Monday
10th October was evacuee day for classes Ruby and Opal {Year
3 - 4}.
For a day, the children pretended they were evacuees. They started
the day in their classrooms by filling in their evacuee identification
labels and learning the importance of their gasmasks and that they
must always take them with them.
From their classrooms, the children moved to the school hall where
Mr Roberts had laid out many WWII relics - gasmasks for adults, children,
and babies, a siren, stretcher, various toys, contemporary to the
period, and an erect Anderson shelter.
Mr Roberts explained to the children how to put on gasmasks, to
go straight into the Anderson shelter when the siren went and to
continue with their schoolwork there.
At playtime, the children played with the toys, with the help
of their teachers, one or two even managed to take a few
steps on
stilts.
After playtime, it was explained to the children the importance
of the blackout, how to use the basic fire fighting equipment
and
the importance of the A. R. P wardens.
From an observer’s point of view, it was obvious the children
had a fun day, and undoubtedly, they learnt a great deal about
the day to day life of an evacuee.
Meet
the evacuees
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Monday
17th October, poetry reading and poetry appreciation day.
Brian
Moses writes and edits poetry and picture books for children,
overall he has published 165 books.
Brian
spent the day at the school, he spent the morning in the classrooms
with the children, encouraging them to read poems aloud to
their class mates with expression and feeling. Brian also got
the children to write their own poems, helping them with rhythm
and rhyme.
In
the afternoon the children were treated to a poetry and percussion
show in the school hall.
Mr
Moses accompaned himself on a variety of percussion
instruments as he read
to the children a number of his own poems. Some
were scary, some
very funny, some with a message. The children loved them.
The
funniest poem Mr Moses read, I thought, had the children in
fits of laughter, it was about teachers in their staff room,
stuffing
themselves
with
cream
cakes
and
doughnuts,
'jam running out of the corners of their mouths'. - I wonder
how true that is.
Visit
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Tuesday
18th October - A visit to the theatre - Diamond & Sapphire Class'
The
children from these two classes had an afternoon out, a visit
to the White Rock Theatre, Hastings, to see the musical, 'Gruffalo'.
The show, just over an hour long, kept the children, and me,
entertained from beginning to end: it is a mixture of music,
songs and dialog.
Unlike me, the children know the story of the Gruffalo - a mythical
beast, in side out, which added to their enjoyment
Without doubt, we all thoroughly enjoyed the show and we also
enjoyed the ice creams in the foyer afterwards.
The
coach journey there and back was a pleasure: the children were
so good and so polite, their behaviour was implacable,
a credit to
the school and their parents.
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Gruffalo |
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