7 Pioneer have had a fabulous week in HUMAN, continuing our expedition ‘Over the Top!’.
They began the week writing a WW1 inspired poem as a class. Each group had the responsibility to create a stanza of the poem. The effort and hard work put into this by the pupils was fantastic!
Here’s 7 Pioneer engrossed in the planning process – the pupils were given the challenge of including language devices such as similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia and alliteration – they definitely succeeded with this.
For example, “Fear sweeps through me like a tidal wave” and “Squelch, stomp, we tremble through the bloodthirsty field”
On Thursday we left school to go on fieldwork at Hyde Park Cemetery in Doncaster.
We were fascinated by the lives of soldiers who had taken part in the First World War and are buried in Doncaster.
Our expert, Andria, a member of Friends of Hyde Park Cemetery, which protects the cemetery, guided us around to the graves of the brave men. She informed us of the lives of the men and how they met their tragic end.
We heard about the conditions in the trenches and found that some men were killed in action, whereas some were killed in accidents which occurred in their training or died of diseases such as TB whilst in the trenches.
It really put it into perspective how lucky we are to not have experienced the horrors of the Great War.
