Our church has already signed up for Heritage Open Days in September - watch this space for more interesting venues that will be open  

 Where in Southport is this sculpture?

Who does it remember? 

Year 5 and the annual

Anne Frank workshops 

History Ambassadors with Year 4 - examining artefacts

Questioning the traditional view of the past

Were the Vikings really all vicious?

Big Picture News

All classes use this regularly and it often supports our history learning - Getting us to be aware of how things used to be

Questioning if we should change how things are

Or celebrating milestones - as in the David Attenborough at 100 below

Other topics in recent Big Picture News 

Sharing our expertise - examining artefacts

Questioning the traditional view of the past

Is it fair to call Saxon times The Dark Ages?

 Woodlands Care Home

This is living history!

Pupils get to talk to people who have lots of memories to share

Holocaust Memorial Day

See below for what we shared with the juniors

A local Southport resident -

Harry Kessler-

with a story we can all learn from

Saved by a chance meeting from the events of the Holocaust in their homeland

Harry was born in Vienna in August 1930. He lived in an apartment in the city with his parents, Frank and Anni and was an only child. Harry was born in Vienna in August 1930. 

On the 12th March 1938 Hitler and the Nazis were welcomed into Austria, this was the Anschluss. Despite this Harry remained at his Jewish school. His father finally had to leave work but, as he had retained his Czech nationality, the family could leave Vienna and go to Czechoslovakia.

They decided to try and make a new start in Brno. In Czechoslovakia, they again found themselves under Nazi occupation, but it was possible to leave the country legally with the right mass of paperwork.

Harry’s father managed to get all the documents they needed except an affidavit from someone in the country to which they were going, taking full financial responsibility for them.

In May 1939 however, Harry’s family arrived in England with 30 shillings, no knowledge of the English language.

How?

An English couple they had met on holiday several years earlier agreed to take responsibility for them if they came to England - without this they would not have been allowed to leave. The Jones family from Chester took them in and looked after them - they welcomed them when the world was turning against them

Sharing history texts with the class - book reviews of the series

You Wouldn't Want To Be...

History Ambassadors- acting as history buddies with reception children

Here they are working with reception pupils – having fun whilst developing key history skills

Months of the year jigsaw – chronology – ordering months of the year discussing seasons and change

Memory game – looking carefully and remembering

Who Dunnit? A book which gets children to look at the clues

Spot the …looking carefully at what is in front of you!

Remembrance 2025

Exploring our town's links and those of diverse people from across the globe

We have begun to put our display together with photos of pupils visiting our town war memorial during half term and poems about the diversity of service in war

Local history trip - to investigate links to remembrance in our local cemetery

Investigating our school history

Local history trip - what can a walk to the local cemetery reveal?

Post boxes - this one from the time of George VI -

Impressive grave stones/memorials showing the wealth and importance of local families -

A memorial to the Mexico Lifeboat disaster of 1886 - how our community has served those in danger at sea

Jewish graves - showing a different style of remembrance

Our Black History Month

display shows

Year 6 presenting

Reception's diversity hands

Year 4's positive flowers

History Ambassadors presenting to Year 6 to start

Black History Month

- using the example of Ruby Bridges a voice for equality in the USA

Some of the materials we are using to explore

Black History Month 

 Year 5 - Historical turning point:

The Tudor Era

Pupils are using their class library books to research their history topic and learn more about the features of non- fiction texts.

We have set a challenge to go to the library in town and send us a review  - this could be a video or PowerPoint.

Here are some of the books on offer

We joined with our church to take part in the heritage open days putting on a display about some of our school history based on our log books

The Heritage Open Day at church-

A chance to get up close with our stunning stained glass

See below for a link to local woman Sylvia Gore...a football pioneer

 Our new History Ambassadors

promoting the Southport Heritage Open Days

All year groups continue to use

No Outsiders

Giving everyone the time to learn and reflect on what our community is - where it has come from - how we can shape its future

This is exactly what history is - learning from the past to make the present better

 Our new History Ambassadors-

We've already been learning about Ruby Bridges ready to present for Black History Month

History shows us that we all 'stand on the shoulders of giants' - the pioneers who did things first

 I love this image of Kamala Harris - the artist has cleverly given her a different shadow

Why?

