**Star of the Week**

Our star of the week from last week was Lena! Lena has been working considerably hard on her writing, maths and reading and has shown big improvement since the start of the year.

Tylar was star of the week for this week for working really hard and getting all of her jobs finished.

Maths

This week we have all been learning about how to find the area of a shape. We know that area is measured in cm squared. We know that two shapes can be different but may still have the same area. We have been calculating area of given shapes as well as creating our own shapes of a certain area.  We have also had a little look at using half squares and counting 2 half squares to make a whole square.

Health – Internet Safety Day

On Tuesday it was Internet Safety Day. This worked well since we have Circle Time on a Tuesday. We spoke about what we use the internet for at home and spoke about websites, xbox live and other ways we use the internet. We watched some short videos of ‘Hector’s World’ which highlighted the importance of not sharing personal details with anyone online.  We also spoke about not using our proper name on online games and not chatting to strangers.

https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/5_7/hectorsworld/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3NU9PtreRY

We then used our knowledge of keeping safe online to create posters in small groups. Each group had a different focus for their poster and they will all get added together to make one big ‘Staying Safe on the Internet’ poster.

Topic

Since we were learning about parts of a castle last week, we have been applying that knowledge this week in order to design our own castles. We are going to work as a group and use junk to build our castle. As a class we decided on our success criteria and what we thought every castle needed to have. We will be using our plans to build our castles after the long weekend.

Play Zones

Miss Dow did a revamp of our play zones after we went home on Friday. The play zones now tie in with what we have been learning, for example, we have a castle to build, castle booking forms and tickets at the writing area and skeletons to build. We have been enjoying the new activities this week.

Curriculum for Excellence

We have also been learning this week about the 4 Capacities. Through all of our school experiences, we should be becoming 4 things:

Successful Learners

Confident Individuals

Responsible Citizens

Effective Contributors

We discussed what each of these mean and thought of some examples. We then had to fill in a table with some examples relevant and specific to us. This worksheet is in our learning journeys.

Learning Journeys

We have taken our learning journeys home this week. Please feel free to look at the new pieces of work and leave any positive feedback on our work. Add in any out of school achievements. Please sign the learning journey to show you have seen it and return it to school after the long weekend please 🙂

Gym

We have been focussing on badminton. We have been improving our serves, playing around the world and having rallies which have been lots of fun!