Another busy week has passed in P5 and we are full steam ahead for the challenges this term!

 

In literacy we have been exploring verbs and learning to identify them in a text. We know that verbs are doing words and we began to look at different verb tenses. This will be useful for our taught writing in the future. Speaking of writing, we are now focusing on persuasive writing and enjoyed some outdoor learning and team challenges to look at the features of persuasive writing. We started writing our own piece, trying to convince people to agree with our favourite season. We will continue this and redraft this next week. For spelling this week, we have been learning how to find words in a thesaurus to help us develop our vocabulary. The pupils were able to do this well as it built on their previous experience of finding words in a dictionary.

In maths, we have finished our unit on 2D and 3D shape and completed a rather tricky assessment this week! All of the pupils gave 110% and were able to clearly demonstrate their learning. Next week we will be starting a unit on data handling and will firstly be investigating tally tables. This will feed into a holistic task based on our class topic of Africa.

In other areas, the pupils have been enjoying developing their badminton skills in PE. We focused on serving the shuttle this week and will be continuing this for the next few weeks. For health and wellbeing the pupils were able to put their previous knowledge of the human body to the test as we explored the effects on alcohol on the human body. We were able to discuss the laws regarding alcohol and name a few short term and long term effects on the body. Our production of Disney is going well and we will be focusing on polishing our musical numbers and drama scenes.

Thank you for reading our blog. Have a lovely weekend!

-Miss Frew x