Year 5 have been performing Shakespeare today!  In small groups the children performed the scene where Macbeth and Banquo meet three witches on the heath.  The used intonation and prosody to read and interpret all those very tricky old English words.  They did a fantastic job!

Year 5 have had a fantastic wow day today! We all gathered in the hall to find out that we were going to be making bridges, as part of our 'Raging Rivers' topic. We had to use a lot of lollipop sticks in order to build the structure for our bridges. We then sketched out and painted a landscape that included a river to put our bridges on. At lunch time, we gathered materials to put on our landscapes to further enhance the 3D effect. All adults were really impressed with our resilience and determination throughout the day and we all really enjoyed it. We can't wait to take our masterpieces home with us tomorrow!

Poplar class have had an excellent world book day! The book we have been looking at is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, an oldie but a goodie! We even had our very own pair of Oompa Loompas in the class! We started off by creating our own sweet inventions, just like Willy Wonka. We had to use expanded noun phrases and figurative language to describe our inventions. We then did a class vote on our favourite sweets and chocolates and used our Maths skills to create a bar chart to represent this information. We drew along with Quentin Blake, the author of lots of Roald Dahl's books, to have a go at sketching Willy Wonka and his Oompa Loompas. In the afternoon we took part in two fun world book day quizzes and got into the hall to take part in some drama activities acting out some of our favourite scenes from books.

Pine Class really enjoyed World Book Day today.  After a quiz to get us into the mood, we learned about Mrs Allan's favourite childhood book, "The Magic Faraway Tree".  The children planned and then wrote an adventure set in their own make-believe land found at the top of this incredible tree.  In the afternoon, they all then brought their lands to life by drawing them using different media including twigs we gathered ourselves to represent the top of the tree.

In our topic lessons this half term, we have worked really hard on planning and making a collage of earth with a painted background. We also sculpted our own planets and painted them, they all turned out wonderful!

We have really enjoyed learning about Space this term and the children have really impressed their teachers with their scientific knowledge, well done Year 5!

Ask your child: 

What shape is the earth?
What planets are in our Solar System?
How do planets move in our Solar System?
How does the moon move?
How does day and night occur?

During one of our No Outsiders lessons, we read the book  'Kenny lives with Erica and Martina'. Kenny's world soon becomes a lot more colourful with the arrival of some new neighbours. Kenny welcomes the change, but not everyone else does. How can Kenny let everyone know that being different is not something to be afraid of? We made our own graffiti messages using PowerPoint to spread our own messages.

These are some of the messages that Poplar class came up with:

'Treat others how you want to be treated' 

'Be you, be unique'

'Everyone is different, so we should respect everyone'

'Everyone is different, and that's okay'

'Be yourself, change is okay' 

Today Pine Class have been presenting the weather in France. They have learned how to say what the weather is doing all over the country.  They all did an excellent job and seemed to enjoy it ;-) 

Ask your child: "Quel temps fait-il aujourd'hui" and see what they tell you!

A bientot!