Year 5 Update – Summer 1

We had the most incredible half term in Summer 1 learning all about the Caribbean! The children fully immersed themselves in their learning about the Windrush and Caribbean culture and we were so proud of their maturity and enthusiasm in this topic.

The children started by learning about the Windrush ship and exploring some sources about the initial event before learning about Caribbean music and making some colourful mindmaps to show all the music genres that have been influenced by this. The children then learned about Carnival and wrote beautiful newspaper reports all about the Notting Hill Carnival – we couldn’t believe some the facts about this event! Then the children moved onto Sport and learned all about the different athletes that are a part of the Windrush generation before designing their own sports kits. Learning about the Windrush scandal a few years ago really shocked the children and they pretended to be MPs writing to the Prime Minister at the time (Theresa May) about their feelings surrounding this. Finally, the children brought all their learning together by reflecting upon the way the Caribbean cultures have impacted British culture today before celebrating everything in our Carnival Day. We made masks, we made flags, we made up dances and we paraded around the school with the other year groups coming out to wave and watch us. It was incredible! We also had a wonderful Jubilee day too celebrating our amazing Queen. What a half term!

Here are some pieces of work from the last few weeks.