We are coming towards the end of this term’s project ‘I am a small part of the world’. It has been a very enjoyable term with lots of fantastic learning happening across the school. In KS2 we have learnt about being part of the local community, the functions of the human body and most recently World War 2.
Whilst learning about WW2, one area that we focused on was rationing. We looked at when certain foods were rationed, how long they were rationed for and people’s allowance of certain items. The children really enjoyed this topic and so we made our own WW2 soup. Using their knowledge of foods that were rationed the children had to design, make and evaluate their own soup. In Sunflower class we decided to make a delicious leek and potato soup. The children wanted it to be a vegetable soup as they knew vegetables were not rationed and people would have grown their own vegetables.
As a class we created our own method which linked to our recent learning in English when we had to write and follow instructions. We then made the soup all together and all the children had a special job to do. ‘I got to wash the leeks’, Oliver said. Theo liked cutting the butter in half because he had to ‘judge it’ carefully. It was a very enjoyable lesson and the soup tasted very good. We evaluated our work and we had some lovely feedback. ‘We could have made it even better by using red onion to give it more colour’, Mollie told us. Hopefully next time this is an improvement we can make.
This term’s project has been very enjoyable and the children have been thoroughly interested in learning about WW2. We look forward to the Spring Term with our next project ‘Fly me to the Moon’.
