Skip to main content

Term 5 - History

Every time we start a new history topic, we think about where the civilisation or events are located in history - how far or close they are to other events we have studied, and what else was happening in the world when these events were taking place.

This term, we are learning about the Kingdom of Benin. Year 6 worked independently to organise themselves and their timeline cards into BCE and CE events, eras and civilisations, and then ordered themselves from the earliest date to the most recent. They showed excellent partnership and resilience in arranging the events and creating a living timeline! 

We were particularly interested to learn that the Kingdom of Benin roughly overlapped with the Tudors, especially as when we last talked about the Tudors (in Year 5), it was in the context of the rise of European Colonialism. We have explored this topic a little more in literacy lessons, learning about the Benin Bronzes and calls to return them to Nigeria. Our opinions on this are varied, and several children have reformed their initial opinion since learning how the bronzes were acquired. Watch this space for some persuasive writing about the Benin Bronzes, which will be coming soon!



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Term 6 - Writing

 In literacy lessons, we have been learning about part of S. F. Said's book, 'Phoenix'. We read an edited version of the first chapter, and over the next few weeks, created our own action stories based on that.
Post a Comment
Read more

Term 6 - Language Skills

Year 6 have been practising their -ant, -ance, -ancy and -ent, -ence and -ency spellings recently. One fun way we found to practise was by playing a matching game. Children had to turn over a word card and a definition card and see if they matched. If they did, the children had to try to spell the word without looking at the card. If they were correct, they kept the pair of cards. The winner was the player with the most pairs!
Post a Comment
Read more

Term 6 - Music Week

 For Music Week, we listened to 'The Carnival of the Animals'. Year 6 focused on 'The Aviary'. After discussing the piece of music, we looked at images of birds and then collaborated as a table to create our own bold, beautiful birds. Don't they look great?
Post a Comment
Read more