Year 5 Blog 2025/26

 Hawthorn Class have been reading the Land of Roar by Jenny McLachlan. In this magical book the reader goes on an exciting journey with Arthur and Rose (eleven-year-old twins) to save their grandfather from a magical, dangerous and imaginary world hidden in their attic.  During our day, the children designed a dragon and then described its features. They also, recapped writing sentences with different modal verbs to see the effect of the meaning of their sentences. Then, we read some more of our book. Finally, the children designed their own magical maps on Canva using mapping skills from geography and computing skills.  To top the day off, some parent/grandparents came in to read with the class. 

 Using photos and digital technology the children researched how the physical features are different in all three countries.  Norway is very mountainous, has lots of waterfalls as well as glaciers and fjords.  Whilst Sweden has some mountains to the west but it is mainly flatter. There are lots of forests there and rivers. However, in Denmark the land is flat and is often prone to flooding. Do you know that Denmark is made up of many islands? 

Today, the children were treated to an assembly that introduced to Coat of Hopes which has been created by various people in England.  The coat has been on a walking pilgrimage through the UK. It has been worn by many people as it has travelled over 1900 miles so far. Each patchwork piece symbolises the hopes of people. During assembly, Mr Clark donned the coat and strolled round the hall whilst the children sang the coat song.