P6/7 have been focusing on a short film clip called Girl and Robot, linked to our new topic. Our writing over the last 2 weeks has been inspired by this clip. We did a lesson on emotions and tracked the emotions of the main character throughout the clip. We put this information into a line graph.

The children wrote descriptive pieces predicting what they thought would happen during part of the clip, before writing a diary entry this week from the character’s perspective.

Next week we will write a poem inspired by the Queen’s Jubilee. We will also be starting a new class novel next week.

The children have worked really hard in maths over the last 2 weeks. Last week we continued our learning from before the Easter holidays on decimals. We were learning to add, subtract, multiply and divide decimal numbers. This week our focus has been on percentages. We have learnt to find the percentage of a number, as well as linking fractions, decimals and percentages.

Next week we will be revisiting multiplication and division strategies to give children more confidence. Some children will begin learning about BODMAS.

In Health and Wellbeing, we have been learning about food and nutrition since returning after the holidays. We learned about the importance of a healthy, balanced diet. I asked the children to keep a food diary for a week, and this week they sorted their daily meals and snacks onto nutrition plates. The children then looked for any patterns they could see with the food they eat.

Next week we will develop our understanding of the nutritional needs of people who have different cultural requirements and backgrounds.

We have started our new topic this term, which is Inventions that Changed the World. The children have told me what they would like to learn. We kicked off our topic with a STEM challenge to design and build a theme park with only paper, scissors and glue.

We have worked as a class to create a new wall display, showing a timeline of inventions from the 70s to current day.