Author: year5

To mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, we made pop up books to explain why the day is so important.

Maple class raised £143 by completing a litter pick.  The children decided to adopt a panda, turtle and a tiger by donating to the WWF.

The children were really excited when the letters from our partner school in France arrived.

Having left the clay pots to dry over the Easter holidays, they were finally ready to paint.

Welcome to Term 5!  Here is an overview of all the fun things we will be learning about this term.

Here are the KIRFs for this term:

Year 5

We researched what Ancient Greek pots were like and designed our own.

We then used plasticine to practise different techniques before using the clay.

Next, we used clay to make our pots.

We enjoyed celebrating all the special ladies in our lives.  We shared Bible readings and songs.  The children also read their own poems and prayers.

We were lucky to have Ian from KIC Theatre visit us this week. He introduced our book for term 5, ‘The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers: And Other Gruesome Tales’, and supported the children in expressing themselves through drama. The children really embraced this and had a great session.

We explored how clever the Ancient Greeks were by doing some maths. We then learned some interesting facts and took part in a quiz. Next, we learned about democracy and how Sparta and Athens differed. We learned and played a game, which brought out our competitive sides! After lunch, we learned about Ancient Greek weapons and modelled their armour. We took part in our own version of the Olympics between the two classes, which ended in a draw.  The afternoon ended with some more games and question time.

The theme of our fourth Task Day for ‘6 Ways to Wellbeing’ was ‘giving something back’.  We carried out a sponsored litter pick within in our local community.  Our aim was to raise money for the WWF by adopting an animal.