Class 4 visited the International Bomber Command Centre (Lincoln) yesterday. We were told some amazing facts about WW2. We enjoyed the true story about how a dog helped in the war.

During the war, a pilot was walking down the street and found a dog. He stroked it and fed it and they became lifelong friends.   The dog followed him where every they went.  When he was at the RAF base the dog was with him, and when they went on flights, the dog would wait for him to come back.  One day the dog crept onto the plane and the man had to share his oxygen with him as they flew over 10,000 feet.  When the other crew members found out, they made an oxygen mask especially for the dog, Many years later, while searching a bomb site, the dog kept scratching at the same bit of dirt. When the crew members went to investigate, there was an 8 month old baby still alive buried in the rubble.  The dog saved the lives of 17 others and was awarded a medal.

William Ashworth was a P.O.W. (prisoner of war) and he was posted to Japan. He was one of 700 fit me to build the Death Railway. Before he was picked to build Death Railway, he worked on the docks at a different concentration camp. He, and many others, ponged(stole) small things that could fit into their pockets, from the crates like food, medicine etc.

They got little food (usually a cup of rice, half a pint of tea with no sugar or milk or a weak stew).

Luckily, he survived and came back home but he was very thin because they didn’t feed them well.

To help my class I bought some artefacts and showed them in a class presentation. We used them as primary sources of evidence so that we are able to better understand how World War 2 changed lives.

We have started making our own papier mâché versions of  Brodie helmets from World War 1. Last week, we made the initial structure by using balloons and card for the brim. We have all finished our first layer, but we have many more layers to apply before we can pop the balloon. We are hoping to create an impressive Remembrance Day display at the front of the school.