It has been fantastic to welcome the Year 5 children back to school and they’ve returned with an abundance of enthusiasm and energy!
In English we are now looking at the Mystery and Suspense genre and the children have had a chance to identify ways in which suspense and tension are portrayed through film and in written text. They have analysed ways in which the depiction of characters, actions and settings can create a sense of menace and are starting to look more closely at the mystery and suspense language features.
Our Topic this term is Mexico and the Mayans and the children spent their Geography lesson using Atlas’s to find out where Mexico is in the world and what some of the surrounding countries are. We spoke about the lines of longitude and latitude in an Atlas and how we can use these to identify the location of different countries in the world.
In Science we are starting to look at properties of materials and the children spent their first Science lesson analysing a range of kitchen utensils and discussing the materials they had been made out of. They started to consider the benefits of the different materials and why each utensil would have been created from the material that it had been.
In Design and Technology this term we are going to be designing and then building our very own robots to take to Mars! The children have been finding out information about the 2020 Mars Preservice robot and have been discussing the different elements and features they would want to include on their own robots. Watch this space…