 Our own politicians are now far more diverse than they used to be!

Once they were ALL rich white men!!!

In my lifetime we have had the first women as Prime Ministers and the first Hindu Prime Minister.

 Lets get out and about in our town - seeing inside buildings and finding about their history - take some photos and share them with us

Welcome to the new school year - 2025-2026

See above here for all we do!

Year 6 are leaving us - and playing their last Histingo game

Southport Top Trumps - a great new game for us to play!

We trialled it with year 3 - most had never played Top Trumps before - so even the style of game was history for them!

The cards have lots of history information on about the buildings in the area. 

Recruiting new History Ambassadors - sharing History reading

with their class

Reading - researching and revisiting:

The Vikings - not so vicious after all

Let's add our voices and stories to the Missing Pieces project below

Below is a link to Historic England which allows you to search for images of pretty much any area in England

Learning how history is revealed in buildings -  Liverpool's story

All our classes have had their class timelines for several years now - our new addition  is a fold out timeline for every book

Sharing more of our history reading 

Horrible Histories, The Lady Grace Mysteries, a book about Anne Boleyn and a fabulous cross section book - The Samurai Castle 

Year 4 and Year 6 - discussed the new film version of

How to Train Your Dragon

 Although it is a fantasy series of books and films- it is set in a historical setting - pupils were very clear that there should not be horns on the Viking helmets! 

We agreed it was good to see a positive portrayal of disbability in the hero Hiccup - that has been out there for over 20 years in the books and cartoon series

 Linking current events to history and diversity

Wimbledon

The hottest opening day on record!

Role models from history- the first black women to dominate the game of tennis

Euros 2025 with Year 3, 4 and Year 6

A lot of people did not know that this competition was beginning

The women's game has come a long way but maybe not as far as we thought! So we looked back at

Lily Parr - a local woman who played for Preston

Linking with a secondary school 

Food Technology with a History flavour!

In 2023-4 we began to visit Christ the King High School and we returned again recently 

Here are Year 6 making trench stew - this time using stale bread to bulk out the stew - and corned beef from a tin - an item that did not go off in this situation without refrigeration

 History Ambassadors

visit Reception , Year 1 and Year 5 with their play about the Victorian seaside

VE Day Anniversary - 80 years

We had a tea party after school attended by friends and relatives and people from our local community.

There was 1940s music, scones and our local history exhibition.

We had great feedback from visitors - most had no idea that there had been bombing in Southport during the war and that there had been 17 fatalities. 

We took our exhibition to Tesco and church too! 

We now visit Woodlands Care Home quite regularly - 

Here are some videos from the pupils about their visits as well as more photos

Most recently we took history artefacts so that we could ignite their memories and learn from them

All subjects have history to them! 

We highlight this and try to ensure diversity in who we learn about

Art - pupils study lots of artists from the past

Here is Matisse in his later years doing his art from his wheelchair

Beatriz Milhazes from Brazil mixes Brazilean history folk traditions with modern images

English -lots of history links - here is Year 4 poetry from Maya Angelou - a civil rights activist and Y2 learning about The Great Fire of London

Geography - goes hand in hand with History - our trips are often combined

Design and Technology - year groups research, design and create products linked to their history topics 

Maya headdresses- Tudor maquettes-Roman shields- Stone Age jewellery - Fire of London houses - Yellow submarines 

PE - all sports have a history!

Using drama to explore history - 

Science - links to the past - all the great discoveries and inventions happened in history! We tend to learn about the men because they had so many more opportunities in the past compared to women

French - we learn about French traditions such as epiphany - about the pilgrimage site of Lourdes

Music - all music comes from the context of the time it is produced and our Charanga scheme makes this clear e.g. - we can trace a lot of our popular music back to the days of The Atlantic Slave Trade 

1970s disco grew from the underground gay scene in the USA

Protest has often used music

RE -the Bible is an historical document - all faiths have a history - our trips often combine RE and History

Exploring history fact books again

Significance -

how to see IF an event is significant -

World War Two and VE Day

See the PowerPoint below

 Pupils research what happened here in Southport

during World War Two - to create our VE Day display for

parents, local and church community

VE Day memories 

Pupils visited our local care home where they interviewed some residents who have memories of World War Two

