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Our class have been busy with an exciting enterprise project this term.  We worked together in small groups to share with you what we have been up to.

The planning and how we started

We had to start off our Poppy Enterprise with the planning. The first step was finding the best resources which we did  in Maths. Once we had found the materials, Mrs. Smith chose what she thought were the best options. We made posters to go around the school and we made one for the shop. We had to decide how much they would cost, home made poppies would cost £3 as a minimum donation but people could give extra if they wanted and paper poppies would cost 50p each. Then we had to think about when to sell the paper poppies. We ended up deciding on Wednesday the 5^th and Friday the 7^th and we would go around all of the classes on those days with the paper poppies. The posters needed to have what Poppy Scotland is and why we gave all of the donations to that charity. We loved doing the poppies!

By Sophia, Sophie Manson and Callum

 

Making The Poppies

To make the poppies we first had to find the right scissors. There were a couple of special material scissors that were perfect for cutting. We got chalk and drew around the template very carefully. Then we started cutting it out. We had 4 different templates, one for the big circle, one for the medium circle, one for the small circle and one for the leaf.

We assembled the cut out felt and made sure the chalk was on the back  of the felt pieces, so it didn’t show. Then it was time to sew it together so we went and got a button and threaded the thread through the hole in the needle.

Next, we tied a knot in the thread so it didn’t all pull through. It was hard for a lot of people to tie the knot but we managed fine. Eventually we sewed the button onto the poppy and it all got held together.

Finally, we glued on the badge with a hot glue gun so we had to be extra careful and then it was finished!

by Connal, Dylan and Lucille

 

The Selling Process

Firstly, we put the posters around the school and one to the shop.  Everyone got a chance to go round the classes and sell the paper poppies.  We made order forms for parents and staff, that they filled out if they wanted a poppy. We had a minimum donation of £3 and a maximum amount of 3 poppies. We ended up making over £350!

by Nora and Sophie Moar

 

The Kirkyard

On Remembrance Day, Tuesday 11th November, we went up the road to the kirkyard to lay our wreaths down at the monuments for WW1 & WW2. We laid them with the other P6s too. Martin, the man who was leading the service at the front, thanked us for coming and told us a bit about World War I. A woman read us the very famous poem, “In Flanders Field”. She read it well. Another man played a war song on  a cornet.  This would normally be played on a bugle. it was a good, loud song.

After he played half way through the song, we had the 2-minute silence. We thought about all the people who had fallen in the war. After the two minutes, he finished his bugle song.

by Archie and Owen

 

 

Reflecting

When making the poppies, we thought it was really fun. There were people drawing chalk circles and leaves on the felt, people cutting them out, people sewing on buttons and people gluing the pins on. We didn’t quite have enough felt so we bought more, but it ended up that it was too much!

In the end , we’d say it went well. We raised £360.45 in total for Poppy Scotland! Something we should have invested in  more, was felt scissors, seeing as we only had two that worked. We also bought a bit too many hot glue sticks, pins, buttons and needles but otherwise we thought it was good.

-by Maximus & Lauren