What a week it has been already! Year 3 children have settled in so well and demonstrated their maturity and attitude towards their work. They could remember lots of their previous learning in History. They could organise events into living memory and beyond. #smithdownhist
Year 3 have had fun being Archaeologists this afternoon! We have been using a picking tool to remove the dirt, look at what we discovered! ? #smithdownhis #smithdowny3
What an exciting afternoon excavating some Ancient Egyptian artefacts! We all became archaeologists and discovered things like Howard Carter. We found some things that may have belonged to Tutankhamen. ⚰️?? #smithdownhist
This afternoon, 3KM have had so much fun learning about mummification in History! #smithdownhis #smithdownyr3
What ancient Egyptians believed about death? We used role play to become priests that would have preserved bodies and prepared them for being buried. We washed, pulled organs out, placed the body in salt, embalmed the body and then placed it into a coffin. #smithdownhist
4KM had a great history lesson this afternoon learning all about the Victorian classrooms and comparing them to modern day classrooms. The children finished off the lesson with some role play of learning in a Victorian classrooom!! #smithdownhist
We have started our WW2 topic by exploring who was involved, how it began and why. We made a double page spread to answer our enquiry!
We have created some beautiful poems after reading Flanders Fields and used watercolours/charcoal/pencils to create some poppy artwork to mark Remembrance Day.
For Remembrance Day, we read the poem ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ and after discussing the content, we embellished the poem with images of poppies.
2GH made some beautiful poppies to help us remember today.
We have been looking at evacuation and it’s impact on children during the war – we examined some sources and discussed what they were and their intentions! 
We have been investigating our first explorer Ibn Battuta in Year 2. We researched the countries he visited and how he travelled today.
We read some accounts of evacuation during WW2, comparing content and explaining what information and evidence each source provided.
We created our own versions of the Liverpool skyline one night during The Blitz in World War Two.
We worked hard in art today to make expressive collages of the Titanic.
We combined science with history with our TIME topic and looked at how tools to tell the time have changed over the years. We created a timeline of discoveries and measured out our own sundials with our protractors.
What a great day we had in Chester at the Deva Experience! We marched the streets of Chester and learned lots of interesting facts about the Roman Empire.
Super work creating our Bronze Age Bell Beaker pots. We created a similar shape and added patterns to them.
Year 5 had a fantastic time learning about Anglo Saxon and Viking daily life in Martin Mere. We learned how to weave, fight in battle, make a thatched roof and forage for medicine and food in the woods
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After learning about life in Ancient Sparta and Athens, we researched Greek schools and what would be taught in each. Following this, we presented our information in a poster ./ information page format. Hope you like them!
We are starting to learn about all the different styles, colours, shapes and uses of Ancient Greek pottery here in Y6.
Today we have recapped living memory and beyond living memory in History from year 1 and 2 topics.
Year 4 generated questions and predicted events around Roman artefacts.
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Some AMAZING entries for the Merseyside Police competition! Children have worked hard creating lovely pieces of work with great messages as well. Well done to everyone who has submitted already. Last day tomorrow (Friday 13th September).
WOW what an exciting afternoon! In history, the children learnt about Howard Carter and how he excavated ancient remains. The children then put their excavation skills to the test and uncovered some artefacts. They had great fun 🤩
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Year 3 all had a go at being an archaeologist and excavating some ancient Egyptian artefacts – just like Howard Carter!
Year 3 had a great afternoon applying their painting with scissors skills to some Ancient Egyptian paintings. We discussed the pictures and what we could see, using our art vocabulary. We then had the challenge of focusing on a small part of these images and then had to recreate this.
Year 3 had an amazing day at the Liverpool Museum. We gained so much knowledge about Ancient Egypt which will help as we continue to study this topic in our history lessons. Mohammed, Azad and Banu dressed up as embalmers and they mummified a fake Egyptian body. It was a great opportunity for the children to learn all about this and step back in time. 😊
Year 3 had a wonderful day exploring the museum and looking at the different artefacts from ancient Egyptian history. We walked the length of the River Nile and spoke about the process of mummification. We also watched some of our friends become Pharos!
