Year 5 British Museum Trip: Photos

On Monday Year 5 set off to the British Museum to find out more about the Ancient Greeks. Have a look at what they got up to...

Year 5 Mathematical Shapes

Yesterday Year 5 teamed up with their partners to make some mathematical vocabulary come to life. They were trying to show the terms 'parallel', 'perpendicular', 'opposite' and 'diagonal'. Can you guess which terms these children are showing? 

Missing angle treasure hunt

Yesterday, children in Miss Chau's maths class were tasked with finding missing angles on clues scattered around the playground. The children used their knowledge of the types of triangles, angles and calculation to work out missing angles using deductive skills. 

Elm run their marathon!

This afternoon, Elm have run and walked their marathon on the adventure trail and have completed a total of 120 laps combined, which is thr equivalent of a marathon!

Children are given the chance to collect sponsorship for good causes and every little counts! 

Slaves for Sale!

Coconut class have experienced the conditions of the Africans in the slave trade, both on the ship and a mock auction.

Before 1788, slaves were packed onto the trade ships. In 1788 the Slaves Reform Act was introduced to reduce deaths on the slave ships. Slaves were generously allocated a set amount of space: men had 6 ft by 1 ft 4", women had 5 ft 10" by 1 ft 4" and children had 5ft by 1 ft 2" of space. Here's how that (roughly) looks:

Men were shackled together, as they were considered a threat, women had a bit more freedom and were not chained together.

Food and water was plentiful on the ships as the loss of a slave would be loss of earnings. However, the slaves were expected to all drink and eat from one bucket, which caused lots of arguments and quickly spread diseases (as they were all sharing from one bucket.)

Once all the slaves had arrived (two/three months of travel - that's longer than you spend at school without a holiday!) on ship they were sold off at auctions, sometimes alongside animals. This was another way to degrade and dehumanise the slaves.

The slaves were inspected - like animals - by prospective owners to check their physical condition.

Year 5 are coming home

Year 5 are on the train coming back to school. We will be back before 3.15 so please collect your children from the back of the classrooms as normal. 

Year 5 have set off

Year 5 have set off on their trip to the British Museum. We are going to learn about the Ancient Greeks as part of our history topic. We hope to be back by 3.15pm