By now you should all know a good deal about the life of our local naval hero Sir Harry Burrard-Neale. If not ask your child to tell you about how we helped The Doctor stop the Darkness from deleting all traces of Burrard-Neale's from history.
As part of our 6-week long project we have learnt about what life was like on board a naval ship during the 1700 and 1800, made maps of Lymington, plotted directions, built replica ships, and wrote diary entries and letters as if we were sailors.
On our maps we identified where the various monuments for Burrard-Neale are, including the plaque at St Thomas' Church, the monument at Walhampton, and the Gas Lamp by the Royal Lymington Yacht Club.
In our letters we wrote to Sir Harry Burrard-Neale to persuade him to improve working conditions on board ships during the 1700s and 1800s so that we could avoid a mutiny.
We have used some of our work to make displays around the school, including links to our school learning values. Be sure to look around for evidence of our learning when you pop in for celebration assemblies, to help with trips, or when you come in to hear children read.
To bring our work to a close we were visited by Mark Lanigan and Pam Morrissey from the Burrard-Neale campaign and Helen Robinson from the New Forest National Park. We were able to explain to them all about our work and what we had found out about Burrard-Neale.
They were very impressed and have written about their visit on their own blog. There are more photos on the Burrard-Neale 250 website, which you can find by pasting the following link into google:
http://burrard-neale250.org.uk/latest-news/
There is also a copy of the information we sent home about the poster designing competition.
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