Creating Highwayman setting collages

“The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding—Riding—riding— The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.” Year 5 created a setting collage to capture the mood and atmosphere in the poem, The Highwayman. We used sensory details to guide our collage choices, considering the poem’s description of the moon, moor and inn. “The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas…”