World Book Day
Year 5 had a great day looking at the book Meerkat Mail. We wrote superb non-chronological reports about meerkats. Here are some of our fantastic costumes.
Year 5
Tudor Shields
During our Express Event this afternoon, we in Year 5 had great fun creating our own Tudor shields. These are some of our amazing designs!
Diversity
Year 5 have created a new display for our classroom, which celebrates diversity. We each decorated our own fish with something that makes us unique, for example being able to speak Polish or being good at fishing.
What’s in the news?
Year 5 have started a new project. We will be using the CBBC website Newsround to find out about events in the news. This working wall will be added to each week as we find out more.
Poems
Year 5 have worked incredibly hard to create a poem about Henry VIII’s six wives. Their main focus was to include examples of effective language to engage and interest the reader.
Morse Code
In science, we added a switch to a circuit and sent each other messages using Morse Code.
Dover Castle
Yesterday, year 5 and 6 visited Dover Castle as part of our topic ‘A Child’s War’. We went into the tunnels which were used to co-ordinate the evacuation of Dunkirk. We had to crack a series of codes and cyphers to identify the name of a spy. We also had a tour of the tunnels … Continue reading
Girls Football Tournament – Minterne
On the last day of Term 1, it was the girls turn to represent Kemsley at the annual football tournament. Coached by Mr Summerfield, the team did fantastically well and finished in 2nd place! They didn’t concede a goal all tournament! Although, they narrowly missed out on winning the whole thing, they all were a … Continue reading
Minterne 7s
On Saturday, Kemsley participated in the annual Minterne 7s tournament. The team performed fantastically well and managed to win all of their group games without conceding a goal. They defeated Rodmersham 2-0 in the quarter finals, but unfortunately lost to Iwade 1-0 in the semi’s. All boys can be extremely proud of how they played … Continue reading
Clarinets
This week everyone had great fun and showed fantastic resilience during our clarinet lesson.