Kestrels visit The Houses of Parliament and the National Gallery in London!

In connection with work in class, Year 5 and Year 6 visited London today. Not only did we visit these two historic venues, but we also saw many of 'the sights' of London!

At the Houses of Paliament, we visited both The House of Lords and the House of Commons! We weren't allowed to take photos, except for at the very beginning and end of our visit, for security reasons. Here we are!

When we left we knew a lot more about democracy in our country.

After this we walked along Whitehall to the National Gallery, via...

Big Ben

Downing Street

 

Horseguards' Parade (we even saw the changing of the guard)

Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square

Admiralty Arch, through which we could see The Mall and Buckingham Palace

At the National Gallery we enjoyed a workshop about landscape painting, collecting ideas that we can use when we paint landscapes. We saw some very famous paintings!

The Haywain by John Constable

The Bridge at Giverney by Claude Monet

Time for home, with many new memories to enjoy!

Latin America and Beethoven's 5th Symphony!

Inspired by ideas from Beethoven's 5th Symphony, we have been composing music to represent the Amazon River or the Amazon Rainforest and animals that live in them. 

Our pieces include rhythmic and melodic motifs and it was great fun working together to practise and perform them. 

Discovering Beethoven, symphonies and musical motifs...

Here is one groups's plan for their music:

Finally some photos of us performing...

Spelling Teams

In Kestrel Class, we have dramatically improved our spelling this year. To add to the fun and further improve our spelling, we are now learning personal spellings, to try to win points for our spelling teams. Every week, the league will be updated, teams ordered and players of the week recognised for their efforts! Here are our spelling teams, each team having chosen the team name!

Watermelon Team

Domino Team

And Team Dynamite

Week one results are in and Team Dynamite are currently top of the league. Players of the week are George, Afiyah, Robyn, Eleanor and Benjamin. MVP (Most Valuable Player) was George. Well done to you all!