Our World War 2 Projects

World War 2 project

by Naoise Wheeler

Recently Mrs. Spencer had an idea and asked us to do a project about WW2.  Mrs. Spencer gave us a sheet which had the amount of points that you got for each topic in the project.  Everybody did completely different types of projects.  Some people did booklets and some people did big posters.  The biggest project was Seth's which was longer than one of the school tables and Seth hand-wrote most of his project himself.  Lucy Fitzgerald used home-made paper which looked really old.  Matthew finished his project in the shortest length of time.  Dara and Nathan did Powerpoint presentations on the computer which was very good.  All the projects were displayed in the PE hall and the parents came into school to look at them.

Lucy Rhatigan came first place overall and she wrote a lot about Adolf Hitler when he was growing up.

The main topics we covered out WW2 were: an introduction, a timeline of events in the war, the countries involved, the big battles e.g. the battle of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain, the evacuation (the kids that went to live in the countryside), the Blitz (the bombing of London), technology and warfare, different types of aircraft, spies, concentration camps and the Holocaust.  Adolf Hitler, the leader of the German Army.  The diary of Anne Frank and some people even have ancestors that were involved in World War 2.  The invention of nuclear weapons and the Atomic Bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima by the USA which forced Japan to surrender.  61 countries were involved in World War 2 and around 60 million people died and 6 million Jewish people died in WW2.

All of the projects were amazing.  I was really surprised because most of the people who died in WW2 were from the Allies and the Allies won the war.  I never knew how bad WW2 was until I did the project and I learned so much.  It was really sad because so many people died.  I hope people will never start such a big war again.  I want to thank Pete and Larry and Pete's wife for coming into our school and judging our projects. 

World War 2 Projects

  We had to present our WW2 projects to the 5^th and 6^th class parents.  Friday the 17^th was our open day.  We did a lot more than just presenting on the day.  It started with a visit from Pete McWilliams.  He talked to us about the RAF.  Later we went to the hall to present our projects to the judges.  The three judges were Peter McWilliams, his wife Lorraine McWilliams and Larry Roe.  Which we were presenting our projects Mrs Spencer cooked really yummy pizza.  We had a break while the judges were looking at the projects.  When the judges came back afterwards they said that we had all done an amazing job.  Then parents came to the hall along with pupils from the other classes. We had a great time telling everyone about our projects.        

WW2 Projects 2017

At the beginning of October 5^thand 6^thclasses were given individual World War 2 projects that were due on the 17^th of November.

By the time we were finished our projects we became more knowledgeable of WW2 topics such as Hitler, important battles, The Holocaust etc.

It was a great experience for us to work at a secondary school standard.