Where's Wally?

We kicked off the new topic with a WOW day, dressing up as Wallys or as tourists in authentic national dress. We then boarded Tydd Airways Flight 212 on an around-the-world trip, stopping off in eight countries to get our passport stamped and complete activities based on them. 

This topic will focus on geography, looking at using maps in a variety of contexts, studying mountains, and writing a travel guide/persuasive article.

Discovery

This topic was all about the Anglo-Saxons, and we went on a very informative trip to West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village, where we got to experience the kinds of houses they used back in the middle of the first millennium. We used Beowulf as the basis for our writing, and we wrote a letter as the hero himself, as well as using the story to write a short extract with speech and descriptive bridging information.

Welcome back! 

Looking forward to seeing the new Year Sixes take their places as the mature statesmen (and stateswomen) of the school, and welcome to Owls to the new Year Fives! We start the year with the All About Me topic, where we will look at heredity among families and why we don't look exactly like either of our parents. Our book is One Smart Fish, and we will be writing an autobiography, using a range of sentence starters - and there will, of course, be the opportunity for fancy punctuation!