Good Morning Everyone,

This week, P4S have been working on a chocolate challenge which has involved a lot of imagination and group work.  We have designed our own chocolate bar (flavours and colourful wrappers), written an advert and created some music for the adverts and have built (in our groups) the final chocolate wrapper props which we will use in our adverts.  Today, we will be filming our adverts and I hope to be able to include some of them in next week’s blog – if technology doesn’t work with me then I’m sure that there will be some photos instead.

In Numeracy this week, we have been adding to our knowledge of Division is Different strategies by looking at the ‘doorstep’ division calculation.  This has not been easy so we are all working through different strategies to help us with this very tricky maths.  Some of us have found that knowing our Multiplication Tables is really helping with this so everyone has been asked to practise their tables again at home.  There are some activities on Education City to help practise these facts.

We have read Chapters 11 and 12 of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory this week and Charlie has just found the very last Golden Ticket.  There was great joy in his household as Grandpa Joe sprung out of bed and decided he would join Charlie on the tour of Mr Wonka’s factory.  P4S have been enjoying the story and have been using their tremendous Metalinguistics skills to find out the meaning of many tricky words which these chapters have introduced us to.

It’s an exciting day for us all as we become actors, musicians and camera operators, filming out chocolate adverts – we will all be sure to tell you about our adventures later today.  Everyone has worked so very hard on this amazing challenge this week, they should all be extremely proud of themselves.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Best wishes,

Miss Steedman