After building our houses yesterday, today we recreated the Great Fire of London. We all sat and watched how quickly the fire moved from one house to the next so quickly – it only took 30 minutes to burn down all of the buildings, like the 3 days it took for the Great Fire of London. We spoke about what language we could use in our writing such as fire, smoke, spreading, roaring, burning.
During our experience lesson, we had the opportunity to experience some of the criteria that was required to be a Roman soldier.
We measured each other’s height, checked our eyesight and hearing and whether we could follow orders. We even discussed some recruitment questions that would test our loyalty to Rome.
Unfortunately, Crew Shields would be unable to join the Roman army because we didn’t meet the height requirement of 1.75m but even if we did, some didn’t show blind loyalty to Rome.
During our first English lesson, we discovered what it took to be a Roman Soldier. Using the criteria, we tested ourselves to see whether we had what it takes to be a Roman Soldier ourselves. Use our checklist to decide if YOU could be a Roman Soldier too:
Today in our experience lesson we made bread in the bakery, the first stop of the Great fire of London.
In KS1 we are answering the guiding question, What will I do to be a hero in our community? To begin our expedition we are exploring firefighters 🚒 a very brave hero!
To hook us into our new writing we looked into our new book – Vlad and the Great Fire of London. We pieced together the book front cover, predicted what might happen and then became bakers for the morning, experiencing how Vlad and Boxton would have felt in the bakers shop. We baked and tasted some delicious bread 🥖
In Crew Marsh we read and unpicked the book Rainbow fish, we learnt that the fish was not kind at the start of the book but became kind towards the end. We linked this to our be kind Howls. Then the children created their own rainbow fish which is going to go in our crew kindness fish tank. All children did an amazing job at describing their rainbow fish with an adjective.
Last week, Crew Shields completed their last independent write of year 5. We used a video stimulus for our writing and had the opportunity to plan and chot before writing.
This was an opportunity for Crew Shields to showcase what they can do but also help highlight any areas for development for year 6.
We experienced what it felt like to entertain other people just like Bob did on the moon. We then practised our teaching skills to explain to our partner how to draw the moon.
Today, Mrs Adams delivered an excellent presentation to all of our LKS2 pupils about her experience of flooding in 2007 when she lived in Bentley. Prior to today’s session we have been learning about flooding in our Expedition lessons as well as The Write Stuff lessons where we are writing a narrative based on the picture book, ‘FLOOD’. Before Mrs Adams shared her story with us, each crew generated a list of questions that we would like to ask to know more, such as: Did you have to leave your home? What impact did it have on your life? How did it affect the area where you lived? Did you lose anything in the flood? etc. We were all blown away with the thoughtful questions that pupils shared. Mrs Adams did a great job of answering all of our questions as well as providing us with lots of extra details and facts. Thank you so much for your time Mrs Adams! 💕 The children got lots from it and it is sure going to help with our Expedition and writing learning next week!
