Autumn 2

Autumn 2

- Week 1 -

In English, we have been exploring the 'The Piano' by Aidan Gibbons. After listening to the soundtrack and discussing how the music made us feel, we examined a series of items belonging to the main character in order to make predictions about the narrative. After watching the animation, we gathered the information learnt about this character through his contrasting flashbacks. We are looking forward to writing our own versions of this narrative focusing on carefully selecting language to describe the character and the settings.

We have also revised using relative clauses in our writing and using semi-colons to replace the coordinating conjunctions 'and' and 'but'. We enjoyed watching George explains.

- Week 2 -

In Art, we completed our final pieces for our 'War in Watercolours' unit.

Raising money for Children in Need 2024...

- Week 3 -

- Week 4 -

In science, we have been learning about how we see objects. We found out that light travels in straight lines. In order for us to see an object, light reflects off it from a light source (sun, lamp, torch etc) to the eye.

Using this knowledge, we thought about how we can get light to bend! In WW1, soldiers in the trenches used this knowledge to watch their enemies, without putting themselves in additional danger, using periscopes. We made our own periscopes using two mirrors at 45 degree angles. We could use them to spy on the Tygers and check what they were learning!

- Week 5 -

As part of out RE topic focusing in Hinduism, we have been creating and playing versions of the game Moksha Chitram.

Hindus believe that the soul passes through a series of lives with the next lives always being dependent on how the previous ones were lived. Many Hindus believe that eventually, if someone truly understands about the atman, does their duty and lives a good life, they will achieve moksha, which means release from samsara (the cycle of life, death and rebirth). They will not have to be born again and their atman is released to merge back into Brahman. In the game good actions are represented by the ladders and bad actions are represented by the snakes.