Thank you for all the responses to last week’s question. 

Which period of history do you find most fascinating and why? Are there any artefacts or treasures that have been discovered that you have found particularly interesting or impressive? 

Well done to Betty and Elsa in Year 5 for your winning responses!

The most interesting part of history for me is the Victorian period because I find it very fascinating how things have changed over the years like at school today, we have smart white boards, books, plastic whiteboards, whiteboard pens, clocks, we have school meals that will make us full up and girls and boys can be in the same classroom. In the Victorian era, boys and girls couldn’t be in the same classroom. They used chalk on their whiteboards, they used rags to wipe it off and the teachers were very strict. They also had a dunce hat (when someone is bad they stand in the corner with the hat on and everyone laughs at them). It is very interesting because we can explore the different things and stories that happened in the Victorian period like there was a very bad disease and lots of people died. One last fact is that the classrooms were very small so they had to get different people with different ages in a classroom to teach them and in one class there were about 100 children.

Betty (Year 5)

I think the Egyptian period is the most fascinating because they were very clever especially when it came to burying pharaohs. They would bury them inside the pyramids and create fake chambers so if you thought you had found a pharaohs burial chamber it was usually empty. They also used to draw on the walls to show how they made things like wine. Near the pyramids there is a burial sight for those who died during the making of the pyramids and you can even still find their skeletons in perfect condition.

Elsa (Year 5)