Year 5 Blog 3.10.25

Date: 3rd Oct 2025 @ 3:37pm

A whirlwind of a week this week. Pardon the pun for the forecast weather this weekend! 

We welcomed our Maya visitor (Big Nose) this week.

He brought to life the Maya people way, giving a captivating and highly educational performance throughout the day. The children started their day learning some simple Mayan phrases as well as counting from 1-10. The quiz between 5H and 5R was of particular interest to both classes. Following on, the classes had the opportunity to bring to life their own dramatic scenes. From sacrifices to dancing frogs, they all provided fantastic performances and a great deal of entertainment for the teachers. We also had the chance to explore a host of different artefacts, making educated guesses about their purpose based on visual clues. Finally it was time for the grand crescendo of the Maya creation story. With teacher performances of Qʼuqʼumatz and Tepeu, we had a whislte stop tour through the creation of 4 attempts to create an obedient and weatherproof category of people. Interpretive river dancing led by Mr Ryan seemed to captivate the minds of the children... for some reason.

Outside of the excitement of Wednesday, we have started our new English topic, writing a set of instructions for the Maya game Pok-a-Tok. Each class had the opportunity to play the game with the rules forbidding the use of hands, feet or heads. A challenging game indeed.

Maths continues with place value, moving to rounding at the end of the week. 

A positive week all round.

Have a wonderful weekend and we look forward to the next week, especially the Harvest festival!

From,

The Year 5 team.