As we approach 11am on 11th November 2018, the children have been learning about WW1 this week, marking the centenary of the end of the war in many different ways.  Year 3 have learned that animals played an important part during the war and commemorated them by making a wreath with different coloured poppies.  Red for remembrance, white for peace and purple for the animals...

Children have also been writing poems using their knowledge of life in the trenches.  There has been some great learning taking place, using expanded noun phrases; writing Kenning poems - poems which have 2 words per line, and act as clues leading you to a final answer.  Acrostic poems were written in Year 1 about poppies which gave the children the chance to expand their vocabulary linked to remembrance.

Year 6 chose to remember the fallen.....

Year 5 wrote personal messages on their poppy wreath...

The children learned a great amount about the First World War and the meaning of remembrance.