Norman Banquet in Year 2

Yesterday in Year 2, we dressed up as Knights, Kings, Queens, Princesses and Maidens to finish off our topic of Castles and Knights. In the afternoon, we changed our classroom around and had a banquet! We tried lots of foods that people would have eaten in Norman times. Lots of the foods were new to us, especially the chicken broth, so we were all really brave trying lots of new foods. 

Y2's Writing Castle

We wanted to show you our new 'Writing Castle' that our lovely Mrs King made for us. We are very excited about starting our new topic Castles and Knights next week - especially going on our trip to Portchester Castle! We are hoping we can get lots of creative writing done in this area very, very soon!

Year 2's DT day

Today in Year 2 we have been building castles to finish off our history and science topics. We used our history work on castles and our science work on materials to create models of our ideal Norman castle.

We had a fantastic time and made a fantastic mess, but our castles look great! Some of them have working drawbridges which we made ourselves, either using a string pulley system or a winding system with wooden dowels and string. Miss Derby and Miss Waterfield were so impressed!

Thank you to all of the parents who contributed any spare "junk" you had at home. It made a huge difference to the children's work and we're very grateful for your generosity.

Well done, Year 2, for a fantastic first half term. We've had loads of fun and worked very hard!

Our Norman banquet in Year 2

Last week, we finished our learning about food from the Norman times - when there was lots of castles, battles and knights. We celebrated this by having a Norman banquet using all of the things we learnt.

We know that Norman knights and kings didn't have proper plates like we did as they were very expensive. Instead they normally used stale bread. We didn't fancy eating stale bread, so we used toast instead (and then we got to eat our plate... yum!).

On our bread, we could have had lots of things, like cheese (Cheddar and Wensleydale cheese both originate from Norman times), ham, chicken, jam, marmelade and fish paste. We also had a lot of honey at the ready because the Normans liked putting honey on everything, even ham and chicken! Some of us were very brave and gave it a go, and we didn't mind it too much...!

Here are some photos of 2D and 2F having a fantastic Norman banquet. Well done, Year 2, for being so brave and trying new things even though some of them were a bit funny.