A big WELL DONE to Year 5 who presented their Air Raid Project activities to a whole school/parents' assembly on Friday. We found out what they had learned and most enjoyed from the project and then we were taken on a journey through 1914 to 1918 as the children...

This from our air raid warden, Mr Wilkinson On this night, 77 years ago, my great grandfather's lemonade factory in North Shields was hit by a bomb from a lone German raider. The three-storey premises were destroyed. The bottling machinery fell into the air raid...

We asked Year 5 to do some homework for the Air Raid project. We asked them to talk to older family members and relatives and to bring in any famliy history or stories connected with either WW1 or WW2. You can see the results below. A great response. Well...

Big thanks to artist Kate Hancock for showing us how to do these! She showed us works by the war artist Paul Nash and we looked at how he composed his pictures before starting our own. We hope you like the gallery!   [gallery link="file" size="medium"...

Check out our gallery - Dog Fight Silhouettes. We loved doing these with Kate Hancock. They are bright and colourful and we think they give a different look to aerial battles.   [gallery type="rectangular" link="file" size="medium"...

A wonderful day of art inspired by Paul Nash and led by Kate Hancock. Paul Nash (11 May 1889 – 11 July 1946) was a British surrealist painter and war artist. Nash was among the most important landscape artists of the first half of the twentieth century. He played a...

Y5's Air Raid project continued today with a marathon session of app-smashing with the awesome Martin Bailey. Martin took the children at breakneck speed through an amazing collection of iPad apps which placed an emphasis on creativity and imagination. And if there's...

The children listened carefully to the story of the Wilkinson's Air Raid Disaster of 1941. A single bomb from a lone German bomber scored a direct hit on the air raid shelter in the basement of Wilkinson's pop factory. 107 people were killed, 43 of them children under...

A walk from school to Preston Cemetery. The children's mission here was to locate the graves of several WW1 soldiers and WW2 air raid victims, record the details featured on the headstones and where appropriate take a gravestone rubbing using paper and wax crayons....

Morning registration was disturbed by the unexpected arrival of a time travelling Air Raid Warden from 1941! Warden Wilkinson crashed into the classroom and quickly took control of the squad of surprised young wardens. Wilkinson took the children through a quick...

Phew! Lots of group work and collaborative writing, ideas-sharing and discussion as the children completed Spy Team Profiles and submitted their reports on the Victoria Tunnel Mission to superiors in Berlin. The class consensus was that the tunnel/shelter should be...

A 2 hour guided tour of the wonderful Victoria Tunnel air raid shelter - complete with Byker Grannie, Air Raid Warden, Gerard the Teacher and Basil. Basil McLeod, aged 88 held the children spellbound as he recounted his wartime childhood, evacuation and how he spent...

Our Year 5 History Explorers are great listeners! They learned about the Zeppelin raids over the North East and were asked to examine 2 "doctored" photos purporting to show actual Zeppelins over Blyth and Bedlington. They quickly spotted how the photos were fake and...

A very good effort by Year 5 to create a living Zeppelin across both school yards. With the Zeppelin's length of 163.5m we found that that the school yard was 30m too short! Still, we managed to create an outline of the huge airship using most of the actual dimensions...

Air Raid - Civilians in Danger! At Christ Church Primary we have always valued our local heritage, so we are delighted to announce that we have been awarded a Heritage Lottery Fund First World War: then and now grant to help us investigate air raids in both world...