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Sunday, 15 January 2017

A Fabulous Final Week!

Thank you, St. Clare's, for giving me such a wonderful last week before I leave for maternity leave! We worked hard this week and we were so happy to welcome the fantastic Mrs Bennett into our St. Clare's team. I know you're going to make her very welcome.

We've been continuing with our Kings and Knights topic this week. Mrs Bennett worked with you to create these spectacular crowns. We were so impressed by how different they all were!

You made some super fact files about Edward the Confessor. You'll be learning lots more about him and his interesting life in the next few weeks, including a fabulous trip to Westminster Abbey. It's one of my favourite trips in Year 5- you're going to love it! I can't wait to hear all about it.

We read Part III of 'The Lady of Shalott' this week, in which we met the dashing Sir Lancelot. We worked together to write this fantastic description of the knight:

Here are just a few examples of some of the excellent writing from St. Clare's this week (click on the pictures to make them larger and easier to read):

On Wednesday, we showed Mrs Bennett how fantastic you are at poetry. Inspired by the moment that the Lady of Shalott looks out of the window and triggers her curse, we wrote this very dramatic poem. Can you spot some similes? Metaphors? Alliteration? Onomatopoeia? Can you find all the references to the poem we were inspired by, The Lady of Shalott?

The Curse

Dark clouds cloaked the sky like velvet,

Lightning tore through the coal,

She heard thunder crash upon the tower,

The air was filled with a deafening sound,

Rain lashed upon her trembling soul.

Crash! The mirror shattered into a million pieces,

Splinters flew like shooting stars,

A hurricane of glass and the web flew out of the casement.

A foreboding feeling enveloped her,

A scream of despair.

By St. Clare’s Class

Wednesday 11th January 2017

We also enjoyed our last P4C lesson together this week. Our stimulus was this beautiful short animation:

The questions we came up with were:
1. Can old things be as good as new? Why?
2. Should all people be treated the same? Why?
3. Can you still have happiness, even when you are unfortunate? Why?
4. How can we make life better?
5. What would the world be like if rubbish took over?

We voted to discuss question 3; Can you still have happiness, even when you are unfortunate? Why?
Our discussion included homelessness, the value of money, fairness, happiness and even communism! I shall miss our Philosophy discussions!

Friday, 30 September 2016

Some of This Week's Super Work!

We have had another busy week in St. Clare's Class!

Here are some of our highlights:

Expanded noun phrases to describe our beautiful mosaic:

Ransom notes from Dean D. Dean to Professor Templeton:

Tagxedo word clouds of adjectives to describe characters from The Templeton Twins. Can you guess which characters we are describing?

By Evan and Cecille

By Jane

By Ethan and Millie

By Samuel

By Violet and Ryan O.

Friday, 4 December 2015

Our Class Poem

Yesterday, we returned to The Battle of the Somme. We imagined being at the battle, then used a zone of relevance diagram to sort which adjectives would be best to describe the experience.

Then, we worked with our house teams to write some lines of poetry about the battle. We especially tried to include Mrs Parrott's favourite poetic features; metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, alliteration and repetition.

Next, we worked together to choose an order for the lines to go, to make a poem.

Finally, we broke the poem into verses and added the punctuation we needed. The last step was to add a title for our masterpiece!

Here is our final poem:

Running With Blood

Sharp-eyed soldiers,

The pain within trapped like a fly in a spider’s web,

My boots, my boots, they sink into the sucking mud,

The lice bite into your skin like a jaguar chomps into its prey,

Rats devouring flesh hungrily,

My feet tremble as I see people drunk with fatigue.

The bullet hunts me like I am its prey…

Several shocking shells were out to kill me.

BOOM, CRACK, CRASH go the frightening shells as shadows fall behind them,

Shrapnel flying through the sky, killing soldiers as they fly,

Shells more colossal than gigantic elephants,

Bullets as sharp as knives.

Dead mean dropping like autumn leaves,

Bang flash! Everything goes black.

Death comes to greet me like an old friend…

By St. Clare’s Class

Thursday 3^rd December 2015

Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Epic Citadel Directions

This half term we have been using Epic Citadel to inspire our writing! We have explored the empty town and written government reports about what happened to the people, written persuasive letters, created diary entries and descriptions and written stories set in the citadel.

Last week, we wrote directions for a partner to follow. We had to pick a location in the game to begin, then write a set of instructions to guide our partner to an end point. Then we swapped iPads and tried following our partner's instructions!

Saturday, 6 September 2014

Hula Hoop Horror!

On Wednesday, a strange notice appeared at school:

We were all rather confused... what might have happened? After some discussion, we decided that it must have been something awful. Our suggestions included: man-eating Hula Hoops, someone turning into a Hula Hoop from eating too many, aliens invading in Hula Hoop packets and Hula Hoops starting a war in London!

It was clear that we had to do something about this situation, so we wrote letters to Mrs Day, our new headteacher. We had to tell her what had happened and explain why Hula Hoops had to be banned! Here are some fantastic examples. Click the pictures to make them larger and easier to read: