Yesterday we had a special day where we dressed up all about our topic this half term; PIRATES!
At the start of the day class 7, 8 and 9 all went into the hall for an assembly. We were so shocked to see a real pirate had come into school. His name was Captain Burrwash and he was a funny, exciting pirate. He told us all about what it was like to be a pirate and even asked us lots of questions to see what we knew! Captain Burwash set us a challenge to make a new Jolly Roger flag and a wanted poster for some new crew for his new ship.
Next we went back to our classrooms and we carried on with our DT projects about mechanisms. We have looked at horizontal and vertical sliders so far but today we made a pirate that moved his arm using a pivot mechanism. This was really tricky, we had to make sure we put the split pins in the right place so his arm moved properly. 
Afterwards we got into groups of three and set about on Captain Burwash's challenge. 'On our Jolly Roger we put a skull and crossbones with lots of blood and a cutlass going through a heart' - Owen. 'On our Jolly Roger we put a skull with blood dripping from it's eyes' - Ben. We had to make our flags scary because the one he had already wasn't scary enough to ward off other pirates.
After dinner we were lucky enough to have Captain Burrwash come into our classroom. He picked people to hold his guns, cutlass, coins, cannon balls and grenades! When we were learning about them he told us how they worked and how pirates used them.
'He told us a story about when a pirate cheated in a dice game that he shouldn't have been playing and the Captain caught them and they had to stand back to back before have a fight.' - Owen. We also got to hear lots of stories about Blackbeard and his crew. 