Term 5 and 6
Year 1 had a fantastic Titanic experience! They used role play to explore the lives of the different passengers, then what had happened when the ship hit the iceberg. Luckily, they made it to the lifeboats on time!
Year 3 went to the Museum of Kent Life for a Roman workshop- the children learnt lots from primary sources.
Year 4 had an Egyptian day to kick off their learning. They all dressed up and made death masks, jewellery and wrote messages in hieroglyphics.
Year six visited Lashenden Air Warfare Museum at Headcorn Airfield as part of our learning on World War 2. We saw planes taking off, uniforms and weapons worn in the war and read information about some of the airmen who fought for our country. We were able to handle some artefacts to help with our understanding.
"My favourite bit was the museum and the hanger." Jacob
"My favourite part was seeing the Spitfires and watching planes take off." Minnie
D Day
On 6th June we remembered D Day in classes.
Year 1 watched a BBC Newsround clip on what happened on D-Day and why it is so important to remember those who fought there.
Year 2 had a class assembly on D-Day, where we looked at pictures from history. We were amazed at how many boats came to the rescue and were worried about the soldiers keeping safe.
Sebbie did a show and tell at the end of the week to share about his family members who travelled to Normandy with their historic vehicles. Pictures are on Seesaw if you want that though!
Year 4 looked at some of the photos from D-Day of the different sized ships going across to Normandy.
We read a fact sheet all about the events leading up to the invasion and each came up with one question we would like to find out more about.
An interesting fact we read about was that English troops dropped dummies from their planes to fool the enemies into thinking they had lots more men than they actually did.
Year 5 completed a reading comprehension, class discussion around the topic and links to PSHE, as well as a sorting events activity to understand the occasion in greater depth.
Year 6 had an assembly where they listened to the announcement and heard eye witness testimony of people who remembered the day. Having studied WW2, this was a really interesting way to see how the progress of the war had changed.