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VE DAY
CELEBRATIONS
Friday8thMay2015
Department/Year Team Activities
Whole college Two minute silence – from 3pm ‐3.02pm Plenty of bunting and war time specials available – Bangers and mash Roly Poly pudding, jelly Lunch time Football Match 1.30pm Kick off Gipsy Lane Astro pitch KS4 & 5 spectators only Union jack bunting in the main hall. KS3 is planning to show a film in the main hall at Lunch time. Details to follow. VE day quiz( Kindly provided by Caroline Weller) Special Assemblies if rota permits and Sarah Leslie’s wearing her flag hat. Every lesson will have a war poem read. Where students are studying an appropriate text e.g Goodnight Mr Tom, Private Peaceful, War Poetry ‐ greater reference to the context of the day will be made. Red, white and blue Isosceles triangles filled with interesting facts/statistics to make bunting.
All completed by Thursday to put up for Friday. On Friday ‐ Starter clip about the VE day celebrations. Special lesson on the advances in medical knowledge and surgical techniques that took place during the war. France during the war and the resistance. Resources on the ICT area for teachers to use with their classes. e.g. Cracking the code & designing Rockets and Battleships School Canteens Staff football Team KS3 Year 7 ‐ 11 English Maths Science Languages ICT Tutor period ‐ Collection for Nepal Earthquake Fund Collection buckets for Nepal Earthquake Fund Technology PE Art Music Drama Geography/L&T/T&T History Religion Classics Media Health and Soc Care Business Studies Study centre team Library General – U tube video on Rationing. Food – Discussing wartime health improvements due to food rationing Textiles‐ Discuss cloth rationing – make do and mend Football matches all day – England V Germany KS3 classes will be given images from WW2 which we will then make into bunting/mobiles Songs to keep morale up and Students singing the Vera Lynn Classic ‐ We’ll Meet Again Lessons will be improvisations based on reactions to the news and street parties VE Day Celebrations (1945) ‐ YouTube VE Day Celebrations (1945). A Day that Shook the World. The war in Europe is declared over as celebrations break out across Britain. Bunting decorated with facts and info gained from the lesson about VE day VE day power point with KS3 students (optional) A guest speaker has been booked in advance – so no time to fit anything in. Yr 10: Exploring wartime advertising A2 Film: The shape of post‐war world cinema ‐ to what extent did the outcomes of World War Two impact on the Italian neo‐
realist film movement and the themes within the cinema of Akira Kurosawa Food rationing and diets for children during the war years. Display in Room 520 Bunting, Music and cakes for sale Display of War stories and the Quiz. Money donated to the Nepal Earthquake Fund