We had an amazing time earlier this week! 5H walked to Adel Woods and were set the challenge to build a den in groups. The judges were looking for durability, appearance, spaciousness and functionality. We had so much fun working together and problem-solving.

Today, we finished our double-page ‘show what you know’ pieces of work displaying what we have learnt about the Ancient Greeks in relation to our Historical enquiry question. Here are some examples of the fantastic, high-quality work the class have produced! Thank you everybody for an amazing half term and I hope you have a lovely restful week.

We have had an amazing two weeks, immersing ourselves in Greek mythology. Although the outcome is important, I feel that the process; the enjoyment and the challenges we have overcome have really made our fortnight this year. Please enjoy watching the videos from the performance, the photographs from the two weeks and the finished look of the studio . A big thank you to Miss Patchett, Miss Jackson and Mrs Elliott, who enriched our experience and a huge thank you to the enthusiasm, passion and talent of 5H! We are very excited for Macbeth now.

This is a presentation of the photos from our Arts Fortnight. You can scroll down to view them all!

Today, we discussed primary and secondary sources in History – we looked at how we need to be detectives and analyse a range of sources to build up a picture about life in a certain era. After debating what type of source each artefact/image/piece was, we then took part in a silent debate. It was brilliant to see how many connections the class were making to our previous learning around hierarchy, city-states and key aspects of Greek life.

This week, some highlights have been learning our model text around King Midas. Another highlight has been our Matisse cut-out lesson. Next week, we will play around with our own cut-outs and create a piece based on a Greek Myth!

This afternoon, we explored different properties of materials, such as: if they magnetic, transparent/translucent/opaque, thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity and levels of absorbency. We had a carousel of testing and the class loved discussing the purpose of the materials. We focused on our collaboration skills in this task. We made sure we were actively engaged, encourage others to speak and balancing how often we were contributing.

What a great start to Year 5 we’ve had this week. I can tell we are going to have a fantastic year already. Some particular highlights this week have been: the slow write early birds; hockey on Friday afternoon in the sunshine; laughing in heads down thumbs up and learning our poetry model text!