We’ve made it to the end of Term 1! Everyone is looking forward to the October holiday.

This week has flown in, here’s what P6 have been up to.

In Literacy we edited and improved our ‘problem and solution’ story from last week then we did a paired writing task. We planned and wrote an adventure story suitable for 7-10 years. We added illustrations and a front cover to create a mini book. We have also been practising our handwriting skills and used pens to copy an autumn poem as neatly as possible.

In Numeracy, we have been learning how to find factors of numbers and used a strategy to work out the highest common factor of 2 and 3 different numbers. This has helped to sharpen up our multiplication tables. We enjoyed exploring 2D shape tessellation with Miss Gibson.

We took our learning outdoors for our Forces and Friction topic and investigated the effects of air resistance and streamlining. Mrs Wilson was impressed with our participation and enthusiasm!

For art this week we looked at autumn colours and tones. We mixed yellow and red paint to create the background for an autumn picture. On Thursday we used pastel and charcoal to make silhouettes of stylised trees for the foreground. It was quite tricky but we persevered.

In PE we finished our basketball sessions with lots of 5v5 games. It was very exciting to use all the skills we’ve been practising.

We’re looking forward to a well earned rest.

Have a lovely holiday everyone!