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St Peter's Catholic Primary School

St Peter's Catholic Primary School

Year 3&4

This week, we are going to learn about VE Day and then celebrate on Friday with a party!

On Monday - Thursday you should try to complete: 

1 activity which is writing based each day
(History, English, RE or PHSE)

1 or 2 creative activities each day
(art, cookery, music, PE)

You are only working for 4 days this week so you won't complete every activity here.
Choose the ones which interest you the most. 

Make sure that on Friday you take some time to party and celebrate VE Day!

 

Click here for a video

 

History

Research: Have a look at these links for some information about VE Day:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48201749

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/horrible-histories-songs-ve-day-song

Present what you have learnt in any way you like. This could be a poster, a leaflet, a PowerPoint presentation – up to you
 

Now>Press>Play

You can also take part in the WW2 Now>Press>Play audio experience at home.

There is an information page all about it, you can link to it here. It works brilliantly with wireless headphones if you have them, or you can just play it over a speaker. Why not get your parents to join in too? When you log into the site you will need to use the password:nowpressplay

 

English 

Informal Letter:

  • Write a letter to your best friend telling them that because the war is over you are throwing a VE Day party that they are invited.
  • What information will they need?
  • Is there anything else you might want to say in your letter?

Setting Description:

  • Write a setting description of a street party.
  • Use your five senses to describe. Think about: sights, sounds, tastes, smells and feelings.
  • Remember to use lots of adjectives, similes and metaphors too.

Newspaper:

  • What do you think the front page of the newspaper would have looked like on VE Day?
  • Perhaps you could write the front page article and a catchy headline.

 

RE

Peace Prayer:

  • Although we are lucky enough to live in peace today, not everyone in the world is as fortunate as us.
  • Write a prayer about peace.

Thankful prayer:

  • Many soldiers gave their lives during the war and we wouldn’t have been able to celebrate VE Day if it weren’t for them.
  • Write a prayer of thanks for these people.

 

PHSE

Emotions:

  • Can you imagine how everyone must have been feeling on that day when war ended?
  • How does this compare to how they were feeling during the war?
  • Create a poster that compares emotions during war and during peace.
  • Today, try to share some of those positive emotions with your family.

 

Art & Craft

Decorations:

Of course, all parties need decorations and on VE Day lots of these would have been homemade. Have a go at some of the ideas below:

  • Paint, draw or colour-in the Union Jack (British flag) and put in in your party space, or in your windows for everyone to see.
  • Create a banner that says VE Day 75th Anniversary for your window.
  • Make paper chains from strips of newspaper or old magazines glued together and hang them in your party space. This is really what they would have done in 1945!
  • Make your party table look extra fancy with some homemade tablemats. Just decorate an A4 piece of paper per person. You could use red white and blue like the Union Jack? Want to go the extra mile? You could laminate your placemats to make them last longer.
  • Make paper hats to wear for your party. Have a look online for some instructions (https://www.origamiway.com/origami-hat.shtml) or have a go at coming up with one of your own. Newspaper/magazines might come in handy here too!
  • Design your own 75th VE Day cup. Think carefully about what you think is important to have on the cup to help people remember why this day is celebrated. Use the worksheet to help you with this.
  • Design your own VE Day medal to give to the men and women who helped during WW2. Think about what you think is important to have on the medal when you are creating your design. What colours will you use?

 

Cookery

Biscuits:

  • If you’re lucky enough to have all the ingredients, try this easy iced biscuits recipe. You could even colour the icing red, white and blue to make them particularly patriotic. https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/icedbiscuits_3054
  • If you can’t bake, you could decorate some biscuits from a packet to make them even more special.

Cupcakes:

Not what you fancied? How about some of the recipes from the ‘VE Day at Home’ pack? You could have a go at making lemonade, ginger ‘beer’ or something more challenging.

 

PE

Get Dancing:

  • In the ‘VE Day at Home’ pack there are step-by-step instructions on how to dance the ‘Lindy Hop Swing’.

Can you learn any of the moves? Here is some music to have a dance to:

 

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  • Perhaps you could teach someone else the moves too?

 

Music

Sing Along:

One of the most famous songs from WW2 is ‘White Cliffs of Dover’. The lyrics can be found in the ‘VE Day at Home’ pack.

Sing along here:

 

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YouTube Live:

Click on this link to get practicing and on Thursday there will be a live sing-along! https://www.carradinescockneysingalon g.co.uk/ve-day

 

Languages

German Words:

In WW2, lots of different countries were involved. Two of the most famous countries were England (Britain) and Germany. Can you find out what some of these key words are in German?

  • Hello, goodbye, plane, ship, peace, friends, party and any other words linked to VE Day

 

Friday 8th May - VE Day 

Happy VE Day - Enjoy your celebrations!

Make sure that you take lots of pictures and share them with us by email or Google Classroom.