Our first half term together saw visits to Meanwood Valley and Eden Camp. Last half term, we focused on we focused on World War Two as our central topic and thus began studying the evacuation, the British Empire and the Blitz. Students produced some fantastic posters following our Eden Camp trip – including detailed pieces on the use of gas masks and rationing during the war. Discussions were also sparked by our class novel – To the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll – and our music lessons in which we learned songs from the 1940’s.

In our final week, students also got the opportunity to attempt an Alan Turing code-breaker ‘escape room’ through which students attempted challenging numerical and word-based problem solving.

I was particularly impressed with Macy, Maddie, Majd and Sophie for their extra history research and we had the pleasure of listening to some fantastic presentations about ‘history heroes’ from World War 2.