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.
