Making bags inspired by our Great Yarmouth topic

We have looked at various bag designs, chosen a purpose and a user for our bags and designed our own bags to suit these. Also, we have practised hand-stitching and machine-stitching different styles of stitches. Some prototypes have been made and now we are making our full-size bags...

Pinning our hand-made patterns to the fabric...

Making patterns for appliqué designs...

Cutting fabric...

Preparing interfacing to help with the appliqué and more pinning!

We are learning to sew- one of our 100 memorable events.

The following day and 'The Great Bressingham Sewing Bee' continues....

The first finished bag!

VE Day preparation

Yesterday we prepared food for our celebration of VE Day.

Peeling potatoes for mock eggs.

Opening a can of evaporated milk for Ginger cream.

Grating carrot for the carrot cookies.

Mashing potato and peeling carrots for mock eggs.

Mock eggs before they were sliced.

Carrot cookies !

Class 4 also made bunting and some posters to decorate the classroom for VE Day.

Preparation for VE Day

Yesterday we prepared food for our VE Day celebrations on Friday. All the recipes were authentic using wartime rations.

 

Making homemade bread according to a wartime recipe.

Measuring out the ingredients for eggless chocolate cake.

Kneading the bread dough after it had risen.

Christmas decorations afternoon

Year 6 and some Year 5 children have, this afternoon, led their groups around the school to different bases, to carry out different craft activities. The groups were a mixture of children from all the different classes and many of the photographs will show older and younger children working together like a big family; we are very proud that our children love to work in this way. 

Here are some photographs of the afternoon...

And here are our group leaders- well done to you all, and another memorable event achieved- you have led a group!

Make do and mend

Using our cutting and sewing skills we are creating silhouettes of London during the Blitz...

Welcome back Class 4

Our topic for this term is World War 2. We made gas masks.

Ready for an air raid. 

                                                                                                                             

                  

We will base descriptive writing on our topic, so we are busy collecting fantastic figurative language, powerful verbs and creative openers.

Today we were wartime children - every time we heard an air raid siren we had to put on our gas masks and scramble quickly to get under the table for shelter. We woke up the whole school!