Yeadon Tarn - Moortown Primary School, Leeds

On Wedensday, Year 6 went to Yeadon Tarn as part of the learning we’re doing on Kensuke’s Kingdom, a novel by Michael Morpurgo.

Michael, the main character, has set off on a voyage around the world with his mum and dad so we went our own voyage around the tarn (not quite the world).

There were four or five of us in a boat.

We were all really excited and all of us loved it!

We had to control the sails and the tiller, making sure the boom didn’t hit us in the head.

The boats were actually pretty big!

We sailed right across the tarn.

We even got to lie on the bow of the boat – and it was sometimes hard to hold on when the boat was turning around.

You could lean right out like a true yachtsman/woman.

And there was time for some playground time after lunch too.

When we weren’t sailing, we wrote shape poems about the water and created iMovies, imagining that we were Michael having been stranded on an island on his travels.

It was a really good day which resulted in a class of sailing fans by the end of it and a better understanding of lots of the vocabulary used in our class novel.