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• Thursday 25 May 2023 Year 5 First Aid To conclude our PSHE topic, Being my best, Year 5 have been using the British Red Cross primary resources to learn about the importance of first aid. We have been practicing the DR ABC approach in partners to remind ourselves of what to do in an emergency.
• Sunday 21 May 2023 Dulwich Athletics Festival 2023
• Friday 19 May 2023 Dulwich Cricket 2023
• Friday 19 May 2023 Kent Life - Stone Age Day "Yabba Dabba Doo"
• Monday 15 May 2023 Year 5 Evacuee Experience
• Friday 5 May 2023 Living Land What a wonderful day Robins and Kingfishers had at the Living Land event. They learnt about different types of food and even tasted some. They also enjoyed looking and stroking the animals and even managed to view some "Dancing Sheep!" Look out Strictly!
• Thursday 4 May 2023 Designing and creating wormeries in Year 5 For Science this week, we conducted an experiment about the preferred conditions for a worm's habitat and used our data to inform our wormery designs. We then used these to create our own wormeries.
• Thursday 27 April 2023 Year 5 Shakespeare Festival 2023 On Wednesday 29th March, the children in Year 5 at both Benenden and Goudhurst & Kilndown performed an evening of Shakespeare. Benenden performed Shakespeare's comedy, The Tempest and absolutely astounded us all as they put on a show fit for Shakespeare's Globe, displaying all of our school values.
• Tuesday 25 April 2023 Uplands Primary Maths Match 2023 Six children from Swallow Class attended an exciting Maths competition hosted by Uplands Academy. They took part in a variety of tricky problem solving activities and did an amazing job!
• Thursday 20 April 2023 "Let there be light" The class really enjoyed creating and making their lightboxes. Hopefully, they are getting good use of them at home.
• Wednesday 19 April 2023 West Kent Football Success Huge congratulations to Alfie Hicks, Blake Day and Harris Maclintock for successfully trailing for the second stage of West Kent Football selection. They will now begin a few weeks of intense training before the ultimate squad is selected. It is a huge achievement to get this far. Well done boys and Good Luck
• Thursday 30 March 2023 Castles, Knights and Princesses!
• Thursday 30 March 2023 Deforestation letters Robin Class have written letters to President da Silva of Brazil urging him to help stop deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest.
• Tuesday 28 March 2023 Easter Story
• Thursday 2 March 2023 Swallow Class World Book Day This year, we enjoyed another fun-filled World Book Day bringing to life exciting fictional characters or cosying up with our favourite books and pyjamas. We joined lots of other schools across the country to find out 'how to be funny' with Helen Rutter and also loved taking part in a 'drop and read', where we had to stop everything and read every time we heard the reading alarm.
• Thursday 2 March 2023 World Book Day - 2nd March 2023 Robins dressed in some amazing outfits for World Book Day. Roald Dahl characters were popular with The BFG, Mr & Mrs Twit and Violet Beauregard (courtesy of Mrs Williams!). During English we had a Zoom call with the author Helen Rutter and The Comedy Club 4 kids.
• Wednesday 1 March 2023 Year 5 Forest School We have enjoyed making mud cakes, building camps, orienteering and creating tree dragons at Forest School this term.
• Friday 24 February 2023 Year 5 Pancake Race To celebrate pancake day, we combined two of our favourite things: PE and eating pancakes! It was a delicious way to end the week.
• Friday 24 February 2023 Dulwich Hockey Afternoon 23.2
• Tuesday 21 February 2023 Pancake Day! We had lots of fun on Pancake day learning all about them! We had a little look at why we celebrate Pancake day and found out that it is infact called Shrove Tuesday!
• Friday 10 February 2023 Rainforest Diorama Robin Class are really enjoying their Amazon Rainforest topic. We have had some wonderful dioramas brought in already and they are certainly giving our classroom a real jungle feel.
• Thursday 9 February 2023 SPACE DAY! We had SO much fun on our space day! We all came in dressed up and we looked FANTASTIC!
• Thursday 9 February 2023 Fire Lighting Fire Starters!
• Thursday 2 February 2023 Year 5 First Shakespeare Workshop To prepare us for our performance of The Tempest at the end of the term, we had our first drama workshop with the drama team at Benenden School. We started by exploring different the different levels and facial expressions to create our opening tableaux as well as creating the soundscape for a shipwreck. Next week, we will be travelling up to Benenden School to meet our showcase team and practice voice projection techniques on the stage.
• Tuesday 31 January 2023 Firecrest Cookies 31.1.23 Firecrest class have started looking at recipes this week and so obviously we had to use one! They followed a simple recipe to make their own chocolate chip oat cookies. With a little bit of grown up help with the ovens, they made lots of delicious cookies and then got to try them. They found the quantities in the recipe as well as checking for bossy verbs and the order of the steps.
• Monday 30 January 2023 PSHE - SCARF Life Space Life Space
• Friday 27 January 2023 Year 5 Chinese New Year workshop A huge thank you to Benenden School for hosting a very exciting workshop to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year.
• Friday 27 January 2023 Dragon Lion Dancing! This week we have been looking at the Lunar New Year! We discovered we were either a Dog or a Rooster! We learnt about the story of the animals and how it is celebrated. We tried some fortune cookies and prawn crackers!
• Friday 27 January 2023 Crazy Hair Day
• Tuesday 24 January 2023 Year 5 endothermic reactions As a part of our irreversible changes chemistry topic, we explored endothermic reactions using bicarbonate and vinegar. We were surprised by the results when the temperature started to decrease as the reaction consumed so much energy.

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