St. Cuthbert's P7s remembers the Christmas Truce

On the final day of Term, P7s took part in a football match to honour the Christmas Truce of 1914. We were given German and British identities and enjoyed singing Silent Night in German and in English. We shook hands, introduced ourselves in our 'native' language and played a well fought game of football. Despite the rain, everyone enjoyed participating in such an important and symbolic event. Oh and by the way, the score was 0-0. A draw seemed to be an appropriate result!

 

Festive Greetings

Merry Christmas to everyone, hope you have a wonderful Christmas and enjoy the festive holiday. Over the past few weeks P7 have been very busy. These have been some of our highlights:

• We had our Christmas party with P6
• We saw Cinderella at the Panto
• We went to the cinema to see a French movie called 'Belle et Sebastien'
• Our class visited the National War Museum to learn about WW2
• Another thing that we have learned about is the WW1 Christmas truce
• We are preparing for a carol service
• The P1 class performed a nativity and the rest of the school sang songs

As you can see we have done lots of things so we will be glad to have our holidays and enjoy winding down and preparing for Christmas. A farwell will be needed soon because it's our last year at primary school. We all hope our last months are as good as the rest. P7 hope all your Christmas wishes come true and you have a Happy New Year. 

by
   Ellie and Owen

My War, my Family by Liam

As you may know, P7 had a museum about WW2. I, alongside Holly, Owen, Patrick, Sach and Sean worked at a station calle 'My Family, my War'. We all had family members in the war. Sean and I had a great-gran who was an evacuee. Owen's great grandad fought in Burma. Patrick's two grandads fought in the war and survived. Sacha's great grandad fought in the war and survived. I enjoyed it all very much, it was a special day and we got great feedback.

 

WW2 Rationing by Rachel

This exhibit display focussed on Rationing. People had to be inventive of what food they were given. Rationing started in 1940 and ended in 1954. Men in the army got a ration box to help them in the war. Mrs Greig baked some fabulous wartime bread for family and friends to taste. Also, we had carrot cookies and spam. For those who don't know what spam is, it is pork and ham mixed together. Most of all, I loved dressing up and doing the play and songs with the class.

 

My War Museum by Owen

This exhibit display focussed on 'My War, My Family. In the station, I created a poster on my great-grandfather who fought in WW2. On the War Museum Day, I had to explain to parents and teachers about my poster and my great-grandfather. I explained to them where he fought, what happened to him and about the medals he won.

I loved the day because it was interesting to learn about WW2 and it was fun because we got to taste 1940's food and we got to see our families.

 

 

 

My Museum Day by Abi

This display's exhibit was about Propaganda, a type of advertisement mainly shown as posters, and showed some good examples of propaganda that P7 had made. The threee "Sayings" that the propaganda was based on were: 'Dig for Victory' - encouraging people to farm for food, 'Tittle, Tattle Lost the Battle - reminding people not to talk about their plans as there could be German spies listening, and 'Make, Do and Mend' - telling people to recycle or reuse by fixing/mending everything that had been been broken. Fun fact: American propaganda slyly let on that Hitler's real name was the unpleasant sounding Snicklegruber. I loved the day; it was exciting, informative and we got sweets at the end.

 

Man your stations! By Barbara

What an experience! On 19th November, WW2 brought a small bit of life to the P7 classroom. Everyone had a station whether it was welcoming the parents in or giving them free samples. Everyone loved everything about the day. I was at the 'Take Shelter' table. I explained everything about the Anderson Shelters, gas masks, hand-made toys an lots more. My favourite part was when we were singing and I turned to the left and saw my Nana standing there singing along (she had said she was not coming so I was really shellshocked).