We are well underway in 5A in our current topic ‘Pole to Pole’ this half term and starting to understand more about what life is like in the Arctic and Antarctica. We have previously cast ourselves back to 1914 when Ernest Shackleton set sail on his pioneering expedition. This week, we have looked to the present day and found out what life is like at McMurdo research station in Antarctica. The children were all very interested to find out how people lived there and that, despite the harsh conditions present, there were similarities to how we live back in Leeds.

During science we began to look beyond our planet and out into our solar system. We went on to the playground and used fruit to show the relative positions of each of the planets and the sun and their distance from each other. This helped to improve our perception of the scale of the solar system, and the relative size difference between each of the planets within it.