5NB Teacher Blog: 
 
Since returning for our Summer Term, Year 5 have had a variety of new things to discover across the curriculum. Our overarching topic for this term is World War 1 (The Great War), and this has been embedded in various ways. In English, we have investigated propaganda, and the role it plays during times of conflict. This has been followed by delving into how it must have felt within the trenches and on the battlefield, allowing us to create a descriptive text applying our findings to a first-person thesis. Elsewhere, In Art, we have studied the work of famous war and landscape artist Paul Nash, viewing his surrealism pieces. Using this, we created our very own landscape pieces, applying a perspective and vanishing point to make our work three-dimensional. In History, we have discovered the infamous events that led to the outbreak of the First World War (involving Franz Ferdinand – Austrian-Hungarian Royalty, not the musician) as well as the rise and fall of the British Empire, which influenced which nations provided support during those horrific times. With all this just in the first few weeks, we cannot wait to discover more - so be sure to stay tuned via the ETP Newsletter and Blogs! ​

​In English we have started to look at an adventure narrative. Over the next fortnight we will be acting out freeze frames from the story and planning our own narratives following the same structure. Particular focus will be on how the pupils can summarise the key points of the original story to be able to create and adapt their own using the figurative language devices applied. In Maths we have moved on to place value and will eventually transition into the concept of decimals. So far, their only experience with decimals is through money, therefore the children have shown a particular interest in understanding place value to the right of the decimal point. In science we have been looking at states of matter. The children really enjoyed the lesson thinking about how the atoms are arranged in different materials and had the opportunity to physically act as states of matter to further understand the arrangement.