Wonderful WW1 Work!

We have been working so hard in St. Clare's this half term to become experts on World War One. Here are just a few examples of some of the amazing work that has been produced in the last few weeks. Well done everyone!

These propaganda posters are inspired by the sinking of the Lusitania on 7th May 1915. Once we had learned about the Lusitania, we looked at some real propaganda posters inspired by the disaster, then created some of our own.

Sadako and Letters to the U.N.

Source: wikipedia

On Thursday, we learned about the tragic bombing of Hiroshima on 6th August, 1945 at 8:15am. Through the story of 'Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes', we learned about what happened at Hiroshima and the effects that lasted for many years beyond.

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We had a long and interesting P4C session; each group suggested a fascinating question and the class voted to discuss, 'Why do some countries still have nuclear bombs, after the experience of Hiroshima?'

Following our discussion, all of the children were fired up with strong opinions about this topic. We decided that we should write to someone, to share our views. The children were very keen to spread Sadako's prayer for peace:

'This is our cry,

This is our prayer,

Peace in the world.'

After some discussion, we decided that the United Nations would be the most sensible choice.

We posted the letters on Friday, and we are hopeful that they will respond. We have received two letters from the government this year in response to our letters; hopefully the U.N. will also write back to us!

Here are some of the powerful and emotive letters that the children wrote to the U.N.:

 By Gracie

 By Kenan

By Rory

 By Blessie

 By Jack N.

 By D

By Finn

Snack Attack!

As part of our Fairtrade project, Year 5 are doing our bit to change the world! This week, we all wrote letters to David Cameron to try to persuade him to pass a law commanding all supermarkets to sell use Fairtrade ingredients for their own brand products and for other products, wherever possible. Year 5 are also planning and preparing for our Fairtrade Snack Sale. It will be held next Friday at 3:30pm in the Small Hall- please come along and help us support Oxfam's Fairtrade work!

This half term, we are also competing against each other in the Snack Attack challenge! Everyone in Year 5 is working with a team to create a new and original Fairtrade snack. As a school, we will be submitting ONE entry to the national competition- so each team are competing to win the first heat at school. The snack must include Fairtrade ingredients and must appeal to customers. We need to think of an original name for the product; design the packaging; create a logo and produce video, radio and print advertisements.

Here are some of our TV advertisements:

Click the links to view our adverts... 

Space:

Snack On It: https://animoto.com/play/YpvJNILFQxJE5AXXK8A19A
Cool Down: https://animoto.com/play/0zMKovJSXMPsAgkLbhUxug
Cool Down 2: https://animoto.com/play/FlB1YwlpmXnDyJgZ2SkduQ
Crazy Cubes: https://animoto.com/play/nbBhru9Jhrb3jq17dFoMDQ 
Top of the Chocs: https://animoto.com/play/GB2mGqoWO1xgmFwsqAqkUg

Here are some of the Snack Attack teams at work creating prototypes of their packaging:

Here are the completed packaging prototypes:

Come to our Fairtrade Snack Sale next week to vote for your favourite Fairtrade Snack- we'll be sending our winning entry off to the national competition!

Superstar Writers!

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Last week, we learned all about George Washington Carver and Doctor James West. We decided that they were fantastic scientists and role models and that therefore they should be represented in London's Science Museum. We wrote some persuasive letters to the Science Museum to convince them to put on an exhibition about either George Washington Carver or Doctor James West.

Here are some wonderful examples; remember to click on the pictures to make them larger and easier to read:

By Francis

By D

By Harry