This term year 4 have been studying the Tudors, they have found it to be far more exciting than they ever realised history could be.
As year 4 just couldn’t get enough of the Tudors, we have created an online learning experience, where the children can complete activities, play fun games and extend their knowledge of the Tudors.
Above each image or title you will find some notes and links each of which, when clicked on, will take you to some terrific Tudor sites.
Year 4 had a very exciting vist from Sir John Radcliff, Mary and Ruth their housekeeper at Ordsall Hall.
Sir John, Mary and Ruth explained all about the Tudor Monarchs.
Then we played guess the artifact, which was lots of fun and very interesting.
What do you
think these items were used for?
We had lots of fun, but Sir John, Mary and Ruth had to return to Ordsall Hall to get ready for a banquet.
Before they left, Mary told us how Tudors used to get rid of bad smells.
They made pomanders, we decided to make some.
The children used oranges and cloves to make pomanders.
It was a bit tricky, but our classroom smells amazing!
Year 5 have been investigating what it was like to be a child during World War 2. We have been particularly focusing on what it was like to be an evacuee. Here the children are working as a group to develop an interview of an evacuee with each child taking on a role, either as an the evacuee, the interviewer or camera person. Keep watching for the interviews…….
Year 1 joined Year 2 and we all visited Quarry Bank Mill in the village of Styal. We spent the day there, looking round the Mill and the Apprentice House then, after lunch, walking across to see the cottages and church.
Before the holidays, Year 2 went to Quarry Bank Mill in Styal. We had a great day!
Year 3 have been learning about the Ancient Greeks. At the end of the unit we had our own Olympic Games and split into 5 teams Athens, Argos, Sparta, Conrinth and Megera 
The Olympic games begun at Olympia in Greece 776 BC.There is a four-year period between games. The games were staged in the wooded valley of Olympia in Elis. The greatest shrine was an ivory and gold statue of Zeus. Saskia
Olympics began at Olympia in Greece in 776 bc. The Olympics were held every four years they ran wrestling and boxing and long jump. The Olympics were a honour of zeus. Chloe
Once every four years, men from all over Greece came to compete in a great athletic festival in Elis, in western Greece (women were not
allowed). Because the games were to hard and you need to be strong and powerful. Jack W
What we did
The first challenge was to get the hoops round our team .Athens was 1stplace and my team was in second place and Corinth third place.Our second challenge was to get the ball though our legs and hands. The third challenge was to get cones like bowls and normal cones the each teams played verse other teams. First we versed Sparta Argos won [we won].We had a skipping race it was fun. THE FINAL CHALENGE was to run with the ball it was relay we had our results in class. Oliver
We hd a race with skipping ropes and I raced then it was time to play the cone game where you had to turn the cones over whilst the other team tried to turn them back. I came first.It was fun.Joao
First we played the hula-hoop game we needed to gat the hula-hoop around you and you can’t touch it, and played the ball game you got to get it over you and under you. And than we played the cone game and turned the cone around and then we played the skipping game and we skipped to the fence and back again, then we played the running game and we got a ball and we ran with the ball to the fence and back and give it to our players. Leyton S
It is great fun at the Olympics and I liked it. I was in Athens and I liked playing the game where we passed the ball over our heads and under our legs. I liked playing all the games. Jamie Lee
We had five flags they were called Athens Corinth Argos Sparta and Megara. The first game we played was you had to get in a circle and hold hands and try to get it over you Athens came first. The second game we played was you had to get in a line and person at the front passes it back by putting it underneath throw there legs and the person be hind will get it and put it over there head and it will carry on second to win was Corinth.Carell
At school we carried out a Greek Olympic games. We had five teams called Sparta, Argos, Corinth, Athens and Megera. We played with balls and ropes and we had flags and cones we had to work as a team and turn the cones around the right way the other team had to turn them the wrong way. Kieran
At the Olympics we played a lot of fun games and running races. Then we played jumping races and skipping races. Then we played a cone game and at the end we played a relay race Sonny
There was five different groups and we played some games and we sat down next to our flags. When we first got in the playground we stuck are flags in the mud on the ground. The games we played were skipping and over and under and also relay there were about six more games we played the Argos group played first and then they sat down whilst the others played the games. Natasha
Year 5 have been learning about World War 2 and the important people asssociated with it. They have created their own stories about what it would have been like to have lived through the blitz. The children enjoyed creating these stories and we have you enjoy them.
Jack and the air raid
It was a freezing cold night, it was 1942 and there was a destructing war going on between Great Britain and Germany. That night Jack was asleep and his parents went to the pub for a quick drink. But his parents got drunk and forgot about him and they heard an air raid siren go off so they ran to the shelter. Meanwhile he was still in bed cold, frightened and alone.
