KS1 Pupil Voice April 2025

Do you think history is exciting? Why?

Yes, because we looked at different toys.

Yes, it was fun visiting the church.

How do our resources help you to learn?

My teacher uses the board to show us pictures and talk about history. Sometimes we watch videos.

Sometimes we visit places so we can see them for ourselves.

Do we learn about things that happened in our local area in the past? What have we learnt?

We learnt about the history of the church and how to tell if the things there were old or new. We learnt about the stained glass windows and Mrs Fox came in to talk about it. We asked her lots of questions. The church is about 900 years old!

Do you look forward to your next history lesson? Why?

Yes, because we get to be historians and it's interesting.

Yes, because I like to see what life used to be like.

Is there anything you'd still like to learn?

I would like to learn about the Egyptians!

I would like to learn about the Romans next.

KS2 Pupil Voice April 2025

Are our history lessons exciting and interesting? Why?

Y6 Yes, because I enjoyed learning about the Ancient Maya and trying their cacao. I liked writing a letter to a King of Ancient Maya to apply for a job in his Noble team.

Y5 Yes, because we learnt even more stuff this year than in Chaffinch.

Y4 They're exciting because there's something new to do every week.

Y3 Yes, because we learn about things we never saw.

Do you feel we consider peoples views in history?

Y5 Yes, because we discuss everything in groups and think about what people in history thought too.

Y6Yes , because we learn about other peoples theories, like what happened to the Ancient Maya

Y4 Yes, because we answer questions.

Y3 If we're sitting in a circle, we have discussion time.

Are there any resources which help you learn about history?

Y6 We use laptops to research and Blooket to test our knowledge.

Y5 Sometimes we have visitors to help.

Y3 History books and interesting PowerPoints.

Y4 The whiteboard and pictures.

Do you look forward to your next history lesson? Why?

Y5 Yes because we learn new facts every week.

Y6 Yes because history is interesting!

Y3 Yes, because there's always something new to learn in history!

Y4 Yes, because history is great fun!

Do we learn about different civilisations and cultures?

Y5 Yes, I still remember Viking day in Y3!

Y6 We learnt about the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age as well as the Ancient Maya.

Y3 Yes, because there are loads of different time periods to learn about.

Y4 Yes, it's like you go back in time!

If you could make one suggestion for our history lessons, what would it be?

Y5 I would like more lessons!

Y6 We could have more visitors for example someone from Ancient Maya descent.

Y4 We could search for more facts so we could learn even more in our history lessons.

Pupil Voice 2025

Our History leaders asked Chaffinch about their Egyptian Day.

What did you like about the day?

• The activities.
• Making food - it was super fun!
• I liked that we got to do stuff the Egyptians did - it was fun.
• It gives people time to explain what we're learning about.
• You get to dress up and eat the food that they did.
• We got to sing and learn the numbers

How does it help you?

• It helps me learn about the Egyptians.
• It helps me to learn more about history in a fun way.
• I learn more like this.