The children thoroughly enjoyed visiting the Royal Armouries Museum today! They had the chance to use weaponry from centuries ago to become great Spartan warriors, to scale sizes of animals used in battle, a live demonstration of sharp weapons used over the ages. The trip complemented our unit this half term, Ancient Greece, beautifully. The children acted out the story of Perseus and Medusa in an immersive and comical workshop.

The children have been thoroughly enjoying their model text about King Midas. We have been learning the model text through performing actions. During our lessons this week, we delved deeper into our targets for this unit, specifically show not tell and writing dialogue.

The children have thoroughly enjoyed our first unit of the year, Poetry, with a focus on our model text, a poem about Medusa. We have had lots of fun collaboratively, generating interesting language to use in our own poems about the Minotaur (shared write) and a Siren (hot write). For our first hot write of the year, the children planned and wrote in pairs – this generated extremely high-quality poems, which we look forward to completing, editing and celebrating on Monday!

We have enjoyed our creative writing this week, exploring Ancient Greece and the language we can use to create detailed, interesting character description. We have been learning the Medusa Poem, with actions, to help us understand the model text.

A fantastic first week in Year 5! A highlight of our first week was the Arithmetic Olympic, where we worked in teams against the clock, running and completing a range of Maths problems.