Some interesting facts about life in the trenches of World War One by Niall and Braon

WORLD WAR ONE

FIRE trenches

Fire trenches were built in a zig-zag pattern.

This was to stop enemy soldiers firing down

the complete length of a trench.

It also offered more protection from exploding shells.

Entertainment

Soldiers would put on plays to entertain fellow troops.

Sports such as football, ice hockey and horse races also took place.

Crime doesn’t pay

Crimes such as drunkenness, desertion, rudeness to an officer, loss/ damage of Army property or self-inflicted wounds to avoid battle all occurred.

Punishments included fines, imprisonment, demotion or even execution.

Barbed wire

The barbed wire at the front of the fire trench had to be looked after, replaced or repaired if it was damaged by shelling.

`Writing parties` went out at night to repair it.

The Magic Box Poetry Writing

The Magic Box

We wrote our Magic Box poems over the past two weeks. We based them on the poem by Kit Wright. They were all about if you had a magic box what would you put in it and decorate it with. We came up with some very  imaginative things like ‘a wild raging wave from the north sea’ ‘A walrus dressed up as Susan Boyle’ ‘the finest jar of mayonnaise’ and ‘sand as soft as silk’.

By Alice McMahon, Lauren Carr and Tara Lydon

Here are some of our poems...

Anti bullying slogans !!! =}

In class we are talking a lot about bullying and how to tackle it well. Bullies are looking for 1 thing , your weakness. In class we wrote out slogans and poems to tackle bullying here are some of them .
By Phelim and Christy

Project on Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo de vinci

Leonardo de vinci was an artist, an   architect  ,a botanist ,an  engineer, inventor and musician .He is seen as the giant of   the Renaissance , Michelangelo  was his main rival  .  He did  not leave too many paintings .He started many projects but  didn’t  finish them.

Who was Leonardo da Vinci?

• He had a keen eye and quick mind that led him to make important scientific discoveries, yet he never published his ideas.
• He was a gentle vegetarian who loved animals and despised war, yet he worked as a military engineer to invent advanced and deadly weapons.
• He was one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance, yet he left only a handful of completed paintings.

 Leonardo‘s  Biography and achievements

                                             Biography

1452-1466 early childhood

1466-1482 Apprentice to master

1482-1499 Milan

1499-1506 Florence

1513 -1516 Rome

1516-1519 Final years in France

                                    Achievements

1485-1485 Flying machine

1494-1494 The Virgin on the Rocks

1495-1497 The last supper

1507-1511 Mona Lisa

1515-1515  Anatomy notebooks

Project on Michelangelo By Tara Kealy and Daniel Gardiner

Renaissance

Renaissance is French for rebirth. Renaissance was an age which artistic social scientific and political thought in new directions. The renaissance began in Italy, Florence in the 15^th century and then spread to Rome and the rest of Europe. In the renaissance time there was a lot of trading as it had a lot of coastlines and brought lots of food and products. The renaissance was much more than just simply studying the work of ancient scholars. It influenced by paintings sculptures, and architecture. Paintings became more realistic and focused less often on religious topics. Rich families became patrons and commissioned great art. Artists advanced the Renaissance style of showing nature and depicting the feelings of people. In Britain, there was a flowering in literature and drama that included the plays of William Shakespeare.  Italian city such as Naples, Genoa and Venice centre of trades between Europe and the Middle East. Arab scholars preserved the writings of the ancient Greece in their libraries. When the Italian cities traded with the Arabs, ideas were exchanged along with goods. These ideas, preserved from the ancient past, served as the basis of the Renaissance. When the Byzantine Empire fell to Muslim Turks in 1453, many Christian’s scholars left Greece for Italy.

The Death of Michelangelo

Michelangelo continued making pieta sculptures. The first one, begun in 1550 and left unfinished, was meant for his own tomb. He began the Rondanini Pietà in Milan in 1555, and he was working on it on February 12, 1564 when he took ill. He died six days later in Rome and was buried in Florence.

Paintings

                                            

                                                             Sistine chapel ceiling    year: 1506

                                                          

The last judgement     year: 1534

The conversion of Saul   year: 1542-45

Doni Tondo year: 1506

Quiz

1) When was Michelangelo born?
a) 9 April 1472
b) 16 September 1481
c) 19 November 1480
d) 6 March 1475

2) Where was Michelangelo born?
a) Budapest
b) Nicosia
c) Caprese
d) Valetta

3) What was Michelangelo’s full name?
a) Michaelangelo y pais y noronha y sequeira
b) Michelangelo di Ludovico di Buonarroti Simoni
c) Michaelangelo Roncalli
d) Michaelangelo Cacciavillan

4) Which chapel’s ceiling was painted by Michelangelo?
a) Petrine
b) Pauline
c) Sistine
d) St. Xavier’s

5) Where is the statue of David sculpted by Michelangelo?
a) Rome
b) Venice
c) Florence
d) New York

6) When did Michelangelo die?
a) 18 February 1564
b) 2 June 1566
c) 14 October 1568
d) 1 March 1560

7) Where did Michelangelo die?
a) Paris
b) Berlin
c) Vienna
d) Rome

Quiz Answers

1) When was Michelangelo born?
d) 6 March 1475

2) Where was Michelangelo born?
c) Caprese

3) What was Michelangelo’s full name?
b) Michelangelo di Ludovico di Buonarroti Simoni

4) Which chapel’s ceiling was painted by Michelangelo?
c) Sistine

5) Where is the statue of David sculpted by Michelangelo?
c) Florence

6) When did Michelangelo die?
a) 18 February 1564

7) Where did Michelangelo die?
d) Rome

Michelangelo

By Tara Kealy and Daniel Gardiner

6^th class