The children have excitedly been painting their t-shirts for our Macbeth Production at the Carriageworks, later this month. The children created their own stencils and with the use of fabric paint, create powerful art! As a class, we decided on a design incorporating Macbeth’s dagger and the much-desired crown.

5P have thoroughly enjoyed their microbits lessons, in which they code to create different outcomes!

Our PSHE lesson this week focused on our big question for this half term: can you grow from adversity? The children looked at challenging situations such as COVID-19 and Year 6/SATS. We explored how to can positively grow in the face of difficult situations.

We have been working hard on our performance – the children are beyond excited to perform on a professional theatre stage in Spring 2!

We spent the week looking at what Remembrance Day is truly all about, its significance and the sacrifice of those who fought for our country. We learnt about the significance of the poppy and how they were seen in Flanders Field by Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He saw them and was inspired to write a poem which became so popular it is the reason we use poppies today as a symbol for never forgetting those who died in the war. 5P used their painting skills, of building texture with colour and acrylic paint from our Arts Fortnight, to create pieces of a Poppy.

During our Pole to Pole unit, the children are immersed in creativity through activities such as Den Building, Arctic cooking and silk painting. Silk painting is a multi-step process. So far, the children created their initial designs taking inspiration from their learning, images and books about the polar regions. The next step was to create their final design. Here, they used oil pastels and pencil colours to create a design that was to scale for the silk frames. The children were careful, due to their understanding of gutta, as to not sketch objects too small – as this detail would not be able to be replicated to a hig-quality during the gutta process.

5P were fantastic during their silent debate in History. Here, the children were given photos of different sources about Ernest Shackleton, writing questions around the sources. Everything each child wrote, had to be acknowledged and the children moved around the room in groups in silence, with our their pen to debate. 5P loved this so much, requesting to repeat the activity with a different subject soon!

5P had great week of learning during Anti-Bullying week. We took part in the UKS2 picket – we created our own picket signs and had our own class chant, ‘stand up, speak up, make a noise’. During our Anti-Bullying PSHE lesson, we conducted a silent debate. Here, the children silently moved around the classroom in groups, writing down their thoughts and opinions for different bullying incidents.

I was really proud of the class – they put a great deal of thought into their silent debate contributions!