Y5/6 Visitor: Rt Hon Ed Miliband

14th February 2025Charlie Cicero

On Friday morning, Years Five and Six were visited by Doncaster North’s MP, Ed Miliband. Following their learning about the civil rights movement, gender inequality and wealth inequality, the children had the chance to ask their local MP questions about his career and learn about his role in government. The children prepared questions and asked about his success and challenges; his ideas for how to help Doncaster and the country; his priorities as per his role in the current government cabinet.

Mr Miliband also took the time to learn about the children’s current expedition with Y5/6 reeling off their favourite facts from ‘Fights for your Rights’. Thank you to Ed for taking the time out of his busy diary to visit us!

Celebrating Rosa Parks

13th February 2025Helen Jenkins

On Tuesday 5th February, Year 5 and 6 celebrated the life of Rosa Parks – a pivotal civil rights activist – who has been a huge part of our learning in our current expedition “Fight For Your Rights”. The children spent the day writing and performing their own songs about her life, creating protest posters and finally holding a March around school.

Suffragists Vs. Suffragettes

10th February 2025Charlie Cicero

In our history case study, year 5 have been learning about how life was different in the past, particularly for women. In an activity this morning, the children were given nine issues and were asked to organise these ins. Diamond nine with the worst issue for women being placed at the top. There were a variety of diamond nine formations as a result of plenty of group discussion. After engaging with these past societal rules, 5CC empathised with women from the 1800s, agreeing that women would probably be left feeling powerless, controlled and hopeless.
After this introduction, the class began learning about the two factions which sought to empower women by winning the right to vote: the Suffragists and the Suffragettes!

Learn like an Egyptian!

10th June 2024Charlie Cicero

On Monday, Year 6 were greeted by a real-life ancient Egyptian! First, they were shown how to mummify the body of an unfortunate enbalmer. Only recently did Year Six study the process of mummification and so this was a revision exercise, albeit with sight of some gruesome (plastic) organs.

The children enjoyed many activities throughout the day, such as city building and selecting different buildings based on their function, cost and points. Different, random world events determined whether a city flourished or deteriorated depending on the buildings they had chosen. Year Six also studied many Egyptian artefacts and learned about their significance to the ancient civilisation, many connecting the mortals to their gods.

After lunch, they played two different ancient Egyptian games: mancala and senet. Mancala, a basic accumulation game whilst senet’s rules were somewhat of a basic snakes and ladders. With Egyptian Arin, they also experienced writing a name in hieroglyphics using a reed ‘pen’ and a piece of papyrus.