The Tempest!

This week we have been getting stuck into some drama – acting out Scene 1 of The Tempest and creating different parts of the scene using our bodies. We made the ship, the mast, played rich passengers and hearty sailors, endured the storm, tumbled overboard, and swam ashore to a mysterious island – unmarked on any map…

We followed up this creative session with some fabulous writing in role as George, the ship’s watchman. Brilliant work, everyone!

Shakespeare!

Please click on the pictures below to read this half-term’s class letter and topic web. Looking forward to a fun-filled half-term!

BBC Radio 2: 500 Words Competition

Can you write an amazing story using no more than 500 words?

Do you want it read live on the radio by a superstar celebrity to nearly 10 million listeners?

Enter now!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/500words

And win a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Shakespeare’s Globe.

Closing date: 25th February, 7pm.

If you are after something to occupy your rainy half-term, look no further! Take at look at the previous winners on the website, and get going with some top tips from actors, writers and more. Originality is key, so get your thinking caps on 🙂

Get reading, get writing, get inspired.

Have a happy half-term 🙂

Saxons on the Wight

Oliver Class enjoyed an very interesting (though chilly!) trip to Carisbrooke Castle today. We looked at the old Saxon fortifications outside and talked about how the landscape has changed. Then we had to be detective archaeologists: we found a burial site for an Anglo-Saxon man and used the grave goods to work out who he may have been.

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