P7B and S got together again to work collaboratively. We had to rank different shelters from 1-10 and discussed each shelters positive and negatives.

This week we started a series of lessons with 7S learning about the different types of air raid shelters used in WW2.

Each  small group pulled an air raid shelter type out of a hat, we then used four different sources of information to write notes about the shelter.

Once  we had all completed this we came together in the hall  and presented everything we had found.

We are going to create google form quizzes for our classmates to see how much they have learned.

We visited Summerhill Care Home today and had a lovely time. We were colouring in pictures together and having a chat. We even got a chance to ask some of the residents about their experience of WW2.  Christine’s husband was injured in the D Day landings whilst Bob used to cycle around in the blackouts,when the phone lines were down,carrying messages.

Our Chuck Close inspired Robert Burns art looked brilliant at the front of the school hall during out Burns Day celebrations.

We have created our own gas mask posters inspired by the ones created by the Home Security Service in WW2 to remind / convince civilians to carry their gas masks everywhere with them.

On Wednesday afternoon Street Sport came to our playground.  We got a chance to go out as a year group and have some fun.  It was pouring of rain but we barely noticed and not one person complained.  We played Quidditch, football, volleyball and even got the chance to have a look around a fire engine.

This week P7B have been learning about the preparations that were made at the start of WW2.  We have learned all about the potential threat of gas attacks and have even made our own gas masks with carriers.

We have been learning about how WW2 started. Once we understood how the war started we wrote a summary in our own words.  After that we listened to Neville Chamberlains’s declaration of war. We thought about how he must have felt and wrote our own speeches. We have also written a diary entry from the perspective of a child who has just heard the speech on the wireless. So far we are really enjoying learning about WW2. We are learning about gas masks next and the preparations that were made at the start of the war.

In Problem Solving today we were using the strategies ‘act it out’ and ‘trial and error’ to solve our mathematical problem.

We had to arrange our dice tower in a certain way so that all the sides had the same total.

Our extension of this was to arrange the dots on our four dice tower so that opposite side had three times as many dots.

Adele from SHMU FM visited P7B on the first day back of Term 3. She is going to be working with us for the next 6 weeks on our very own radio broadcast. We are very excited to be part of the ‘Speak Out’ programme.  We will confirm the details of our live broadcast on SHMU FM closer to the time.