Congratulations to our very own Danika who came in a very creditable third place in the Speaker competition, beating off challenges from children from all of the other Viking schools. A big well done from all of us here in Year 5! See below for a few more pictures.
Read below for a list of this weeks spellings.
As is customary, our first week back was spent exploring one of the major world religions. Buddhism is more of a path by which people can live their lives in a way that leads to personal enlightenment and a peaceful state of mind. We explored the origins of Buddhism, the eightfold path and went on to perform some meditation. Ask the children if they have reached a state of nirvana yet!
Well done to our Speaker winners who will be headed to the trust finals tomorrow. All eight of our finalists presented some truly excellent speeches about climate change and our three RAPS representatives will do us proud! Good luck to you all.
This Thursday (5th March), it is World Book Day. Team Gunson are invited to come into school dressed up as a character from a book, even better if they could bring in a copy of their favourite book too! They can be as creative as they like and we are all looking forward to sharing stories with our partner Reception classes as well as meeting an author on Friday.
Next term our topic will be 'Invaders and Settlers'. We are really excited to be welcoming the wonderful 'Time Capsule Education' to Year 5 to bring the story of Beowulf to life. Stay tuned for more details...
This year's 'The Speaker' is focussing on climate change. We were really proud that so many children decided to write and perform their speeches; you were all really brave. Congratulations to Danika and Aaron who go forward to represent Team Gunson in the next stage here at RAPS.
Year 5 were lucky enough to be invited to see the dress rehearsal of Little Shop of Horrors at Chatham House. We had a fantastic time, the whole performance was amazing from start to finish. Ask the girls about the dentist...
We have been invited to attend the dress rehearsal of Little Shop of Horrors at Chatham and Clarendon Grammar School on the morning of 5th February. We will be walking to the school after registration. Children will need to bring a packed lunch in with them and we will be back before the end of the school day.
This week we have been learning the days of the week, why not practice the vocabulary at home?
Lundi, Mardi, Mecredi, Jeudi, Vendredi, Samedi, Dimanche
Every term we have a fabulous performer come along for our 'Live at RAPS' assemblies. We were lucky enough this term to get a visit from the talented Bill Lowdell and his guitar 'Sticky'. Lots of fun was had by all as we joined in and sang along to some favourite tunes.
As part of our learning about materials we conducted an experiment to find out which materials melted the most quickly. We discovered that margarine had the lowest melting point, which a lot of the class predicted. All that hot buttered toast obviously has scientific value!
