At the very end of our last half term just before Christmas, we said a sad goodbye to Daniel from class 9 who has gone on a new adventure! We are very excited to find out who will be joining our class in the coming weeks.
Our topic this half term is Pirates. We will be learning all about Blackbeard, who is a famous pirate captain. We learnt that Blackbeard lights fuses in his beard to scare enemies away - we think that sounds scary!
So far we have written poems about Pirates that used alliteration like scary, smelly, scallywag Pirates. We also wrote some acrostic poems where the letters down the side spell out the word Pirates. We wrote them in our neatest writing on special pirate paper for our display. 
We've also made 'wanted' posters of class 9 dressed as gruesome Pirates. We had to give them funny names and think of a reward for their capture!
In two weeks we are going to have a special day where we dress up as Pirates with eye-patches and torn trousers just like real Pirates do.
We are really excited to learn more about Blackbeard and what it was like to be a Pirate.
By Maceo and Anya
