This month is Black History Month and during their Topic lessons, Robins have been learning about famous black people throughout History.

As a class we have studied about Harriet Tubman.

During an afternoon Robins carefully created their own fact file or diary entry about Harriet Tubman.
Can you spot your own work?!

Robins have also worked hard to create a display board showing the learning we have done on both Black History and our value of the month Tolerance. To highlight what a wonderful and diverse class we are; we created a map showing where we are from. Doesn’t it look nice?! (don’t forget to leave a comment for encouragement 🙂 )

Extension: At home visit https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/true-stories-harriet-tubman/zbh8mfr to see how Harriet Tubman tells the story of her life and how she escaped slavery.

It’s been a while since we last updated our blog on the Greeks; that doesn’t mean we stopped learning about them!
Recently Robins have been researching all about democracy in Greece,

The Olympic Games.

and Greek Theatre.

It was very fascinating learning about the different types of plays, including:
Tragedies: The first type they invented was the tragedy. In tragedies, one or more major characters always suffered a disastrous end.

Comedies: In comedies, plays always had a happy end.

Satires: Satires were plays that made fun of mortal legends and of real people. In ancient Greece, you did not poke fun at the gods – not in a play, not in real life, not ever. But you could poke fun at your leaders. And that was uniquely Greek. Satires in ancient Greece were often political in nature, and could indeed affect people’s opinions about current events.

Robins used bullet points to record their findings. Below is an example.

After that, they had fun designing their own masks. Can you tell which are comedies and which are tragedies?

Extension: At home
Visit https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z87tn39/articles/z36j7ty to read more about “How did the Olympic Games begin?”
and https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zx67xnb to watch a video about Greek Theatre.

Did you know Ancient Greek art was an important part of the lives of the people.
Vase painting was important, and the pots would normally feature paintings of people or figures.
Vases were part of a way that the Ancient Greeks made money and artists would sell and trade vases to make a living.

Continuing with our learning about the Ancient Greeks. Robins have looked at the Ancient Greeks timeline and have been looking at images off artefacts to develop knowledge and understanding of Ancient Greece through historical enquiry.

By looking closely at Vases, Robins have been able to infer information from artefacts about what life was like in Ancient Greece.

For those of you who were not able to join us in this lesson, below is a summary of what we have discussed.

Have you had a chance to look at any more images of Greek Pottery? Let us know by leaving a comment!

After Claudius left he assigned a general to lead the army. The Romans found the Isemi tribe camp and whipped the leader with horrible insults. They took people for the army and stole from them. Boudicca (the Isemi tribe leader) wanted revenge so she went around Britain with 100000 army members and the Romans had 10000 so Boudicca thought she would’ve won the battle between them and the romans. When the time came the romans won by killing 80000 members of the tribe and only 400 from the roman army after that there were no more Britain invasions.

3 Facts
This all happened in 1 years time.
Boudicca was believed to have poisoned herself to evade capture.
The battle took place in the West Midlands.

By Callum F and Nashe

Year 4 really enjoyed their trip to the Bells Farmhouse. The children were able to learn lots of interesting facts about their local area and also make their very own high rise and Maypole.

They then finished the trip with a picnic in the classroom where they enjoyed delicious pizzas.

This afternoon, year 4 spent some time looking at photos from the past of the local area. The children really seemed to enjoy looking at these and were straight away making comparisons to what it is like now.

We then had a discussion starting with what we saw in the photos, before moving on to how things have changed. The children spoke lots about how they think the local area looks a lot neater now than it did before and seems to be more looked after.