Our final week sees us completing our World War 2 topic in History for this half term. The children have so enjoyed learning about this topic and deepen our knowledge on our sustainability trip, in lessons and through our home learning. The children are very excited about a day trip planned in November to Fort Nelson, the Royal Armories, to become part of a WW2 squadron to complete challenges as if the children were taking on the different job roles undertaken in wartime.

This week, Year 5 has been exploring character’s emotions and feeling based on evacuation scenarios. They showed with their body language and facial expressions how they were feeling whilst saying goodbye to their mothers at the train station, waiting to be picked up by their new foster family and their first day at a new school. We used characters from our guided reading text: Letters from the Lighthouse and Carrie’s War to inspire the characterisation in our drama work in order to aid our diary writing.