Quick, quick....call the fire brigade! Mr Shortland is trying to burn the classroom down! There is a fire in the middle of the room!

 

The children were surprised to enter the room to see that the classroom had been transformed into a Longhouse with a roaring fire in the middle of the classroom (and on the board). 

The reason for the sudden transformation was to launch our Anglo-Saxon topic and to introduce our book that we will be focusing on during our English lessons for the next 3 weeks named 'Beowulf' by Micahel Murpurgo. We used the candles as a way to provide light to read the powerful introduction to Beowulf to discuss how it hooks us in to read more!