Year 4 had “the best day ever” in Chester. We experienced life as a Roman soldier and learnt more about the Roman invasion in Britannia.
We used our skills and techniques we have been practising by replicating how Henri Matisse created his art. We applied this method to our Ancient Egyptian topic in History.
After learning about Remembrance Day and importance of the symbol of the poppy, we had time to sketch our own poppies using pencil and oil crayons.
Superstar 🌟sisters! Both have done work at home based on their current topics 👏. Well done guys.
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Huge respect in our class to recognise the soldiers that have fallen in the past. We did a minute silence in the morning and then created amazing poppy art work based on our art topic ‘painting with scissors’ in the afternoon.
We did our one minute silence. After, we used our sketching skills to create some Remembrance Day artwork.
Yesterday we had a great time at the International Slavery Museum. We had a workshop in the ‘legacies of the transatlantic slave trade’ and then had time to explore the museum with our task sheets. 
Some incredible examples of extra work done at home. I have loved seeing how passionate we are about negative numbers, Olaudah Equiano and Roman numeral – keep it up, we love proudly displaying your work!
Today we looked at different pictures of artefacts in museums around the world and how they were used during the transatlantic slave trade. We discussed the life of an enslaved person and the hardships they faced.
We have looked through all our clues for our upcoming book… Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly. We will be discussing new vocabulary such as racism, segregation, civil rights, controversy and many more! 
This is the question we are investigating in History this week …
We have been finding out exactly this! Along with research and presentation, some of us sketched our own pictures of Emmeline too!
We all collaborated to create cave art using charcoal. Combining art skills and history knowledge means amazing work!
Today, year 3 mixed their history knowledge on the Palaeolithic cave people with their art skills by recreating cave art with charcoal. The children worked like our artist Laura McKendry and completed a group activity on the floor. This allowed them to work on a bigger scale and move around their work.
Yesterday we used pictorial artefacts to investigate a mystery person. We generated questions and then answered them using the internet. Finally some children were hot-seated in role. 
We all practised our binca running stitch so that we are ready to create our 150 year celebratory bunting.
We had an amazing afternoon in our lion dancing workshop. Happy Lunar New Year! 
We had an amazing visit from a local archaeologist, Dr Hill, who brought with him so many artefacts from the Stone Age and Bronze Age. We had time to look at stone axes, arrow heads, tools and weapons made from bone and so much more!
Year 3 had a lovely afternoon learning even more about the Stone Age and being able to hold a variety of artefacts including, animal bones, types of rock, pictures and even seeing how people during the Stone Age created fire!
Reaching the end of our unit, we learnt how the voting situation changed for women. Those courageous ladies achieved their aim and helped shape society today.
We made art that we would find in Palaeolithic caves. We worked together and made our caves walls as realistic as we could.
Yesterday we looked at clues for our new book ’Goodnight Mr Tom’. We wrote predictions and today we discussed evacuations from cities to the countryside and arguments for and against. We invited in Mrs Ridley to walk down our ‘conscience alley’ to hear our reasons. 
We had the best morning using drama to learn about early civilisations, with a focus on Baghdad (Early Islamic Civilisations).
Thank you to AS Creatives for our workshop this afternoon focusing on Ancient Civilisations.
Today we used freeze frames to think about how people might have felt during the announcement of WW2. We looked at the different reactions in our book ‘Goodnight Mr Tom’ and compared different emotions. 
In groups we investigated a mystery object. What was it? What was it used for? 
Who would have owned and used it?
In groups we compared an artist’s depiction of an area in Britain in the 1830s to how it had changed by
the 1890s. We discovered the changes in landscape were due to the Industrial Revolution. We then learnt about 7 key changes and ordered them by importance using a diamond nine activity.