 May 5th -11th is Deaf Awareness Week -

see the links below for

The National Deaf Children's Society 

and some links to

role models from history 

https://www.ndcs.org.uk/get-involved/become-more-deaf-aware/deaf-awareness-week/

Pupils use the links to find out about role models from the history of deaf people and to match up names to what makes them famous

May 2025 -

our local history focus is VE Day

We are inviting parents to our VE Day cream tea event

Where we will share our local history research

This display will move to the church for the following weekend

And then be part of the community day on May 17th 

Getting ready for VE Day 

See the link below for news of a great competition run by

10 Downing Street

Woodlands Care Home

Beginning our research into war memories and sharing a craft activity 

Reception Class cover lots of 'history' looking at past and present and developing skills of looking carefully at clues and number patterns that will help with chronology and inference. They learn about different cultures and traditions and they learn about  changes over time in stories and seasons.

 Our History at The Atkinson

Selfie Challenge Display 

Some  great figures from history have been neuro diverse! 

The Atkinson Selfie Challenge February Half Term 2025 Results

Well done to everyone who sent in their selfies for our Atkinson Challenge - winners are in the newsletter

Look out for this reminder of International Women's Day

History Ambassadors continue to work with younger children to  develop the skills that will help them in history 

We have jigsaws for chronology - spot the difference to develop observation and history detective skills - Who ate the ice cream? to focus on inference skills 

Responding to our History Quality Mark for further improvement

Ensuring challenge in our project work- in Year 6 we direct pupils toward a more challenging task of comparing The Ancient Maya to The Ancient Egyptians

In Year 5 pupils chose between different ancient civilisations - and therefore worked more independently

Personal stories = personal histories

Turning Disability into Possibility

Bart Gee

We feel honoured that Bart visited us and shared his inspirational story with us.

History has not been kind to 'disability' - we can learn from the mistakes of the past

Diversity - World Book Day 

Exploring history fact books Y 3 + Y4

Looking for features -

Contents page

Index

Glossary

Timeline

Fact box

Again we drew attention to this event - showcasing positive images of 'disability' and being inspired by those who have served our country 

See below for our annual February half term challenge - full letter beneath

Holocaust Memorial Day

80th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz 

See below for some photos of our remembrance led by History Ambassadors 

Finding out how our town links to the events of the Holocaust - preparing for

Holocaust Memorial Day 

The Jewish area of our local cemetery has stories that mention Auschwitz and children who were sent here to escape persecution

Pupils investigate our local area - clues on houses and post boxes! 

Inspired by - 

From the post boxes we learned to date them by the inscriptions of who was king or queen at the time

We discussed how important post boxes used to be- how the penny post revolutionised communication for more ordinary people in 1840

How important letters and postcards were before people had phones

From the delapidated phone box - how important public phone boxes were before mobile phones...and how unimportant they are now

From local houses - looking for dates to see how our town grew: very rapidly in Victorian times 

What can we learn from a cemetery?

pupils investigate -

and find out about war graves and the Mexico Disaster Memorial 

We looked at the impressive family memorials and

the use of religious symbols such as crosses and angels - IHS 

Our team of History Ambassadors has grown - 

 The Anne Frank Trust

  worked with us again 

Using the past to help us live better lives here and now -

as agents of change for respect and equality

We are also pleased to announce that one of our pupils has been accepted on the national

Anne Frank scheme as one of their ambassadors

  We aim to celebrate diversity - and explore how figures from the past can inspire us to make the world a fairer place 

 History Ambassadors and Worship Warriors do great work visiting Woodlands Care Home - it benefits everyone to have this kind of contact and sharing. Here are a few photos from the Summer D Day and into the Autumn heritage project

Responding to our History Quality Mark feedback

Linking with a secondary school

Pupils visit to share with us aspects of history and different faiths

History detectives - Y5 don't just accept what they see is true

Examining the evidence

Finding out about a diverse past

 Our group poems for Remembrance and Black History

 Big Picture News whole school assembly for Black History -

Be proud of who you are

 Black History Month has begun

History Ambassadors

have led a session to draw our attention to agents of change who have fought for respect and equality

See below for a selection of our remembrance stories...including those who supported the war effort in the Land Army and also those serving in recent times

Thank you to all those families who sent in family stories for us to share on Remembrance Day.

