History Archives - St. Mary's RC Primary and Nursery School

Y4 History Trip the GMP Museum

Year 4 enjoyed a trip to the GMP Museum on Friday, where they were able to extend their learning of crime and punishment, which is the topic that they are focussing on in History. At the museum, through looking at historical documents and photographs, we were introduced to Owen, a real Victorian thief and followed him through the charge office, cells and courtroom on a justice journey. We learnt about what would have happened in a Victorian Police Station, how it might have felt to spend a night in a cell, and finally followed the case to court, working together to decide on the sentence. We also discovered more about Victorian policing and investigated the life of the ‘Peeler’. The children had great fun trying on different uniforms and handling different artefacts that would have been used by police officers! As a class we were then judged by the museum staff on whether we would be good enough to join the Victorian police force.

Y4 History – Crime and Punishment

In History, Year 4 have continued to look at crime and punishment. In class this week we learnt all about what this looked like during the Tudor period. The children found out lots about common crimes that were committed during this time and enjoyed learning about some of the gruesome punishments that criminals received! They then compared this to their knowledge of Victorian crime and punishment and as a class we debated over which period we thought crime and punishment was most just.

Year 3 Hard at work…

Year 3 continue to lead the way with their exceptionally hard work. Raymond has been working hard learning about the parts of a plant and keeping up with his RE work; at home Connor has been concentrating really hard and produced some brilliant work; whilst Fern has written a wonderful poem about walking in the PE district; Logan and his brother Hadley made decorations to celebrate VE day, which looked wonderful and Noah has been learning about British inventions, heiroglyphics and keeping up with his reading. Well done to all of you.

VE day poem

Year 4 have put together a wonderful video to celebrate VE day last Friday. The children performed the poem VE Day by Angel Barrow. It was beautifully read and put together and was an excellent tribute. Well done to all involved. All the staff at school are very impressed with your efforts and are very proud of you all.

Video – Year 4 VE day poem

Anne Frank’s diary

Anne Frank’s diary has been the topic for Isabella. She has put a lot of time and effort into creating a very detailed timeline of Anne Frank. She has also researched her life and read parts of her famous diary and wrote about her life. Very detailed and interesting work.

VE Day celebration

Jessica and Mollie have been hard at work learning about WW2. To help celebrate the girls decided to organise a ‘Stay At Home Street Party’ to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the end of the war. They wrote a letter and posted to their neighbours to encourage them to remember our heroes. they even had a reply from one of their neighbours. We think this is a wonderful idea girls and would love for you to let us know how your party goes. Well done.

Year 1 have been very busy…

Some more brilliant home learning this time from the children in year 1. They have been finding out Eugenie Clark and the fascinating underwater creatures, producing magnificent artwork in the style of Kadinsky, finding out about old toys by asking Grandparents what they used to play with in the 1960s

and getting well under researching everybody’s favourite food for their science work. Miss Davies is extremely impressed with your hard work. Keep it up.

Eugenie Clark Information Video

Brilliant Home Learning

Isabella and Jasmine continue to be busy keeping up with their home learning. Isabella has produced a fantastic report all about St. George, whilst Jasmine has been finding out where our food comes from. Well done girls and keep up the hard work.

Year 5 Home Learning

Children from year 5 have been hard at work this on their home learning. Matteo has again been hard at work on his maths, English and keeping up with his times tables. Beth has produced some fantastic art work in the style of impressionist artist Monet. Finally, Amelie has made a model of a Mayan god along with a sign to show how much she misses everyone at St. Mary’s.

Heiroglyphics and Garden Grow

More fantastic work from year 3 who have been investigating and drawing how your garden grows and writing in heiroglyphics and drawing maps of Egypt. Mrs Farrell is so impressed with your brilliant work and enthusiasm. Keep it up.

Plants, seeds and St. George

More brilliant examples of home-learning from the children of St. Mary’s who are getting thoroughly involved with the work set on the school website. From planting and observing seeds, looking at the differences between leaves and also finding out about our patron saint to celebrate St. George’s day. Fantastic work by all of you. Keep it up and keep the pictures coming in.

Free tours of Egyptian tombs

Sites from around Egypt are offering free tours of the the Egyptian Tombs where a range of Pharoahs were buried. This may be especially useful to year 3. Follow the link below have a look.

