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Is that a fleet of ships coming from France?

Found this great clip on YouTube. Really clever – brings the Bayeux Tapestry to life!

We think we are going to love our Medieval Europe topic…

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A Fitting End

Rather than leave our First World War entries unfinished, I thought that we would just note down how we brought our studies into The First World War to an end…
Our last activity was to complete our charcoal studies of scenes from The War. Those of you who saw our earlier charcoal drawings will have seen [...]

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A Sad Day on The Somme – by A

A writes:
I am in a trench with the lads from back home. Last night my white cold ears were bleeding from the terrifying explosions – it was impossible to sleep for the shelling.
At dawn I was waiting for something to happen. It was quiet. Too quiet.
Suddenly, I heard the whistle to go over the [...]

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To Hell and Back – A story of The Battle of the Somme by M

M writes :
1st July, 1916.  Battle of The Somme.
It was impossible to sleep last night because of the large artillery – that horrible whistling sound  that you couldn’t block out – the deafening sound of the exploding shells.
Dawn approached. The silence before we had to leave the safety of the trench was scary. Some [...]

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The Middle East in WW1 – Basra, Suez and Gallipoli

M writes:
Britain and Turkey both controlled land in The Persian Gulf  at the start of The First World War. Britain needed to keep control of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, so Britain sent troops into Basra in November of 1914.
In February of 1915, the Turks struck back by attacking the Suez Canal, essential to the Allies [...]

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Book Review – Tony Robinson’s Worst Children’s Jobs in History

M (10) writes:
Do you think your chores are bad? Do you think that your schoolwork is difficult? Well, read on!
I am going to tell you about Tony Robinson’s  book “The Worst Children’s Jobs in History”. This book gives you information about the worst, grottiest, smelliest, most disgusting and back-breaking jobs that children have been [...]

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The Christmas Truce – 1914

M and A have today been making a time-line of the first year of  The First World War, as a way of revising and recording those events that we have studied so far in our WW1 project.
We will be adding those dates and events to a larger time-line which extends around the walls of our [...]

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BBC Skillswise – A Fabulous Resource

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – the BBC provides a fantastic online resource for teachers and learners.
I was searching for a good resource for teaching ideas on spelling patterns, homophones, prefixes, suffixes, etc. when I came across this :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/
It has some useful factsheets, online games, quizzes and printable worksheets. (English spellings, [...]

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