History - WW2

Code Breaking Challenge 

Excellent teamwork and reasoning skills in our history lesson this week when we worked together to solve secret codes using a cypher wheel. It took quite a bit of perseverance and patience but we did a great job. We learnt about different codes and ways to send messages during WW2 and how mathematicians with great problem solving brains were vital to the war effort. 

These two fabulous teams were so good at code breaking they even created their own code for each other to solve,  and were super competitive to see who solved it first!

Blitz Paintings

• We are very proud of our Blitz artwork. We mixed a range of hues to create a background and blended them with sponges and different brushes to create texture; then we added details using tones of grey and white.

Once the paint dried, we made stencils from card and added the city scenes and bombers to the backgrounds using charcoal. 

Air Raid in Athersley 

It was quite surprising to hear the air raid siren go off (very loudly) in our classroom.  We didn't panic, we sat squashed up under our desks and tried to imagine how it would have felt to be a child in WW2 and experience this for real.