This half term we are learning about the Victorians, but we don’t want to forget what we have learnt about our previous topic on the ancient civilisation of Baghdad. So, we played a game called Quiz, Quiz, Trade. This game involves asking questions to see how much we have remembered. We did really well!
We explored the 1851 census before exploring life for the poor in Victorian Liverpool.
Today we had a visitor in to teach us about WW2. We trained to become special volunteer police officers and followed commands given in the war. We looked at Erie facts and even had time to role play.
This amazing piece of work was all done at home about WW2! I was so impressed with the amount of knowledge there was about so many different aspects of the war. SUPER WORK!
Using drama and freeze frame we demonstrated significant events/ information from the Victorian Era: Irish families escaping the potato famine, a Victorian classroom, the invention of the Steam Train and living in a workhouse.
We used freeze frame and role play to show our learning based on the Victorians. This was our final lesson about the Victorian era.
We absolutely loved going to Martin Mere for our immersive Viking experience. We took part in weaving, foraging, thatching and defending the village. 
Today, year 3 looked at a range of pictures and documents from our school, that are up to 150 years old. We discussed some of the events that have occurred over the last 150 years in Liverpool and plotted these on a timeline. We were all amazed at the changes in our school over the years, 📖🕵️♂️🔎✏️🏫
Our school is now over 150 years old! To celebrate, we are dedicating some work this week to look at our school through time and what events have happened during its time. We started off our week by looking at photos of “Chatsworth Street School” and the area around our school. Everyone was so excited and had lots of questions about our school.
We went to our “Smithdown Archive” today to look at the log books from Chatsworth Street School. Some of the books are nearly as old as our school so we took extra care looking at them.
We have worked super hard to create a scaled timeline of events in Liverpool and our school from 1874 to 2025. We added in things like when our school was created, the blitz in Liverpool, boys and girls merged in school and when our local mosque was built.
Amazing skills practised by Year 3 today! Continuing with our 150 year celebration, we used charcoal to create an image of our school from the 1960s.
We have been hunting for key features of our school building that is now 150 years old.
We have been looking at the features of our school building and creating a collage using various shapes.
In Reception we have talked about how our school building is 150 years old. We’ve looked at old photographs of the building and have drawn pictures of our school using photographs.
Today we enjoyed measuring the ingredients together and making school cake to celebrate our schools 150th birthday.🎁 🎈 🎉
Thank you to AS Creatives for another great workshop all 150 years of Smithdown.
We had AS Creative deliver a super session to link with our 150 years celebrations. Year 3 we’re looking at events through our school’s life, so in our session we focused on WWII. We did freeze frames to represent evacuation, rationing and the blitz. It was a great way to think about the children who would have experienced this event in our school in 1939-1945.
Yesterday we celebrated Eid. They produced beautiful posters related to how Eid has changed over the last 150 years (linked to our 150th school celebration).
In Reception we have been learning all about our school and it’s 150th birthday 🥳
We looked at old pictures of the children from our school – they were all in black and white.
We made a picture of Smithdown P.S to celebrate and printed with sponges using the school colours 🎨
Year 3 recreated two very old pictures today. Another interesting look at the past of our school.
We had a great walk around our school finding new and old parts of the buildings.
Year 5 loved their workshop for 150 years and learning about the history of our local area. 
Just a snippet of our fantastic artwork from Chatsworth Street School in the past and what it looks like now. 
We have loved learning about the history of our school since it was built in 1874. The past two weeks we have created timelines linked to the school’s History and the city of Liverpool, we have compared inspection reports from 1950 and 1964 with the present and we created old and new collages of Smithdown\Chatsworth Street school images.
What a lovely picnic this afternoon! A big, huge thank you to all children, parents and staff for all the work and effort everyone has put in for our 150 year celebration. Thank you everyone for coming to celebrate this afternoon.
This afternoon we had a fantastic time celebrating and eating delicious food with all of our families at school.
We have started our new history topic of Ancient Greece and for few minutes this afternoon, we had a go at sketching Zeus.
We really enjoyed looking at the old school logbooks last week. There was even an old trophy!