We observed a minute's silence whilst Miss Samuels played The Last Post and put up displays in school and for our church family to see too.  Year 6 wrote poems and speeches to draw our attention to all those who served from across different religions and countries - also the important role of women - and even animals!

Remembrance

We've been busy selling poppies

We've talked to our families to find our own stories linked to remembrance

We will share these stories with church and with each other

Developing our sense of chronology - eras in chronological rand a sense of their different lengths

Responding to our History Quality Mark advice for improving further

Promoting wider reading for pupils linked to their history topics - here is what the local library offers

Pupils sharing their reading - some are non-fiction fact based history books; others are fiction.

We have been more proactive in directing pupils to wider reading from our school libraries

We've begun to pre teach for those who benefit from this by having their daily reading from history books that match our topics and by getting others to read ahead and act as class experts

2024 to 2025 is above here! 

2023-2024

Celebrating Lilian Bader

We start the year with the great news that we are winners for the second year running of the Black History Month Competition 

Merseyside Police run a competition for Black History Month

Our winning design is on a police van for the next 12 months

It shows Lilian Bader the first black woman to join the women's RAF in World War Two - and a local woman too - who spent her life as an activist for equality.

We have a new team of History Ambassadors

They area already sharing their love of history across the school

They have been trained to work with younger pupils at lunchtime using games and books to help develop understanding of chronology -

Also their noticing and memory skills

We are also working on a presentation for Black History Month

The Invictus Games 2023 - Dusseldorf in Germany

Year groups took time to highlight these games - part of our history - linked to remembrance - showing diversity 

Leading worship for Black History Month

We focussed on Ruby Bridges - being inspired by people from the past who dared to do things differently -

to make our world more just

Royal Visit

War Memorial Centenary 

Staff and pupils were part of this very special day

They welcomed Princess Anne

to the rededication of our town's magnificent

war memorial 

We remember the past - to help make the future better 

We support local events linked to history

This one links to diversity too

Polish Day at our local arts centre

Pupils visit

our local cemetery

We learned so much

From the graves stones -

How much people wanted their families to be remembered - how rich some families were

How some families clearly expected more names to be added to the stone than actually happened - did their children move away?

How young many were when they died - babies and children sometimes from the same family

From the monuments -

War memorials - to both wars

To those in the forces and to others in support roles such as the Labour Corps

Identical Commonwealth War Graves - to give an equality in death to those who served whatever their rank

The Mexico Disaster - our local tragedy that became national and international fund raiser. 

1886 - 27 died trying to rescue The Mexico

It became the first ever street fund raiser  -to support those left behind - Queen Victorian and The Kaiser contributed

https://rnli.org/about-us/our-history/timeline/1886-southport-and-st-annes-lifeboats-disaster

From the Jewish section

How numerous the Jewish community has been in this area

How there are graves stones that link Southport to kindertransport and Auschwitz

There used to be two large Jewish synagogues in our town  - one of the large buildings is still used; the other has become a spa

Thank you to our History Ambassadors

who have been visiting classes to share their expertise on the Romans 

This pre-teaches the younger classes and

acts as a revisit of prior knowledge for Y5 and Y6.

 
Visit to Liverpool

We visited one of the oldest churches in Liverpool and pointed out its history ... for example a cross made out of a wooden beam charred from the Liverpool Blitz. We looked at the Blitz memorials outside. 

Holocaust Memorial Day January 2024

Our History Ambassadors led our class worship on this – and in the rest of the junior classes

We linked in British Values – how we live where we are free and where our laws promote respect and tolerance.

