Here we all are - as sailors!

Sailors!

Once on board HMS Beagle we sang some sea shanties, danced some jigs, had naps in our hammocks, went in the crow's nest and looked out for creatures, before eating our tasty (and not so tasty) biscuits! 

Ship builders

Did you know that there were about 75 sailors on board HMS Beagle? We worked out that there is 1/3 of that number of children in class two (more maths!!)

We decided that if we made our HMS Beagle 1/3 of the size, we would have to make it 9m long and 3m wide. More problem solving! We did a great job of it! 

Ship's biscuits and Shrewsbury biscuits, part two

We have done so much maths today in class 2! We started off with measuring weights of ingredients and we had to think very carefully about the equipment that we needed. A ruler wouldn't help! 

We had to look at the recipe carefully and we had to halve the ingredients so we had enough to go round. More tricky maths!!

How big was HMS Beagle? (More maths!!)

We found out that HMS Beagle was about 28m long and 8m wide. We used trundle wheels on the playground to get the size right. We could see exactly how big the ship was.

Ship builders!

After cooking we all became ship builders. We had to use our measuring skills to make scale models of HMS Beagle. It was really hard! 

We learned that it was better to measure together. 

We learned to listen carefully to instructions and start at the bottom. We also has to remember to get the depth right as well as the length.

We then had to get the scale of the masts right. It was really challenging and only a few got to the end, but we learned loads in the process! 

Sailor's grub!

We needed to get provisions ready for our voyage on HMS Beagle! Ellie-Mae and Nicholas made hard tack (ship's biscuits) and everyone else made Shrewsbury biscuits. Only the captain and Charles Darwin would eat these as they had more expensive ingredients than hard tack.

Darwin day!

Whilst some children were cooking, others had some time to finish their amazing HMS Beagle collages. They will be on display very soon! 

Some other sailors finished their timelines too.

Building up compositions

This afternoon we have been building up our backgrounds ready for our compositions of HMS Beagle. We have thought very carefully about the shape of the boat, the colour of clouds and the different art media we can use. 

We found some great fabric for the sails and the rigging!