This week, we started learning about Ancient Greece. We learned that Ancient Greece was organised into city-states: Olympia, Athens, Sparta. This is different to Ancient Egypt because they had one ruler: a pharaoh, whereas Greece had different Governments. In Maths, we’ve learned how to read Roman Numerals on a clock and read time up to 5-minute intervals. We had our Geography fieldtrip this week. We walked around the village and tallied different things we saw such as green spaces and places where we can spend money, helping the economy. We also took tallies of the traffic travelling through the village. In Science, we were learning about the poles of magnets and how they attract and repel one another. They can only attract if the north and south side are facing each other. If south and south, or north and north are facing each other, they repel. In DT this half term, we are asking, ‘What makes a bridge strong?’ We learned different parts of bridges including deck, pier, gap, suspension, arch and bascule. We experimented with blocks, weights and lollipops sticks to see how long of a bridge we could make.

Our Flashback questions on Blooket this week were:

1. When magnets attract, they what?  Move together, or move further away

2. Ancient Greece was an empire. True or false?

3. Uneglacé a la fraise is what flavour of ice cream? Banana, strawberry, vanilla, or pistachio

Next week, we will be asking, “Who was in charge in Ancient Greece?” and “What are the five pillars of Islam?”

Our spelling rule next week is “s‘’ sounding words: scripture, consider, intensify, democracy, sequence, exceed, discipline, fascinate, experience, purpose, police

Next week, Dance will be on Monday and Rugby training will be Wednesday.