Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ~ Class 2

Class 2 present their autumn term production photographs of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We hope you enjoy looking at them.

 

The fantastic narrators Rosie and Oliver.

 

 

Mr Willy Wonka. The eccentric owner of the Wonka chocolate factory and the most renowned candy maker in the world.

 

 

Charlie Bucket with his Grandparents Grandpa Joe and Grandma Georgina. The Bucket family are very poor and undernourished  but they are a hard working, kind and loving family. Charlie Bucket must walk past Mr Wonka's factory every day on his way to school and smell the tantalizing smell of chocolate as his stomach grumbles!

 

 

 Veruca Salt. She demands anything she wants and throws tantrums until her parents meet her demands. She is a mean and spoilt girl.

 

 

Mike Teavee- the boy who only cares for television. The more guns and violence on a show the more Mike likes it. At the factory he wants nothing more than to check out the chocolate television room.

 

 

Violet Beauregarde- an avid gum chewer. At the factory her gum chewing antics becomes her downfall when she grabs an experimental piece of gum and turns into a giant blueberry!

 

 

Augustina Gloop and Mrs Gloop. She is a fat girl who loves nothing but eating. She suffers for her greed in the factory as she falls into the chocolate river and is sucked up by one of the super pipes!

 

 

 

 

The Oompa-Loompas- fun loving dwarves from Loompaland. They enjoy dancing and beating drums and singing songs about what happens to bad children.

Everyone in class 2 wishes you a very happy Christmas and best wishes for 2014.

 

 

 

 

All Fired Up!

Sam, the potter, returned with our fired artefacts today. We were thrilled to see the finished pieces. Sam assured us that if we looked after them carefully they should last 3,000 years - just like the Ancient Egyptian artefacts we used as our inspiration!

Abbey House Museum ~ Class 2

On Wednesday Class 2 visited the Abbey House Museum in Kirkstall to find out about toys from the past.

 

 

We did a workshop that helped us to think about old and new toys. We looked carefully at different toys and sorted them into old and new. We knew one of the bears was old because it was threadbear and  faded. We found out that the old bear was filled with wood chippings and had eyes made of glass. The new bear was fluffy and colourful and its eyes were made of plastic. We also noticed that it still had a label on it which was a clue that it was a new bear.

 

 

 

We found out that many Victorian children would only have one or two toys and that they might have been homemade. Many old toys are made of wood, tin or fabric and have no batteries or switches.

 



 

To make toys move Victorian children would have to pull and push like this pop up dolly..

 





or press a button like this pecking chicken. The toys we played with may look old but actually they were replicas of old toys. This means they are new toys made to look old. We saw many old toys in the museum but we were not allowed to play with them as they are too delicate and might easily be broken.

 

 

We visited the Victorian street and spent some time in the chapel where Victorian children would have attended Sunday School. The desks were very small and had ink wells. All the children sat in rows and faced the front. Class 2 enjoyed playing at being the teacher, they were very stern though!



Arty artefacts!

 As part of our Egyptian work, Class 3 have been lucky enough to work with Sam the Potter to create our own 'ancient' artefacts. The whole class had the opportunity to make a piece.

"It was difficult to work with the clay, but lots of fun," said Billie.

"I can't wait to see my clay after it has been fired," said Jemima.

How do we know so much about the ancient Egyptians? One of the ways that we find out about the past is through the objects that they left behind. The Egyptians made many artefacts out of clay. We can find out a lot about their lives and beliefs from studying these objects.

Warburtons Bread Making Day ~ Class 2

Class 2 had a visit from the Warburtons bakery.

 

First we had to wash our hands carefully with soap, then we put on an apron and wore a hair net to protect the bread from germs.We had to prepare the tables to make sure everything was hygenic.

 

We wrote our names on a piece of paper so we would know which bread was ours.

 



The bread dough was made from flour, water, salt, vegatable oil and a special ingredient called yeast that makes the bread rise.

 

  We had to knead the bread for ten minutes. It was hard work. We used some flour to stop the dough sticking to the table!

  

 

 

We made shapes from our dough. Jasmine has made a hedgehog and used scissors to create the spikes in its back. She has used raisins for the eyes and nose.  

 

 

 

We put our bread onto trays ready to go into the oven.

 

 

 

 

We tidied away and cleaned the aprons and the tables.

