Blog by Tag: History

As part of their work on the Great Fire of London, Year 2 visited Whitehaven Fire Station to find out more about the methods that were used to fight the fire and how it led to the creation of the Fire Service today. The children impressed Green Watch with their knowledge of how the fire started…

Nursery loved learning about and exploring all our different poppy stations this morning. During the minutes silence at 11am the children sat silently and watched a short animation clip called ‘Poppies’

Year 2 attended a short service at the War Memorial to commemorate Remembrance Day. The children respectfully observed a minutes silence before listening to a reading of a poem and being led in prayer by Reverend Becky. The class representatives for the Ethos Group laid a wreath before returning…

In history Year 1 have been exploring the different shops and services within their local area. They learnt to categorise the shops with the different supplies and services they offered. They enjoyed walking down Egremont mainstreet to investigate. Next they will use this information to compare…

In history year 1 are learning about ‘Changes within living memory’. In school the class have mapped the area around school.  At home these children created their own maps to show their local areas. Fantastic work everyone. 
 

As part of our history topic about our local area, Year 6 visited Egremont Castle. After our picninc lunch, we explored the area finding all aspects about the castle that we have been learning about in class e.g. motte and bailey, The Horn of Egremont. 

As part of our local history topic, Year 6 walked to their local iron ore mine to learn more about the influence of mining in their locality. They noticed how ‘red’ parts of the area is and recalled the ‘red men of Cumbria’. During our visit, we saw and handled some real authentic objects from…

Remembrance Service - Egremont Castle to commemorate D-Day. 06/06/1944

Year 3 had a great time at The Roman Senhouse Museum in Maryport today. They thoroughly enjoyed exploring Roman artefacts, altars, original jars, jewellery and coins from 2,000 years ago. They saw the remains of a Roman Fort and role-played market day in the Roman Forum. Some were citizens, some…

As part of a history topic on the history of Whitehaven, the Year 2 children visited the Beacon Museum then later moved on to The Rum Story. Alan from the Beacon Museum showed them some of the artefacts that have been found in Whitehaven from the past including some materials that came from the…

What an action packed day we’ve had in Windermere, extending our knowledge of the Anglo Saxons, the Vikings and the struggle for power! Our day consisted of making our own quills and ink and using these to write our names in Viking runes. Then we had a go at weaving using sheep wool - this was a…

I think we could have some budding actors in Year 6! Today Year 6 spent the day learning and rehearsing a play entitled ‘A Walk Through History’. At the end of the day, they performed it to the whole school. Well done Year 6!