Our New Theme: War Game 4RW

In Year 4 today, we started our new theme, War Game. This is a short theme which will last for two weeks. During this theme we will study World War One using the fantastic picture book "War Game" by Michael Foreman.

4RW were set the homework task of making a poppy to go on our wreath for the Remembrance Assembly which was led by Year 7. The first job of the morning was to arrange these poppies onto our wreath. All of the children put in lots of effort with this homework and came up with some very original ways to make their poppies. You can see some of our poppies below:

Before we attended the assembly we found out some background information about World War One including why we hold a Remembrance Service on the 11th November and why we wear a poppy to show that we are remembering. We discussed why it is important to remember and you can see some of our thoughts below:

In our R.E lessons this half term we are looking at "Big Questions". Linked to this, 4RW had a discussion about whether it is right or wrong that children are allowed to play games involving guns. We had a very thought provoking discussion in which many issues were raised. I was very impressed with the maturity the children showed this morning. At the end of the session, the children tried to summarise their thoughts on the issue. Here are some of them below:

We are very much looking forward to continuing our work on this theme and are sure the children will learn plenty from it. Keep a look out for our future War Game posts.