In the hot seat

This week Lily-Rose and Oli have been in the hot seat as Grace Darling, reading her journal. They used some amazing words in their diaries, like perish and dreadful. Hopefully you will be able to hear a recording of them very soon! What questions would you ask them if you could?

What if?

What if a box arrived at school and what if it was from a museum? What could be in it? 

Should we open it? 

What if there were gloves in it? Why are they there? Should we put them on? 

What if the box contained a really old journal, that was written by Grace Darling's dad? Should we read it? 

  

Will we learn anything? 

A special visitor

 This morning we looked at different parts of a picture, that started to tell a story. We could only see small parts of it at a time, so that we could have a big think about what the picture was telling us. There was a lady, in old fashioned clothes, in what looked like a boat. 

Then we could see the sea, a lighthouse, then a shipwreck. The whole picture was the front of a book - about a lady called Grace Darling. But who was she?

This afternoon a special visitor came. Her name was Grace and she told us about her life. She said she liked games and so we played the yes/no game with her. Through this game we found out that there was a storm, a shipwreck and that people died. 

We then watched Grace's story about the shipwreck and how she rescued 9 people! Would you like to see her story too? Click here and you can!

An unusual place...

Somewhere in the world there is an unusual place. 

The room is circular and is roughly 6m across. Could you draw that using string and chalk?

In that place was a room and some stairs. They were unusual stairs. If you went up the stairs you came to a bedroom, with very little furniture. What could this place be? Who lived there? We had lots of great ideas.

Further up the stairs were more rooms. What was in them?

Somebody lived in this place, with their family. We were able to ask questions, but this person would only give yes/no answers. It took us a while to get the hang of it, but then we were on fire!

'Are you a boy?'     No

'Do you live here?'    Yes

'Do you have fun here?'  Yes, and no.

After a while ...

'Is it a lighthouse? Are you by the sea? Are you on the rocks?'

Yes

At night I light a candle and father finds oil.

 Why?

Outside the lighthouse a storm was brewing ...

then raging ...

into a full blown tempest.

The walls of the lighthouse were very strong. If they spoke, I wonder what they would say..

'The waves are crashing on the rocks.'

'I will stay strong.'

'The storm is terrifying ...'

'We will protect those inside!'

What questions do you want to ask now?