Year Five: June 2023

June has been an extremely busy month for Year Five!  Five on a Treasure Island build-up work ahead of writing their own adventure stories, reflection and translation using coordinates, investigating forces, computing challenges, nature artwork, Bikeability, final preparations and rehearsals for Shakespeare on Trial! and so much more!

Georgia

Carys

Georgia

Oscar

Esme

West End in Schools Comes to Crosshall!

 Lights, camera action! Year Five having been drawing on their inner thespian.

Mid-September Update

It's been a really busy couple of weeks!  We've been settling in and getting used to the new routines, and we've already been challenging ourselves with some fun activities.  Some of what we've been up to is included below.

English

Our first focus in English is Twelfth Night, which is a play by William Shakespeare.  We really liked finding out all about him as part of our summer home learning, so it has been good to read one of the plays.  It's a really funny story with lots of mix-ups and confusion.  It was especially fun acting out some of the scenes and learning about life in Shakespeare's time.

Maths

Maths this week has been great!  The best activity was trying to solve the Mad Hatter's Tea Party logic problem.  We had to work out the seating plan just from some tricky clues like, "The grinning one has to be kept in check and needs to sit next to the White Rabbit."  It was really hard and it took us a while, but we got there.

Art

We've created all kinds of beautiful art over the past couple of weeks.  The ruler art looked so tricky at first, but once we got the hang of it, it was really easy.  Everyone's looks different, but they all look fantastic.  We also started researching and drawing some bird art.  We're really proud of our sketches so far, and we can't wait to start painting with watercolours.

R.E.

As part of our 'sparky start' for R.E. this year, we got to try all kinds of foods linked to religious celebrations.  We're going to learn all about how different religions mark important events this year, and we found out that food is quite an important part of those celebrations in every religion.  Some people didn't like the dates very much, but most of it was really tasty.

Shakespeare Research

 

Some great examples of the Shakespeare research completed ahead of studying Twelfth Night.

First Week in Year Five

This week in Year Five we've had loads of fun!  We sketched birds as pretty as a picture and had a competition to see which group could build the highest self-standing tower out of colourful Lego.  All the classes had fun trying out cup stacking, and we learnt how to make a curve out of straight lines.  We've also had fun reading Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.  Lastly, we did some GoNoodle, and that got us up and moving.  The first week in Year Five has been absolutely amazing!

The Year Five Bloggers

 

Year Five Preparation Work

Wow! Well done current Year Four children. You had just under two weeks to complete your work and we're amazed with some of what you have been able to do.We look forward to September.

Twelfth Night Newspaper Articles

Shakespeare in a Day

Today, we had a visit from West End in Schools. Here's a little bit of what we got up to...

Ben K's Twelfth Night Storyboard

Twelfth Night Newspaper Articles

After studying Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, we imagined ourselves being newspaper reporters on the island of Illyria covering the events from the play. These recounts were written by Morgan & Freddie:

Shakespeare in a Day

On Friday 18th March, we were dressed in our sporting clothes for Sport Relief, but we also learned, rehearsed and performed our own version of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (all in one day). Once again we had a visit from West End in Schools. Class-by-class, children learned some acting skills, more about the play, lines and how to deliver them. The day culminated in a performance by all of Year Five, to all of Year Five. 

Below are what Izzy and Joely thought of the day:

This morning Year Five went to a Shakespeare workshop, about the twelve night, in the hall. We were getting to know the story and trying to understand it better.
It was fun and we understood the story a lot better, it was fun and we did some drama. First we met Ellanor (a professional actress) and she told us a short version of the story and showed us some actions.
Next, she told us to walk around the room and when she called out one of the characters we did an action for the person. It was good fun and we all knew the characters and their actions.
After that, we sat down and she picked some people to be Malvolio and Viola-Cesario. The nine people that were picked lined up in diagonal lines and read out their words that were on the board. Next, was a few people who were some of the other characters and they did their lines. After that, it was my turn and I was Sir Toby Belch, it was hard to say them loudly but we did it.
My favorite part was doing the actions for the characters because we got to do some partner work.

This morning Year Five went into the hall to have a Shakespeare workshop. We were talking about the Twelfth Night and taking part in a play. The lady that was teaching us was really nice. She made sure that we were happy with our lines. We did exercises before we started and it was really fun because she made us be really dramatic. The exercises were where she would shout out characters and we would stop and do the actions. Then we got into groups and started acting.

Twelfth Night Newspaper Report

As part of our Shakespeare study, we have put ourselves on the island of Illyria and written newspaper reports about some of the events in Twelfth Night. Below is Isabelle's report.

Twelfth Night Introduction

We're studying Twelfth Night and its characters. We did some work on Google Slides to help us identify which characters are found in which household.