We have had an incredibly busy first week back in Year 5!

We have spent the beginning of the week designing and constructing our Viking weapons and artefacts. We have had to consider which materials would be best for our items and decide how we might reinforce them to make them strong. There have been some incredibly creative and innovative ideas.

We didn’t let the rain stop us and had a brilliant afternoon on Wednesday, making a Viking encampment, electing a King, Queen and their regents. We held a ‘Thing’ to name our tribe and built a throne for our King and Queen. Then, our King and Queen bravely led us into battle. Everyone had a fantastic afternoon, and we were thoroughly worn out defending and scavenging for precious resources. Unfortunately, some of our weapons and equipment didn’t survive the whole afternoon but we learnt to evaluate how we could improve our DT skills in the future.

Despite being so busy with the Vikings, we have also found time to welcome our classroom visitors – caterpillars! To follow on from our work last term on life cycles, each class has 5 caterpillars, and we are looking forward to watching them grow over the next couple of weeks and eventually make their way to the top of the pot to become chrysalides.