Blog by Tag: History

We have been thoroughly enjoying our History lessons in Team Starlings this week, looking at the astonishing churches, hewn into rock thousands of meters above the ground! We saw worshippers take on the perilous journey, and marvelled at the beautiful artefacts found inside.

This week in History, team Starlings have been learning all about the Roman Town of Aquae Sulis, named after Ancient Roman God, Sulis. We have enjoyed learning all about the Roman Baths, and the importance of public baths to the Romans. Next week, we will be learning all about Hadrian's…

Rabbits have been in awe of learning some stories of our past! Such stories include, Robert the Bruce and the Battle of Bannockburn and the Gunpowder Plot. We have roleplayed different scenarios, used voice recordings to retell story boards and wrote diary entries about some historical events. The…

This half term in History, we have been learning all about the Roman Empire! We have heard all about how Julius Caesar was brutally murdered on the Ides of March, and have been hearing about other Roman Emperors, including Augustus Caesar, Nero and Claudius. We have enjoyed comparing the leaders…

This week we have been learning all about the first emperor of Rome - Augustus. We began by exploring how Octavian (Augustus), Julius Caesar's nephew, defeated Mark Anthony and Cleopatra and how cunning he was as he grew in power.

Our new topic in History is 'Stories about the past'. We have recently learnt about Robert the Bruce and the spider. 

We listened the story and discussed it and then we re-enacted it by freeze framing.

Team Meadow were transfered to a Victorian classroom in History to learn how life at school was different for Victorian children. 

This week in Team Starlings we have been learning all about the Roman Republic. We have learnt about what happened after the death of King Romulus, and learnt lots of new vocabulary! We heard about the many Kings of Rome, the loved and the not-so-loved, and about how the Romans decided to rid…

This week in History we have been continuing with our topic of the Roman Republic and, in particular, learning about why Rome became a Republic. Romulus was the first king of Rome and after he had died Rome continued to grow stronger with each new king. We know that Rome had 7 Kings. Tarquin the…

In History we have been learning about the past through our families. Our question this week was; How has fashion changed since our grandparents were young to now. We loved learning and looking at the all the different fashion trends throught the decades from the 20's right up until the present…

We absolutely love History in team Starlings, and have been very excited to dive headfirst into our topic of 'Alexander the Great,' this half term. This week, we have been hearing about the childhood and stories of Alexander of Macedon, in particular, his character trait of determination. Over the…

This week we have been continuing to learn about Philip of Macedon. Today we have listened to the story about the oracle at Delphi and how Philip was able to create the League of Corinth by uniting the Greek city-states. 

We were left on a cliff hanger at the end of the lesson and we are all…