Our Anderson Air Raid Shelters

For the past two weeks for our homework we have been making Anderson Air Raid Shelters.

We have all worked very hard on them and today we brought them in to show everyone.Everyone was amazed at how great they are! Anderson Air Raid Shelters were used in world war 2 to protect people from the bombs. They had to be covered with at least 15 inches of mud/soil.

If you did not have a garden to put one in you would have a Morrison Shelter which was under your table and had a cloth on top.

Tomorrow we will take some pictures of them and put them on the blog for you to look at.

By Alisha Dolman and Olivia Millband

Wartime Rationing

During 1939 - 1945 (otherwise known as world war two) there were a lot of shortages in lots of everyday items. People would use coupons to obtain clothes and food. This was called rationing.

In other words supplies came more and more hard to get in the local shops. Clothes were in desperate needs within time. Women went far to receive clothing. Some used to draw on clothes so they look like everyone else. To do this they stained their legs with tea and used eyeliner at the back as the seams. We found out some recipes, here is just one of them:

Woolton pie

Ingredients:

1lb diced potatoes

1lb cauliflower

1lb diced carrots

1lb diced Swede

3 spring onions

1 teaspoon of vegetable extract

1 tablespoon of oatmeal

a little chopped parsley

Method:
Cook everything together with just enough water to cover, stirring often to prevent it sticking to the pan , let the mixture cool. Spoon into a pie dish, sprinkle with chopped parsley. Cover with a crust of potato or wholemeal pastry. Bake in a moderate oven until golden. Serve with gravy.

Health Bread

Ingredients:

11/2lb self raising flour

1 teacup sugar

1 breakfast cup of syrup

1 egg

1 breakfast cup of raisins with stones removed

1 breakfast cup of milk

a pinch of salt

Mix together the sugar, flour, salt and raisins. Beat the egg and add into the milk and syrup. Mix all ingredients together. Bake in two well greased loaf tins in a moderate oven for approx 11/2 hours. Slice thinly after a couple of days and serve with butter or margarine. Will keep for a month in a tin.

I hope you enjoyed reading our facts and our interesting recipes!

By Alanah Edwards and Chloe Pike

New laptops!

We are very lucky to have a brand new set of laptops in school. In Formula Base we were given the responsibilty of setting them up for the younger children in the school and checking that they work correctly and of course - they do! These laptops are really going to enhance our learning as we can all be working on them at the same time.

We used them to research about Dunkirk and have also word processed stories and poems about the snow on them.

The Evacuation of Dunkirk

The Evacuation Model is finished! We added sand to our beach for effect and have added toy soldiers and vehicles and are now enjoying playing with the model and re-enacting the evacuation with the toy soldiers, toy military vehicles and our own little ships!

Here are the final pictures:

Adding sand to the beach:
We've added our little ships: How great does this look? Very realistic - we love it!Re-enacting the Evacuation of Dunkirk is very popular!

We Need You!!!

At the beginning of World War II the numbers of men in the British Forces was quite low - certainly not enough to fight the Germans! So men were encouraged to join the forces and fight for their country.

Posters were put up to encourage men to join the forces and also to encourage women to work in jobs where the men would have worked before they went to work. Eventually,as numbers remained low, men were required to join the forces.This was called conscription.

Take a look at the posters we have designed:

Would they persuade you to join?

Little Ships

We have been learning about the evacuation of Dunkirk during World War II.



In May 1940 a huge British Expeditionary force of 250,000 men was sent to France to help fight the powerful German advance. The British and French forces became surrounded by the Germans and forced towards the sea and the town of Dunkirk. What would they do? They had three choices - surrender, fight to death or escape! 338,226 troops were evacuated from Dunkirk between 27 May and 4 June 1940. 933 ships took part in the evacuation named operation Dynamo and were called Little Ships.


For more facts about Dunkirk follow this link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/02_february/03/dunkirk.shtml

In Formula Base we are creating a model of Dunkirk. We have looked at pictures of Dunkirk and the Little Ships and are using what we have seen to build the beach scene using various techniques to create the sand dunes, beach and sea. We are also building an armada of Little Ships using junk modelling and paper construction techniques.

Here are some photos of our work so far:

Archaeological Dig

We have been fortunate to be able to do some work about archaeology. The site of the new Milldown Primary School is currently being excavated by archaeologists after possible Bronze

Age remains were found. 18 children from years 5 and 6 had the opportunity to visit the site, meet the archaeologists and take part in some activities.

Those children who didn't go to the dig researched the Bronze Age and have produced some fantastic leaflets.

The children will want to tell you more but until then here are some photographs of our morning. The site

Using flint to strip the fat off the back of an animal skin.

Examining the animal skins.

Listening to information about building the pre-historic house .

Splitting hazel for the roof of the house with a bronze age tool.
Grinding wheat to make flour.
Washng the flints very carefully so we can see if they were worked tools.
The flits we washed.
Finding out all about animal bones.