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Cassiopeia and I have been very lucky to be involved with a WW1 project organised by Wiltshire Museum and The Royal British Legion remembering local soldiers. We offered to write a letter from a WW1 solider back home. The soldier was a real person, he is remembered on the Rowde Memorial. We were given some information about him to help, but we also used our learning this week and the 1911 census to help. I am so proud of their ideas and I think the letter we have written together is excellent. It is all the children's own ideas and words, I have only helped in the ordering and structure of the letter and by asking questions to encourage ideas. It will be on display in Devizes, along with 29 other letters as part of the remembrance celebrations. This will be during the weekend of 27th and 28th October, as soon as I have more details I will let you know. We are very excited to see it!

Thank you so much for all the support you have given Cassiopeia with their home learning. I have loved reading and looking at all their wonderful ideas. There has been a lovely range of ways to present their ideas, with lots of differing opinions on whether to live in the Stone Age or not. Here are just a few of the pieces.

This week we have been learning about what it was like to be a soldier in the trenches during WW1. We have read letters from WW1 soldier's to their families, researched what the trenches were like and the daily lives of the soldiers there. We created freeze frames to illustrate life in the trenches. Here our some of the freeze frames, can you guess what we are doing?

This week we were cooking in Forest School. We made camp fire bread, vegetable stew and herbal tea, we also practiced fire building and lighting. We had great fun and discussed what life would have been like during the Stone Age, as these activities linked very well to what life could have been like then. Sadly we had to eat our stew the next day as the fire wouldn't behave! This also meant we couldn't cook our bread, however we talked about what would have happened in the Stone Age if your fire wouldn't stay lit. Mrs Lander cooked the stew for us at home and brought it in for us the next day, nearly everyone ate all of their stew. So clearly they love vegetables!!

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We are having the most brilliant time during Forest School. This week we finished off our bows and arrows, made dream catchers and tree spirits. We talked about the religious beliefs Stone Age people might have had, and how they were very respectful to nature.