Year 6 have had another busy week, as we have immersed ourselves in the trenches - quite literally! We recreated life in the trenches, re-enacting trench warfare in the Immersion Room, to understand both the futility and horror of the World War I. We were particularly shocked by the endless noise, the fact that you could be shot by friendly fire and even killed for desertion. We were all very reflective as we made our way back to class.
In English, we have been studying the works of famous World War I poets including Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. We emulated their techniques including collective noun, personification, onomatopoeia and alliteration. We also embraced the impact of short sentences for effective endings to these poems. Reading them aloud made us all understand the distress, frustration and shock experienced by the young men at the time.
In RE we have been considering the concept of privilege, and whether it is right to lead a privileged life. Many of us concluded that although it is not right to have too much, we don't want to have too little, either. In a similar way to Buddhists, we would look to follow a 'Middle Way'.
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