This week in Literacy we completed a review of our books, sharing our thoughts and opinions on what we have read.

In numeracy this week we completed a chilli challenge with different fractions questions.

Wednesday was our last week of swimming – we will definitely miss going swimming next week, but we all had a fantastic time enjoying the floaties as a last week treat.

P5 were practicing their balancing this week in PE.

This week in numeracy we utilised all of our learning from throughout our fractions topic. We had different stations to practice simplifying fractions, finding amounts of fractions, adding fractions and some groups have been learning to turn a fraction into a decimal. There has also been some fantastic multiplication masters work this week with lots of pupils getting times tables signed off.

We had our fifth swimming lesson on Wednesday and are all looking forward to the fun swim for our last time next week.

In literacy this week we developed our metalinguistic skills using dictionaries to find the meaning of words.

We began a STEM challenge on Thursday afternoon where small groups had to solve a problem while only having limited resources.

In numeracy this week we have been learning to simplify and order fractions.

On Wednesday we had our 4th swimming lesson at Visions.

In PE we were able to use all our netball skills to have games of netball.

In literacy we have been typing our narrative stories while also making edits to them. This helps us add more detail to our stories and extend our writing.

This week in literacy we were developing  our summarising skills re-telling our reading books in our own words.

In art on Tuesday we discussed the style and features of pointillism and started to create our own pointillism picture.

On Wednesday we had our third swimming lesson at Visions. Everyone is making great progress and is looking forward to next week!

In numeracy this week we have been learning to simplify fractions.