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Understanding the past helps us to understand ourselves!

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The Year 7's have been studying The Tudors - and what a great way to do this.  We ended up in Hampton Court Palace.

Hampton Court was originally built from 1514 by Cardinal Wolsey (1475-1530), Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII (1491-1547).  King Henry VIII acquired the property in 1528 and developed it as his palace. By the 1530s, Henry VIII's Hampton Court was a palace, a hotel, a theatre and a vast leisure complex. The King used it to demonstrate magnificence and power in every possible way, through lavish banquets, extravagant court life and fabulously expensive art.

The Year 7's started off their journey by meeting the ten carved stone beasts at the entrance of the palace.  Exploring the palace, walking through the courts where Henry VIII and his family once walked.  Seeing the magnificent paintings constructed during the Tudor times and walking through the rooms of where the wine was kept and food was prepared for our past monarchs.

The Hampton Court Palace Maze is the UK's oldest surviving hedge maze. Commissioned around 1700 by William III, it covers a third of an acre and is known for confusing and intriguing visitors with its many twists, turns and dead ends.  Our Year 7s had some fun going through the maze; some ended up losing half their team amongst the hedges.  Having only one entrance and one exit we got there in the end though.

The Year 7s also got to enjoy a session with a character dressed up from the Tudor times.  In the session the pupils explored primary evidence from the buildings of Hampton Court Palace. They were taught the impact of changes in religion during the period of King Henry VIII and Queen Mary I in one of the key locations where religious and political decisions were made.

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Once the top-secret home of the World War Two Codebreakers, Bletchley Park is now a vibrant heritage attraction where our Year 6's went to visit and explore.
The pupils also experienced an interactive workshop session, in which students used practical problem solving and team working skills as they began to understand the scale of the task faced by Bletchley Park’s codebreakers during World War Two.
The guided tour was informative and thought provoking, and they got a real feel of what it would be like to try and break the codes which is testament to the authenticity of the experience.
The trip was a truly valuable experience for all our pupils, it gave them an an excellent insight in to one of the major events of WWII and certainly looking forward to taking the pupils again next year.

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Stone Age to Iron Age
Maya Civilisation

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Greeks

Roman Britain - Empires

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Anglo-Saxons/Vikings

Crime and Punishment

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Shang
Early Islamic Civilisation

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World War Two

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Victorians
World War One

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Norman Conquest
Black Death

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The Stuarts

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The Tudors

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Slavery

The British Empire

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Suffragettes

Black Civil Rights

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French Revolution
Industrial Revolution