We learned about Southport’s connections to events in the 1930s – Jewish refugees who were welcomed here – people who welcomed them

Our local Jewish cemetery

We thought about how the Bible teaches us to love – to show kindness especially to those who are far from home

 Easter Experience -

lots of history as we deep dive into the Easter Story 

Inspired by Local History Month we investigated our school history using extracts from our school log books-

after the exhibition -

we now have a new section on the website

'Dipping into our school history' can be found in the About Us section

Here is a sneak peek

See below for what was published in May 2024 to share with our local community

- the results of our local history project for Sefton at 50

Time Traveller's History Club -

Marking the 50th anniversary of Sefton 

We did so many things -

see below for the pages of the Sefton brochure for our school 

Trip to The Walker Art Gallery

Several of us had never been to an art gallery before

We loved the architecture of the building - and the library next door

We took time to look at all the incredible buildings in that part of Liverpool

We had learned in school how Liverpool became rich from the slave trade

In the gallery there were new paintings to draw attention to links to the slave trade and to get audiences to question what art should be on show

Some of our favourite parts of the trip are in the photos below 

History is not just about the past - it is our present day too 

Refugee Week June 2024

Year 6 took part in an online workshop with The Anne Frank Trust

It featured the novelist Tom Palmer who has written about refugee experiences across time

This workshop focussed on the stories of Anne Frank and a Danish woman called Henny.

We are also using the picture book – The Arrival to explore refugee experiences more

We have listened to the French song – Mercy about a baby born on a boat at sea during a refugee journey.

This is all part of our developing respect and tolerance.

History Ambassadors

take their Victorian Play

to other classes

They spent time sharing and exploring artefacts

Linking with a secondary school 

Food Technology with a History flavour!

In 2023-4 we began to visit Christ the King High School to make dishes  such as ...

Year 4

Cous cous is an ancient Arabic dish from North Africa

Year 6

Trench stew - using biscuits to give bulk because these did not go off in the trenches 

 Faith in Action - presenting our research to the rest of the school and to our families

Figures from the past who have put their faith into action 

 The Olympics and Paralympics are coming to France this Summer!

As part of exploring the history behind this global event we are all taking part in this online assembly

which also celebrates diversity

Our election 2024

We gave historical background to this - we had whole school votes and class votes - where pupils created their own political manifestos

 The results are in for St Philips!

All our candidates did a great job

The constituents listened to them very respectfully

The vote was done in an organised fashion with election officials checking it was done correctly.

The ballot was counted and verified.

Thank you to all the year 6 pupils involved in the different roles 

Joint last - with 1/8 of the vote each = 

Reform and Conservatives

In 3rd place - with just under a quarter of the votes = Labour

In 2nd with a slightly higher proportion = The Green Party

1st = Liberal Democrats with over a 1/4 of the votes

Year 6 Class Election

These are some of the posters for the manifestos they created

Responding to our History Quality mark advice for improving further -

We are highlighting more diversity - extending to issues linked to different lifestyles and disabilities

 Year 6 have been learning about

Lily Parr

One of the famous Dick, Kerr Preston based women's football team - active before teams of women were banned from the league 

Year 6 - have been learning about local figures for the theme of

Black and Proud

Here are some of the entries we are sending to the Mersey Police Black History Month

competition this year

 Year 6 are preparing for their trip to the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool

We have been learning about

The Atlantic Slave Trade

About the legacy this left here

About inspirational figures like 

Harriet Tubman - disabled after a head injury

Our own local Edward Rushton-

blinded on board a slave ship

Year 5 are working with the Anne Frank Trust this week

Voices for Equality 

 History opens our eyes

To the diversity of the past

Here are some famous neurodivergent inspirational figures 

Here are just a handful of scientists with 'disabilities'

Below is a list of some political figures who have had  - still have - diabetes

And here are some of the most famous mathematicians in history - all with some 'disability' 

May 2023 Local History Month

Sharing our Victorian play with our school community

Taking part in our Townscape heritage Project 

History Ambassadors playing their part - helping the Southport Townscape Heritage Project develop new educational activities

Using their history detective skills to investigate a diary from 1862 in which a group of people travelled from Yorkshire to holiday here. 

 Bringing history to life through drama

Pupils worked in groups to write a script to share knowledge of an era in history.

They had to co-operate and share idea and then get into character to act them out.

We all enjoyed it and learned so much.

The past was not a place of equality - we can make better futures - we can be inspired by people in the past who were brave enough to change things for the better .

