MrJennings

We have had a poetry week at school to start off our new half-term. Our focus has been concrete (or shape) poems and we have taken autumn and autumn events and activities as our themes. We studied different examples of concrete poems and then generated ideas, developed and improved lives for poems before using these to create the poem itself. Our maths has been about shape - mainly 3D shapes - and we have been learning how to visualise shapes, to classify shapes using our knowledge of the properties of shapes.

We begun our new history topic by revising knowledge about life in Saxon times. From this we identified the sorts of things that a Saxon community would look for if they were seeking a new place to settle. After examining an area, groups chose a suitable site for their new village and wrote a message to "the folks back home" to let them know all the good features of the site they had found. Interestingly, because they made good use of their knowledge of Saxon life, all our groups chose a site that real Saxon settlers used over 1400 years ago.

We also had our Tuesday PE and Science sessions, PE on Thursday learning some cricket skills and we finished the week starting to learn the songs for our Years 5 & 6 Christmas production.