Romeo and Juliet @ Hill Mead

What did you think of the performance? 

Was it different from the story you read in Year 4?

As promised ...

Pizza Express

Coming to the blog soon. Pizza Express the movie.

Marvellous Mozart

Looks like we have a new star violinist. Apparently, the Conservatoire de Paris are monitoring her progress!

Benvenuto a Mikey's Trattoria

Invented in Naples, perfected in Hill Mead.

Thank you Mikey!

Check out our popplet

We are now on Chapter 9 of the book There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom.

What have you found interesting about Bradley Chalkers? Is there anything surprising about his character? Would you be his friend?

Share and connect on popplet!

Amazing animation

By Fiazana By Funmi
By Dontai

By Fiazana By Haliat

By Tosan
By Alex

Speaking pipes

We have received a number of voice messages recently, including from one of our ex-pupils! She used the Speakpipe gadget, labeled Send Voicemail, located on the right side of our blog.

If you want to try sending us a voice message then click on Send Voicemail and have a go! We would love to hear from you!

Summer term

Welcome back to school 5 Blue! It has been great to see you all again. 

We have planned a great trip to Pizza Express this term, to learn about pizza making. There will also be an opportunity to make our own pizzas. After the visit, we will use the theme of pizza making and selling to test and improve our maths skills.

Tonight, I made my own pizza, I wonder if yours will taste better?

There's a new book to discover ...

Here is a clue about the book we will be reading next term.

What do you think it will be about? Can you guess what it is?

Blogger of the Month

Farnham Museum

The Water Cycle

Can you bear to relive the moment?

Hill Mead is hip to the jive

Today, at 11:30 am, we put on our glad rags and ankled down to the middle hall for some whoopee!
We had a head bobbin', finger-poppin' time courtesy of: 

Dontai the 'Duke', the 'First Lady of Bop' Tecia, 'Kansas' Kayde, the 'King of Swing' Tobi, 'Cannonball' Simms, 'Buddy' Sang and 'Boogaloo Joe' Bashir.

The fellas at their first gig
(One cat warmed up the audience with some jazz flute)

World Poetry Day

Today is World Poetry Day! A day for celebrating the finest verses and rhymes in literature and the remarkable poets from all eras. 

Well done to Deborah, Funmi, Yashua and Sashay who read and performed Funmi's poem 'Rain' in front of the whole school.

Another of my favourite poems, this time by the great Spike Milligan

Benjamin Zephaniah - Talking Turkeys

Not Christmas yet, but this is clearly a popular poem!

Be inspired - World Book Day

Today is World Book Day. Today we celebrate authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) reading. In fact, it’s the biggest celebration of its kind, designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and marked in over 100 countries all over the world. 

On the Storycraft page of the World Book Day website, ten brilliant authors and illustrators have shared their top tips on writing and creating illustrations for stories. Check out their tips and hints and keep trying to improve your writing!

Michael Rosen - Fast food

One of my favourite poems, by the great Michael Rosen. Is he talking about junk food or food that moves quickly?

Counting down to World Poetry Day

Every year on 21st March it is World Poetry Day. Over the next couple of weeks I will be posting some of my favourite poems, to get us into the spirit of the event. Let me know what yours are and I will post some of them as well.

What is poetry?

Many people have tried to describe what poetry is. It is more than just words that rhyme or lines in verses. Often good poetry says something meaningful in just a few words. It is concentrated language. If normal sentences are orange squash, poetry is like the syrup before it is diluted.

If you read a few lines of poetry, it often sticks in your mind. Poets usually have strong feelings about the subject of their poem. They often want the people who read their poems to feel the emotion too.

Poetry often has a strong rhythm or beat, like the lyrics to a song. Many poems use words to paint a picture in your head.

How would you describe poetry? 

How does reading your favourite poem make your feel?

Into University

Welcome to the land of sentences

With the power of words, the whole world is your oyster!

For the past few days, pupils in 5 Blue have been learning about simple, compound and complex sentences. Using the words in the map of the UK below, write an example of each type of sentence.

Remember, each time you blog you must include an example of a simple, compound and complex sentence. That's three sentences, not just one!

This pupil post was brought to you today, by the letter Dontai, Shakye and Funmi.

Into the zone

Thanks Fiazana for introducing long division (chunking), now you can all practice this method at home with your adults. Using the same method, divide a three digit number by an odd number < 10.

bball

In the meantime, see some of the edited highlights courtesy of 5 Blue Productions!

Blogger of the Month

Live from Hill Mead studios ... Hip vs Hop

Incredible Inverse

Check out the Maths Mania page for the latest maths challenge!

The Victorians - word search

Investigating Victorian artefacts

What other Victorian artefacts did you learn about?

Drina's world

Remember them?

Street Child

We have just started reading the novel Street Child by Berlie Doherty. What are your initial thoughts about the characters Jim and Mr Spink?

A Brief Study of Time

Last week in numeracy, we focused on time.
Share something new that you learnt about time last week.

A Walford institution and homework!

Art detectives

Look at the pictures of Queen Victoria closely. 

What do they tell you about the Queen and her life?

(Find words to describe the background, clothing and expressions.)

Funky Fractions

 Check out the Maths Mania page for your latest challenge!

They're coming ...

Viva Wimbledon

Following our Literacy work about fairy tales last term, we were lucky to have the opportunity to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the New Wimbledon Theatre yesterday. 

It was amazing to see the ex-wife of Elvis, Priscilla Presley, appearing in British panto! My favourite moment was when she sang Trouble an old track by the 'King'.

What was your favourite moment? (Remember to explain why.)

What did you think of the characters and the set design?

How does the story compare to The Snow Queen, the fairy tale we have been reading in class? 

What's your New Year resolution?