Good morning, it’s been another week of gorgeous weather and what a busy week it’s been here a peek at what we’ve been up to:

In Literacy,  we have been continuing to develop our comprehension skills through answering find it, prove it, talk about it questions about our reading books. Our focus in writing this week was on explanation texts. We linked our writing to our topic and wrote an explanation on the process of mummification. Pupils had remembered lots of details about how and why the process took place and once finished we are hoping to share our writing and explain the process to another class.

In Numeracy, we have been rounding off our knowledge on fractions and will be sitting our assessment today. Pupils have made great progress and have been using their knowledge of fact families and bar models to support them in finding tenths and fifths of a number. We got very creative showing where tenths and fifths go on a number line. Using items from around the class, some used lego, playdoh and megabloks. While some drew colourful number line and one group took a very active approach doing star jumps. We were all exhausted!

In other areas, our outdoor learning focus was if our school was an island, could we survive? Pupils from both P4’s worked very hard and we had some excellent shelters, colourful menus made from things found in the grounds and inspiring ways to find/collect water. Our main topic this week was done using a jigsaw learning activity. In their groups, pupils became experts on a different aspect of Ancient Egypt using a variety of skills including researching, note-taking and teamwork. They then became the teachers for the afternoon and taught the rest of the class about their area of expertise. Great teamwork and fun had by all!

Enjoy the sunshine and have a lovely weekend. Thank you all for working really hard despite the hot weather!!

Mrs Barclay x