Another knowledge-filled week in Year 5!
In English, we continued our journey through poetry and created our own epic poem, retelling the story of the Anglo-Saxon hero Beowulf. The children had an amazing time using incredible figurative language and their poems are truly inspiring.
In Maths, we revised different mental strategies such as re-balancing and partitioning and continued our journey on negative numbers, looking at how to compare and order them. Maths – Week 6
In Project, we explored Anglo-Saxon villages and investigated what their daily life looked like.
In Guided Reading, we continued the last adventure of Beowulf, where he heroically fight a giant dragon. Beowulf and the Death-Dragon of the Deep
In PRE, we continued exploring Hinduism and looked at what a “pilgrimage” is.
Next Week:
- In Maths: We will continue to work on our mental Maths skills
- In Project: We will look at Alfred the Great and his influence on Anglo-Saxon Britain