Year 3 students reflect on the World War 1 week
Year 3 were asked to reflect upon what they had
learnt and enjoyed about our WW1 commemorations in school. Activities included,
dressing up in 1914 styles, learning about soldiers from
different ethnic backgrounds, creating factfiles, reading war poetry, creating acrostic poems and holding an exhibition in school of their work.
Students from both year 3 classes wrote...
“I have learnt that you get
poppies on remembrance day. I really liked it when we did our WW1 posters. We all did a PE lesson with drills, it
was JUST how they did it in 1914.”
“In school we have been learning about WW1. It was really
exiting when the teachers taught us like they did in the past like how they did
work and they sat in single desks. In
our class we talked about Christmas truce. In school read a poem called ‘Flanders Field’ and learnt about Wilfred
Feeny and other famous soldiers.”
“I liked
it on when we were singing a song to perform in assembly called 'It’s a long way to
Tipperary'"
“At school we have been learning about World War
1 and I really enjoyed it when we got to do handwriting, and when we did dressed up. I dressed up a school girl! We did a WW1 timeline which was really
fun. My favourite thing was when we made a poster about the famous ethnic
soldiers. I also liked when we learned about ethnic minorities and one was called Walter
Tull.”
“In school we have been
learning about WW1 we have learnt about soldier’s uniform,
weapons and also food. I learnt we wear poppies in November because it was what grew on Flanders Feild”
“I liked doing posters and booklets about ethnic minorities (my table
were learning about Wilfred Feeny). I liked that the war stopped because people
wanted a peaceful truce at Christmas. I liked the handwriting because we copied an interesting poem called from the fallen by Laurenance Binyon”.
