Wartime Organisation

11th September 2024Ruth Shields

This week we continued our history case study by starting to learn about the organisation of wartime. We learned there were 4 organisations that people belonged to which were: Armed Forces, the government, special operations and the home front. We discussed that regardless of which group people were part of that everyone played a vital role in the war effort. Children then took on the role of someone from the war and interviewed each other asking questions about when they weee born, where they were stationed and their role. This was an opportunity to practice our reading within our expedition lesson and support each other.

Expeditionary learning in MI

9th September 2024Stacey McClare

Today we learnt about the different organisations and people who contributed to the war effort. Our main activity allowed us to take part in an interview where we asked each other questions about the role card we had read about. Some children then performed their interview in front of the whole crew! We then shared the different role cards as a whole crew, learning about each person individually.

Music – We’ll Meet Again

6th September 2024Ruth Shields

As part of our history hook week, we’ve spent some time looking at the music of War time and the importance of this to boost morale. One of these songs was We’ll Meet Again by Vera Lynn. Then we used instruments to create a soundscape of sounds from the war.

World War 2 visitor

6th September 2024Ruth Shields

On Tuesday, we were fortunate to have Time Travel Education come into school to learn about different aspects of World War 2. First, we were introduced to the beginning of the war and the key people: Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill. We learnt about the air raids and the role of the wardens. Then we had to opportunity to help get rid of the fire bombs that had been dropped. This required teamwork to keep everyone safe.

Evacuation was our next area to learn about. The children got to learn about the upheaved to family life to ensure the safety of the children. They packed their bags and were given an insight into rationing. We had a shop keeper and some customers who came to spend their vouchers. We’ll build on this later in the case study.

In the last session, we learned about how the Wardens would deliver first aid and met Ernie (dummy) who had become trapped in a building that had been blown up. Once we seen how to treat a broken femur, we had the opportunity to treat our partner for the same condition.

In between the sessions in the hall, we had access to boxes of artefacts which came with reading materials to help us learn about each one.

Our favourite one was as craft that had a map printed on it. Aircrew would wear this so that if their plane went down they’d have a map on them to help navigate their way to safety.

Composing music to demonstrate events of WW2

6th September 2024Laura Godley


Today we used the knowledge we have gained so far on The Blitz to begin to compose a composition of music using different instruments. We explored sound clips taken during WW2, including aircraft, the Blitz and air raid sirens. We thought about the pitch and tone, selecting instruments which best demonstrated the effects. We then looked at how we can show different beats and started to layer the different parts of our composition. We have begun to put our piece of music together, demonstrating how well we can work together as a crew to produce our final piece of music.

Music composition in MI

4th September 2024Stacey McClare

Today we used the knowledge we have gained so far on The Blitz to compose a composition of music with different instruments. We then looked at how we can show different beats and started to layer the different parts of our composition. We worked so well in mini crews, encouraging each other and ensuring everyone was involved. Then we all performed our composition to the whole crew 🙂 A great afternoon in MI 🙂

Exploring the events of WW2

4th September 2024Laura Godley

Today we explored the time frames of WW2, we looked at key moments in history and developed our own timelines to record the key facts of WW2. This further developed our understanding of the time frame of WW2 challenging our thinking around our perceptions of a World War. It was surprising to discover that Hitler had died before the war was declared to be over. Declan then deceived to deepen his understanding of some key events by researching, independently.

Exploring WW2

4th September 2024Laura Godley

Time Travel education came into school today and delivered a WW2 workshop that brought events of WW2 to life. We discovered the causes of WW2 and the homefront. We really enjoyed the experience and it helped to kick start our expedition and build on some of the concepts we have already started to explore in crew together.

WW2 workshop in MI

3rd September 2024Stacey McClare

Time Travel education came into school today and delivered a WW2 workshop that introduced many concepts of WW2. The experience brought events of WW2 to life and children were able to handle a range of objects which we all loved. Children learnt about the causes of WW2, the homefront, The Blitz, kit, equipment and weapons, rationing and evacuees. We really enjoyed becoming shopkeepers where we learnt some of the foods that were rationed! We were shocked by some of our weekly allowances. This experience really helped to kick start our expedition and build on some of the concepts we have already started to explore in class together.

Being an evacuee for the day…

3rd September 2024Emily Ibbotson

In Crew MI, we came to school dressed up as evacuees and participated in a range of exciting activities. First, we learnt about the blitz. We watched clips and listened to sound effects to imagine what it was like during this awful time. We even had a go at working in mini crews to create our own Anderson Shelters. Next, we learnt what evacuation was and why some children were evacuated to the safety of the countryside. We then became evacuees ourselves and packed our suitcases with what we thought we needed, decorated our train ticket and then got on the train waving goodbye to our families. Overall, we had a great day and learnt so many more interesting facts about life in WW2.