Well done to those children who correctly guessed the location of Mr. Clarke in the USA as part of the fortnightly Geography quiz! The home-made burger lunch went down a treat!
Humanities
Roman Towns in Year 4
This week we have also been summarising our learning about the Romans. We have such a huge range of knowledge about the Romans and their powerful empire since we have been researching them in our History lessons. This week, we learned about Roman towns. We also discussed and considered what makes a good historian and how we know so much about these Roman towns. We discovered that many cities today contain remains from Roman times.
Volcanic Eruptions in Year 4
In Geography and Writing this week, year 4 have been learning about the stages of a volcano erupting. This is going to help us with writing an explanation text about how a volcano erupts.
We started the week by learning about tectonic plates. We used this jigsaw to understand that where they meet is often where earthquakes and volcanoes occur. We demonstrated where volcanoes happen using a map and finally sequenced the events of a volcano erupting.
Year 3 Geography
We looked at advantages and disadvantages of living in a city.
Year 1- Remembrance Day
We have found out about Remembrance Day. Mr Honor joined our Year 1 assembly and told us about what he used to do before he joined Queen’s Hill.
Remembrance Assembly
Thank you to all those who joined us for Remembrance Assembly this morning. I think we can all agree that the Year 6’s presented themselves with the utmost respect and decorum for this special occasion. They have been working hard to learn their lines off by heart and deliver them to a huge audience with confidence and clarity. Year 3 pupils also created their own poppies and our school canteen kindly created special poppy cakes in recognition of remembrance day.
Well done Year 6 for bringing a tear to many an eye this morning! You should be very proud of yourselves.
In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Year 1 Christopher Columbus
We have found out more about Christopher Columbus this week. He was a brave explorer who sailed ships across the sea. He had to use special equipment to do this such as a compass and maps. He didn’t have google maps! He learnt to sail when he was very young. We wrote a certificate for him to celebrate some of these things.
Year 6 Historians
As part of The City of Norwich Aviation Museum’s outreach, Year 6 were able to explore World War Two primary and secondary sources by handling some interesting artefacts today!
When you do research, you gather information from a variety of resources. These can be defined as primary and secondary sources.
Primary sources give you direct access to the subject that you’re researching or learning about. They can provide you with a first-hand account of an event or time-period, represent original thinking and give you new information.
Secondary sources provide second-hand information and often offer explanations for primary sources. They analyse, interpret and restate information from primary sources.
Children looked at gas masks, a warden’s steel helmet and even a German incendiary bomb!
Year 1 Strange Arrival
A mystery suitcase turned up in the Year 1 classrooms at the start of this half term. We tried to work out who it might belong to. It turned out it belonged to Christopher Columbus. He visited our classrooms the next day. We thought about what a question is and then asked him some of these to find out who he was and what he did. We found out he was an explorer who lived a very long time ago. He sailed ships and discovered new places.
Y5 Viking Day
Jörmungandr Austr bought their enthusiasm for all things Vikings to our school and we had an amazing day of learning! The children learnt so much about the daily life of Vikings; they really enjoyed studying artefacts, learning shield manoeuvres and getting first hand experience of handling weapons. It certainly created a real buzz for our new history topic this half term and we can’t wait to get started.
