Blog by Tag: History
Shiver Me Timbers!
Arrr me hearties!
The Ducklings had a fantastic day on Pirate Day with Captain Dan Tastic. They all looked the part and learnt so much about the history and life of pirates from the past. They learnt about the different types of pirate ship, what was kept on board, where and how a pirate slept,…
Category: Ducklings
Trying on the Treasure
The Ducklings have loved trying on all of the pirate treasure this week! Pirate Dan explained to them how some pirates used to wear lots of luxurious clothes and precious jewellery so that other sailors would think that they were wealthy folk and not pirates at all.
They are certainly loving…
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History Understanding the World Role-play
Are we any better?
We have enjoyed exploring and handling household objects from the past. We have tried to guess what some of the strange objects are, the materials that they are made from and how they work. We also asked the question, 'Are we any better today?' We all agreed that having radiators to warm our…
Category: Ducklings
History Understanding the World
Now and Then. Are we any better now?
The children were captivated when presented with objects from the past. They were given the challenge of guessing what artefacts may have been used for and thought some of the artefacts were hilarious!
Ask your child if they can tell you about them at home.
Category: Ducklings
Oliver's fantastic World War 2 Art and Writing
Ollie has completed some lovely writing and produced a fantastic picture all about evacuees during World War 2. You have put lots of time and effort in to this and your hand writing and artwork is beautiful. Well done.
Category: Falcons
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Wonderful Falcons Art
A huge well done to this young man who has completed a fantastic piece of World War 2 inspired art.I am very proud of the work you have completed.
Category: Falcons
Even More VE Day Celebrations from Falcons
We had a fantastic VE day. We had a street party with our neighbours. We put our bunting and baked a cake. At 3pm we had a toast and one of our neighbours (a war veteran aged 96) came in to the middle of the street. We all clapped for him. On VE day (75 years ago) he was travelling up the Rhine to…
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More VE Day Celebrations from Falcons
I can see from these wonderful pictures how busy you have been creating a gorgeous VE day poster and baking delicious scones. I loved you video of you playing the keyboard - something you will have to share with us when we finally return to school. Stay safe and see you…
Category: Falcons
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VE Day from Falcons
We had a fun afternoon in the garden yesterday with our neighbours. We did some dancing and we had our paddling pools out. At the end we had a water fight in the street but we didn’t get any pictures of that as we had put our phones safely inside! Hope you had fun too?
Category: Falcons
Week 7 Falcons Fantastic Work continued
Charlotte has researched and drawn the life cycle of a frog. Thought you'd like to see. also done loads of war work. We are having a street party on Friday to celebrate VE day. We have also had a wonderful gas mask made and they have also learnt their name using the phonetic alphabet and I they…
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Fabulous Falcons Feast
Thank you so much for all of the wonderful work you have sent in. Your cooking skills look terrific. Well done!!
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Week 7 Fabulous Falcons Work
The children in Falcons have been doing some great work and it is lovely to see that they are working so hard and producing fabulous work despite this lockdown: We have enjoyed another week of homeschooling. I've attached a photo of us baking chocolate biscuits that we chose from the ration…
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