Hawks Class

Please take a look at our performances of the narrative poem 'The Highwayman' by Alfred Noyes. Each group performed two verses to help us interpret and translate the poets vocabulary choices. We then really enjoyed performing to the whole year group.

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Monday 7^th June 2021 – Geography ‘Growing Bananas’

Learning Objective: To introduce the concept of Fair Trade and the benefits it can bring and enable pupils to empathise with Caribbean banana growers in the Windward Islands.

In today’s lesson, we introduced the children to the concept of Fair Trade and the partnership between producers and consumers, based on reciprocal benefit and mutual respect. We discussed how Fair-Trade works to overcome the injustices of ‘free’ trade, promotes sustainable development and considers environmental damage. The children really enjoyed working in teams to represent a family of Caribbean banana growers. The simulation game ran for 3 rounds, each round representing a year of banana growing. The children allocated a team member to be complete their balance sheet for each year which required calculating income and expenditure for the years produce. After year one, the children quickly realised the importance of crop quality and the high expectations of consumers in Britain (no yellow bananas!). To enable the children to gain more empathy each round introduced ‘chance cards’ which allowed some groups to experiment he benefits of becoming Fair Trade producers whilst others remain ‘locked’ into the injustices of conventional world trade. This helped the children understand how Fair-Trade works and realise that there is no ‘quick cure’ for the problems faced by producers. This activity allowed the children to enrich their cooperation, communication, and decision-making skills.

Dissecting flowers!

Here are our 'Growing Bananas' activity pictures

Term 5 Lacrosse

Year 5 Summer Term infomration

Hi everyone, here is more information about the learning year 5 will be doing during the Summer Term.

Moving Toys

Rose Blanche Freeze Frames - This week we have been exploring more of our class text and getting into role. We worked in groups to re-create scenes from the text; we used body language and facial expressions to represent our thoughts and feelings. This really helped us draw story maps and write exciting sentences using relative clauses!

Our wonderful trip to Didcot Railway and WWII day in school!

This week in Hawks class we've been looking at a type of poetry called Kennings. The children have produced some excellent, effective work in relation to war. Here are some of the amazing examples of the descriptive poetry type they've created:

Sadness bringer,

Scary Nazi,

Innocent victim,

Hateful Hitler,

Loud gunshots,

Horrifying soldier,

Fast Plane,

Brave soldiers.

By Megan L

Screaming sirens,

Gunshots dominating,

Bodies lifeless,