Making our ‘seaworthy’ Viking longships

Viking longboat and ballista challenge!

Some comments from class 8:
I really enjoyed our Viking vs roman battle, it was very fun! Most of the ships survived and the catapults worked exceedingly well! It was a great afternoon. Jennifer

I really enjoyed making and sailing our longships. Some of them sank but we all know why now. At least we won the challenge. Lets see who will win the next challenge. Megan W

Launching the ships was fun, a lot sank but victory was finally ours! Joe

Today we sailed our Viking longships across the sea, well a paddling pool in fact. Some of our ships survived but some of them sank. The overall score was 15 by class 6 and 19 by class 8. Mia.

I liked this because I was interested in their catapults and how they worked. Oliver

Well done class 8 and class 6, your longships and catapults were fantastic!

100 word challenge this week

Well done to Megan Wood this week, a fun piece of writing!

In the sky a massive whooshing sound was heard. People rushed screaming and crying. Then suddenly the thing in the sky crashed down to the ground and smashed, inside was a gooey sticky mess that flooded out like a stream. People that were in their cars had now screeched to a halt, horns were honked and other people were now angry. Then muscly builders and maintenance men were soon on their way and in no time they had cleared the mess. But this mysterious cream egg had just fallen from the sky! Was it an alien space ship? Maybe, who knows!

Viking experience day for Year 5’s

Class 8 found out some interesting facts about Vikings from ‘Thor’. They were told stories about different gods and found out about where they lived. Thor also explained about different musical instruments and played tunes to the children. The class were then able to see how to grind corn and got the chance to have a go too. We then had a dance and a sing, holding hands and making different shapes. In the afternoon all of year 5’s came together and looked at weapons and armour.

100 word challenge week beginning 2.6.14

Well done to Millie Owens this week, I loved your writing, you built up the suspense throughout.

I remember when my closet best friend double dared me to go in a creepy haunted castle at the exciting fun fair. So I did. Going through the dark mysterious gateway, was black and freezing cold. I started to run. I was scared. I knew I was never going to see the light of day again. I was galloping around like a lost horse. I didn’t know where I was, I was completely lost. I heard strange noises inside my head telling me to run, so I started running fast. I saw some light, so I sprinted. I finally won.

Cooking viking soups!

Class 8 children worked in groups to produce their own viking soups. They made up the recipe, bought in the ingredients, then chopped and prepared the vegetables and meat. The pictures show the children stirring and cooking their own soups. Each child then tasted and evaluated and the unanimous vote was that they tasted great! Well done to all of class 8, it was a superb day.

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100 Word Challenge Week beginning 19.5.14

Well done to Lucy Turney for a persuasive letter.

Dear Sir/Madam,

I’m writing to you so you can listen to my opinion. Little boys and girls want to go to school but not all of them can. Salir has a disease called Polio. He can’t walk anymore so he crawls. His mother says “I don’t want my little boy crawling to school with cars and motorbikes all around him.”

If you want Salir to have a good education then you need to buy him a wheelchair. You can’t just leave a child at home and not do anything to help him get to school.

Yours sincerely

Miss Lucy Turney

Topic lesson 4

 

Follow these link to find information for your diary entry.

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/saxons/houses.htm

http://www.pastexplorers.org.uk/village/http://primaryfacts.com/3092/

anglo-saxon-facts-about-their-houses-and-homes/

Pretending to be particles!

We had fun in our science lesson today pretending to be particles! Can you tell if the children are being a solid, liquid or gas by the way the particles are behaving? (Clue: some children in one picture are vibrating so much they are blurry in the picture!)

Lend me your literacy competition comments

Check out these amazing comments for Oliver, Lucy and Jen’s writing competition entries:

 

http://lendmeyourliteracy.com/dingwall-junior-school-dreams-hope-entries/#comment-16599