We had a house spirit afternoon yesterday where we all got into our houses and played getting to know you games and created a bookmark about the person our house was named after. Alexander Fleming’s dad was a farmer. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island, a very famous book. Mary Slessor adopted lots of children in Africa. David Livingstone found a waterfall which he names after Queen Victoria, he called it Victoria Falls.

P4a did a fantastic assembly about Scotland. It was really good, they learned a lot about Scotland. We were so impressed that we started to think about our own assembly and had to write down our ideas as we had so many!!

We did a maths check-up this week it was fun but quite tricky. It was like a revision check-up as it was questions we had learned about from last year.

Pythagoras started to learn about volume in maths. There are 1000ml in a litre.

Turing have been creating their own function machines this week, it was fun.

Euler are learning about decimals, we have started to look at hundredths and thousandths.

The Comics were doing a comprehension this week all about Jane Eyre. She was an orphan who lived with her Aunt but she was very unhappy.

We went back to Dams to Darnley this week and we did orienteering and learned about Greenmen. Greenmen were meant to keep away unhappy spirits from people’s house, you can still see them in old houses today. We got to make our own from clay and natural materials we found. We had a map and we had to find the marker posts. There was a letter on each post which we had to write down, the first team to get them all won. It was great fun!

We had an afternoon of Christmas! (We even listened to Christmas music!) We designed our Christmas cards for this year, it was fun.

This week were learned about William Morris who was an artist in the Victorian Era. He designed floral wallpaper. Most of his designs were based on nature, the patterns repeated and some were symmetrical. It reminded people of the countryside as lots of people moved into the city because of the Industrial Revolution.