Guess Who

Take a look at the following YouTube video and try to research/work out who the famous person from history is. Next, use the clues on the different slides, to work out/research the facts associated with this famous person.

Good luck!

Second Slam!

Another class had a go at the first World War Socratic Slam. Check out round Three's debate. It really is worth a watch!
 

WOW - Now these are History Stories

everybody should read!

World War One's Morning Narrative!

Hello reader,

Here is Josh's magnificent short story from our recent unit on World War One. Josh also designed a reading comprehension to go with it which we will be using in one of our morning sessions.

More Terrific Trenches!

Top Trench Design!

Here are some photographs of trenches which were made at home.

SOCRATIC SMACKDOWN!

That's right ladies and gentlemen - Socratic Smackdown! If you aren't familiar with this concept of discussion/debate style lesson then please follow the Institute of Play link. This activity was recommended by a very creative and innovative colleague of mine named Tom Kean. Essentially, the idea behind the lesson, is that the children take part in a team debate based on a particular theme. In our case the theme was 'Who was responsible for starting World War One?' Why don't you take a look at the video and see if you can decide who was responsible for starting the Great War!

Who started WW1?

In Year 6, we have been looking at which nation was ultimately responsible for starting the First World War. Here are some of the different nation's questions and responses to the questions posed (answers which were researched by the different groups/nations).

Britain
  Austro-Hungary France
  Germany Russia

Assembling the GFOL

Here is a link to a presentation for a Year 2 assembly on the GFOL. Please take some time to check out the awesome videos (using a green screen) which demonstrate the incredible fun and learning the Year 2's are having with this unit!

The Great War on stage

Today, we were privileged to witness a truly magnificent WW1 assembly by Y6B. It really was brilliant!

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!

Here are some of the magnificent newspaper articles from our English unit on WW1.

Thoughts on the Treaty

Some of our thoughts about the decisions concerning the Treaty of Versailles...

Choices, Choices...?

If you had to make one of these choices which would you choose?





Was the treaty of Versailles the catalyst for the Second World War?

Breaking the Code - Central Power Style!

In maths, we had a go at trying to break the Field Marshall Haig's code. Can you break it? You have to find the common factors for the numerator and denominator in the fractions. For the fractions sums you have to multiply the denominator and numerator by the number in the brackets to find the appropriate equivalent fractions.




Here is the coded letter.







Here is the cipher for the code.

A = 4

E = 5

F or L = 2

R = 10

S or i = 7

M or T = 3

O = 6

C = 6/9

G = 5/20

H = 7/14

N = 12/15

P = 42/60

U = 27/72

W = 3/9

Y = 21/27