Good morning Everyone,

I hope that everyone is well rested after a super Easter holiday and that you have been enjoying the beautiful sunshine.

Our first week back has so far been busy with a fun outdoor activity on Monday afternoon where we built some rockets using twigs for the East Ayrshire Trip to the Moon competition.  Thank you to those of you who collected twigs for us.

In Numeracy this week, we have been learning more about the coins which we use everyday here in the UK and also the four main monetary notes which we use most frequently too.  We have been using our amazing addition and multiplication skills to work out how many coins we would need to pay for items with specific price tags.  In particular, we have been trying to find the fewest number of coins needed to pay for the items.  It has been very interesting to see how familiar pupils are with coins because there are so many reports now of people using cards to pay for our shopping these days instead of notes and coins.

In Literacy we have been learning about Summarising and read the next two chapters of our Class Novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, to practise our new skills.  Summarising is not easy to achieve and over the next few weeks we shall continue to practise this skill.

Under the amazing guidance of Miss Gibson, pupils continue with their Lego Challenge and this week there has been some coding involved which I am sure they will be most excited to tell you about.

For now I wish you all a happy Thursday,

Best wishes,

Miss Steedman