Vikings in the woods

Have you been down to the woods today??

Anyone that was out strolling in Harewood woods yesterday would have been in for a big surprise. A Viking Clan had set up camp in amongst the trees. Class 3 had an excellent day thanks to Beth from Forest Found. Beth created a day of activities linked to our learning on the Vikings in Britain. The children baked bread on the fire, carved weapons, built dens and learnt how to weave. Beth also provided a huge canvas ‘longhouse’ so we could shelter from the worst of the weather.

The class also had chance to be Viking craftsmen – creating their own shoulder sacks which they used to transport their lunch to our clearing in the woods.

Many thanks to Mr.Pinnington and Mrs.Jarvis, who gave up their day to time travel with us; their skills were exploited to the full! The children thoroughly enjoyed the day and it was fantastic to see them putting their Viking knowledge to practical use. It provided a memorable end to our study of the Vikings. 

Vicious Vikings - for a day!

The time travellers of Class 3 had a fantastic day at the Dark Ages Village at Murton Park. The children lived as Vikings for the day, taking part in a range of hands on activities including: weapons practice, farming, pottery and bread making.


As always, the day was crammed full of learning and gave us a great opportunity to put into practice all we had learnt about the Viking way of life.


A special thanks to our 'slaves' for the day who truly entered into the spirit of the event even if that meant they came to rather a soggy end!

Harvest Baking ~ Class 2

This week the children in Class 2 have been making apple tarts for our school Harvest Celebration on Friday which was held in aid of the McMillian Cancer Charity.

We started off by picking apples from the tree in our school garden.

 Everyone took a turn at peeling an apple..

and then we chopped them ready for stewing.

We had to separate eggs for the custard filling..

it was quite a tricky job but we managed it brilliantly.

This was a new skill for many of the children.

We had to use our maths skills to read the scales when measuring out the sugar.

We had to look carefully and check that the measurements were correct.

It was a real team effort.

 We took turns with the mixing.

The children talked about the different ingredients they were using. The vanilla had a very interesting smell!

We spooned the apple mixture carefully into the pastry cases...

and had fun piping the custard onto the top!

I'm sure you will agree that the children have used many skills and worked brilliantly as a team this week. Our apple tarts soon disappeared at the coffee afternoon and they tasted delicious.