Friday 11th November

Super sailors

Butterfly Class were a credit to Westbury Infant School on our trip to SS Great Britain on Thursday and should be very proud of themselves.  We had a super time seeing first hand some of the exciting things that we have learnt about the SS Great Britain so far and Isambard Kingdom Brunel. We were able to go underneath the ship and see the iron hull and the screw propeller, both of which made ships travel further and faster than ever before.   When we were on the top deck we saw the original anchor and found out that when they sailed they needed to carry 1000 animals for food, including pigs, cows a and chickens!  It must have been very noisy and very smelly on board!  Down below the deck we sat at the first class dining table, saw the sleeping areas, cooking preparation and learnt about how they had doctors on board too. We saw rats crawling (Only pretend) and heard lots of sounds that you would have heard aboard the ship.  We only had a short time to look but it would definitely be worth another visit or there is lots more information you can experience on the SS Great Britain website.

Butterfly SS Great Britain

Super Stories

This week our focus story has been Geko's Echo by Lucy Rowland and Natasha Rimmington.  It is a lovely rhyming story about a Gecko who lives in a cave who bravely protected her eggs from the sneaky animals who kept trying to steel them.  It has lots of lovely language in it such as scampered, muttered, beware, boomed and precious. If you would like to read it together at home, here is the link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OasBs6aROhI