Week beginning 15th March

Wow what a busy first week back! We are settling back in well, enjoying our lessons and even managed to squeeze in our Christmas Party that we missed!

Our learning objectives this week are:

English – Continuing with Macbeth, we shall be using freezeframes to understand and empathise with characters. We shall be writing in role after key events and using role play and diary entries to build character profiles.

Maths – We shall be looking at area and perimeter, as well as the area of a triangle and parallelogram.

Science – We shall be continuing our learning on the classification of animals.

PE – Each week we shall have a Fitness and an Athletics session.

RE – We shall be starting our learning about Holy Week.

Geography – We shall be looking at how earthquakes and tsunamis affect Japan.

 

What are we studying in English?

For this unit, we shall be using a range of different adaptations to understand the story of Macbeth.

   

What is our class reading book?

Since we are studying the Shakespeare classic Macbeth, we have decided to read from a collection of Shakespeare short stories, by Andrew Matthews.

National Shakespeare Week

We shall be watching a performance, by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), to commemorate this exciting week. We shall also be studying A Midsummer Night’s Dream in our Guided Reading sessions. Check out the blurb below:

DREAM – EXPLORE THE FUTURE OF THEATRE IN A VIRTUAL FOREST

Bringing performance and gaming technology together to explore new ways for audiences to experience live theatre.

Dream is a live performance set in a virtual midsummer forest. Inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it will give you a unique opportunity to directly influence the live performance, from wherever you are in the world.

Under the shadow of gathering clouds at dusk, lit by the glimmer of fireflies, Puck acts as the guide. You’re invited to explore the forest from the canopy of the trees to the roots, meet the sprites, Cobweb, Mustardseed, Peaseblossom and Moth, and take an extraordinary journey into the eye of a cataclysmic storm.

The 50-minute online event will be a shared experience between remote audience members and the seven actors who play Puck and the sprites.

 

About Shakespeare Week:

Shakespeare’s language can cast a light on the complexity of human emotions and is a wonderful way to explore and understand our own and others’ feelings. Shakespeare Week is a national annual celebration giving primary school aged children opportunities for enriching and enjoyable early experiences of Shakespeare. It is one of the pathways to Shakespeare provided by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust for people of all ages and stages of interest.