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History
Autumn
What was life like in Tudor England?
This history unit focused on the Tudor dynasty. We learned to:
- Extract information about Henry VIII from portraits and written records.
- Use sources to make deductions about Henry VIII’s wives
- Identify primary and secondary sources, and begin to explore their reliability.
- Make deductions using inventories about the wealth and position of an ordinary Tudor person.
To introduce our topic, we visited the King Richard III museum in Leicester.
We toured the museum and saw the site where the body of King Richard was found after he died at Bosworth battle field. We also learned more about his life (and death!!).
Snowy Owls
Spring
What did the Greeks ever do for us?
In this history unit we will be learning to:
- Describe the features of ancient Greece.
- Identify the key periods in the ancient Greek civilisation.
- Make inferences about Greek gods.
- Research a Greek god.
- Compare Athens and Sparta.
- Understand the different types of democracy.
- Explain how Athenian democracy worked.
- Explain what philosophy is.
- Identify the achievements of the ancient Greek philosophers.
- Identify the ancient Greeks’ legacies and their impact.
To introduce our work on the ancient Greeks, Year 5 took part in a history day called- Its All Greek.
We got the chance to handle some genuine Greek artifacts, including a piece of pottery with an ancient finger print!!
We dressed up in Greek armour and did some Greek art. It was a great day.
Summer
What can the census tell us about local areas?
We will:
- Identify the type of information the census gives about people.
- Use the census to make inferences about people from the past.
- Create questions about Victorian working conditions and the thoughts and feelings of a Victorian working child.
- Identify and describe the changes between periods of time using the census.
- Use other primary and secondary sources to verify the data in a census.
- Use a range of sources, including the census, to build an understanding of a period.
- Describe the changes in the 1921 census.
- Plan a local history enquiry using the census.
