During literacy we wrote postcards and diary entries from a soldiers perspective. We looked at what information we would want to send home to our families compared to being honest in our diaries. This is developing our learning looking at writing personal accounts and writing informal letters.

We have also been looking at creating similes and metaphors and we will be continuing to include these in our writing next week.

In numeracy we have been looking at multiplication. We started multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000. We moved onto looking at written methods of multiplying 2 digit numbers.

We had a visit from The Royal Highland Educational Trust who came to show us how to make bread. We used the wheat that we had planted last year in the garden and made two types of bread.

As well as our bread making session, we also started our chanter lessons. We all have our own chanter and we started to learn how to play a couple of notes. We will have a lessons every week and are looking forward to learning more.

This week in literacy we went through our classroom library and had a look at the books and decided if we wanted to keep them on the shelves or to put them away for now. We looked at the cover and the blurb to decide and noted down our opinion. Lots of us found new books that we want to start reading.

We also took some time to write a book review as many of us have recently finished a book. We summarised what the book was about, who the ideal audience would be as well as our recommendations.

During our Newsround slot, we have a reporter who goes around the class with a microphone gathering questions and answers from the audience. This is helping to develop our talking and listening skills and keeping us up to date with news from around the world.

We have been continuing our work with subtraction and looking at different methods and approaches.

During our topic slot, we watched a couple of videos about trenches and were surprised at how small and busy they were. We looked at why they were designed the way they were and how the soldiers lived and worked in them. We drew a picture and labelled the different parts.

We went outside along with P6S to experience  what it was like to send messages without talking. We used the Semaphore Flag Signalling system which is represented by arm signals to communicate letters of the alphabet. The two classes had to send and decode each others messages without talking. We imagined we were out in the trenches and this was the only way to communicate.