Our science work in year 5 has been about Life Processes and Living Things. As part of that we have been looking at plants, how they grow , what they need to grow and also parts of a flower.

In our latest lesson the children had to dissect a flower and lay all the parts out and create a labelled diagram and explain what each part was for.

Year 6 have been researching about the Victorians and how they lived.

Below is a few examples of our research into the slums.

Victorian slums.

It was very hard for the Victorians to make money when you live a hard, unsuccessful life. They survived on not much food and wore horrible clothes. If you were poor you would possibly have a bath once a month or even longer.

London slums were the worst houses because they were very small and you would have had to share a house with many other people. It was possible for you to share a place with total strangers. The Victorian slum houses were very smelly and very different to the houses we have now in the 21^st century. A Victorian house (slum) would have been all on one floor you would not have had not a lot of things in the house.

By Tiarno and Misha

Victorian Slums

A Victorian slum is like an apartment building where the poor used to live. There was only one toilet, one bathtub and a place to get water, all in the courtyard. If you couldn’t pay the rent you would get kicked out of the slum or be forced to live in the doss house. The doss house was where you would sleep in coffin like bedding or sleep hanging over a rope. There was a small shop in a slum where you could buy goods like bread, butter or fish. The people who lived in slums would make match boxes, grew cress and make wooden handles to earn money.

By Damon

Victorian slums

Slums were places where poor people went to live and work to get money for food. They were grimy, horrible buildings with lots of people living there. The “neighbours” weren’t very friendly. They would only have one or two beds, depending on how rich they were. The rooms were cramped up, with wallpaper falling of the mouldy, stained walls. The less fortunate may have had to share a room with another family. In one slum, they had one toilet so everyone had to take turns. If they were really unlucky, they had to use a bucket and brush and every time someone used it… they chucked it out the window!

By Inaiya and T

Year 4  created their own Roman shield, which were inspired by their class trip the Roman Lunt Fort. They looked at images of real Roman shields and discussed the design and patterns. Then they created their own shield using coloured card and pens to draw their design.

This week has been Anti-bullying week and in year 5 the children discussed how we could be kind to each other. Each child was asked to say something nice about a classmate and write it on a post it note, which was placed on a board for them to read.

The school nurse paid a visit and spoke to the children. She gave them advice on how to help stop bullying if it was happening to themselves, or if they witnessed it happening to others.

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