Over the year so far, Year 5 have been extremely lucky to be taught to play the clarinet by Mrs Hall. This week, the children were learning to play a piece called Blast Off. We ended the performance by raising out clarinets to the music. We are doing amazingly!!!
In PSHCE this week, Year 5 were learning about a range of jobs careers. The children began by ordering a list of jobs from most important to least important; we then discussed their thoughts and ideas as to why they had position the cards in their places. Some of the points that were raised were salary, importance to the community and enjoyment. After this, the children worked in groups to come up with the salary of each job/career and they then decided whether the career was underpaid, overpaid or respectfully paid.
This week’s lesson was very important to understand job roles and their benefits and disadvantages.
Well done Y5MEA!
Year 6 have been learning about one of Britain’s most influential modern – day artists, the graffiti famous Banksy. His artwork appears in public places as if by magic. Eventhough his identity has never been revealed his work is instantly recognisable as he has a particular style.
We looked at lots of examples of Banksy’s work which encouraged the children to think deeply about the hidden meanings in pieces of art.
There is a common misconception that graffiti is something that has only appeared in modern day culture. However, this is not the case as forms of graffiti can be traced back to ancient times in places such as Rome and Greece.
To build confidence the children created pencil sketches…
Then the drawings were outlined in fine black marker pen to add detail…
Then permanent marker was added to add blocks of colour – creating a stencil effect – just like Banksy…
Some of our children preferred to remain anonymous…just like Banksy…
Then we linked the artwork to our history topic, Crime and Punishment…
And finally ….in true Banksy style…
Eva
Learning about varied forms of art work will inspire children to think about what artistic style they would like to adopt themselves.
In todays lesson, Year 5 discussed the different people who they listen to and follow advice from in their lives. We discussed why we listen to certain people and maybe not listen to others. Whilst comparing our answers, we thought about if people of faith would have similar people that they listened to and were able to justify why they might have similar thoughts to others. Within the lesson, we looked at who would also inspire us. By looking at some well known inspirational people and looking at some less known we talked about if some deeds were better than others. The children came up with the conclusion that not everyone who inspires us has to be in the public eye and that everyone can be an inspiration no matter their beliefs or faith.
Over the past three afternoons, Year 5 have been learning all about our new topic for the term: Anglo Saxons and Vikings. The main subject we have been discussing is the Anglo Saxon and Viking shields: analysing genuine and replica images of shields and gathering conclusions about what the Vikings were like, based on the fact they had shields.
The children participated in a craft activity then designed their own shields and used paper mache to create a boss in the centre of their shields. They then painted their chosen design onto their templates. Here are some photographs of our designs.
In today’s English lesson, Year 5 studied a range of letters of complaint. We analysed the grammatical and structural features of a letter and then worked in partners to identify these features. We worked together amazingly and are now much more confident when finding features of a letter.
Our Year 6 history curriculum provides a platform to enrich children’s awareness of the past and develop their historical consciousness. Our curriculum builds on pupils’ understanding of British, world and local history, looking at the influence that Britain had on the wider world, and how the wider world has influenced Britain.
The latest History topic for Year 6 is ‘Crime and Punishment ‘.
For the first lesson the children were given the task of arranging historical events in chronological order.
Chronology is the science of locating historical events in time. It relies upon chronometry, which is also known as timekeeping, and historiography, which examines the writing of history and the use of historical methods.
Looking for the evidence…
Logical thinking…
Historians heads on…
Searching for clues…
Making decisions….
Why are timelines important ?
A timeline is a visual learning aid that helps children organize a series of events in the order they happened. Each event or person should have a date (or time) clearly marked on the timeline. Timelines provide a framework to show potential relationships between historical events.
Today we have started to look at the features of Cinquain poetry and how it differs from other poetry that we have looked at. We have started to create our own Cinquain poems about the beach.
Year 6 have been thinking about the 3P’s in their Design and Technology unit of work.
Design and make a Product for a Person with a Purpose
As technologists Y6 were challenged to design chocolate truffles that were to be a gift.
DT is not just about ‘making’. There are lots of steps that come before and after that !
Investigate – Learning about existing products
Focused Practical Task – Practising vital skills
Design – Designing a range of possible products
Make – Making the product
Evaluate – Looking back on what you did and considering what went well, what didn’t go so well and thinking about what you would have done differently
Our Learning Journey took us through each of these stages.
For two weeks the children were challenged to be chocolatiers.
Work in progress!!!
Now time to decorate !!!! Preparing the packaging!!!
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Nearly there!!!
What a professional looking finish !!!
The children were introduced to the note A today through the song ‘ solid sound. The children really loved playing between the notes A and G and getting the correct rhythm and really created a lovely composition.