He had heard the siren and remembered what his teacher Miss Harris had told him “when you hear the siren wait 15 seconds so your eyes can get used to the dark”. So he did 15 seconds he waited he heard the plane engine getting louder and louder. he approached his parents room but as I turned the cold handle shakily he noticed his parents were not there, so he ran out side and headed to the nearest shelter, but on the way he saw his neighbour who people called Aunt Sally and said no no no why here she didn’t deserve to be bombed and nearly killed and he carried here to the London underground railway system and she said thank you, you are a real good boy and hugged him. He heard a bomb drop and he got really scared like any 10 year old would Aunt Sally was scared too. Then he heard a noise of a drunken singing couple, and he felt reassured. It was mum and dad so he ran up to them and hugged them and held them tight, he said “do not ever go to the pub and leave me alone” his mum said “what is Aunt Sally doing here” “I carried her here” I said “oh you are a good boy” and fell over on dad because they were really drunk. I just laughed and said “that’ll teach them not to leave me on my own and not go to the pub, well not in he middle of an air raid but when its over they will be in there every night” aunt Sal laughed and said “ don’t be cheeky but you are right”.
And I and my parents moved in a house with Aunt Sal. They moved to the country in a little village in Yorkshire because my mine and aunt Sal’s house has been blown up the house was a lovely cottage in the middle of Yorkshire.
By Jack
The Explosive Night
If you are reading this I am dead!
My story begins in 1940. I started to hear an explosion. But I just lay there. Finally I got out of bed. I went outside and before my eyes I saw total destruction.
I stepped outside in to the unknown. I saw planes flying above my head. Then I heard a cry for help. I ran to see. I saw someone trapped under the rubble and I started to help them. I didn’t feel scared and I just managed to pull the boy from the rubble just be fur a bomb was dropped. We ran for our lives.
We saw roaring fires and people running and we heard screaming. We turned around and we saw somebody trapped in the houses. A bomb was heading street for the house. It hit the house and then it exploded.
After the smoke had cleared, we saw the house was nothing more than tonnes bits of rubble. I felt really angry about what they were doing.
We kept running and the boy said to me thank you for helping me. We ran to the air red shelter and the we fell to sleep.
By Adam
Thursday 12th February 2009
The day the blitz started
One dark winter’s night in the centre of London, I was snuggled tightly and safely into my cosy bed. As I was sleeping I was tossing and turning. A second later I heard the wailing of a loud awakening noise approach. I awoken with a start and leapt right out of my bed. At first I heard the loud squealing of a siren. I crept slowly into my mothers and fathers room. The door screeched as I opened it slightly. Suddenly I heard a loud BANG! I knew for shore it was a bomb landing. I scurried into my mums room to see she wasn’t there ,I searched the house but the only thing I seen was darkness. Very calmly I walked out of the house. I seen the aeroplanes chasing me so I had to run as fast as I could, Luckily there was the warden he safely picked me up and carried me to the bomb shelter. As I walked down the steps of the shelter I seen my mother lying silently on the floor. I pulled her towards me and I felt her pulse, just then I burst into tears there was no pulse on my mum she had died. The warden tried to calm me down but I didn’t listen. After the planes had finished and there was nothing but blackness. The warden was so kind to me that he brought me up and he’s still with me today. I still live in the same house because it has all my memories there.
By Lauren
In Year 1 we have been learning about the children who worked at Quarry Bank Mill, Styal 200 years ago. We have pretended to be the children and we have written some letters home to our parents. Here they are:
Quarry Bank Mill
Styal
9/2/1809
Dear Mum and Dad,
I have been working hard in the Apprentice house. I am spinning and weaving and having good food. And we pick up cotton off the floor.
I am thinking about you.
Love from Vuyisile
Quarry Bank Mill
Styal
10/2/1809
Dear Mum and Dad,
I am working very hard in Mr Greg’s mill.
My job is to pick up cotton off the floor.
I am missing you.
love from Ellie.
Quarry Bank Mill
Styal
9/2/1809
Dear Mum and Dad,
I have to pick up cotton off the floor and fix any broken threds on the mule.
We have good food to eat. I have to do the pots and I had splinters in my feet.
Mr Greg lives in a posh house.
Love from Kieran xxx
Quarry Bank Mill
Styal
10/2/1809
Dear Mum and Dad,
I am working In Mr Gregs Mill.
We have beken butties for our dinner on Sundays.
We have Grool for brekfast.
We fix the brokn threds.
Mr Gregs house is posh.
On Sunday we get to go to church.
Love from Lily
Quarry Bank Mill
Styal
10/2/1809
Dear Mum and Dad,
I am working in the mill.
Mr Greg’s house is posh.
Mr Greg has a wig on.
Love from Demi
Quarry Bank Mill
Styal
10/2/1809
Dear Mum and Dad,
I work so hard at the mill and get splinters in my feet.
I miss my mum and dad
love from Alex
Quarry Bank Mill
Styal
10/2/1809
Dear Mum and Dad,
I am working hard in the mill.
It is scary in the mill becos the spinning mule will hert you.
Mr Greg lives in a posh house. In our garden we grow Food.
Love from Ethan