Virtual Tours of Egyptian tombs

Being creative in a range of subjects

Chatterpack; A huge list of free resources and websites, including mental health support; https://chatterpack.net/blogs/blog/list-of-online-resources-for-anyone-who-is-isolated-at-home
Powerpoint which includes lots of useful resources for parents to use at home
Seneca; https://www.senecalearning.com/
BBC Bitesize; http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize

Free education subscriptions

Below is an entire list of websites offering free subscriptions due to the school closure

2Simple

AdmitHub

ABCMouse/Adventure Academy

ALBERT

Alchemie

American Chemistry Society

KET’s PBS Learning Media

Minecraft: Education Edition

Year 5 Bronte Museum

Year 5 enjoyed an eventful day at the Bronte Museum, Haworth. After an eventful journey the children finally arrived ready to undertake their day. However, due to the adverse weather conditions their moorland walk had to be cancelled. The children did not let this dampen their spirits though. They had the opportunity to look around the Bronte Museum and discovered the places where Charlotte and her family grew up. Also, they performed a drama workshop acting some scenes form the book Jane Eyre which they have been studying in class. Despite the weather, the children had a fantastic day and it helped to bring the novel to life for them.

Year 2: The Lowry Art Gallery School Trip

This week Year Two went to The Lowry Art Gallery. The children particularly enjoyed a special workshop where they studied the famous LS Lowry painting – Going to the Match. They then used Lowry’s techniques when drawing buildings and produced some fantastic pieces of Art work! The children also had an opportunity to look around the Art Gallery and expertly completed a tricky quiz. Well done Year Two!

Shrove Tuesday – St Joseph’s Penny

As part of our charity work to support the ‘St Joseph’s Penny’ appeal, we decided to sell pancakes at break time as a way to celebrate Shrove Tuesday, before we start our journey through Lent. St Joseph’s Penny is a very important charity that supports vulnerable children and families in our local community. We enjoyed our pancakes especially sprinkled with sugar and lemon juice – delicious!

Mayan Feast

After studying the Mayans for a number of weeks =, Year 5’s work has culminated in them getting to try out some recipes similar to those the Mayans would have eaten. This included eating totillas made from corn (as maize was a staple of the Mayan diet), making a salsa and getting to try an ancient Mayan recipe for hot chocolate which included, cinnamon, honey and chilli!

Roman Workshop

On Monday, Year 4 were extremely lucky to have a Roman soldier visit their class to tell them all about what life was like over 2000 years ago. With a classroom full of artefacts and many thrilling tales, the soldier had them enthralled by describing what the Romans were actually like and how they invaded and took control of over 30 countries. They learnt how the Roman empire was formed, about different types of soldiers, the jobs they did and what armour they would have worn. They had a fantastic time!

Year 2 Time Traveller Workshop

Year 2 had a fantastic time learning about Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong on Tuesday morning through their time travelling guide. The children particularly enjoyed acting out the port of Genoa, travelling on a ship, and exploring new lands. They were then able to apply this to what they know about Neil Armstrong and learnt how the two explorers were very similar despite being many years apart. At the end of the session the children were made honorary time travellers.

Year 4 Trip to Standedge Tunnel

On Wednesday, the children enjoyed a trip to Standedge Tunnel. They learnt about the different features of a river, and constructed their own river model. The children also learnt about how canals were made and made their own canal models. Lastly, they really enjoyed a boat trip through Standedge tunnel which is the highest, longest and deepest tunnel in Britain.

Year 6 Trip – Air Raid Shelters

After an extremely busy week of SATs, where every child in Year 6 worked incredibly hard, class 6S went on a well-earned trip to Stockport Air Raid Shelters to find out what life was like for children during the Blitz of late 1940.

Dressed in period clothing, carrying gas masks and their lunches in brown paper bags, they arrived at the shelters as evacuees where they were shown around the underground tunnels that kept thousands of people safe during the war. After the tour, which also included an experience of total darkness and many opportunities to sing war-time songs, they headed over to the museum to handle real artefacts and to find out how to ‘make do and mend’ in a 1940s house.

Their behaviour was fantastic and they were a credit to the school

Year 5 Trip to Manchester Museum

Year 6 Viking Workshop

Year 6 enjoyed a very exciting morning when a Viking came to visit to explain what that time period was really like. Not only did the children get to observe how fires were made and try on the extremely heavy, chainmail armour, they also learn about how they lived and why they were such successful travellers, traders- and also raiders too!

RAF Cosford – Year 6

Year 6 had a fantastic trip to RAF Cosford as part of their topic work on The Battle of Britain. The children had the opportunity to look at artefacts from WW2 and learn about pilots from the war. In addition, they had the opportunity to look at a variety of aircraft both from the modern era and also planes that took part in The Battle of Britain itself, including the oldest surviving Spitfire. The children had an excellent day and their behaviour and enthusiasm was outstanding.