Latest articles
Bumper Summer roundup03 Jul 2025 Please return PE kits!03 Jul 2025 Summer learning23 May 2025 Dates for your diary03 May 2025 Science Week and more!28 Mar 2025 World Book Day Fun07 Mar 2025 Year 5 WOW Day!14 Feb 2025 Year 5 Parent Assembly and WOW Day10 Feb 2025 Important information for Young Voices tomorrow03 Feb 2025 For those going to Young Voices30 Jan 2025 Year 5 and 6 Maths Calculation Methods30 Jan 2025 DT in the Spring term17 Jan 2025 Thank you 5BD!19 Dec 2024 End of Term Activities09 Dec 2024 December update06 Dec 2024 Fun at the Cinema22 Nov 2024 Update08 Nov 2024 End of Autumn 118 Oct 2024 Travel for next school trip07 Oct 2024 October update04 Oct 2024 For those coming to Young Voices24 Sep 2024 September update20 Sep 2024 Parent Welcome Meeting - 8am on Tuesday 10th September10 Sep 2024 Welcome to Year 5!04 Sep 2024
Archive
Articles 2023-24 Articles 2022-23 Articles 2021-22 Articles 2020-21 Articles 2019-20 Articles 2018-19 Articles 2017-18 Articles 2016-17 Articles 2015-16 Articles 2014-15
( LOGIN to comment on this article. )

BIG WRITE for OCTOBER

24 Oct 2013

Big Writing Day

Every month at Handsworth each class has a special Big Write Day
where children are given time and space to get creative with their writing.  
Year 5 have been reading 'The Silver Donkey' by Sonya Hartnett.  


It is a moving story of a soldier in World War One.
We read a chapter which related the horrors of life in the trenches on the Front Line of fighting.
We used this as a stimulus for writing
in the role of young soldiers sending letters home to their loved ones.

The letters Y5HS wrote were moving and informed.
Here are some extracts from the class:

How are you my two dear children? Don't worry about me.  I sleep in a trench with 20 other soldiers, so I should be ok. Only problem is, there are rats where I sleep ... I have to wear tight boots that give me blisters all over.  I can hear cries of agony over the night.  Bombs won't stop going off.  I am too foolishly frightened and awfully tired.  I want to come home!  But I am truly happy you're safe out in the countryside!  Just in case you never see me again, I want you to know I will always love you and you will be cared for. Love xx
by Sophie



I am writing to you from the darkness of the disgusting trenches with the only light souce a flickering candle beside me.  My hands are freezing cold as I look at the picture of the whole family.  I miss you so much that I can't even start to describe it.  Tomorrow me and my thirty troops are going to the German trenches across No-Man's Land.  The place is a state, covered in smoke and ash from the missiles thrown.  You can hear guns firing, granade explosions and the screams of injured soldiers... I am petrified of going.  To be honest, I don't want to go but I will do it for you and young Steve... If I don't come back, show Steve this letter and tell him all the stories about me.  
by Luke




I am missing you so much in the trenches.  The war field is horrible. All you can smell is smoke from the shelling which lots of people have lost their lives from, sadly ... Yesterday we thought of a great plan to get revenge on the enemy!  In the morning, when it is still quite dark, we are going to sneak round the back of the Germans and bomb them from behind so the can't see us and then BOOM! All die!  But, if they spot us, we are in big trouble!  
by Joseph



A huge bomb came down.  Sand, mud and pieces of broken bones shot up.  For moments I couldn't see a thing.  When everything came back into view, men lay on the earthy ground.  Fresh blood seeped out of uniforms.  All I could hear was cries of agony, wheezing of dying men, trying to make their last and final words heard.  I stood alone staring into the crack of dawn.  Tears trickled down my cheeks.  I saw the Lieutenant lying stiff on the ground amid all the shattered guns and rifles.
by Maia


  
 PEACE   NOT   WAR



COMMENTS
( LOGIN to comment on this article. )
Jane
06 Nov 2013 18:44
Last edited on 06 Nov 2013 - 18:45
I really want another go by reading all of these because I think I didn't get the best of what I wanted and well done on the winners. Ella
Heather
06 Nov 2013 20:12
It's always hard to choose winners because, in our class, everyone tries so hard to do their best all of the time. It is always interesting to read what other people have to say, too. Should we have more competitions? Ms Soar

 

Please wait

Handsworth Avenue
Highams Park
London
E4 9PJ

Please read more about our SEND provision here.
Copyright © 2025   Handsworth Primary School
Website Design & Development for Schools By VisioSoft   |   T&C
User Guide   688  


Selct an hour and a minute and then click on Set Time

Selected Time:  _:_

Hours
Minutes
 
Set Time
CLOSE

CLOSE