WOW! What a week - as always, fun-filled and full of excitement!
This week has seen the children in Class 3 read through our play ‘Bombs and Blackberries’. I can safely say this half term's topic of WWII has been everybody’s favourite! The children have been engaged from day dot and have become fully immersed into a world of WWII!
The play has seen every child take on a part, encouraging their reading skills, comprehension and use of tone, intonation and expression, which has just been wonderful to see. Thank you all for giving such a lot of effort into this topic and enjoying it so much, it’s been a joy to teach.
This week, the children wrote letters to Julia Donaldson, the author of our play. The questions and opinions given in the letters, along with book ideas for the future were just outstanding, as your teacher it was overwhelming to see how much you have thoroughly enjoyed this topic and play! They are ready to send off to her and make sure you have everything crossed for a reply!!
Continuing the theme of WWII, the children got to work together to create their ‘parachute bombs’ (eggs!) They put into practice their teamwork skills, followed their design plans and created some excellent parachutes. We had lots of fun creating and then testing, which saw two joint 1st teams whose parachutes held up and also protected their eggs with an incredible result of no cracks!! The children have learnt all about air resistance and gravity and also how these forces were used in WWII!
Class 3 have also designed and created their very own WWII inspired medals using ‘Shrinkies’. We studied Alan Turing and the Enigma code where children cracked codes and created some of their own, using a cipher wheel. As he was awarded an OBE, we looked into different medals from the wars and the reasons they were given. The children have then gone away and created their own medals, thinking about why they would want to give the medals. The results were wonderful, we’ve had medals for kindness, saving the world, community even a medal for achieving in your occupation! Due to time, we created our medals on shrinking paper which goes in the oven and shrinks 7 times smaller and 7 times thicker, creating the perfect 3D hard plastic medal which we have then turned into a key ring! The pictures show the process and result!
Some other exciting things have been our author meet with Sophy Henn on Thursday afternoon. It was incredible! Not only did the children get to meet a real life author but we got to share some non-fiction books together, learn about how to write and illustrate a book as well as competing in some challenges and learning how to draw a cheetah from the book! Sophy Henn is a brilliant author who has created a book called ‘Lifesize’ where Sophy has researched different animals and has created parts in the book which show their real life size selves! Awesome!
Friday was a calm and relaxing day where we shared brownies made by Edie for her 300 challenge (they were incredible - thank you!) all raising money for the PTFA. Class 3 also took part in some Yoga which they really enjoyed and found it very relaxing and resetting, meaning they were all ready for half term.
An amazing half term Class 3, I cannot wait to share our last one together next week!
Take care and rest up ready for more fun...

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