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Year 5 Odysseus Play Script
We have spent a lot of time wrestling with the story of Odysseus’ struggle with the cyclops (from Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’) during our English lessons this week, and have begun creating excellent play scripts inspired by this. We have all had to think really hard about the most important events in the story and have carried out a lot of work in the creation of interesting settings and descriptions – using stage directions to help us.
In maths lessons, we have worked well with negative numbers and can confidently order and solve problems with these. This has enabled us to make a great start of our unit of work around coordinates too; some of us have already begun making use of all four quadrants for translation!
Danger-Us go to the woods
The club had a great time today in Queen’s Hills woods.
Writing Focus
This term we will be looking at ways to support children in evaluating and improving their writing across the school.
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Year 1 Archery
Year 1 had the opportunity to try archery in school yesterday. They enjoyed learning new skills and getting closer to the target!
Archery Lessons
Year 1 had the opportunity to try archery today. They enjoyed learning new skills and getting closer to the target!
A Trip to the Opera
On Friday 26th February, some pupils went to Stage Two, Norwich Theatre Royal to see a performance of the opera ‘Paradise Planet’. The children had a fantastic time and loved joining it with the songs. Thank you to English Touring Opera.
Year 5 Ancient Greeks
We have hit the ground running this week and got stuck into our new learning about the Ancient Greeks! We enjoyed getting outside to create a scaled timeline of history from the present day back to the Hellenic Age on Tuesday, and have since been working with extracts from Homer’s classic text: The Odyssey. Through topic sessions, we have started drawing comparisons between ancient and modern Greece.
Next week we will develop our learning about negative numbers (again, applying this to scales) and will begin creating play scripts to bring Odysseus’ epic journey to life.
Year 2 History of Flight Artwork
Year 2 have been busy today creating some amazing artwork inspired by their topic on the history of flight.
Year 1 Easton Farm Trip
Year 1 had a super time at Easton Farm. They looked at tractors, saw many animals, got to stroke a baby lamb, did some wet felting and even made butter and flour!
