What a quick first term!  Everyone is ready for a little break after all the hard work that’s been going on.

This week we started talking about The John Muir Award which our class will work towards throughout the year. We found out about John Muir and why he is a significant Scot from the past: he was an explorer, adventurer and ecologist who cared greatly about nature. Look out for our future work to share what we learn about him.  As an introduction, we watched a short film about John Muir and the award and then we went outside for some blether stations. Groups discussed their ideas about nature and helping our environment; these will be used to create our action plan.

Our focus on ‘Carbon Crunching Carrots’ was completed as the class were challenged to design packaging for our carrot crisps.  We looked at features of packaging, discussing target audiences and persuasive language. Everyone worked really hard on this task and the packets are going to look great on the classroom wall!

We completed the third week of ‘Well-being Champions’ training and this week the focus was on mindfulness and growth mindset. Some of us found that we felt calmer after trying mindfulness exercises.  We were also reminded of the power of YET when faced with something challenging: I can’t do this…yet!

In numeracy, we were using all four operations when rounding to estimate and we discussed when this would be useful in real life, such as, when shopping to keep an approximate running total.

We have lots to look forward to next term but, in the meantime, I hope you have a lovely October holiday!