1 Red thoroughly enjoyed their visit to our local church and Reverand Ian was extremely informative. We had a great time and really want to visit again soon! We looked at all the features of a modern church and what they are used for; we sang and we learned about customs and traditions that are important for Christians.
This half term, Year 5 Navigators are embarking on a new Learning Means The World theme, titled ‘The Rescuers’.
Focusing on the catastrophic tragedy of The Titanic, we have delved into our research about this, once majestic ship, nicknamed ‘Queen of the Sea’ and ‘Unsinkable’… to name a few.
We have thoroughly enjoyed learning about The Titanic… so much so, that no sooner had our home learning menu been taken home, we had some of our 5 Blue Navigators use their research, to create phenomenal, scaled-down models of the majestic vessel, just as an engineer or designer would have done, back in 1912!
This week, we have started our new theme, Saxon King. To kick-start the theme, we spent time researching about Harold Godwinson. We researched about his early life, Wessex, The Battle of Stamford Bridge and The Battle of Hastings. To support our learning, we had a super afternoon re-enacting The Battle of Hastings with 4 Blue acting as the Anglo-Saxons and 4 Red acting as the Norman-French army. We had a fantastic time!
What an amazing week we have had celebrating the Coronation. We made ‘natural crowns’, decorated tiles, created loose part crowns, red white and blue patterns, built palaces and so much more! Today we had a party outside and it was sunny!
Welcome to The Viking Factor.
4 Red took part in a battle motto competition, where they had to make up an intimidating war chant. We looked at the Maori Hakka and the Icelandic battle chants to inspire our brutal battle performances.
In Year 3, we have experienced life in Greece today by tasting lots of popular Greek foods. We tasted feta cheese, pitta bread, tzatziki, hummus and olives. We needed to be brave as some of us were nervous to try certain foods. However, we acted like true Adventurers and gave it a go! Some of us were surprised at how tasty lots of the items were!
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This week in our Learning Means The World Theme, Year 3 have been designing and creating their own Greek Coil Pots. This activity required lots of patience as we found it tricky to mould the clay into coils in order to construct our coil pot.
Today, Year 5 have immersed ourselves into our Roman day!
We began with making our own laurel wreaths, before taste-testing some of the ‘exotic fruits’ which the wealthy emperors would have been lucky enough to have feasted upon!
Finally, we built our own catapults, using wooden lollypop sticks, elastic bands and spoons. We had a competition in the hall, to see who could fire their catapults the furthest; focusing on forces such as tension and gravity, to propel objects across a distance.
This week in Year 3, we have been learning about Harriet Tubman. Year 3 learned that Harriet saved over 60 slaves from the terrible conditions of the slave farms and transported them across the Northern boarder of Pennsylvania where slavery was illegal. She did this using songs to give the slaves instructions so that they weren’t caught by the slave catchers. We were inspired by this, so we created our own slave songs!
Year 6 produced a very thoughtful assembly today to celebrate our learning within our ‘I Have a Dream’ theme.
We shared our learning about slavery, apartheid and segregation; the children also celebrated the achievements and legacy of Martin Luther King through the eyes of a child who witnessed his famous 1963 speech.
The children spoke confidently and it was clear that they have thought clearly about the important themes within this unit of work.
Thanks to all of our parents, carers and other family members who came along too – we hope you enjoyed it!