Our innovation of ‘The Bear and the Piano’ involved us considering which other woodland animal could be our main character and which other instrument he or she may come across in the forest. What noise would the instrument make? Where might the new character go? Would he be as famous as the bear? Some lovely writing and illustrations, RS! I hope you are proud of yourselves.

Refugee week

We have explored the idea of what it means to be a refugee through the story of ‘Lubna and Pebble’ by Wendy Maddour. We learned that a refugee is somebody, who has no choice but to leave their home and move to a new country to live – perhaps because of war, an earthquake or a flood. Mia showed lots of empathy when she explained that “people go to other countries, where they will be safe”.

We also shared ‘Counting Kindness’ by Hollis Kurman and discussed the maths that we noticed in the story. Then we created our own kindness posters.

Thank you to the Year 5 activists, who read us ‘My Name is not Refugee’ and provoked us to consider some brilliant questions.

Well done to our certificate earners this week!