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Weekly Update - 15.11.14
Miss Bairstow (d.bairstow) on: Ash Tree Class Blog
Hello,
We kickstarted our week with a range of different remembrance themed activities on Monday. As part of our study of WW2 and particularly our focus on how it impacted on families in Yorkshire, we chose to mark Remembrance Day 2024 with a topic themed day. We began with a walk to Yeadon Town Hall to look at the memorial plaques of the fallen soldiers from our local area and then spent the rest of the day researching these young men using the Imperial War Museum website and making commemorative poppies and decorative pebbles with their details on. We also spent some time learning the poem “In Flanders Fields”.
On Tuesday, the children were encouraged to wear odd socks to school to mark Anti-Bullying Week. Mrs Harris delivered an assembly all about this and reminded children about always being kind and where to seek support if necessary.
The rest of the week we have been busy continuing with our "normal" lessons and working on our non-chronological reports in English and either multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 or learning about fractions depending on which group!
A reminder about something else exciting and topic themed happening in UKS2 next week now...
Living Museum for WW2
On Wednesday, 20 November, we are holding our Living Museums in the UKS2 classrooms as part of our WW2 topic. This is a great opportunity for the children to bring in any WW2 memorabilia that you/your family may have.
Here are some possible artefacts you may send in.
- Medals
- Letters/Diaries
- Photographs
- Military uniform items
- Ration books/Home Front memorabilia
- Any other WW2-era artefacts
If your child is taking part in this exciting venture, then for this weekend, your child’s homework task is to research a little about the item(s) and to record/present these facts - maybe a poster could be created? Or flashcards with information? Your child will be standing with their artefact and talking about it to the visiting children from Years 5 and 6.
And also to the parents from 3.20 to 3.50. You are welcome to come into the UKS2 classrooms at the end of school and see the artefacts on display and listen to the children talking about them.
We really hope that by looking at genuine artefacts from the era of 1939-1945, the children will gain an even better understanding of our key topic question: I wonder how WW2 affected families in Yorkshire.
And finally! We enjoyed wearing non-uniform on Friday in exchange for bringing in a £1 to raise money for Children in Need.
Ash Tree over and out!
Miss Bairstow :)
Weekly Update - 8.11.24
Miss Bairstow (d.bairstow) on: Ash Tree Class Blog
Hi,
A super start to the half-term!
The children began their next writing focus by exploring the features of non-chronological reports. This piece of writing will be linked to our World War Two topic and will involve researching the role of women in World War Two.
We had a great afternoon on Wednesday when all of UKS2 enjoyed tasting a variety of foods that would have been available during World War Two. This is part of our Design and Technology curriculum and the children will be using these foods to inspire them to create a recipe that could have been cooked whilst ingredients were rationed. We are hoping to post some photographs of this afternoon on Facebook once we have checked all permissions - keep checking for this next week!
A number of children also completed the optional homework of creating a shelter in a shoebox! Well done to those children; they were incredibly creative and we hope to display these in our Living Museum that will take place on Wednesday 20th November. This will be another opportunity for all of UKS2 to work together.
Continuing with the WW2 topic, on Monday, we will be walking to the Town Hall to begin our enquiry question of ‘Why we remember’. Hopefully, the children have had the opportunity to buy a poppy to wear on this day to help reflect this act of remembrance.
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Bairstow :)
Weekly Update - 25.10.24
Miss Bairstow (d.bairstow) on: Ash Tree Class Blog
Hello,
We have finally reached the end of our longest half term of the year! We have had a great first 8 weeks settling in to Ash Tree class 24-25!
This week we finally finished our evacuee diaries and are excited to display these in school. We also started learning about the features of non-chronological reports as we will be writing our own after half term.
In maths, Miss Bairstow's group have moved onto multiplication and division, while Mrs Trotter's group have been learning about fractions.
Have a lovely half term break and see you after the holidays!
Miss Bairstow :)