African Drumming

As part of Black History Month, the whole school had sessions where they took part in either African Drumming or African dancing and storytelling. Year 5 were lucky enough to have a go at the drumming.

Individually, the children are very talented when it comes to their musical ability. However, when drumming as a whole class, we seemed to struggle. It certainly took us a few attempts before we found our rhythm. Although once we had, we produced some really good music.

This was a fantastic session which the children really seemed to enjoy and take a lot from. It really seemed to resonate with a lot of children and I am proud of how they performed.

Museum Visit

Welcome back to our Year 5 blog.


We have started our topic of the Egyptians and the children have really started to show an engagement and enjoyment.
To kick off the topic, we went to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery where we took part in sessions to learn about how the Egyptians mummified their dead and the artefacts that have been found from the Egyptian era as well as looking at the items the Museum have on display.


During our first session we learnt about the mummification process.

We learnt all about how the Egyptians would remove some of the vital organs and store them in Canopic jars while they would pull the brain out through the nose.


We then went for a wander around the Museum and sketched some of the items that were on display from the museum.


During our afternoon session, we looked at some of the different artefacts that we were allowed to handle. The children became young archaeologists and had to categorise some of those objects.


We certainly did learn a lot while having fun. Looking forward to the rest of the topic now and what more we might learn.