St. Augustine Primary School, Preston
21 April – 22 June
LETTER FROM KULBIR THAPA ST. AUGUSTINE’S PRIMARY SCHOOL
Dear family,
It is very cold in France,
But when I think about you, I feel all warm inside.
Every day more mud covers me up to my knees.
Gun shots whizz through the air like lightning.
A whistle sent us over the top
The grenades just came out of nowhere.
Through the mud, I saw a soldier still alive.
I could not leave him, so stayed with him all night.
Every day more mud covers me up to my knees.
Gun shots whizz through the air like lightning.
At day break I left him safely in a shell crater
But found two more wounded soldiers
And carried them to safety before returning to save my friend.
Every day more mud covers me up to my knees.
Gun shots whizz through the air like lightning.
As I carried them past the wounded bodies and bloodied mud
The Germans stopped shooting and instead, cheered us on.
That moment keeps replaying in my head.
Every day more mud covers me up to my knees.
Gun shots whizz through the air like lightning.
I miss you and pray every day that I will see you again.
Yours lovingly
Kulbir Thapa
Ruby Patel - Teacher
A great understanding and empathy about the British colonies as well as promoting tolerance, identity and pride concerning each other. HMDT Music and their artists were phenomenal to see in action and work with. It is brilliant for children to see specialists in their own field. This has inspired them into thinking about careers in Art, music, singing and acting etc.
Ruby Patel - Teacher
When the children wrote their diary extract, they wrote descriptively and passionately about their experience of being a soldier in the British army.
Harris - Overall
I found everything really good. I don’t think anything needs to be improved – the sound effects of the lemon drop bombs in the play were really scary!
Aleyah - Puppet Making
I enjoyed getting to make the turban for our little puppet. I was so glad we got to use them in the performance and then keep them!
Muskaan - Compostion
I learnt a lot about the First World War and now know a lot more from being able to write a song about the trenches.
Ayhem - Composition
The best thing about the activity was that we learnt even in letters if changed a bit and sung, it actually becomes lyrics to a song. YOU CAN MAKE MUSIC FROM ANYTHING
Michelle - Overall
[I learnt] how much respect people the soldiers had to have for each other.
