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We arrived at school at 4:50 am – it was a very early start!  We then set off to catch our ferry from Dover.  This was the first time than many of us had ever been on a ferry.  It was a very long journey across the channel, but it gave us the opportunity to eat our breakfast and chat with our friends. We then got back on the coach and travelled to Saint-Andre-lez-Lille in northern France.

We met our French pen pals and had lunch with them.  We had Carbonade Flamande, which is beef stew served with fries.  We had Tarte au sucre (Sugar Tart) for desert.  After lunch, we got into teams and participated in a variety of activities.  We played Poull Ball, which involved passing a giant ball around the pitch and scoring a goal at either end.  This was really fun and we look forward to teaching the game to our friends in England.  Another game we learned was ‘Elfes, Troll et Sorciers’ (Elves, Trolls and Wizards), which is similar to our game of ‘Stuck in the Mud’.  We had to tie coloured fabric around our wrists and work as a team.  The object of the game was to stack wooden blocks to build a tower. To do this, the players had to stretch and then move a system of strings attached to a crane.Another activity was to decorate some bunting to celebrate the collaboration between the two schools.  We practised a dance routine to ‘Can’t Stop the Feeling’ and then everyone performed this on the playground outside.

We said goodbye to our pen pals and look forward to seeing them again soon.  We hope that they will be able to visit us next year.   After a tiring day, we boarded the ferry.  Whilst on board, we had an evening meal and reflected on the day with our friends.  We arrived back at school around 9:30 pm.

We had great fun on our visit to the Chatham Dockyard.

For our first activity, we made missiles out of paper and fired them at a target.  Next, we took part in a Lego workshop where we were able to look at models and learn new things; we also made models of our own.  Our next stop was a tour of a submarine called ‘Ocelot’, which was built for the Navy in 1962.  We then learned how to make rope and visited the Hemp House, which is 1/4 of a mile long.  Finally, we went on board the ‘Cavalier’, which was the last operational WWII destroyer in the Royal Navy.

We have reached the final term of this academic year and it is certainly going to be a busy one!

Here is an overview of the term ahead.

Here are the KIRFs for this term.  We will be focusing on a couple of KIRFs each week.

Year 5 KIRFs

For our 5th Task Day, our focus was ‘being active’.  Maple Class planned sporting activities to teach the children in Year R and had great fun in leading this. Both sets of children had great fun!

Back in the classroom, the children chose one of our adopted animals to paint in the style of Emily Carr.

To mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, we made pop up books to explain why the day is so important.

Maple class raised £143 by completing a litter pick.  The children decided to adopt a panda, turtle and a tiger by donating to the WWF.

The children were really excited when the letters from our partner school in France arrived.

Having left the clay pots to dry over the Easter holidays, they were finally ready to paint.

Welcome to Term 5!  Here is an overview of all the fun things we will be learning about this term.

Here are the KIRFs for this term:

Year 5

We researched what Ancient Greek pots were like and designed our own.

We then used plasticine to practise different techniques before using the clay.

Next, we used clay to make our pots.