Blog by Tag: History
Our trip to the Vehicle Museum
The Ducklings had the most amazing trip to The British Commercial Vehicle Museum in Leyland . They got to learn about engines and vehicles from the past, got to go on some amazing and unusual vehicles and do activities related to the things they had.
The children loved every moment, and to…
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The Commercial Vehicle Museum
We had a fabulous time at the vehicle museum today. The children were all amazing and so well behaved. They loved finding out about all of the different vehicles, their purpose, what they were made of, how old they were and how they were powered.
The best bits were of course our coach ride and…
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Thinking about Transport in the past and present
As part of our topic this week we have been looking at what transport was like for people in the past and discussing similarities, differences and changes we notice.
Ask your child to tell you how bicycles and cars have changes!
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History Understanding the World
Life of King Charles
The Ducklings have enjoyed finding out lots of facts about the life of King Charles III. They have been able to order some photographs to create a timeline of Charles' life so far.
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History Understanding the World
Coronation
Today we were very lucky as Scarlett brought in some very old and precious newspaper supplements about the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. We were able to use these sources of information to talk about the upcoming coronation and to compare and contrast how things have changed. Thank you so much…
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History Understanding the World
Learning about Rosa Parks
As part of our Transport/History topic we have learned about the life of Rosa Parks, the black woman who took a stand against racist segregation on buses in America. The children amazed us with their empathy, questions, understanding and outrage at the thought of people of colour being racially…
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Doves Trip to Ribchester
We had a fantastic day on our trip to Ribchester Roman Museum. We started off with a visit to the ruins of the Roman baths and did some exploring and imagining what the baths would have looked like in the Roman times. We then completed a trail around the museum before lunch. After lunch we had…
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Spying on the Romans
Owls class were sent on a secret mission today, they were ordered by Boudica to spy on the Roman soldiers and report back everything they saw. Together in groups, they had 10 seconds to spy on their enemy and then return to the classroom to draw what they had seen. We had lots of fun.
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Old Toys
We have been lucky to be able to borrow a box of old toys from a museum. We were able to handle them and try them out. We compared them to the toys that we have today. Some of us were experts!!
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History Toys Understanding the World
Grandparents' Day
We had such a wonderful afternoon celebrating our lovely Grandparents. The children loved sharing their learning and showing Grandparents around the setting.
We also got to learn all about what it was like when our Grandparents were at school and how things were different at school in the…
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History Grandparents' Afternoon
Owls go cave painting
We are currently learning all about The Stone Age and we had a go at creating our own cave drawings.
To make it more fun we made caves under the table and decorated them will Stone Age drawings.
Have a look at the album for more pictures.
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Hunter Gatherers
This week we have continued learning about the Stone Age and have been reading Stone Age Boy. As part of our learning on Thursday we went outside and pretended to be Hunter Gatherers collecting and hunting food that the people in the Stone Age would have eaten. We found lots of food that we…
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