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.

West End in Schools

Our Visit from the West End

On Thursday 3rd October 2019, a visitor from the West End came and taught us about acting. We had fun performing scenes from the Shakespeare play Twelfth Night. 

Dianna from West End in Schools came to visit us and we practised scenes from the play to perform for the other Year Five classes and the teachers. 

It was fun but nerve wracking when we performed it to the rest of Year Five. 5MH performed freeze frames, 5AC performed Malvolio being bullied by Feste, 5SF performed Malvolio prancing in yellow tights with cross gartered laces and 5EV performed the big duel between Sir Andrew and Cesario (Viola).

We had tons of fun learning about acting and performing for our friends!  

Year Five Bloggers

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

 

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...

The Characters of Twelfth Night

Today, we thought about the relationships in the play and how we could describe some of the characters.

This work was created by Matthew & Chloe.

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:

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.