History

In our historical learning this term, we have explored The Roman Empire in Britain. Whilst we’ve not finished the whole topic yet, we’ve learnt so much already. We began by […] […]

On Friday 2nd October, Danes and Puddlebridge Classes spent the day in St. Albans. Our morning was spent visiting Verulamium Museum to support our learning about Roman Britain. During our […] […]

This term in history, we have been learning about the Transatlantic Slave Trade and about Thomas Clarkson who devoted his life to campaigning to abolish the trading of enslaved human […] […]

Today, Puddlebridge enjoyed their first Design and Technology day of the year. To support our learning about The Awesome Egyptians in history, we designed, made, and tested our own shadufs. […] […]

On Friday 14th November, Danes and Puddlebridge Classes enjoyed a visit to The British Museum. This supported their historical learning about the Ancient Egyptians. Our day began by exploring the […] […]

Haffydown took a fascinating step back in time when we spent the day as poor children at the British Schools Museum in Hitchin. We experienced what life was like in […] […]

In design and technology, we worked in groups to design and make an Egyptian shaduf. These were used by the ancient Egyptians to collect water from the River Nile to […] […]

We had a great day based on our learning about significant nurses in history. We had a visit from Florence Nightingale and we learned so much. We were able to […] […]

This term in history, we are learning all about the Ancient Egyptian Civilization. Our learning is helping us to answer questions such as ‘How can we discover what ancient Egypt […] […]

What a fantastic day we had celebrating VE Day together! On Thursday, 8th of May, our school was a sea of red, white, and blue as everyone came in with […] […]

In our recent art lessons, Puddlebridge have been diving into the world of perspective drawing, learning how to make flat images appear three-dimensional using clever techniques such as vanishing points, […] […]

Our art learning this half-term has enriched our historical learning about the Mayans. We began our learning journey with the learning question ‘What is perspective?’. We looked at a variety […] […]

We are going to learn about three queens; Elizabeth I, Victoria and Elizabeth II. There were some significant changes to the world that changed life for everyone during each of […] […]

As part of our learning in design and technology, we have worked in groups to design and make a Second World War Shelter. We learnt how to construct a jinx […] […]

Our first DT topic of the year went brilliantly. We used our prior scientific knowledge of circuits to help construct our own war planes that actually flew. We made a […] […]

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We had our class trip to Mill Green Water Mill Museum which linked with our history topic about The Great Fire of London. We enjoyed many activities including, identifying and […] […]

In our English learning this week, we have been looking at the effect personification can have in poetry. After watching a virtual reality video in an underground station during an […] […]

Puddlebridge and Danes classes had a wonderful day at Duxford Imperial War Museum.  The visit supported our learning about World War Two and The Battle of Britain. We started our […] […]

We will learn about how and where the fire started and why it spread so quickly. We looked at a picture that was revealed square by square and discussed what […] […]

We will be looking at toys from the Victorian era up to toys today. We will be investigating how and why toys have changed over time. […]

Haffydown had a brilliant day visiting the British School Museum in Hitchin to explore our local history unit – Joseph Lancaster. When we arrived, we were given aprons and caps […] […]

Our History unit in Haffydown this term focuses on our local history. Our learning has centred around Joseph Lancaster, a significant historical figure in education, who set up the Monitorial […] […]

On Wednesday 4th October, Danes and Puddlebridge classes spent the day in St. Albans. Our morning was spent visiting Verulamium Museum to support our learning about Roman Britain. During our […] […]

We are learning about three significant nurses that changed the way nurses and hospitals worked for the better. We are learning about Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and Edith Cavell. We […] […]

This term in history, we have been learning about the Transatlantic Slave Trade and about Thomas Clarkson who devoted his life to campaigning to abolish the trading of enslaved human […] […]

To kick start our new History topic about Alfred Russel Wallace, Haffydown went to visit Hertford Museum. Alfred Russel Wallace lived in Hertford and went to school there. He was […] […]

Having learnt about forces in science last half term, we were able to apply our understanding of levers in design and technology as we worked in groups to design and […] […]

In art, we have been developing our drawing skills. First, we experimented with different grades of pencil before focussing on how texture, shade and tone. After that, we looked at […] […]

On Friday 7th October, Puddlebridge and Danes classes visited the British Museum to support and enrich their learning in History. We had a fantastic day and were so very proud […] […]

Haffydown had the opportunity to visit West Stow Anglo Saxon village as part their history topic. The At the start of the day, the children had the chance to explore […] […]

This term our historical and geographical learning will be based around our topic, ‘Brave and Beautiful Britain’. During the first half term, we will be learning all about the Second […] […]