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Year 5 History

How can a settlement become a civilisation?

Year 5 have been learning about Ancient Greece as an Island Civilisation. They used what they have learned in other subjects to start thinking about where they would build settlements on their own islands - what's the best place to utilise the natural resources (like water, wood, stone, food)? They used a map of an imagined island to plan settlements, and then considered what they'd do if another group of settlers tried to invade! This made them remember back to what they had learnt about Romans, Vikings and Celts and their settlements and civilisations. They had some fantastic creative ideas for defence, as well as moving resources to create big cities - these are known as a megalopolis. They then found out more about Ancient Greece and have compared what life was like in the very different city states of Athens and Sparta.

 

The changing power of Monarchy in Britain

We have learned about Henry VIII and his reign and the changes he made to monarchy and religion in Britain. We travelled through the Tudor, Stuart and Georgian periods to understand who had an impact on what our parliament, government and monarchy looks like today.

How can we defend our island? 

The Second World War in Lakenham

We began our Second World War enquiry by visiting the Norwich Records office and looking at lots of local photographs and documents from the 1940s in Norwich.