Year 5 went back to 1939.

We dressed in World War II type clothing and completed our look with gas mask boxes, ID cards, ration cards and evacuation tags.

We spent the day learning about the role of propaganda during the war; designing our own evacuation posters while also experiencing an air raid or two! We were asked regularly to prove who we were by showing our identity cards or risk spending time being questioned by a policeman.

At lunchtime, we had to use our ration coupons to collect our WWII lunch of corn beef hash with potatoes and carrots. Mrs Crockford and her team provided the lunch and dressed in the style of 1940’s women. In the afternoon, we were visited by Jerome who let us explore many WWII artefacts. Mrs McKenzie then taught us WWII music on the ukulele.

At the end of the day, parents came in to the ‘evacuation hall’ to decide which evacuee they wanted to take home with them. It was a long wait for some of us…

We’re back from a lovely three days at the Sustainability Centre. It was a packed three days and we were so grateful that the weather was kind to us. The children experienced different activities which included sculpting clay animals, crafting clay and chalk bricks, constructing a clay oven, learning about bush survival with fire making, den building, a fantastically informative WW2 talk with very special artefacts and also a trip to a local farm championing sustainability.  We also had night time activities of a night walk on the South Downs, encounter sheep in the process as well as being treated to a magical storytelling session of local folk tales and songs last night.

The children ate well including plenty of biscuits and have even learned how to put a duvet cover on. There were very few tears and the children said they really enjoyed the experience of being responsible and independent.

Here is selection of photos to give you a flavour of our time away.

Have a lovely weekend.

P.S WW2 Evacuation dress up day will be on this Monday (17^th October) – please dress up as an evacuee and bring a gas mask box and/or name tag.

Hello everyone!

We hope you’ve had a fun week, we certainly have!

Here are just some snapshots of our fantastic few days away! On the Wednesday, we created sticky mosaics collecting colours and textures in nature, create clay tree spirits, played on the paddock, created a clay oven, made a wall out of chalk and made  an earth bag structure! And that was all before dinner which was scrumptious pizza and salad, with carrot cake for afters! To help our dinner go down, we set off on our night walk along the South downs. We were lucky enough to catch the sunset and it was beautiful!

Day two started with ball games on the padlock after a large breakfast! We then played the bee game, in which we could only communicate to our fellow bee team mates by buzzing and shaking our bottoms! We then hopped onto a tractor and explored the farms on the downs! We saw goats, sheep, pheasants, birds of prey and some of us caught the glimpse of a deer!  Next activity was orienteering! We loved this and could really show off our map skills! We also had a WW2 presentation on exploring artefacts!

After our broccoli and cheese potato bake for dinner, we headed to the woodland house for campfire stories and songs. Walking home in the dark woods was rather exciting, but we were glad when we got back to the lodge for a hot chocolate and biscuits.

On the last day, we woke up well rested and had another large breakfast. This gave us enough energy to go on a tinder walk and how to create a fire using different materials. We then worked in teams to create a den! It was a competition but we all won with our amazing den building skills!

We had a wonderful time and Mrs Jackson-Nash, Mrs Moore and Mrs Emmerson said we were fantastic and went to bed very well!

We can’t wait for the Year 6 residential!