We are  learning  about  WW 1.  We  are reading about Billy  Stevens  and  his  friend  Rob. They want to sign up for the army but they are only 16 years old.

Billy wanted to go to the front lines with Rob but he was sent to the Engineers – they fix telegraph wires and repair communications.

The trenches were dirty with rats all year round but the rats were the size of cats!  The rats were so used to sharing with soldiers that they didn’t run away and hide.  Sandbags were used to hold the walls in and also wood.

The engineers had dug outs to store equipment and supplies. They also used them to sleep in.

I am enjoying the topic – I am really fascinated about it.

by   Daniel

We are currently learning about world war 1 and 2. We are reading a book called the trenches. Its the story of Billy Stevens we have made a freeze wall of his house and the trenches. We are also gathering an information for a poster about world war 1 in partners i’m working by myself witch i prefer because i am very bossy and i can make all of the decisions.

Business groups started again im in the leadership group witch mean i document what the other groups are doing and many other things witch i forgot. After i do this blog i am going making German/British solders for the freeze wall.

-Lottie

There were two boys called Billy and Rob. They wanted to join the army to help their town.  Rob ended up at the front. Billy was moved into the communications engineers (like a technician). His job was to fix wires so that officers can get in touch with the front lines.

Life in the Trenches:

Billy was shocked by life in the trenches because the mud was sloppy and water rose up when it rained. Soldiers were drenched, covered in lice and mud. Sand bags were used to keep the walls up and Duckboards (wooden planks) were placed in the bottom of the trench.

In dug outs officers had shelter to sleep and write out orders.

I think it sounds horrendous!

By Kye

Hello everyone!!

We are learning about world war 1 .My great grandpa was only 12 when he had to fight in world war 2 and is still a live. We learned that the german soldiers made better trenches then british .  Did you know that soldiers would fight for 7 days then rest and the fighting soldiers got a holo trenches but the officers got a fancy one with beds.  The rats were as big as a cat and sometimes brushes there face or other rats just eat the food they have.

HI its Rory and today ill be telling you all about my learning.

in p6/7 we are learning about both the world wars

 

world war 1

we are learning about the trenches and the book we are reading is even called well the trenches!

we made a poster showing what the weaponry and the uniforms looked like i was with Caspian and Freddie and i drawn a German soldier Caspian drawn a British soldier and Freddie drawn something i think it was a grenade

 

world war 2

 

we haven’t actually learnt about ww2 yet but i taught a little bit of it to my self

 

i guess that all for now bye!!

 

We started reading a book about the trenches it was all about a boy named billy, who wanted to join the army to serve his country and one day he went to the sergeants office to join the army but the sergeant thought the war would only last a couple of weeks, the sergeant denied him but but the sergeant was very wrong about the war lasting a couple of weeks. it lasted for 5 years then billy joined the military then got changed to be an engineer for the war, then we did  drawing trench soldiers and what it was like in the trenches most of the soldiers tried to attack The Germans without being noticed but the Germans had heavy artillery to gun them down around 80,000 – 70,000 died doing it. The trenches where full of rats and mice.  some soldiers ate bully beef.

Hello!!!

We are going to tell you about our learning and the things that we have learnt. We have been learning about the Victorian times and we tried doing Victorian P.E. In the Victorian times they called P.E. drill ( It was very hard and it makes you tired). Miss Pattie got a box from the Museum full of different things from the Victorian times. We got to feel the shoes that children had to wear and the shoes were tiny! There was also a rag doll that was flat. We got to feel the belts that they used to punish  the children when they were naughty. We got 3 shots of hitting the belts on the floor. We got to see and feel the kids chalkboards and a pupil brought in 4 Victorian coins.

 

PE – We have been doing different things like some things for tennis and cricket.

ART – For art we have been doing pop art words and portraits and for the portraits we have been doing Roy Lichtenstein style portraits.

OUTDOOR LEARNING – In outdoor learning we have made dream catchers and learnt how to do a half hitch.

DRAMA – In drama we learnt a story called Baba Yaga and the three black geese and we acted it out and did stepping it out.

 

Today Queen Elizabeth the second has sadly died. Mark, Mummy, Caspian and me are very upset and I’m just about to cry but I’m trying to hold it in…😭😭😭jh😭😭😭 She was quite old though she was 96 and I hope that she goes to heaven and looks down on us all and makes sure that we’re all okay Queen Elizabeth was a very kind, caring and helping Queen. To be honest all I can think about is her I’m really finding it hard to really understand the she has died at school I’ve heard people talking about her wishing that she would live to 200 100 and older but sadly she cant but Queen Elizabeth has worked hard and its time she had a break because she’s had a hard run of being Queen and she only started being Queen at 25 so she’s been Queen very long but a lovely Queen.😊🧡🧡 She also travelled a lot.

Long Live King Charles!!!!!!

-Tanith

WW1 facts

A  Tanks   bullet   can   travel  up  to  25  miles   an  hour   when   the    bullet   hits its   target    1000   bits  of   shrapnel   fly  off.

Billy  Stephens   was  16   when  he   joined  up  to  the  army    and   he  wanted   to  fight.   Instead   he   ended up in  the  Royal  engineering  signals.

 

By  Daniel