Today’s learning will be all about VE day to celebrate the 75 years since the end of WWII.
There will be a two-minute silence at 11am today.
VE Day video and how the celebrations will be different this year.
What is VE day?
VE Day – or Victory in Europe Day, marks the day towards the end of World War Two (WW2) when fighting against Nazi Germany in Europe came to an end.
On 8 May 1945, Prime Minister Winston Churchill made an announcement on the radio at 3pm that the war in Europe had come to an end, following Germany’s surrender the day before.
Reading task
Read the PowerPoint to find out more about what happened on VE day and how World War II came to an end.
Maths task
Morse code – Can you crack these codes?
Optional tasks
1. Make a VE day poster full of the facts you have found out.
2. Create your own VE day flag or bunting version 1
union-jack-template-display-bunting_version 2
3. Make some wartime recipes
4. Learn some wartime songs (words) audio