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Our current topic is The Natural World in Perspective and we will be reading and discussing The Lord of the Rings in our English lessons.
Key concepts such as equality, probity, mobility, inclusivity, sustainability and criticality are built into everything we learn.
PE and Swimming
PE is every Thursday across Year 5. Children should bring their PE kit in a bag. Earrings and other jewellery should not be worn on that day.
Current Topic
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In Year 5 we are committed to supporting pupils in increasing their cultural capital. Every day we engage with a variety of music, poetry and art from the world's most famous artists. Find out about who we have been studying this year below:
Many of our poems this term link to our topic of Dystopia, in which people are not free and equal, though not all of them. We have drawn links to the themes of these poems, such as racism and injustice, in our times of collective worship each day. Children have been encouraged to think about how they may relate to their own experiences and how they may inspire them to make the world a better place.
A poem about segregation in the United States.
A free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wing
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.
But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.
[link to example recitation with prosody]
[video explaining segregation in the USA]
A poem about loneliness and mental health.
From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I could not bring
My passions from a common spring—
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow—I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone—
And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—
Make me a grave where’er you will,
In a lowly plain, or a lofty hill;
Make it among earth’s humblest graves,
But not in a land where men are slaves.
I could not rest if around my grave
I heard the steps of a trembling slave;
His shadow above my silent tomb
Would make it a place of fearful gloom.
A poem about Fascism and the Holocaust in Nazi Germany.
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
A poem about decisions in life.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
We listen to music from great composers and discuss a number of aspects of these pieces: