Last week we presented our inventions to Miss Tenby and finished our Apprentice topic! This week we have started our WW2 topic and it has been a busy one!

Time line of key events 

We worked in pairs to research key events from World War 2. Different events including:

• Germany invading Poland
• The Battle of France
• The Blitz
• The Dambusters Raid

We then created a big class timeline for our topic wall.

Allies and Axis

After completing our timeline we spent an afternoon learning about the allies and the axis. We then used atlases to plot the different allies and axis by giving it a key.

Propaganda posters

As part of our persuasive writing unit, we explored different propaganda posters that were used during WW2 to persuade people to:

• stop wasting food,
• send their children to the countryside
• work in factories (women)
• reuse clothes
• grow their own food.

Then we had a go at creating our very own propaganda posters!

We are now at our final task for our Apprentice topic. This is where we will combine all the skills that we have used and developed over the last few weeks and bring it all together into one task.

In our teams, we have come up with one new invention and have been busy creating a logo, branding campaign, advertising campaign and pricing strategy. We have linked this with our writing and wrote a persuasive letter to Dragon’s Den to persuade them to invest in our product.

Next week we will present our invention pitches to another teacher who will score us based on our passion, presentation and product.

Watch this space!