Trenches: Our homework

Week 7 homework was to create a trench 3metres by 1 metre (this size is for one person) by stacking chairs. Try to live in this space for several hours or overnight. Make it as realistic as you can, but don’t include the rats or mud!

So many students went above and beyond to understand what it was like to live in a trench. Check out some of the amazing homework below:

LILY and HATTIE

ERIN

On Saturday night I slept in my trench I made it in my sisters room. I used chairs, a Teepee some storage containers etc. It wasn’t very comfortable without a big fluffy pillow and mattress

ABE

This week we had to make a trench and stay in it for a couple of hours. When I was in my trench I wrote a letter to my great grandad Dave( they called him Davie) who fought in world war 2 against Japan. Here is my letter to him.

Dear great grandad

I am your grandson Nigel's oldest son. My friends call me Abe. I have a younger brother Hugh and a little sister Eve.

For our homework we had to stay in a trench for a couple of hours. My trench is an upturned picnic table with blankets on either side. Dad tells me that your trench was way worse, he said it was in the jungle and it had bugs, it was hot and sticky and that you had gunfire over your head.  Dad also says that you fought the Japanese. He said that you fought to stay alive, not to kill anyone. He says that you would be pleased to hear that one of my best mates is japanese because  you told him that you believed that they too were also fighting to stay alive.

Dad said that you know a tablet as a pill you take when you were sick. But now days a tablet is a touchscreen device that you can play computer games on, you can look up stuff that you want to find out, take pictures of yourself ( AKA a selfie) and email ( like sending a letter but a lot faster and electronically ) and you can do a lot more. It’s not like when you used to send letters and they would take weeks to get from the trench to back to your house.

I can’t imagine how scared you would have been and not knowing whether or not you would have been coming home.   

My time in my trench is coming to an end. It was very uncomfortable but I bet my trench was way more comfortable than yours.

I’m glad my class have done this project because I have learnt a lot about you and a little about what what you went through.

Yours sincerely

Your great grandson

Abe.

 

Here are some pictures of me in my trench.   

EMILY

I spent a few hours in the trench!

My parents took some pictures of me in the trench!

Here are some of the pictures!

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I even found a little wormy!

                  

FRANCESCA

ABBIE

CONNOR AND ALIX