Yr 6 Transition Project

Today, Mr Sweet from Y Pant, gave us an investigative task. This was to;

Develop our research and thinking skills.

To gain an understanding of the methods used by historians.
Understand how ordinary people were affected by events.
Apply what we learned in an empathy activity.

Our task was to find out about Edward Clement and what happened to him.

We worked in groups to piece together the story of Edward Clement from several documents.

In our groups we recorded facts from the documents on 'post-it' notes, and then arranged them in chronological order.

The whole class then used their 'post-it' notes to tell the whole story of Edward Clement.

We then completed individual empathy tasks about his story and what happened to him.

We found out that Edward Clement was born in 1895 in Swansea. He worked as a clark in an office untill he was called up th join the British Army in January 1916. He did his basic training at Kinmel Bay Camp, before being sent to France. He fought and died in the Battle of Mametz Wood. He is buried in France.