It has been so busy in Year 5 this week!

We really got into the spirit of autumn as it was our harvest festival this week. In class, we practiced all the songs with gusto and we sounded fantastic!

As well as singing about autumn, we also did some beautiful paintings of autumn trees. The trunk of the tree was made by drawing around our hand and forearm then we used sponges and three different colours of paint (yellow, orange and red) to give the effect of autumn leaves. The paintings all look fantastic and we are very excited to take them home to show our families!

We baked some bread for the annual Hadrian Harvest Bake-Off. Although ours was not the winning entry, our garlic and cheese loaf was praised by the judges for it’s lightness and good taste. We all had some of our bread at snack time and we have to agree that it tasted very good! So good, in fact, that we had some more for snack the next day! Just as well we baked extra!

In  topic, we have continued learning about life in a castle.This week we learned all about the things that Medieval kings and queens might have eaten at a banquet. Most of it, we all agreed, was fairly gross… hare in hare-blood sauce, roast peacock and roast hedgehog definitely aren’t things we’d like to try and time soon.

In maths, we have continued to focus on money. Some of us were given a budget to spend at a pop-up shop in school. It was hard trying not to overspend!

Have a great weekend!