{"id":7503,"date":"2012-01-28T20:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/?p=7503"},"modified":"2012-02-01T15:38:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T15:38:20","slug":"year-5-and-6-world-war-2-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/year-5\/year-5-and-6-world-war-2-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 5 and 6 World War 2 Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yr-6-ww2-talk-29-01-12.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"7522\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/year-5\/year-5-and-6-world-war-2-wonder\/attachment\/yr-6-ww2-talk-29-01-12\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yr-6-ww2-talk-29-01-12.jpg?fit=600%2C342\" data-orig-size=\"600,342\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"yr-6-ww2-talk-29-01-12\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yr-6-ww2-talk-29-01-12.jpg?fit=300%2C171\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yr-6-ww2-talk-29-01-12.jpg?fit=600%2C342\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7522\" title=\"yr-6-ww2-talk-29-01-12\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yr-6-ww2-talk-29-01-12.jpg?resize=200%2C114\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yr-6-ww2-talk-29-01-12.jpg?resize=200%2C114 200w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yr-6-ww2-talk-29-01-12.jpg?resize=300%2C171 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yr-6-ww2-talk-29-01-12.jpg?w=600 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>The Years 5 and 6 are studying World War  Two this term and were lucky enough to have a very special visitor this  week, Sven Kirkegaad, a granddad of one of the children, who was just a little boy  in Denmark when World War Two was going on.\u00a0 He told both classes about his  experiences of living under German occupation: the rationing of food;  the blacking out of lights as British bombers flew overhead and the nice  and not so nice soldiers.\u00a0 Some of the children&#8217;s comments were&#8230;\u00a0 <em>\u201cHe told us some very  interesting stories. \u201d &#8230; \u201c My favourite story was when he  was telling us about the German soldier who came to his door, asking for  his father  and his mother had to race away on a bicycle to find him.\u201d<\/em> Listening to a firsthand perspective of war really helped the children  understand how different and difficult life could be, as well as  informing them about a different country\u2019s experience of war.\u00a0  Next week, Year 6 are looking forward to making models of ships which  were involved in the battle at Dunkirk and possibly even a few famous  Spitfires!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Years 5 and 6 are studying World War Two this term and were lucky enough to have a very special visitor this week, Sven Kirkegaad, a granddad of one of the children, who was just a little boy in Denmark when World War Two was going on.\u00a0 He told both classes about his experiences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7562,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503\/revisions\/7562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}