Good morning, we have put our creativity to the test week with a range of challenges! Here’s what we’ve been up to:

In Literacy, following on as part of challenge week we were using the power of persuasive language to help us create an advert for the chocolate bars we created. We used appealing language to try and entice customers to buy our bars. Pupils were also tasked with coming up with a catchy slogan to catch customer’s attention. Some of us struggled with this aspect, but came up with some amazing ideas to bring their adverts to life through drama and music with one advert having their chocolate bar exploding to mimic its taste explosion flavour!

In Numeracy, we have been working hard on recall our multiplication facts of the 2,4,5,8 and 10x tables as well as moving onto the concept of division. We are trying various strategies to see which one works best for us to help us solve calculations. We have dipped our toes into looking at bar models and the majority of pupils really liked this method when trying to solve division sentences. We have also been using our knowledge of fact families to help us.

In other areas, yesterday we looked at the journey of chocolate and how it starts as a cacao pods months and even years before it gets to be the bar of chocolate you buy in the shops. We looked at how our choice to buy Fairtrade products can have an impact. Following on we then created posters to display what we had learned about the journey of chocolate.

We put our imaginations to the test when we designed rocket launchers with Mrs Ferguson during our STEM time. Pupils had great fun and worked really hard to create their rocket launcher using different materials.

It’s Red Nose Day today and we are wearing things that bring us joy! We’re looking forward to our obstacle course outside (fingers crossed it stays dry!).

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Barclay and Mrs Ferguson x