We had our own

Rainbow Equality Day

History is a window into the past that helps us live better lives today - Y6 learned about the terrible treatment of Alan Turing and how our laws have changed

Eurovision is coming to our City Region - Liverpool

See below for links to some of the history behind this exciting event - 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f0p0r5

Never in our lifetimes - an historic event - 

The coronation of King Charles III

Watch this space to see how we celebrate this event of national and international significance 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/av/64364399

Our History Ambassadors do a range of exciting tasks in school

Since September they have run sessions for

Remembrance and Holocaust Day -

and also supported our younger pupils as Chronology Buddies with lunchtime activities such as The Town

They also run our anachronism competition which are outside classrooms. 

Their next challenge is to support Year 4 in their study of Saxon times - by dressing up and visiting them as Saxon re-enactors. 

Thank you! 

Half way through the year and here is a flavour of what has been going on in history across the school

From Reception class looking for clues at a crime scene

Y1 following clues to find the dinosaur egg

Y2 examining artefacts 

Y3 making Stone Age jewellery

Y4 making and using their Roman shields

Y5 visiting the Egyptian museum

Y6 being the first school to experience the new local history play at The Atkinson 

And much more! 

All our classes have their own history timelines

 February Half Term  Atkinson History Challenge - see the document below! 

 SO many children and families took part in our History Atkinson Challenge during February half term! 

Getting out into our town and learning more about it. 

Year 3 are the class winners.

See our display in the hall 

New for 2023 - linking with secondary schools

creating resources to share with other schools and for trainee and early career stage teachers

See examples below - sent to secondary schools to use January 2023

Holocaust Memorial Day

Our display and leading activities across the school 

Remembrance 

we have been taking history out of school and into our homes and local area - some of us even on holiday in places like Wales! 

Here is just a small selection of the results -

talking to relatives and visiting war memorials  

Making sure that we show respect and gratitude for those who have served to protect our

British Values 

Remembering our queen - a huge moment in history - recognised around the world.

See below for how we marked this significant event

History Ambassadors are recruited from Year 6 pupils who choose to apply because of their love of history. 

Our History Quality Mark Assessor was very impressed with the range of roles they take on. 

They - 

design and lead class and whole school worship

create competitions

act as experts and assist learning in classroom

work with younger pupils at lunchtimes as Chronology Buddies

See below for our new team 

Black History Month 

We are very excited this year - one of our Year 6 pupils won the Merseyside Police Competition for BHM this year. 

See below for how we are kick starting this important month 

Year 6 attended a premiere at The Atkinson - a fabulous play about Southport's history - We loved it!

'Beyond amazing' was one comment.

We learned so much in such an entertaining way.

Afterwards, we visited the Monument - our town's war memorial- to pay our respects in the lead up to Remembrance in November. 

2021-2022

Our first History Ambassadors of the new year!

ready to be active citizens of our community - promoting history around the school

 History Ambassadors designed Christmas cards - inspired by the first Victorian ones -  to sell to family and friends to raise money for charity. 

 Classes learning how to play 'histingo' - a game to develop the vocabulary and understanding of chronology.

Making knowledge stick and making connections with prior learning.

 Black History Month

For the second year, all classes undertook activities on this important theme.

History helps us to understand the present - and to challenge it! 

The remembrance display we did for one of our local shop windows

With poetry, art and family photos and memories 

 Some of our history prize winners for the Autumn Term 2021

History Ambassadors in action again - working as Chronology Buddies

British Value of mutual respect and tolerance – celebrating diversity

• choosing to be kind
•  

Creating a church trail to do with our buddies 

Creating history anachronism competitions for each class

Jubilee Day 25th May 2022

Our theme was now and then - we used the idea of significance to explore the importance of the historic event of the jubilee and other significant events and people.  

We learned about our own local history in Victorian times with the History Ambassadors  - some of us have ancestors who lived here then - they might have been fisherfolk - richer residents - working as maids and servants - some were there on the night of the Mexico Disaster in 1886 - trying to save lives. 

This terrible night had a big impact locally and nationally.

We had lots of fun being creative too - we ended the day with a brass band concert - flag waving to a range of songs like Land of Hope and Glory. 

 Our snap shots of local history exhibition

History Ambassadors time travelled for parents.

Fisher women told of how hard their lives were

Mr and Mrs Atkinson explained why they loved Southport - so much that they moved here and paid for The Atkinson ( our art gallery, museum, library and theatre)  to be built

A maid explained how hard her life was but how glad she was to have work that wasn't in a factory or on a farm - and a room of her own.

