Butser Farm Visit

 

Some pictures of Skylark's visit to Butser Ancient Farm Museum last week. Children enjoyed the activities and we were so lucky that the sun decided to shine! They were absolutely brilliant on what was for them - their very first school trip!

HMS Victory

 

Nightingale's braced the weather and adventured to visit the HMS Victory. We had a fantastic time; we had the opportunity to dress up like a pirate, try different knots, look at the variety of food shipmen would eat and look at some interesting artefacts. Nightingale's then explored the ins and outs of the HMS victory, the children had a brilliant day and thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

 

 

Magic Maths

 Year 3 have been working hard this week on multiplication and division. Today they designed a game to test their knowledge of the 2,5 and 10 times table.

Dance day

 

This week Nightingales had their dance day. They worked together as a whole class to create a dance with Miss Joseph to the tune of 'Ghostbusters'. The children also worked together to develop their own steps. The day was a success and the children danced really well and remembered all the steps!

HMS Victory and The National Museum of the Royal Navy! ARRRRRRH!

Today Nightingales became PIRATES! (ARRRRRRRHH!) and invaded the National Museum of the Royal Navy and HMS Victory!

As part of today's trip Nightingales took part in a 'Royal Navy Shipmates' workshop where they learnt what it was like for a sailor at the time of HMS Victory (1753) including: the food they ate; how to tie knots; the clothes they wore; how the ships used flags to communicate and looked closely at real artifacts from the time such as the 'Bosun's Starter', a type of whip used to punish misbehaving sailors! 

Next, Year 3 went on a discovery visit of HMS Victory and learnt about Admiral Nelson and Captain Hardy. The children explored all of the ship including the gun decks, the sick bay, Nelsons day cabin and even Nelsons personal toilet! They learnt the history of what happened to Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar, stood where he fell and saw where he eventually died.

Finally, the children explored the National Museum of the Royal Navy itself learning more about how the Navy has changed from the time of HMS Victory right up to the present day!

Shiver me timbers! What an exciting (and educational!) day! 

Mr Jennings/Captain Jack Sparrow!

Sniffing the smells from on board including, gunpowder smoke, deck tar, malted barley and rum!

The spot where Admiral Nelson finally died, 3 hours after being shot by a French musket ball into his spine. He continued to give out orders to the fleet during these final hours!

The hold, where all the food, water, coal, wood, supplies and rum was stored.

A real captured Jolly Roger. The red colour meant that these pirates showed no mercy and would leave no man alive from a captured ship!

SPOT THE RAT! (1)

SPOT THE RAT! (2)

What a tiring day!