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Years 3 and 4 travelled back in time recently, building a Viking
longship in the school hall!
The ship was built to scale, exactly
one quarter the size of a real ship. As well as assembling the
five-and-a-half-metre-long replica, the children also tried their
hand at several Viking-style activities, including riveting together
wooden shields and using an authentic loom for weaving . They sewed
the sail for the ship from five panels of cloth, and then added a
fierce lion called Rollo!
The session was led by Charlie Lupton, a
former teacher who runs history workshops in schools up and down the
country.
Daisy Carrol (8) writes:
On the first of December we made a
massive Viking Longboat. First we listened to Charlie the Viking
about what we were doing. He told us what the different activities
were. Charlie put us in to groups and we started our different
activities. We made the boat by attaching pieces of wood together
with guts and rivets. If you got your finger stuck in the rivets it
would stay there for ever but the guts were all right. We moved on
to the colouring in of the dragons head and the oars. Next we
stitched together the sail. It was very hard. We had to stitch
Rollo the lion onto the sail. Then we made the shields. These were
very heavy but fun to make. |