In History this week, we looked at what happened to the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings. We learnt about what happened up to 1066 then the fight for power between 4 potential kings. We split up into Edgar Atheling, Harold Godwinson, Harald Hadrada and William Duke of Normandy. We had a very lively discussion about why they think they should be king and debated against the other teams. The children were brilliant and Edgar Atheling was our class winner (even though in the past it was originally Harold Godwinson then William Duke of Normandy). 
A big thank you to all our families that have helped create some art work based on the Titanic. We were blown away by all your efforts.
We had a wonderful day yesterday celebrating 150 years of our school. The children loved playing traditional birthday games 🎁, having a boogie 💃🕺and they all enjoyed some ice cream 🍦
Smiles all round!
We had so much fun taking part in our schools birthday celebrations. We had a visit from the ice cream van , played party games and enjoyed birthday cake.
We had so much fun celebrating our schools birthday celebrations. We had a visit from the ice cream van, played party games and enjoyed birthday cake.
What a day! We had party games, cake and presents for our school turning 150 years old. Happy birthday Smithdown 🎂 🎁 🎈
We have started looking at different lessons that both have links with Ancient Egypt. We’ve spotted lots of clues that suggest we will be looking at this topic this term.
We gathered all our thoughts and ideas about what we know already about Ancient Egypt! Great ideas and pictures Year 3.
What a super day out! We mummified a body, spoke about what the Ancient Egyptians would have done with dead bodies and went on a scavenger hunt to find information out about the Egyptians.
Great work using Matisse’s style to recreate some Egyptian pictures. We only used scissors and glue. Our cutting skills are getting better, well done Year 3.
Year 4 had a wonderful day at the Deva Roman Experience in Chester. We collected our shields and weapons before stepping back in time to Roman Britain. We walked the streets of Chester and battled with our ‘enemies’ The children learned a lot of new facts about The Romans, including what they ate and how they went to the toilet. The children loved it!
We have looked at sketching parts of a chosen picture to focus in on different sections. We are getting ready for next week, when we’ll be recreating our chosen picture using the painting with scissors technique.
We all became archaeologists for the afternoon excavating and finding ancient Egyptian artefacts. We spoke about what we learn from the things that can be found, which are thousands of years old.
We are planning our instructions for how the Ancient Egyptians would have mummified a body to preserve it.
Great effort on our final piece in art. Painting with scissors has been a great skill Year 3 have gained over the last term. No pencil markings, just free hand cutting. Everyone has become more confident with this technique and we have some amazing collages of some Ancient Egyptian art work.
We loved investigating (and playing) with toys from the past.
Year 3 have started Remembrance Day by focusing on some art work that uses paint, fabric and stitching. When they are dry we’ll add some stitching on them to add colour and texture.
Year 2 had a beautiful remembrance morning. We wrote acrostic poems and created some beautiful poppy artwork.
After learning about life in the trenches for the soldiers in WWI, we wrote (in role) letters home to our loved ones …
To think about those who have lost their lives, we created some rhyming poetry. We based our poems on poppy fields, just like our art work.
In Reception we remembered the events of the past by making poppies and watching a rabbit animation.
Last week, Y5 created art work using setting descriptions from our class text ‘Goodnight Mr Tom’. We highlighted key phrases then accurately tried to recreate the wonderful village from WW2. 
Today the children had to remember their own information about propaganda used in WW2 to share with their tables. The children enjoyed being their own teachers for the lesson! 
In Year 5, we have been designing our sets for Goodnight Mr Tom, either based in Little Weirwold or London. The children did a fantastic job of thinking of the different dimensions and what props they will be designing. 
On Friday we learned so much about space and how Neil Armstrong explored the moon. We also used teamwork and communication skills to recreate images about space .
Today we have learnt why Britain rationed during WW2 and why it was so important. Firstly, we guessed how much food people were allowed. We have created rationing posters to convince others! 
Just a few of our amazing art work from Year 5. using layering to create an effect for Remembrance Day. 
