Cathedral Visit

Last week, Year 5 went on a trip to St Phillip's cathedral in the centre of Birmingham. Every year group goes on a visit to a different religious place of worship so it was our turn to visit the Cathedral.
It is a beautiful building with some amazing stain glass windows and very interesting history behind it.


Once again, our Year 5 children were wonderfully behaved and represented our school perfectly while asking a lot of very insightful questions and answering questions whenever they could.


We learnt about the origins of the church/ cathedral, the baptismal font and how it is unusual as it is moveable, the story behind the stain glass windows, the vestments that the priests wear during the different seasons as well as looking at the season of advent.


Have a look at some of the pictures we took from the day.

Exciting Egyptians

For our first topic of the year we have been looking at the Ancient Egyptians. We have looked at why the River Nile was so important to the people who lived during that time, their hobbies, the gods as well as many other aspects of life.




The children have loved the topic so far and have really engaged in all aspects of the curriculum. As a task over the holidays, they were given free choice and could create anything they wanted. They really rose to the challenge and have made some fantastic Egyptian items as well as creating some very interesting and informative presentations.




We are very proud of the effort the children put in. The pieces of work created ranged from scrolls written in hieroglyphics, pyramids made from cardboard or clay, posters and powerpoint presentations.


Take a look at a small selection!