April 2025

Year 5 started the new term by joining a live virtual tour of Ben Gurion's home town. The guide took them to his kibbutz and exposed the children to his life in his later years. It was a wonderful opportunity to learn more about this significant figure and important man in Jewish history, especially in the run up to Yom HaAtsmaut. The children later learnt more about the map of Israel in detail, exploring towns and interesting areas across the country.

March 2025

Year 5 have had a busy half term learning all about animals. They can describe their fur colour, their facial features and whether they are big, small and cute. They can use new verbs to say where they live, what they eat and what they like to do. Some children are able to use the infinitive verbs  - ללטף, לשחק, לאכול - to stroke, to play, to eat. Every child created a poster with an animal of their choice and presented it to the class in Ivrit. Kol HaKavod Year 5!

February 2025

Year 5 have had a busy half term. They had the privilege of welcoming the Israeli Theatre company who performed a wonderful and meaningful play called The Champion of Israel - אלוף העולם and learnt about the true story of Omer Smadja, the judoist who became an Olympic medalist. They learnt many words and phrases in Ivrit before the show to help them understand.

They have also been working on the topic 'Eych Ani Nirah' - How Do I Look?-  איך אני נראה? . They learnt how to describe faces and people using adjectives and phrases such as יש לו - He has, יש לה - She has, יש לי - I have…. And are also able to use adjectives to describe people who are ‘tall’ גבוה, Short נמוך in both masculine and feminine. They created their own characters and described them using the vocabulary and phrases we learnt. 
The last week of the half term was all about our special project ‘The Many Faces of Israel’. We focused on the aliyah of the Moroccan Jews since 1948 and the children listened to a speaker who spoke of her first hand experience leaving Morocco and making aliyah to Israel. They also learnt about their culture, jewellery and important symbols and recreated a Hamsa of their own. It was a truly wonderful and enlightening week delving into Israeli culture and learning a lot about this particular community. 

W/C 10th December 2024

Year 5 have finished the topic of 'Cheder Sheli' - My Room-  החדר שלי. They learnt many items that are in a room (including the plurals) and describing them using adjectives such as colours. This week the children presented their rooms in various forms in Ivrit, including videos of their own rooms, designs and 3-D Models. They were able to describe their rooms using a variety of prepositions they have learnt in this topic.  
 

W/C 4th November 2024

Year 5 have finished the topic of 'Bgadim' - Clothes. They had lots of fun walking down the catwalk and showing off their knowledge of clothing items, colours and verbs in Ivrit in the oral assessment.  
The next topic will be ‘My Bedroom’ (HaCheder Sheli) החדר שלי. See topic vocabulary for the relevant vocabulary.  

W/C 23rd September 2024

Year 5 have started the topic of 'Bgadim' - Clothes. They now know many clothes items in Ivrit and have revised colours. They have learnt that there are different verbs for the verb ‘to wear’ in Ivrit according to what they are wearing. 

לוֹבֵשׁ- to wear (clothes)
חוֹבֵשׁ- to wear (hats)
נוֹעֵל- to wear (shoes)

W/C 16th September 2024

Year 5 will start the topic of 'Bgadim' - Clothes (see topic vocabulary). This week we revised previous topics and had simple conversations in Ivrit.