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Weekly Update - 15.11.14
Posted: Nov 15, 2024 by: 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 :)