the smart task we found these things which were incorrect:
- Measuring tape
- Our alphabet
- Tractor
- Dome shaped buildings
- Watering hose
- Books
- Flask
- Fishing rod
Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 2:43pm
Today we were lucky enough to start the day off with a fantastic performance from Travelling by Tuba. They took us on a journey around the world, showing us instruments from around the world and explaining the history of instruments and how theyhave developed into what we have today.
We then attended a workshop with Travelling by Tuba where we were all given an instrument to learn how to play. We all learnt our set rhythm and came together as an ensemble to perform our piece. We had a fantastic day linking Music, History and Geography!
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 8:34am
Today we began our History unit of Vikings. We learned who they were, where they came from and why they came to Britain. Over the next few weeks we will learn more about them as a people, how and why they attacked Britain and what impact they had here on British soil.
Historical Association Quality Mark - GOLD!
Date: 20th Dec 2024 @ 8:39am
We have once again achieved GOLD in the Historical Association Quality Mark assessment!
Date: 6th Dec 2024 @ 10:46am
Today, pupils in year 5 were given the opportunity to examine a number of Anglo-Saxon artefacts from the museum. We looked closely at the artefacts and tried to work out what they were made of and what they were for. Pupils also got the chance to try on a chain-mail vest and a reproduction of the helmet found in the 'empty grave' at Sutton Hoo.
Year 2- Investigating the trenches from WWI
Date: 20th Nov 2024 @ 4:46pm
Today, we used the Chromebooks to improve our digital literacy skills to label what life was like in the trenches. We used our previous knowledge and new learning to think about items in a trench, how soldiers spent their time and what the conditions were like.
Date: 11th Nov 2024 @ 4:37pm
Today, Year Two celebrated Remembrance Day by participating in our whole school service thinking about why we conduct a minutes silence and why we remember those who have/are fighting in battles around the world. We also drew and painted our own poppies and planted some poppies in our Remembrance Garden- each poppy had a soldiers name on it to remember those who lost their lives in WW1.
Date: 11th Nov 2024 @ 10:44am
Acorns have been exploring Remembrance Day in class through video and art experiences. We planted our poppies this morning to remember those who have passed.
Date: 7th Nov 2024 @ 6:16pm
This half term we are learning about toys in our history lessons. Over the past two weeks, we have talked about our favourite toys and toys that are popular in the present day. We have also looked at different toys and talked about the age of children they were created for. We have sorted toys into different groups and began to look at the toys that arrived in our loan boxes. We will look at these more next week when we look at old and new toys!
Date: 4th Nov 2024 @ 4:37pm
In Art, we have started learning about gestural drawing which will be the focus of our pathway this half term. The children looked at a range of poppies and drew observational sketches. This links to thinking about remembrance and the importance of considering those we have lost.
Date: 28th Oct 2024 @ 4:51pm
To finish off our Ballet workshop, Year 3 invited people from home to come and watch them in action. They were very excited to show what they had learnt including, spotting and jumping. The children even showed off their Stone Age dance that had linked to our History topic. We incorporated key facts from our History lessons about how people from the Stone Age lived and created key movements to represent these facts.
Date: 16th Oct 2024 @ 4:33pm
This half term we have linked our writing with our work on Black Hisgtory Month. We learned about Harriet Tubman, a slave who lived and worked on a plantation in Maryland in the early 1800s. She escaped from her master and went on to have a successful life helping other slaves who escaped. We wrote news articles linked to her escape and typed them out. Have a read at some of our work below...
Date: 14th Oct 2024 @ 2:32pm
To start our Black History Month learning, we used our previous knowledge and online resources to create a PowerPoint slide about what Black History Month is, when it is celebrated in the UK and why we celebrate it. When looking at sporting achievements, we focused on the Men’s England National Team. We first looked at all the players heritages and we were surprised to find 8 out of 11 players heritage is black. We imagined what the England time would be like without them – we would only have three players!
Year 4 focused on sporting achievements for Black History Month and we are linking this to our Reading into Writing non-chronological report writing. We will be writing about Jude Bellingham, but to start our journey of non-chronological reports we have been looking at lots of WAGOLLs.
Year 3 - Iron Age Investigators
Date: 13th Oct 2024 @ 2:31pm
Following on from our learning about the Stone Age, we started to investigate how life changed during the Iron Age. We studied the Iron Age settlement, Danebury and completed some paired work. One of the tasks was to examine the arial photograph of Danebury and discuss what we thought the holes may be. Some of our ideas were shelters, wells and tunnels. We then found out that they were storage pits were they hid grain as it was such a precious resource to them. Our other paired task was to study a photograph of artefacts found at the Danebury site and try and figure out what they were and what that tells us about how people lived in the Iron Age.
We also studied an illustration of an Iron Age hill fort. We thought about what we could see and then what we could work out from what we could see. For example, we saw a plough so we could work out that they were farming and we saw a dog so we could work out that they kept pets.We also thought about questions we had from the picture. Some of our questions included: Why are there antlers on poles? and Why is there a wall and a gate?
