English

We began this week in English with an exciting invitation to a feast held by Lady Macbeth in the Great Hall. We all sat down to enjoy food and drink when Macbeth (Mrs J), began to act very strangely… We discussed what was happening to Macbeth and decided that all of his crimes were causing him to become insane. We then planned, drafted and published an essay based on how the insanity of Macbeth becomes more and more apparent as the story goes on. The children worked extremely hard on these and should be very proud of the fantastic writing they produced.

We also learned about the active and passive voice in our GPS session, and the children converted sentences from active to passive.

Maths

We began a new unit on fractions this week. The children began the week by using bar models to simplify fractions, and show equivalent fractions using bar models. Year 6 then moved on to converting mixed numbers and improper fractions, and creating addition and subtraction number sentences showing these. Year 5 compared fractions by converting them so that they have a common denominator.

Science

We have continued with our topic of Evolution and Inheritance this week. We looked at human evolution, and where Scientists discovered what they know about human evolution. We looked at an image of the earliest fossil that showed Bipedal walking, and talked about the advantages of humans evolving to walk on two feet. The children then investigated the evolution of flight, and how Cladograms can be used to show evolutionary relationships. They then created their own cladograms showing the relationships between different living organisms by considering their shared characteristics.

R.E

In R.E this week, we introduced our new topic which is ‘The Big Story’ in Christianity. This week, we looked at what the Old Testament said about Jesus. The children wrote their own section of the Old Testament and the class created an amazing mind map of words and phrases to describe Jesus.

P.E

In P.E this week, the children began the unit of football with Mr Steed. Next week, please can all children bring in footwear suitable for wearing on the school field. The children have also been asked as part of next week’s PE session to consider different types of dancing ready for our dance unit with Mrs J.