Welcome to Year 5

Below is our most recent blog from Year 5.  This includes a summary of the last two weeks including any important information for the coming weeks (reminders etc).  These will be updated every other Friday.

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Friday 19^th July 2024

Over the past few weeks, we have spent much of our time preparing and practising our cheerleading routine for the production of Joseph. I'm sure you will join in us in saying how exceptionally well the children did with learning all the songs, their cheerleading routine and when to come and go! It was so lovely to see them perform their dance in the evenings last week after they have been working so hard to perfect the routine over the last few weeks.

This week we have continued with our English book 'The Journey'. The family in the book have now left their home and we looked at what happened next as they travelled to the border with the children drawing the pictures to accompany the text. In the next part of the book, they travel over water in a boat and tell stories about a sea monster - this gave us an opportunity to look at, rehearse and perform the poem  'The Kraken' by Alfred Tennyson. We also used sources of evidence and information from the poem to draw our own version of The Kraken. We then finished the book and made origami birds as they are sign of hope shown throughout the text.

We have also completed our Benin topic by looking at the slave trade and the impact that had on the Benin Kingdom and then how the Kingdom of Benin ended and created a booklet about our learning across this topic.

Our Benin inspired art sculptures just need the finishing touches added to them as now they have been created, paper mache has been added and they have been painted to reflect our learning in Art and History this half term.