Category: Humanities

23rd April 21

On Wednesday the Year 2 children had a fantastic introduction to their new topic all about The Great Fire of London. Led virtually by Sir John Wilkins, an eyewitness to the Great Fire, the children were told about the key events that happened in September 1666 and learned several skills to help the people whose…

26th March 21

Year 1’s topic work this half term focused on the fictional tales of Katie Morag, written by Mairi Hedderwick. The children engaged well with the stories and enjoyed finding out about her adventures on the fictional Isle of Struay. As part of their English lessons, they worked across a range of genres including writing postcards…

19th March 21

Year 3 arrived at school looking magnificent in their Roman outfits with everything from slaves to senators, soldiers to generals. Throughout the day the children got to create four things from the Roman era. With Mr Martin everyone got to create a Roman mosaic looking at examples that have been preserved from across the Roman…

19th March 21

The year is 776BC in the city of Olympia, Ancient Greece where boys and girls have travelled from the depths of Harborne to explore what it is really like to be an Athenian in Ancient Greece. Would they leave the day as the next Olympian, a Greek Linguist or maybe even a Greek storyteller? With some armed…

19th March 21

Aztec WOW Day – Tuesday 16th March 2021, or in the sacred Aztec calendar, the tonalpohualli, eight deer of the flower, in the solar year of nine house! (Did you know that the Aztecs had two calendars? An agricultural calendar of 360 days plus five very unlucky days, and a sacred calendar of thirteen months, each…

19th March 21

On Tuesday, the children across Year 5 took part in a fact finding mission to learn all about the journey of a river. During the morning, the children were drip-fed information about the upper course of a river; learning how waterfalls are formed, what groundwater is and how a source is created. The children then…

19th March 21

  Dear Blue Coat Families, Global Recycling Day was yesterday on Thursday 18 March. This day was created to encourage us all to take action and to point out to the world leaders how much of a global problem recycling actually is. We must act now to protect our future; even though Global Recycling Day…

26th February 21

In Humanities this week, Year 1 have been learning all about the geographical properties of islands. They successfully sorted pictures based on whether they could see a body of land surrounded by water or not. Then, the children learnt all about where islands come from and what some of the different types of island are….

5th February 21

In Humanities this half term Year 1 have been learning about two historical figures that have had a positive influence on the nursing profession. Florence Nightingale was a British nurse who went out to the Crimean War to help the wounded soldiers. The children have looked at how she completely transformed the hospital making it…

29th January 21

As part of their Humanities topic on India, Year 5 have been exploring the wonderful world of India. Throughout the half term, the children have looked at locating India on a range of maps, explored the varying lives of people living in India and have also travelled to some of India’s famous landmarks. The children…