On Monday, Newts and Frogs spent the day at Portsmouth Historical Dockyard. We had an absolutely fantastic time, despite the down pour of rain mid way through the day!
The children thoroughly enjoyed the Percy Parrot workshop which involved teaching Percy how to become a pirate. We made pirate hats, harvested many fantastic adjectives to describe the sea and listened to an exciting sensory story.
We toured the magnificent HMS victory and listened carefully to the guides as they explained the history of the ship and distinctive features such as the 'toe rag'!
' The ship was dark inside and smelt musty like the sea'
Lastly we visited the National Museum where we learned a lot about The Navy, including the Battle of Trafalgar. Some of us took part in the 'Trafalgar Experience'
'It felt like we were on a real Navy ship'
