This week, Year 5 have shown fantastic collaboration, teamwork and creativity across all areas of learning.

We started the week with DT, carefully preparing, peeling and chopping all the ingredients and vegetables needed for the delicious vegetarian feijoada. The children learnt important cooking skills, including the claw grip and bridge technique, ensuring they chopped safely and confidently.

The following day, Year 5 worked brilliantly in their groups of eight to cook their feijoadas, carefully following their tailored recipes and supporting one another throughout the process.

In the afternoon, the classroom transformed into a fine dining restaurant! The children enjoyed a wonderful dining experience where servers collaboratively plated up the dishes before everyone sat together to enjoy the food they had created. The feijoadas were a huge success (Jamie Oliver would certainly have been proud!)

In Art, we continued our work inspired by Beatriz Milhazes. Once our vibrant and colourful backgrounds were complete, we added circles of different colours and sizes before collaging them on top. The children then overlapped these with a variety of stencil patterns and colours. The children demonstrated excellent teamwork by helping their partners hold down the stencils while they dabbed the sponge paint. The grand reveal of the finished artwork was incredibly effective, and everyone was amazed by the bold, layered results.

In English, collaboration continued as the children worked in pairs inspired by the book ‘There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom’. Using their research about rainforest animals, the children created thoughtful and powerful poems about deforestation and the impact it has on jungle animals. The finished poems were incredibly moving and showed great empathy and creativity.

In Reading, we also finished our fantastic class text, The Explorer. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed this exciting adventure story and loved following the children’s journey through the Amazon rainforest. It sparked lots of great discussions and linked brilliantly with our learning about rainforests and deforestation.

To finish off an already fantastic week, we also enjoyed Sports Day! Year 5 competed proudly in their house teams across a range of events including sprints, relays, hurdles, obstacle races, dress-up races, sack races and javelin. Every child demonstrated wonderful encouragement, perseverance and sportsmanship throughout the day, cheering one another on and celebrating each other’s successes.