In our topic lesson today we started to explore how it may have felt to be an evacuee.  We watched the first few minutes of “Goodnight Mr Tom” and discussed both how Willy and Mr Tom must have felt.  We are now in the process of making some evacuee size suitcases and I have asked the children to think about what they would have packed if they were an evacuee.  Next week I am hoping they will bring in their precious things to explore how they would have felt leaving their homes and families behind, not knowing if they would return or what they would return to.

The Rhino class were privileged to experience two workshops this week from our visitors who delivered the anti-bullying message.   The children enjoyed the drama and relaxation workshops that followed the whole school assembly.

Thank you to our fantastic PTA who bought a set of The Lion and the Unicorn books for us.  Shirley Hughes is a wonderful children’s writer and the class are enjoying the book so far.  The main character Lenny has just gone into the air raid shelter with his mum and we have started some descriptive writing about the scene outside the shelter.  Here are the children making exciting sentences using fronted adverbials, adjectives and brackets.  They were all really impressed how professional their sentences sounded.

The children enjoyed studying the beautiful autumnal leaves and painting pumpkins to make autumn decorations.

We used the lovely art work that the children completed for the harvest festival to start to build a new window display around the hymn All Things Bright and Beautiful.  It  is a work in progress so we will enjoy watching it evolve.  The poppies were taken to the church, each person on the memorial was given a poppy and a thoughful message was written by the children, I think they look lovely as I drive past in the morning.  We will not forget.

Look at some of the amazing work Rhinos have done to make this display so informative.  We did a lot of work around the book War Horse, thank you for supporting their learning, I think some of you bought the book and I know others of you watched the film with your children (a real tearjerker).  I love some of the questions they would have liked to ask the soldiers in the trenches and their watercolour poppies were fantastic.

We had an amazing  and informative day at Cosford Air Museum.  The children were really interested to find out more about the aircraft and weapons housed at the museum. We enjoyed the workshop “Spirit of the Blitz” which gave the children a flavour of school, rationing and air raids.  They were all brave and went into the Anderson shelter and some children tried out the Morrison shelter.  We walked miles so I bet they were all tired tonight but it was a real pleasure to take your interested and polite children out for the day, I hope they enjoyed it.