{"id":169,"date":"2025-10-31T13:11:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/?p=169"},"modified":"2025-10-31T13:11:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:11:25","slug":"p7-ww2-topic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/2025\/10\/31\/p7-ww2-topic\/","title":{"rendered":"P7 WW2 Topic"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">We have been learning all about the Fenwick War Memorial in our village. We walked along to look at it, record the names that are on it and take photographs. We then returned to class and drew line drawings and made a list of the names to carry out some research about the men who are named from WW2.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-148 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/10\/31114410\/IMG_6717-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/10\/31114410\/IMG_6717-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/10\/31114410\/IMG_6717-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/10\/31114410\/IMG_6717-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/10\/31114410\/IMG_6717-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/10\/31114410\/IMG_6717.jpeg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">We invited Mr Stewart Finlay from the Kilmarnock Branch of the Royal British Legion Scotland to talk to us about the 9 men who are recorded on the War Memorial. Their regiments, where the were killed and where they are buried.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">We learned that 2 of the men have War Graves in our local cemetery and we have decided to visit them on Remembrance Day to leave flowers and a poppy.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-170 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/10\/31130854\/Stewart-Finlay.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"205\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">Stewart also brought along his medals and some jackets worn by veterans after the war in the 1950s. Stewart shared his knowledge with us and stories of his life in the army.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-171\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/10\/31130908\/British-Legion-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/10\/31130908\/British-Legion-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/10\/31130908\/British-Legion.jpeg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been learning all about the Fenwick War Memorial in our village. We walked along to look at it, record the names that are on it and take photographs. We then returned to class and drew line drawings and made a list of the names to carry out some research about the men who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/2025\/10\/31\/p7-ww2-topic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">P7 WW2 Topic<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,34,38,39],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-article-13","tag-article-15","tag-article-17","tag-ww2","eportfolio_category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}