 

 

We tasted different types of bread including milk loaf, wholemeal bread and fruit bread. It was all delicious.  

       

We completed some leaflets about healthy eating.

 

 

We had lots of fun on our bread day and hope you enjoyed looking at our blog.

Murton Park - World War Two 'Living History' experience.

 Our arrival at Murton Park.

 Neville Chamberlain gives the chilling news on the radio that Britain is at war with Germany.

 The evacuees are told about what life would be like away from home - very serious faces.

 An example of weekly rations.

'Mrs G' explains that it wasn't all doom and gloom. There was sometimes even a change to dance the latest dance crazes, like 'the jitterbug'!

 'Mr T', our ARP (air raid precautions) warden arrived to give a stern talk (with lots of jokes included to lighten the mood) about the dangers of the German bombings.

 The children were happily enjoying their hot chocolate and biscuit but reminded if the whistle blew they had to sit up and pay careful attention.....

 ....which they did wonderfully!

 Mr T raised morale with some well needed humour.....

 .....although it was soon time to be serious again as he warned us of the threat of German gas attacks. It was time for our gas mask drill. (Note: he also warned us never to wear an original gas mask due to the asbestos contained in the mask)

 Everyone managed to get their replica masks on safely within the allocated 20 seconds. Well done!

 Next we went outside for an air-raid drill. It was pretty cramped in the shelter considering people used to have stay in them for up to eight hours at a time!

 We got to work with a number of useful household duties, like making butter (as the weekly ration was very small)....

 ....baking flapjack....

 .... and sewing rugs for the fireplace.

 We needed to make sure all of the widows had tape on to protect us from glass in the event of a bomb blast.

 The children put on a brave face, despite, I am sure, feeling nervous about potential air raids from the Luftwaffe!

 Then it was back to other household chores as part of our war effort. Like washing clothes with the wringer mangle, dolly tub and washboards.

 Due to the petrol rationing, many people began using horses more readily so it was essential to clean and condition the leather horse tack.

 Putting on extra tape to meet the ARP officer's approval and ensure safety.

 As the evacuees were only given one spare pair of clothes it was important to keep them cleaned and ironed, using an iron heated above the fire.

 After a busy morning of work and safety preparations, it was time for a well-earned lunch break. After our ration books had all been punched we were ready to eat (hats off to parents for providing some brilliantly period-appropriate lunches and packaging!).

 Two hungry evacuees ready to tuck into their authentic lunch boxes.

 Time for a play outside until..........AIR RAID SIREN!!

 Quickly (but without running unless you wanted to face the wrath of Mr T!) we made our way to the air raid shelters and bunkers.

 Relieved to be safe.

 Although it soon dawned on the group that their playtime was over! Back to the 'reality' of wartime Britain...

 Mr T explaining how propaganda was used in some of the posters. I won't upset you by repeating what he said about the dog in the picture though!

 The children were told about the life of an ARP warden, which started off as being mostly about darts and dominoes but eventually became a crucial part of saving lives and protecting people during The Blitz.

Very serious rug weaving.

A happy horse tack cleaning session.

 After their instruction from our ARP warden, the newly-recruited 'Fire Guard', which we learnt were often children, were given the task of putting out the fire from an incendiary bomb. The bin lids were often used to smother the flames too. The photo above looks so authentic that I think Mr Sturgess may have found himself a new screen saver for the classroom!

 Fire out - good work from the 'Fire Guard'.

 Extremely enthusiastic window taping.

 After greasing the tin, Mrs G explained that the liberal use of butter meant we had used up a week's worth of butter rations!

 The rugs were starting to take shape, kind of.

 More smiles! This time for cleaning the horses' tack.

 Aaaaaargh! Fire!

 Good job team!

 The 'F' on the helmets doesn't stand for 'friendly' although that would apply here. Mr T explained that the letters on the helmet described the job. F for fireguard, W for ARP warden, P for police, D for doctor. The children kindly suggested that teachers should get a T helmet but Mr T explained they weren't important enough!!

This was a fantastic trip and as you can see from the smiles above, we all had an enjoyable time whilst learning very much about a serious and dangerous time in our History. Thank you very much to all the parents who helped by providing such fantastic period clothes and sandwiches - it all added to the authenticity of the 'living history' experience. I will also add that I was incredibly proud of the behaviour on today's trip which was commended by both the staff members who worked with Class 4 today.