Blog by Tag: History

We have been creating descriptions of toys from the past. We wrote labels for each toy so visitors to our toy museum can find out about how children played with toys beyond our living memory. 

Class Three learned about Viking sagas. After making comparisons between two sagas, the children created their own sagas of Leif Erikson’s discovery of Vinland, carefully choosing which historic details to include and where to add their own dramatic interpretations!
 

We completed our History topic “How have explorers changed the world?” by creating coats of arms to reflect the stories of each explorer. We also looked at how exploration has changed over time.

In History, we started our topic by investigating the causes of WW2. The children worked in groups to create timelines and researched the key events. All children were fascinated and many could recall what happened to Germany at the end of WW1, the significance of the Treaty of Versailles for…