On Thursday, the whole school celebrated the Queen’s 90th birthday. In the morning, Year 5 undertook a number of activities relating to Great Britain and celebration.
We started the day looking at British Values and focused on democracy. The class were split into five groups and they had to imagine they were stranded on a desert island. Each group had to elect a leader before and create a manifesto. The groups then presented their manifesto before the class had an election and voted for the party they wanted to lead the desert island.
We then spent the rest of the morning practising our circus skills, designing a stamp to commemorate the Queen’s birthday and making sandwiches for the afternoon street party. All the children were brilliant at the circus skills and I’m sure we might see a few of them on Britain’s Got Talent in the future.
In the afternoon we moved outside for the street party to celebrate the Queen’s birthday. The children each had a plate of food, including the sandwiches they made, and then had a chance to wave their Great British flags and dance to some music from the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
All in all it was great day enjoyed by all.