Term 2
The Big Idea
How has crime and punishment changed over time? Throughout the UK, the police force uses their knowledge and authority to keep our communities safe. We will be learning how the role of the police has changed throughout history and how this is reflected in the crimes and punishments which take place. We will focus on crime and punishment as an aspect of British history that has developed over time.
- As studious historians, we will be able to compare and contrast crimes and punishments throughout different periods of history. We will learn to devise historically valid questions about change and the impact on this on modern living. We will learn about crime and punishment in different historical periods (including Romans and Tudors) in chronological order and how these ideas have adapted throughout history and are now used in the modern day.
- As a reflective thinker, I will use our knowledge of current affairs (gender, equality, racism) to debate and justify our opinions on historical crimes and punishment. I will learn about primary and secondary sources so that how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources. We will consider our own opinions and use a variety of sources to justify thoughts and answers.
- As members of our local community, we will be visited by a local police officer. We will use our knowledge of British Values to ask questions about 21st century crime and punishment. During this time, we can ask historically valid questions about change and significance to further our knowledge that we have previously learnt.
Art
For our art in term 2, year 5 have been looking at our class text, The Highwayman, and discussing how the artist has produced perspective within his illustrations. We learnt how we can reproduce this in our own work, using a scene from the book as our inspiration. We also learned how to draw a human with the correct proportions, including where the features of a face sit, and drew the Highwayman character within our drawings. I think you’ll agree that they did a fabulous job and produced some amazing art work!
Silent Disco
Great fun was had by everyone on Tuesday 11th when year 5 took part in the school’s first silent disco! There were smiles all around as the children chose their favourite channels. Taylor Swift, Tic Toc and Christmas tunes were the genres of choice and the kids enjoyed all of them!
Crime & Punishment
For this term’s topic of Crime and Punishment, Respect’s classroom and teacher were turned into Victorian versions of themselves! The children ‘enjoyed’ trying out some of the punishments Victorian prisoners would have experienced, including The Treadwheel and The Shot. Mrs Dedman acted the role of a Victorian teacher, and the children experienced what it was like to be seen but not heard! No speaking unless spoken to and being put in the corner if they misbehaved!
Dover Light Up Project
On Tuesday 3rd December 2024, we were fortunate enough to take part in the Dover Light Up Project with the Future Foundry art group and make our own winter lanterns. These will be used in the Dover Winter Parade on 7th December in Pencester Gardens. It would be fantastic to have as many representatives from Year 5 as possible in the parade. The children will be able to take part in the parade holding their own lit up lanterns, and also take their lanterns home afterwards!
Poetry
This term for our class text has been The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. It is a narrative poem from the 18th century and uses lots of poetic devices to engage the reader. We have been looking at how we can write our own narrative poem using devices such as metaphors, similes, personification and repetition. The children have produced some really effective poems. As part of the process of writing, the children take time to revise and edit their work, just like a real author. We hope you enjoy reading our poems.
Crime and Punishment
Our new creative curriculum ‘Crime and Punishment’ took a very mysterious and dangerous turn. Evidence collected from a crime scene on the top field of the school revealed a heinous criminal had struck earlier that day. A fiendish highwayman had struck at dawn, leaving certain clues to his existence and compelling evidence from an eye witness hurst at the scene.
Mr. Terence Wogan (the witness) reported ‘a mysterious dark figure with demon eyes, a black and claret cloak and a deadly rapier. Our class have been interrogating the evidence, the witness and our powers of deduction to uncover the mysterious and elusive Highwayman.
