The grand opening of our Sensory Square!

Last week we had a special event to announce the opening of our school's Sensory Square. We've been working on our Sensation Activation project for a very long time. Class 8 had to do lots of jobs to help create such interesting sensory pathways including measuring for materials and choosing where we wanted them to go.

We were very lucky because two VIP guests came from Rolls Royce to help with the Grand Opening. Miss Coburn has been updating them about all the hard work that we've been doing so they knew all about the project. 

The whole school gathered around the edge of the sensory square feeling excited and happy. Miss Coburn said a few words about how hard all the children and grown ups have worked. Next was the big moment! Miss Coburn and Sam cut the shiny red ribbon to announce that our Sensory Square is open and we can all enjoy it now and have lot of fun.

By Jack, Pele and Amreet

Pirate Day

Last Wednesday we had a special Pirate day and were nasty Pirates! We came to school in our best Pirate outfits including lots of eye patches and skull bandanas! 

'On the way to school I was so excited because I love learning about Pirates' - Oliver. 

At the start of the day we had an assembly but we were very shocked when a real Pirate walked into the hall! Captain Burwash told us all about famous Pirates like Blackbeard and about why he was wearing the clothes he was. We listened to him tell us all about how he was trying to steal a ship in Hull. He even set us a challenge to make a scary flag for his ship and a wanted poster to hire a crew.

After the assembly we went back to our classroom and we worked in groups to complete the challenges. 

'On our flag we put lots of fire coming out of the skulls mouth to scare other Pirate ships when they see it' - Liyana. 

Captain Burwash visited our classroom and showed us all of his Pirate weapons like guns, swords, axes and grenades. We got to stand at the front and hold his sword whilst he told us about how they use them and why. Did you know that if a Pirate jumped on another boat and got too close to another Pirate they would hit them on the top of their head with the bottom of the sword handle!

We really enjoyed Pirate day because we got to know lots of Pirate secrets and we learnt lots of scary things.

By Hana, Oliver and Liyana

Ahoy! Pirates!

After our nice break from school we came back to find out that are new topic is all about Pirates! We were very excited to hear about all of the interesting things to do with Pirates and their lives at sea. 

So far we have written acrostic poems about Pirates. These poems don't have to rhyme but the first letter of each line spells out a word going down. We made our poems spell out 'Pirates'. 

Last week we made 'Wanted' posters. They have photos of us dressed as mean and angry Pirates. We had to write a description of how the Pirate looked, the reasons why they were wanted and we even offered a reward for their capture! After we wrote on our posters we coffee stained them to make them look old and dirty. Our final job was to gently tear the edges to make them look like historical wanted posters. 

We are extremely excited to have Pirate day where we are allowed to dress up as Pirates for the day. We hope to learn about where Pirates visit and how they find the treasure so easily just using a map during this half term.

By Arzoo, Jaskiran and Leianna