Lastly, two fishermen explained how they earned extra money as life boat crew. They described the terrible events of The Mexico Disaster and its legacy here and around the country. 

 2022-2023

We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded the Gold Quality Mark for our history provision - with special mention being made of our History Ambassador scheme. 

The Census 2021 -

and we can be history detectives with the census entries of the past

We all got to look at the census from 1901

for the houses opposite the school

International Women's Day

Commonwealth Day

Both on March 8th 2021 -

here was an overview for everyone

Remote learning -

visiting the Western Approaches Museum online  and live 

 Remote learning - Marking

Holocaust Memorial Day

We took part in the video worship time below and created our own images of light in the darkness

We learned about local woman - Ruth Harris - who opened her home to refugees on the kindertransport 

We reflected on the harm that hatred can cause and thought about our own attitudes and actions to people different to ourselves

Year 6 have produced some great history work this term - here are some of our prize winners.

  Getting ready for remembrance 2020

See below for some of our own family stories and some local ones like Lilian from Liverpool - we'd like you to add to them - it is exactly 80 years since the bombing raids of World War Two...there was a terrible Blitz in Liverpool and bombs led to casualties here in Southport. 

Create more PowerPoints, videos or simply send or hand in to us a photo and speech bubble so that we can share these stories together during our remembrance activities in school and church. 

Getting ready for Black History Month

 Look what we've been doing 

Two lockdown history project winners.

They did great work about Victorian times,

finding out interesting facts and considering just how far these times were good or bad times to live in.

Today (15.9.2020) is the 80th anniversary of the

Battle of Britain 15th September 1940

Here are some photos of our relatives who were in the RAF.

Catching up with a prize winner from just before lock down! 

Do you love being creative? Here's your chance to explore stories from war time.

This could be a family story or one from a viewpoint we don't often hear.

The story can be told in one of the following four ways

Poetry, art, speech or song.

See below for details

Southport commemorates VJ Day 15th August 2020

Find out more using the links below

If you have family members or friends who served in any of the conflicts since 1914 we'd encourage you to contribute to the remembrance wall run by the Commonwealth Graves Commission. See the link below

Black Lives Matter.

June 2020 is seeing a world wide movement using this title.

See below for links that help us learn more about the history behind this. 

May 12th = 200 years since Florence Nightingale was born.

History is full of individuals who can inspire us and who have a lasting impact on how we live today. 

Use the video below to find out more

VE Day is here 

Enjoy and remember

Please continue to send photos to me. Thank you to those that already have - it has been great to see your relatives and read their amazing stories.

We want to do a children's relative's video too and we need more photos from you!

We also want photos of what you do today that you don't mind sharing to do a similar thing.

Thank you.

lundd@sps.sefton.schools 

Please send photos of any relatives you have who took part in any way during World War Two.

They don't have to have been soldiers or pilots.  They might have been children during the war. You can send photos of them from then or ones showing what they look like now. Even better if you can include a sentence about where they were and what they did.

Please send any photos and stories you have so I can include them here on the website

lundd@sps.sefton.school

Here are some of my family photos.

My Mum was at school when the war started. The 'new normal' for them meant rationing and blackouts but much of life carried on as normal. She went on walks in the Peak District with her school and played tennis with her friends. She did a degree at the local university. You can see her graduation photo below. She became a teacher and went a long way from home to teach in a school in Devon where they were desperate for teachers because the men had gone to fight in the war. She was just 21. Most people did not have phones then and her family waited anxiously to hear by letter that she got there safely.  She loved her time there and kept in touch with her 'old scholars' until she died.

You can see my dad in the photo with the shire horses. He was a farmer which was a 'reserved profession' (key worker) so he did not have to join the army. He was a sheep and dairy farmer and did not usually do any ploughing. He is ploughing in the photo because farms were asked to grow food as well.

My uncle trained to be a pilot and took part in Operation Manna exactly 75 years ago this week. This involved dropping food from planes to help feed people in Belgium and The Netherlands.

My aunt was at school for most of the war. In the photo she is wearing a brooch to show that her brother was in the RAF

Ms Lund