Friday 4th May

In English this week we read the next part of ‘The Iron Man’ by ted Hughes and in this part of the story the farmers discover that the Iron Man has been eating all of their work machinery. They decide that they are going to have to do something about this mental monster themselves because no one outside of the town is going to believe that the Iron Man exists.

We stopped at this point in the story and it was then our job to become the farmers and think about what their worries might be. We also thought about what solutions there might be for solving the ‘Iron Man problem’. Once we discussed this in pairs, we then came together in groups of eight, each put forward our ideas for solving the ‘Iron Man problem’ and then had a debate about which solutions would be the best to act upon.

Having decided what the best course of action was, we wrote letters to the head farmer (Hogarth's father) trying to convince him to act on our idea.