Literacy – Last week we wrote a narrative poem as a class based on The Tale of the Three Brothers. The children enjoyed working with a pair to write part of the poem, then putting the verses together to make a whole-class piece of work.

Our class novel this term is Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone. Together we read chapter 7 before completing comprehension activities. The children particularly enjoyed ‘Blankety Blank’, where they were given a passage of text from the book with words blanked out. The children had to think of the most appropriate vocabulary to fill the blanks – points were awarded, with the highest number of points being awarded if the children used the word the author used originally. This got quite competitive!

Next week we will start planning a piece of persuasive writing linked to climate change and our current topic.

Maths – We completed our wall display showing the data we collected about children who attend clubs in and out of school.

We started learning about Time in maths. We re-capped 12- and 24-hour time, before moving on to short and long time intervals. The children planned a journey from Brechin to Edinburgh Zoo on public transport, where they were required to research and correctly read bus and train timetables. Some children have started learning the formulae for calculating Speed, Distance and Time.

We went on a ‘Converting Units of Time Scavenger Hunt’ in the playground. The children were to convert minutes to hours, hours to days etc.

HWB – In Health and Wellbeing our focus for the remainder to term is on Body Image and Self Esteem. The children had brilliant discussion on Appearance Ideals and where these pressures come from to look a certain way. The conversations around this topic lasted days! The children then drew what this ‘ideal’ person looked like, and we came to the conclusion that it was not realistic!

IDL – In the last few weeks in our Energy and Sustainability topic we have learned about pollution. We learned about the causes and effects of Soil/Land pollution, Air pollution, Visual pollution, Water pollution, Noise pollution and Light pollution.

Being guided by the children’s interests, this week we started to look in more depth at Climate Change. We researched how satellite images from space can be used to track Climate Change. We then entered a ‘Logo Lift Off Challenge’ competition to hopefully have our logos displayed on rockets being launched from the UK later this year!

Last week we went for a walk around the village to do some litter-picking. We talked about where the rubbish could have ended up if we did not pick it up. We collected 4 bags of rubbish!