What was the story of Beowulf?
At the start of our week we spent some time listening to the story of Beowulf and how he killed the monster Grendel by ripping his arm off! The monster was killing the Danes in their mead hall and Beowulf traveled to them from Geatland in his longship to help them! We’ve been told the story isn’t…
Reading a new text in Narwhals Class
In Reading Skills, we have started a new text called The Wild Swans, to begin our learning we have looked at new and exciting vocabulary that we didn’t know all the meanings of, using our resources we researched these words to clarify their meaning so we can better understand the text - Written by…
Heave!!!!
Acting out rowing the Norse longship that would allow the Norse people to travel across the sea, through the fjords and down rivers. Lots of tiring work to the sound of “Heave!”
Learning about Jane Goodall
Today in Science we have learned about Jane Goodall, whose an animal scientist called a conservationist. Her work with chimpanzees has helped us learn many new things about chimpanzees such as the fact they eat meat and use tools. She discovered chimpanzees behaviour is similar to humans and had…
Year 5 Narwhals Improper Fractions
Today the children in Year 5 have work very hard to convert Improper Fractions into Mixed Numbers, we linked this to our prior learning non equivalent fractions and used this skill to answer a variety of problem solving and reasoning questions.
Y5 Narwhals - Looking at vocabulary in our reading text
Y5 Narwhals hit the ground running on their first day back with some new vocabulary from their reading text!