Year 5 - We are live and kicking in cyberspace, this is what we did in the Autumn term!

At the beginning of the Autumn Term we went to The National Portrait Gallery where we saw St. Michael’s Triumphant over the Devil.

We were inspired to create some Andy Warhol versions of the Berjemo painting.

 We created these!

 

 

 For the rest of our topic work we were learning about ‘Why is Brazil in The news Again?’

We closely followed the Brazilian election where Dilma Rousseff was elected President.

We discovered, all about Brazilian fruits such Guarana, which is in energy drinks and cacao which is what chocolate is made from!


 

 We created posters for Fair Trade. Be SURE to check for this symbol when you do your shopping!

Back in England, we were studying Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

Did you know Shakespeare invented all of these words and more?

•accommodation   ·  aerial

•amazement   ·  apostrophe

• assassination     ·  auspicious

• suspicious            ·  hurry

• bloody   ·  impartial

• bump     ·  castigate

• changeful   ·  road

• control (noun)     ·  countless

• courtship   ·  critic

•critical     ·  dexterously

•dishearten   ·  dislocate

•dwindle     ·  eventful

•exposure               ·  fitful

•frugal     ·  generous

•gloomy     ·  gnarled

We visited the third Globe theatre ever built.

The first one was made of wood and burnt down, after a canon going off started a fire, in a performance of Henry VIII. 3000 people were watching the performance and no-one died even though there was only one exit.

The second Globe theatre that was built had a slate roof but was abandoned.

The third Globe theatre was built in 1997, with a thatch roof and a wooden frame.

We were shown around by an actor called Fergal.

Fergal showed us around the Globe theatre and we even went back stage!

We gave our first performance at the Globe!

We were acting out parts in Macbeth such as the witches.

We found out that Sir Isaac Newton was the first person to find out about gravity.

The Parliament Theatre Group came in and talked to us about the suffragette movement in the 1920’s.

Women weren’t always allowed to vote, suffragettes were sometimes put in a cage, and if they refused to eat they were force fed by putting a tube down their throat.

For homework we found out about the Houses of Parliament as part of our new Gunpowder, Treason and Plot topic.

 

 

Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament but he got caught and beheaded, that’s why we celebrate Bonfire night.

In P.E we have learnt about throwing a javelin…

 

 

and how to run a baton relay.

We have learnt about creation stories and about evolution in R.E.