History: Blog items
Year 6 Heritage Day - Blackpool's LGBTQ+ history
Date: 4th Jul 2022 @ 12:53pm
Today is our Blackpool Heritage Day and our topic is the history of LGBTQ+ in the resort. We were extremely privileged to have a visit from Basil Newby - a prominent name with Blackpool's gay bars and nightclubs. He talked about his life, how he had influenced the LGBTQ+ community here in Blackpool and introduced us to 2 of his team from Funny Girls, Alex and Nikki. Nikki came dressed in drag and it was a great opportunity for us all to ask questions to the whole team, which they all answered and gave us lots of information about life at Funny Girls. We would like to say a big thank you to all three of them for taking time out of their busy schedules to come and talk to us today.
Date: 4th Jul 2022 @ 12:51pm
As part of our school-wide Heritage Day, pupils in year 5 visited Bloomfield Road Stadium (home of Blackpool FC). We were given a tour of the ground, got to sit in the home and away changing rooms, enjoy the view from the Directors Box, and stood pitchside next to the hallowed turf. Staff from the Blackpool FC Community Trust explained about how the success of the team can impact the town, and the many different ways that the club supports the community and people of Blackpool.
Year 3- World World Two museum
Date: 23rd Jun 2022 @ 4:19pm
Today the children had access to their own World War Two museum, in which we looked at real life artefacts from that time period. We saw soldiers' uniforms, gas masks, propaganda videos, ration books, first aid kits and a soldier’s helmet. The children considered what they could infer from this to answer the question about how Britain stood strong in the war.
Date: 17th Jun 2022 @ 2:27pm
This week the children in year 5 have begun their new History journey about Ancient Greece. In this lesson, pupils read the story of Theseus and the Minotaur, and then examined a number of sources from the time, such as coins and statues. The children had to examine the sources and try to figure out what they were, and then decide how the evidence might support the theory that the story was true.
Date: 26th May 2022 @ 4:25pm
Today, alongside the whole School, Year Two celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. We begun the day with an assembly explaining why we celebrate and how life has changed during the Queen's time on the throne. We all enjoyed a delicious special Jubilee lunch party eating yummy sandwiches, crisps and some salad with music to celebrate in true style. During the afternoon, we looked at some jubilee themed riddles linking to our Reading into Writing journey. We all had a lovely day and the children looked lovely in their red, white and blue clothing. Here's to the Queen!
Jubilee Celebrations at Boundary
Date: 26th May 2022 @ 1:51pm
Boundary's Jubilee Celebration's have begun. Our staff and children took part in a whole school assembly where we watched footage of the Queen's Coronation from 2nd June 1953 and learnt a song which told us a little bit more about our longest reigning monarch!
Jubilee lunchtime! The children are enjoying their special Jubilee picnic boxes and homemade cupcakes (these will be on sale at the end of the day too!)
Date: 10th May 2022 @ 5:01pm
This half term, Year Two are learning all about Mary Seacole. We started the journey by being History detectives and used photos of evidence to try and figure out who Mary Seacole was and the reasons why she was famous. We all had very different ideas about why she was famous and eventually figured out that she helped British soldiers in the Crimean war. We followed this on by exploring the key events in Mary's life and sequenced them and this week we have focused on what Mary's role was in the Crimean war. We were amazed at the acts of kindness Mary displayed towards British and Russian soldiers and how important she was in helping soldiers in the Crimean war.
Year 4 Our Ancient Egyptian Tomb
Date: 4th May 2022 @ 5:02pm
This week in Year 4 we were exploring what we would discover if we were to follow in the footsteps of Howard Carter into an Ancient Egyption tomb. We rearranged the classrooms and gave our explorers a torch each. They then only had a short time to explore the 'tomb' and find the hidden artifacts. Our Year 4's absolutely loved this and they did a fantastic job of describing what they had found in the short time they were in there.
Date: 28th Mar 2022 @ 7:30pm
Our Reading into Writing journey at the moment is all about discussions/debates. We decided that the 'big question' that we would focus on is 'Should Emperor Claudius Have Invaded Britain'? Look familiar? That's becuase it was also a part of our History journey this half term! We decided that it would be a great way to link some of our subjects together so here we are breaking down the 'for' and 'against' arguments to practice being able to write a discussion/debate. Some very compelling arguments being formulated here, Emperor Claudius' adivsors should watch out!
Date: 19th Mar 2022 @ 9:12pm
As part of our History journey about Christopher Columbus, today we answered two key questions; Did everyone think Columbus was a hero and why should we remember Columbus? We looked at a range of ways in which Columbus is celebrated and ranked reasons as to why Columbus might deserve to be famous. We then selected the reasons we each thought were the most important and wrote a word plaque for a statue of Columbus.
Date: 17th Mar 2022 @ 8:09pm
Today in Year 1 we enjoyed our History Day! The first question we explored was, why do you think we remember Christopher Columbus? We became History detectives to explore the answer to this question! Clues were placed around our room, as if in an art gallery. We worked in pairs to write simple words that came to mind whilst looking at each clue. We then came back together to collect all our ideas from the clues and images we had seen!
Year 4 Should Emperor Claudius have invaded Britain?
