This week, in History we learned about Greek Gods, Goddesses and myths. We learned about Zeus (King of the Gods), Hades (God of the underworld), Poseidon (God of the sea), Hera (Queen of the Gods), Hermes (Messenger of the Gods) and Herkules (Demi-God). We also learned that some words we use today come from Greek myths, such as the word ‘echo’ which came from a story about a nymph called echo, who was cursed by Hera for talking too much, so she could only repeat what was being spoken to her. We also learned that the Greeks explained seasons because of Demeter (Goddess of Harvest) grieving the loss of her daughter (Persephone) who had to spend 6 months of the year in the underworld with Hades. During this times Demeter would be sad and therefore all the crops wouldn’t grow. In Music, we’ve been learning how to play ‘The Dragon Song’ on the glockenspiel. In DT, we finalised our bridge design and built it using different strengthening features for our key pieces. In Science, this week, we investigated how well magnets attract paper clips from different distances and in RE we learned about the 4th and 5thpillars of Islam: Sawm (fasting) and Hajj (pilgrimage).

Our Flashback questions on Blooket this week were:

1.Who are the King of Queen of the Gods in Greek mythology?

2.What is a bascule bridge?

3.Tourism can encourage people to spend money in the places they visit. What does this effect an area? Environmentally, socially, economically.

Next week, we are looking forward to the Rocksteady concert and Sports Day.

Our spelling rule next week is “s‘’ sounding words: absolute, consistent, necessary, evidence, concept, society, scent, thistle, influence, nonsense, cease, circumstances

Next week, Dance will be on Tuesday and Thursday.

We also will be having sports day practise on Wednesday.