Year 5/6 The Shakespeare Company Visit

The Shakespeare Company Play

The Shakespeare company are a group that  come into schools and retell Shakespearean plays for kids.  On Wednesday 16th October we were lucky to be able to see MacBeth in action.              

           

Last year they performed Romeo and Juliet to Year five and six and this year they performed MacBeth.

The whole year group were amazed at how they managed to engage all the children in the play by giving them parts. It was also good to see the ways they had to express how the characters might be feeling because of the decisions they made.

MacBeth is a tragedy play so there were lots sad moments and  happy moments.

We would really like to thank all of the actors and actresses that were involved - it really was a great performance!

                                                     By Ruby Noble and Alex Bowyer

We wish you all a very happy half-term break. Please enjoy and stay safe.

Your homework pages are as follows:

English Y5 p 21         Y6 p 8-10

Maths Y5 p 14        Y6 p 12

This week in Year 5/6...

Leading up to Remembrance Sunday, Year 5/6 have been focusing on World War I and World War II in English lessons.  We have written letters from the point of view of a child evacuee and will be writing wartime poetry next week.

Christmas cards will be coming home on Monday 15th October. These will be available to order online. Details to follow...

Please remember parents evening is next Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th.

Fun with Maths!

Last week in Year 5 and 6 we made the most of the remaining warm weather and completed our Math's lesson outside.
This involved the children going on a "Treasure Hunt" to complete clues relating to our work on Multiplication, Division and Place Value.
We loved the fact that the children were able to learn at their own individual pace, whilst having an element of competition too!
Outdoor Learning is a fantastic approach and adds another dimension to our Math's Curriculum.

Last week at school the children have been learning about classifying living things in science this week.

Perhaps they could look for examples in their own back garden or on the beech / in the woods. Any drawings and information gathered can be used on science displays in class.

In PSHE we have been looking at British citizens, with a focus on which children's Rights were being met in the photo or denied.

This week at school, the children will be looking at legends and thinking about how these are different to the myths we have looked at.

Our first week back after the summer holidays

After the Summer holidays, the children returned to school this week looking extremely smart and with a positive attitude to their year ahead.

On Wednesday, the children settled in to their new classes. We discussed their holidays by completing an alphabet linking each letter to something they did over the six weeks. We also discussed their Rights as a child and used these Rights to support in making our Class Charters (an agreement between Rights Holders and Duty Bearers to follow within the classroom).

Next week at school, the children will continue learning about numbers and place value (focusing on Roman numerals, negative numbers and rounding) in Maths; we will start our English genre of writing which is on Myths and Legends (linking it to our Project on Ancient Greeks) and continue our Geography-focus in our Project lessons, interpreting maps on Greece and Ancient Greece.

Goodbye and Good Luck Year 6!

On behalf of all the Year 5 and 6 staff we would like to extend a huge congratulations for all your hard work. We wish you all the very best for the future.
Enjoy your Summer. Have fun!

Essex Schools Food and Farming Trip

Yesterday,years 5/6 went on a trip for a Food and Farming day.

At 9:30am, we all got a coach to get to the Essex food and farming trip at the Writtle University College. On that day 3,000 children had attended from all different schools and all submitted a scarecrow into a competition. Ours was Henry the eighth and his six wives.

45 minutes later,we had finally arrived. As we walked into the green field, I could see five humongous white tents dotted around the field.

We had four leaders;the actual leader was called Cristine who showed us around. The first place we went to was the Countryside tent and in that there were different things to do. For example, one was making a mini-beast out of clay, sticks and leaves -I made an ant. It is a shame because I would of liked more time in this tent.

After we went to the Crop zone which had some edible seeds we could try and we could of got up close to some that we had never seen.

Next,we had to get into our groups to move onto the Live-stock.

When we reached the Live-stock, we all sat down and watched a man teach us on how to shear a sheep. I found it quite weird because I had never seen it before.

Our time was up at the Live-stock, so then we all moved to the food zone and in it was where we learnt how crops turn into real food.I found that quite interesting because it shows what seeds we actually eat.

Finally, we got to the last place which was the Machinery zone. There were two men explaining to us about how farmers get rid of their seeds and how they plant their seeds. Everyone who stood there had to stand behind a silver barbed-wire fence.

At the end, we finally found out who won and we came third

; our prize was a £50 voucher and a watering can.

At 1:45, we walked back to where our two coaches were and left to come back to the school.

Overall,I enjoyed the day there and I learned a lot more new things.

by Leila (Year 6)