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This term Year 5 have loved discovering Space. We have looked into the form and function of the Solar System and how discoveries are interconnected with our knowledge. After attending Space Camp in week 1 as our provocation, the children were hooked into being astronauts, undergoing many tests to see if they have what it takes.
The children went on to research the planets and enjoyed exploring our homemade Solar System in the school hall. Travelling from the Sun they made their way to each planet to investigate the form of each and then creating some incredible double page spreads in their books.
Our next line of inquiry was how the Solar System worked. We looked into gravity and how the Earth orbits the Sun and the Moon orbits the Earth. Ptolemy and Galileo were two scientists who had contrasting opinions about whether the Earth was the centre of the universe or whether the Sun was. Despite resistance from The Church Galileo was proved right; the Earth was not at the centre and had spent his life wrongly under house arrest.
Lastly, we investigated ‘how discoveries are interconnected with our knowledge of space’. The work of Mae Jemison was explored and how she was the first African-American woman in space. Awesome biographies were written by the children who took a keen interest in her work. Following this the children created their own space camps to test each other's abilities to become astronauts.
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