waging WAR!

Below, you will find some presentations about the various weapons of war used in the First World War. Taking a closer look at these weapons gave us a better idea about the extraordinary lengths the different sides would employ to kill enemy soldiers.

We also looked at some of the damage these weapons caused and discussed the terrible effects they had. 

A different type of reading...

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We recently added some hot seating and drama to our reading activities.

Letters from a concerned mother

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Imagine if Edmund and William's mother had the opportunity to send a letter to her boys. Maybe they would look a bit like this...

Poetic thoughts on WW1...

Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon...and here are some more...

Blog Battle Post

Today Year Six spent some time analysing the Battle of the Somme. We watched the following videos then decided to create some stop-motion videos about this 5 month battle. I think it is fair to say that we had very mixed success with the stop-motion videos; however, it was still a valuable learning experience and one we hope to trial again.

 

Stop-Motion videos about the aspects of the Battle of the Somme

The making of the videos

Trench Foot Reading!

Today, we spent some time in the snow trying to recreate the feeling of the soul sapping cold and gruesome mud from the trenches.

Roll up! Roll up!

If you want to win some awesome prizes from the measurement bag then you need to take part in the Measurement Fair.

Popplets with perspective...

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Here are some Popplets with our thoughts and ideas about the book my brother's war.



One of our reading group also brought in an actual gas mask from World War 1.



Photographing Time!

Chronology is a difficult thing to understand, so we spent some time trying to identify different time periods including the era that was World War 1.

Here is a video of some of the discussions we had about the various different photopacks.



Why don't you try to have a go at guessing which time period these photographs belong to. Can you find any photographic evidence which identifies a particular period in time?

Year 6 Conscription!

How would you feel if you were a Year 6 student and you received a letter like this?

The most powerful letters in the world!

We have also spent a short time thinking about the letters which soldiers might have sent to their families (just in case they didn't return from the war). You will find some examples of these letters alongside our thoughts about the writing process.

  

My Brother's War!

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I apologise for the lack of recent posts but finally we are back with a bang! We start the new term with some reading in English. Here is a little slice of what we have been doing in some of our reading sessions.


Here is the book if you want to check it out.

Photo credit: penguin books