Life as a Victorian 🎩

Date: 17th Apr 2024 @ 10:48am

This has been an exciting week for Y5! We have begun our new units across the curriculum. 

Highlights from this week include:

Science

Our first Science lesson on plants and living things. Y5 looked at what it means to reproduce in plants. We dissected a lily and looked at all the parts that help it to reproduce. We grouped and labelled our findings. Our Y5 scientists enjoyed unpicking and identifying these flowers. 

English 

In English, Y5 have started reading their new text for this half term, 'Oliver Twist' by Charles Dickens. Relating to our new Topic, Y5 discussed what Oliver's life has been like so far, how he has been treated by other adults and how some adults are a beam of light in his dreary life. We unpicked vocab from our book and came across the word, gruel. We later learned it was a meal that most poor Victorians ate. We followed a set of instructions to make and taste a bowl of gruel! Then created our own recipe book on How to Make Victorian Gruel.

Topic

Y5 have started to learn about their new topic in History, What the Victorians did for us. In our first lesson, we explored different areas of Victorian life. We completed activities that discovered Victorian food, games, jobs and more! We were then able to compare these aspects to the life we live now, we found many differences! 

Shakespeare

We have continued learning more about our play, King Lear. Things are getting chaotic in the country of Albion, with Cordelia being banished and trying to confront her sisters, Goneril and Regan. We also learned that there is another family in Albion, Gloucester, a friend of the king, and his two sons, Edgar and illegitimate Edmund. Will their two families collide? Y5 think so.