This week we celebrated World Book Day by taking part in a book scavenger hunt in the playground planned by Mrs Norman’s P7 class. We also teamed up with P2! Some of us went down to P2 and the rest of us stayed in our P6 class. Then we partnered up with a P2 pupil to help them complete their book quiz and after that we read to them.

Our writing lesson was great this week! We discussed what ‘fake news’ is and we even watched some clips of the American President Donald Trump. Mr Atkinson challenged us to use and apply our knowledge of facts and opinions to help plan and write a newspaper. We included evidence and statements from reliable sources such as doctors and government reports and we also used opinions from witnesses. There was a wide range of writing ideas from football victories, animals escaping from zoos and current affair issues.

In our literacy lesson we looked at a range of persuasive texts. Then we answered questions referring to the facts, opinions and statistics.

In our IDL lesson we learned where chocolate originated from. We labelled diagrams tracking how a chocolate bar ends up in our local food shops. Afterwards we designed and created Fairtrade chocolate bars, there were some excellent ideas.

In Maths we created information posters about our recent topics.

Miss Crooks conducted an experiment during our science lesson this week to explore how our bones can be affected. Next week we will report our findings.

Mr Atkinson’s Comment

Well done everyone for another brilliant week! It was great to meet all the P6B parents and guardians at Parents Night. We have a school trip to Dynamic Earth on Friday 13th March.