This week we have enjoyed having Miss Mackay in to help us with our learning. Miss Mackay is from Strathclyde University and has come to help. She will be here to help until 5 weeks after Easter.

This week we have had our standardised tests (don’t worry nobody got glasses) This week we completed the reading paper, we all want to read The Butterfly Lion now, by Michael Morpurgo. We used a fiction text and a non- fiction text. It was quite tricky but we all managed. Then next week we will be the maths test (dun dun dunnnn.) J

In maths we have been working on decimals and developing our knowledge of percentages and word problems. We had to apply all the skills we have learned recently into lots of practical tasks. It was good fun but hard at the same time. The subtraction skleletrons have been have been working on the four processes of number.

In literacy we have been working on how to identify the meaning of text and why the author has written the text . This morning we did work on that and it was linked to our topic. We have been trying to improve our reading.

On Wednesday we went on an exciting trip to Whitelee Windfarm to learn about renewable energy and wind turbines. We carried our a fun experiment to explore which blade shapes go the fastest. We also went onto a mini bus and went on a tour and it made you feel very dizzy. J  We learned lots of new things and came back to class with loads of questions to plan our topic.