What a fantastic final project for Year 5! We have most certainly gone out with an explosion of colour and music this week. It’s really challenging to summarise all the incredible work that the children have done this half term but here is a little snippet of the work completed. 

Science was particularly exciting this half term as the children learned all about life cycles. To support this learning, each class has caterpillars in their classrooms and it was so wonderful to watch their journeys to becoming butterflies. It was such a treat to release them all too!

The children began by learning about the Windrush Ship and used a range of sources to learn about this defining moment in history before exploring how the Caribbean has heavily influenced our culture today. The children began by looking at how our music has been influenced by the Caribbean and wrote these amazing raps to represent their learning. 

The children also then spent time learning about many of our sporting heroes of past and present who have heritage linked to the Windrush generation and also learned about carnival, particularly the Notting Hill Carnival. The children designed a variety of new sporting equipment pieces with their new knowledge and also wrote some amazing newspaper reports about the celebrations. 

Within their DT lessons, the children were really inspired by some of the underwater sculptures found in the Caribbean – representing unity. They then made their own clay models which we put together in a circle to show our unity as class. 

In English, the children have wrote the most spectacular biographies about an inspirational woman from the Windrush generation – Mary Seacole. This was the children’s first non-fiction unit using ‘The Write Stuff’ approach to lessons and we were so proud of what they achieved. 

We then finished off this week with the most amazing carnival! The children paraded around the school with the beautiful flags and masks they had made to draw all their learning together. What an amazing end to Year 5! We are so proud of everything the children have achieved this year!

Welcome to the final week of Year 3. The children have been thoroughly enjoying our history project, where they have been learning about the events of the Titanic. They have looked into the Titanic’s journey, the possible reasons the Titanic sank and at the different classes of passengers on board and the facilities provided.

Our big question for this project is: Is segregation ever a good thing?

In order to answer this question we will be having an experience day, where the children will take on the roles of first, second and third class passengers. This experience day will take place on Tuesday. Please look carefully at the list below to help prepare the children for this experience:

• Year 3 children can come to school in non-uniform if they would like. Girls can wear dresses and boys smart t-shirt or shirt with shorts or trousers. NO sports-wear please. We want them to imagine they are boarding the Titanic.  You do not need to buy any special clothes! Just what you already have in wardrobes. 
• On arrival Tuesday morning the children will randomly choose a ticket to come aboard. These may be first, second or third class – we will be ensuring the children enjoy the class they are given but obviously there will be differences between the activities for the day in order for the children to experience our ‘big question’.
• Throughout the morning we will take part in some activities but the three classes will have different resources to complete the task.
• Please reassure any children who may be a little concerned that we will not be acting out the night of April 15^th 1912. This is more about understanding the classes aboard and thinking about segregation.

If you have any questions, feel free to email us at year3@stmarksce.org.uk

Year 3 Team