On Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th we were very pleased to welcome our special visitor: Alison Wright.  Alison’s mother took the Thalidomide drug during her pregnancy and so Alison was born with short arms.  This hasn’t stopped her being a mum, a speaker on disability or a member of the British Paralympic Team.  She told us to live by the words of Winston Churchill and never, never, never give up!

Alison says having short arms just means you have to think ahead and solve problems and that’s what we tried to do when we had a go at tidying up, writing and putting on a sock with our toes!

This morning Year 4 welcomed a Roman from Butser Ancient Farm to kick off our learning unit! We had a wonderful day learning from an expert about the arrival of the Romans, their legacy, as well as teaching us about the power of the Roman Army. We prepared questions and our expert was able to accurately answer them.

We had took part in outstanding workshops to help us with our understanding and to bring our learning alive. The workshops included learning Latin commands, practising marching as the Roman Army, dressing up as a Roman and making our own Roman jewellery.

It was a captivating day which has given us a some fantastic information to use during our learning unit and motivated us to find out more, watch this space….