Blog Author: Miss Walsh

To help decorate our school for multicultural week we researched flags from around the world and chose one to draw ourselves.

As part of multicultural week we had a look at Mexico. 
We spoke about culture, food and music. 
We made guacamole to eat with tortilla chips. It was a bigger hit than the Greek salad!

We tried following an African dancing video as well as finding out more about the continent of Africa. 
In groups we then chose countries to research, we chose: Kenya, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Madagascar and Ghana. 
We created posters and presented them to the rest of the class. 
 

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To start Multicultural week we looked at Greece. 
We made Greek salad (with mixed reviews!) and looked at the evil eye tradition, by making our own evil eye charms out of salt dough.

In our geography lessons we have been looking at the UK and our local area. 
 

After a very warm walk to Williamson’s Park, we did some sketch drawings from the Ashton Memorial and spoke about human and physical features of Lancaster. 
We then had a walk around Friend’s Garden and had our…

Today we were lucky enough to have a taster cricket session. We practiced our batting skills as well as our fielding skills. 
 

Until the end of the year, our geography topic is the UK. Within this we will be practicing our map reading skills. Today we went outside to confirm our knowledge of an 8 point compass. We had a leader read aloud compass points and we had to throw the beanbag in the correct hula hoop. 
 

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Our first day in summer at the field! For our second lesson of athletics we walked down to the field to practice our long distance running, jumping and push throwing!

We had a visit from some lambs! We went to see them with our Buddies and had discussions about their first movements, their needs as living things and thought about the life cycle of sheep.

Today we had fun cracking codes and solving puzzles with our STEM Engineers Helen, Rachel and Mr Monk!

This term our RE topic is Women in the Old Testament. To begin our topic we started thinking about the important and inspirational women in our lives and then about famous women. We found out about Junk Tabei, Wangari Maathei, Malala Yousafzai, Greta Thunberg, Emmeline Pankhurst and Dr Gladys…

Today we held Year 5’s Viking Day.

We started off by learning about how the Vikings travelled and what was so special about their Longboats. We then had a go at creating our own, decorating them with sails and shields. 
 

We then found out about the Nordic Paganism. We learnt about the…