MrJennings

With the new half-term, we have begun a new unit of work in English which is all about poetry and, specifically, narrative poetry. We started off the week by looking at some different types of poems and revising a vocabulary to help us describe a poem and its key features. Moving on to narrative poems, we looked at Miller's End by Charles Causley before starting a series of lessons studying the classic The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. We listened to the poem first and then did some dictionary work to help us understand the poem better by finding the meaning of some of the more "old fashioned" words. We have looked at the similes and metaphors that Alfred Noyes created for the poem and have also listened to and watched some videos based on The Highwayman.

Our maths work has been connected with shape and symmetry. We have been thinking about the symmetry of regular polygons and learning about the properties of triangles - equilateral, isosceles and scalene.

We have spent some time on our ancient Greek history topic. We did some research about the theatre in ancient Greece and found out about the design and layout of theatres in those days and about the types of plays, the different types of actors and the masks that they wore on stage.

In addition, we created databases of our own in ICT, had two PE sessions and did French.