Year 6 ambassadors 2020

Kia ora! Talofa lava! Bonjour! My name is Cora!

I’m a PES year 5 student who has been part of Pt England School for the last year. I’ve been to two other schools before coming to Pt England, so I know how it feels to be a visitor or new to our school.

I would love to be a Year 6 Ambassador for Pt England School in 2020. “What is that you say … Why do I want to apply for year 6 ambassadors?”

Well let me tell you more...

To be an ambassador we need to show the Pt England way of learning - “Learn, Create, Share”

Isn't that interesting first let's talk about learning. Learning helps you with their reputation and it's good for you to learn new things . Now create As you know there is a creative space and maker space.

We can be creative by creating many different things in both of these creative rooms . Now it's time for share we can share many things even our learning on our blogs . And remember we always have to make sure that we share our work with our teacher.

Cave girl was half Neanderthal

Once upon a time, two early humans of different ancestry met at a cave in Russia.

Some 50,000 years later, scientists have confirmed that they had a daughter together.

DNA extracted from bone fragments found in the cave show the girl was the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.

Neanderthals and Denisovans were humans like us, but belonged to different species.

This cave, called Denisova cave, in the Altai Mountains of Siberia is the only known site where fossil evidence of both Denisovans and Neanderthals has been found.

When and where did Neanderthals and Denisovans live?
Neanderthals and Denisovans are known to have overlapped in time in Eurasia.

The two groups lived until about 40,000 years ago; Neanderthals in the west and Denisovans in the east.

What is a Neanderthal?
Neanderthals are an extinct species or subspecies of humans, who lived in Eurasia until 40,000 years ago. Compared to modern humans, Neanderthals were stockier, with shorter legs and bigger bodies. They had a receding forehead and prominent brow ridges.

What is a Denisovan?
An extinct species of human of robust build. They lived mainly in modern day Asia, from Siberia to South East Asia

Britain’s first city found

Britain’s first city found

November 5, 2019

Britain’s first ‘city’ has been found by archaeologists.

The city was based on Salisbury Plain, and its inhabitants probably built Stonehenge, archaeologists have said.

Archaeologists are people that study past civilisations. They have uncovered more than 70,000 stone tools at a place called Blick Mead.

The remains suggest that the area held importance for the hunter-gatherers who lived there 10,000 years ago.

Expert David Jacques, from the University of Buckingham, believes the site may have been a permanent place where at least the children, elderly and sick live.

Up until 2006 only 30 finds had ever been recovered from this period at any one site. Now they have found 70,000 – this is a significant find.

Archaeologists think that ancient Britons settled in the area because it was where the aurochs lived. These were large cows which provided food for the city.