Last week Y5 participated in one of the highlights of our year - the tremendous Young Voices at the O2. Along with 9,000 other primary school children from across the South East, we sang our socks off to a medley of songs that included a Bob Marley tribute, pop classics spanning the ages and music from the musical Hairspray, all accompanied by professional singers and musicians. The children worked really hard in the run-up to the event, and we were hugely impressed by their enthusiasm and proud of their behaviour on the night. Great work children! A huge thank you to the Y5 parents for their support of this endeavour. It is a hugely enriching experience - unlike anything we can reproduce inside the classroom - and even the most reluctant of singers had an absolutely incredible evening.

Of course, classroom learning has also continued over the last couple of weeks! In maths, we completed a short unit of work on fractions that included multiplying both fractions and mixed-numbers by whole numbers. In science, we have been separating mixtures as part of our topic on materials and their properties. Viking trade routes and sagas have been the focus of our enquiries in history and, in English, we have performed part of the witches' opening scene from Macbeth, to help inspire and generate ideas for written setting and character descriptions.