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Anti-bullying songs

It's Anti-bullying Week! We took inspiration from BGT's Bars & Melody and wrote songs to #Make A Noise about bullying and what we should do about it.

New Class Challenge

Welcome to Team Palmer! Here's your first challenge:

Use adjectives and your senses to write an interesting sentence about this picture. Can you use a simile too?

Alternative Anthem

We wrote our own verses for John Agard's poem, Alternative Anthem. The world's problems can be solved with a cup of tea!

Alternative Anthem

Put the kettle on

Put the kettle on

It is the British answer

to Armageddon

Never mind taxes rise

Never mind trains are late

One thing you can be sure of

and that’s the kettle, mate.

It’s not whether you lose

It’s not whether you win

It’s whether or not

you’ve plugged the kettle in.

May the kettle ever hiss

May the kettle ever steam

It is the engine

that drives our nation’s dream.

Long live the kettle

that rules over us

May it be limescale free

and may it never rust.

Sing it on the beaches

Sing it from the housetops

The sun may set on empire

but the kettle never stops.

John Agard

Non-chronological Reports

Y5 worked collaboratively in groups to write non-chronological reports on different animals. Have the children...

• used formal language? 
• written in the third person?
• written in the present tense? 
• used sub-headings?
• stuck to the facts?

Half Term Homework

Tearful, Agatha stumbled into the empty attic library. The floorboards creaked as she waltzed alone, dancing out of the shadows into the sunlight. Abruptly, she paused. There by the dark fireplace lay a dusty old book. Picking it up, she blew the dust off and saw the title. Gasping, she dropped it!

Either finish this story or write your own based on the two photographs.

At Sea

Y5 have studied a range of poetry this week including a piece called At Sea. Each line of this poem contains an adjective, a noun and a verb and describes a stormy day on the coast. We used the same format to write our own poems about the sea and other places we could describe lots about. Have we created a vivid image in your head?

Cautionary Tales

We have been reading Cautionary Tales such as The Walrus and the Carpenter These poems teach us important lessons. We had a go at writing our own. Can you work out what messages we have tried to send to our readers?

Loneliness

This week in PSHE, we listened to 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles and discussed the differences between being lonely and being alone. Here are some poems we wrote on the subject of loneliness.