This term Wren class have started a very special topic all about famous people. As a school we have begun to use the International Primary Curriculum which focuses on learning through a cross curricular way e.g. we have listened to music written by famous people (a great session when we all got up and danced and rocked!), studied artwork by a famous artist called Jasper Johns.
Here is a display of our work ...

History is our next subject and we are looking at famous Victorians.

We also dressed up for the day, with Heron class, as a famous person. We tried to choose someone who has made a difference to the world we live in such as Abraham Lincoln, JK Rowling, Queen Elizabeth 1, Van Gogh, Enid Blyton, Albert Einstein and Neil Armstrong. Here are some photographs of us on our ‘dressing up’ day. Can you work out who we are?

Wrens have decided to create a fancy dress shop to make our topic ‘come to life’ in our literacy work. We voted on a class name for our shop and decided on ‘GO FAMOUS’. Our teacher, Mrs Hughes, asked us to design a webpage for our shop and we tried this using Microsoft Word. Click on this link to view an example of one.

At the end of the topic we will be inviting Heron class into our shop. We will
set the classroom up like a real fancy dress hire shop- we will have a desk,
telephone, laptop (with our databases about which famous people we have costumes for!), an information sheet on various famous people for our customers to read and a changing room for them to try on the costume
(don’t tell them this part isn’t real!)

We watched the TV programme Mr Benn for this idea!

What else have we done?

We researched, wrote and prepared a short assembly on Remembrance Day. Here is one of our class members reading the famous poem by a World War 1 soldier John McCrae. Click here to see the full version of the poem.