Otley All Saints CE Primary School Blog

The sun shone down as Year 5 arrived at Armley Mills. A few moments later we were transported back in time to 1887, the year of Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee.

Here we are in the Victorian schoolroom having just handed over 1d to pay for our education. It was just as well that we spent a few minutes yesterday practising our sitting up straight skills !

Our whiteboards are much easier to use than slateboards - we found the £ s d sums a little tricky too!

Our morning ended with a spot of drill.

In the land of!
I saw a boy in a hot suit on a motorbike flying to the moon,
Dunces teach wise men things they shouldn’t know,
And the Earth was above and the sky was below
In the land of Sloo ra-do.

I watched mice lift 450kg for nine days each week,
While cars were chatting away to scooters that can’t speak,
As a snake juggled triangles, trombones and gongs
In the land of Sloo ra –do.

By George

There’s a man
In Afghanistan
Who drives a van!

Most people in Cuba
Know how to scuba
But nobody plays the tuba!

It’s a pain
In Spain
Because people are insane!

By George

A kid called Mike rides
On his trike in the middle
Of the pitch black night
In the land of Flopadopledable.
I met a man who was smelly
Because Elena is a man called Jerry
And had an old-fashioned telly.
In the land of Flopadopledable
By Max

FANTASTIC FACTS

A man from Peru ate his shoe.
I don‘t know why though,
He was going cuckoo.

He thinks he‘s flexible
And from Mexico.
I don‘t know why though.

People in Germany
Need plastic surgery
Because they have scurvy.

By Max

In Spain
Noone has got a brain
Because they are a pain.

In Spain
It is a pain
Because there is no train.

In Japan
You get hit with a pan
In a van.

In Brazil
It was 80 nil
To Canil.

In Wales
They have tails
In pails.

By Thomas

In the land of…

I saw ladybirds that weighed a ton,
I saw a bakery that had no bun,
I saw runners that couldn’t run,
In the land of Sing Ding Dong Cloudy Song.

Everybody I talked to wanted a lolly,
Everybody seemed to be carrying a dolly,
Nearly everybody was called Polly,
In the land of land of Sing Ding Dong Cloudy Song.

By Ruth

Fantastic Facts

In Spain
Whenever it starts to rain
It stops the main train.

In the Bahamas
People must wear pyjamas
To pick bananas.

In Japan
A man hid his fan
In his brand new frying pan.

In the land of . . . . .

I was sold a torch which gave out black light,
I saw bats that were scared of dark night,
Loads of ferrets who couldn’t bite,
In the land of nig nag nog

All umbrellas have holes in the middle,
Monsters are scared of a small feather tickle,
Babies are so calm, not one wiggle,
In the land of nig nag nog.

By Joshua

Fantastic Facts

In France,
The people don’t dance,
They prance.

In Spain
It is a pain,
As there’s always plenty of rain.

In the Bahamas,
The llamas don’t harm us,
As they have had bananas.

By Ruth

By Niamh
I saw this man who was scared of
the dark,
He was like a dog barking all night.
His wife called him a lark
In the land of Nibbo Wibbo.
In the land of Nibbo Wibbo
I saw a forest without any trees,
I saw some flowers without any bees,
I saw a mouse that had lost it’s cheese
In the land of Nibbo Wibbo.