Scutari hospital

Here is what it may have sounded like in Scutari hospital in the Crimean War. 

The lost and found suitcase

When we found the old suitcase, we thought about how the owner of the case would feel about losing their suitcase, then we wondered what the suitcase would think or feel, if it could. Here are some of the suitcase's thoughts and feelings!

Letters home

The nurses and soldiers wrote letters home to their families about the awful conditions in Scutari hospital. They told of how the repugnant stench and filth were preventing the soldiers from getting better.

Luckily, as soon as they arrived the nurses started doing an amazing job of cleaning up and helping the soldiers get better, by cleaning their infected wounds. We interviewed some nurses and here's some of the things they told us:

'There are rats scuttling everywhere!'

'The foul smell hit my nose and made me feel sick.'

'There is only one real bed and that's used for realty sick soldiers!'

'There are about 100 soldiers lying on the floor in their own blood!'

It was an incredible interview!

Scutari hospital

The conditions in Scutari hospital were terrible. 

The nurses had to work very hard to clean it and make it safe for wounded soldiers,

Some of the soldiers had terrible wounds that weren't being cleaned and they were dying unnecessarily. 

It was exhausting work for the nurses and Florence was very strict. 

Read our 5 sentence challenge writing very soon.

Moustaches!

We filled up the warm and fuzzy pot, so guess what we got? A moustache! Luckily it was the edible kind, not a hairy one! :-)

More capacity fun!

We have been measuring how much water 8 different containers can hold.

We had to remember our golden rules for measuring-and teamwork. 

Miss BB thinks we worked brilliantly together!! 

Capacity

This afternoon we have been learning about capacity through water play! We learned words like litre and millilitre.

We investigated the different size containers and were surprised about how much liquid some of them held. Mrs Pilsbury-Gaunt helped us and asked us lots of questions to make us think about our learning. We had to estimate how much liquid would fit in different containers and which ones held more.

Super concentration!!

It was good fun learning outside, though some of us got a little bit wet!