It may have only been a four day week but life in Year 5 has still been full of excitement and learning. We began the week on Tuesday with the children’s usual mixed day of teachers and subjects, where they have four different subjects with four different teachers. On Wednesday, we continued with our outdoor PE unit of cricket. It is fair to say that we have been blessed with some brilliant weather whenever we now have outdoor PE, which both the children and teachers have appreciated. We have been breaking down the different roles within cricket and focusing on the technical points of each role. This week, we have been practicing drills with all three elements in as we look for some cricketers to play in our school tournament.

We have continued with our geography unit of rivers, with us taking a more practical approach to learning about the different types of erosion. The children could manage to show using just sugar cubes, water and a stirrer of how all 4 types of erosion take place. You will be glad to know that we did not let the children eat any of the sugar cubes but many did have sugar covered hands…

We finished our week in celebration with a coronation themed day, including picnics, patriotic colours, singing and lots of exciting activities. It was wonderful for the children to celebrate such a historic event, something that nobody in the school has experienced before. We began these celebrations on Thursday afternoon as we prepared our crowns and tiaras to wear for the picnic. We played various coronation themed games throughout the day such as crosswords, word searches and bingo. We had a special one off history lesson, which focused on the events of the coronation and discussed the key vocabulary, which prepped the children for both our assembly and the coronation itself.

Luckily, the weather was on our side, with the sun shining as the whole school had a coronation picnic, with each class pairing up with their buddy class.