Date: 14th Mar 2022 @ 7:38pm
Last week in History, we looked at the different reasons as to why Roman Emperor Claudius would have left hot, sunny Italy to invade cold we Britain. We played the part of his advisors and looked at reasons why it would have been a good idea and why it would have been a bad idea to invade Britain. We rounded the lesson off with a good old debate, with some fantastic arguments for both sides, and some well thought out counter arguments from our Year 4's!
Year 5 Introduction to 'Older Literature'
Date: 24th Feb 2022 @ 7:48pm
During the first week of Spring 2, we have been introduced to the fascinating work of William Shakespeare!
By completing a scavenger hunt, we have learnt lots of new things about the life and works of one of the world's most influential people... did you know we still use words and phrases coined (made up) by Shakespeare? Over 1700 words in the English language are believed to have been invented by him, or introduced to his audience because of him. Gossip, fashionabble and nervy are just some!
Date: 24th Feb 2022 @ 6:49pm
'Twosday' was also our 100th day in school this year so far! We focussed our maths lesson around the number 100. We had 6 activities, which were laid out as a carousel and in our groups we wokred our way aorund, learning loads and having a great time! We also looked at how life was like 100 years ago, how life is now in comparison and how we think life will be in 100 years time. If even half of what we discussed happens in 100 years time, it's going to be pretty exciting!
Reception Bears, bears and more bears
Date: 23rd Feb 2022 @ 12:32pm
Reception enjoyed bringing their favourites teddies to school. We compared all the different teddies and talked about how they were similar and different. Mrs Clark brought her very old teddy bear in to show us and we discussed how teddy bears had changed over time. The children enjoyed sorting different bears, drawing and writing about their own bear and using loose parts to make their own teddy bear face.
Date: 9th Feb 2022 @ 12:37pm
It's official! We are proud to announce that Boundary has been awarded the Gold level 'Quality Mark for History' which recognises the excellence of History provision in schools.
The assessor's praised 'the quality of [our] History curriculum and how well the children across the school learn history...it is taught thoroughly'.
At Boundary, we value History and want our children to understand and be proud of where they come from.
Well done Boundary!
Year 6 Describing Viking hair in French!
Date: 20th Jan 2022 @ 2:30pm
Year 6 had a fun afternoon continuing their 'Les Vikings' unit in French. This week the children learned how to describe hair using the irregular verb 'avoir'. After learning how to describe the length, colour and style of hair, they played games of Guess Who where they had to ask questions - in French - about a person's hair.
Boundary's in the news: Royal Ballet partnership
Date: 17th Jan 2022 @ 9:36am
Date: 7th Jan 2022 @ 3:29pm
For our WOW we made salt dough and created our own Stone Age jewellery. We scored lines and dots into the salt dough to create patterns. After cooking them for a very long 3 hours, we were able to paint them and turn them into necklaces.
Date: 6th Jan 2022 @ 12:39pm
Our new French topic is 'Les Vikings' and runs alongside our History unit. In today's lesson, we used congnates and familiar language to decode a passage of French about the Vikings. We also enjoyed listening to and translating the song, "Nous Sommes Les Vikings'.
Year 6 An introduction to the Vikings
Date: 5th Jan 2022 @ 12:14pm
Although it was a chilly morning, Year 6 began their Vikings topic by learning outside. We worked in teams and enjoyed taking part in a teasure hunt for Viking facts.
Now Press Play... Anglo-Saxon Adventure
Date: 5th Dec 2021 @ 10:24am
Using our 'Now Press Play' equipment, Year 5 immersed themselves into an Anglo-Saxon experience.
Each child became a character who had been blamed for the escape of the village ox. They were immediately sent into exile and walked for miles to a nearby forest. As they were walking, they came across a camp of Vikings who were planning to burn down their village. They had to warn their neighbours whilst worrying that they would never see their family again.
During this experience, we learnt about:
- How the Anglo-Saxons relied on the land to survive
- The structure of Anglo-Saxon society
- The role of King Alfred in the conflict between Anglo-Saxons and Vikings
Date: 5th Dec 2021 @ 10:19am
Year 5 have really enjoyed learning about the Anglo-Saxons.
To start our unit, we recapped on our chronological knowledge of History. Once we all knew where the Anglo-Saxons came in history, we then talked about the reasons why the Anglo-Saxons invaded.
We have also investigated the different areas of Anglo-Saxon life: kingdoms, laws and punishment, the social hierarchy and the names and places the Anglo-Saxons created that are still around today!
The children were fascinated to learn new words such as churl, weregild and Mercia.
Date: 16th Nov 2021 @ 10:11am
We have done lots of learning around Remembrance Day in Cedar. This has included making poppies on crosses and planting them in our school Remembrance Garden, learning about why poppies are a symbol of remembrance and making poppy crafts to help us show our respects for soldiers who were injured and lost their lives for us.
Date: 14th Nov 2021 @ 10:13pm
This week Reception have been making poppies for our Remembrance Garden, creating our own to wear and painting poppies as part of a whole school art week.
"We wear poppies on Remembrance Day" Evelyn.
"We wear poppies to remember the soldiers who died" Charlie.
