“In P.E we played capture the flag. We split into two teams, each team came up with a plan to defend their flag. If you got caught by the other team you went in jail and had to get rescued.” Ella

“In maths we learnt about coordinates. In coordinates you write brackets round the number. The tip to remember is along the corridor then up the stairs.” Cameron

“We designed front covers for our frozen planet topic. We included drawings of things like polar bears and penguins.” Jenny

“In music we were using the glockenspiels. We were learning how to play different notes. We started off by clapping the rhythm and then doing it on the glockenspiel. It was very hard.” Charlotte

“In writing we were doing persuasive phrases. We wrote persuasive sentences about Jack and the Beanstalk. We started with some sentences then wrote a paragraph.” Olivia

“We we started working on our John Muir award. We learnt and researched about John Muir’s life.” Haniya

“Tony from Active Schools came to see us. He was teaching us about sports and leadership. We are going to be working on sports leadership for the next 4 weeks.” Jude

“On Monday we had a visit from a Gaelic teacher. We learnt a song and colours and some other Gaelic. Some of us sang a song called Brochan Lom for the Mother Tongue assembly.” Zara and Ryan

“In drama Mrs Hutchison gave us story scenes to improvise. There was an aeroplane one and a forest one.” Ava

“As part of Mother Tongue Languages day some people showed us books from home. We saw an Urdu book and some Arabic ones.” Myra

“On Thursday we played in the snow. We made snowmen, polar bears, and even an Among Us character.” Habiba and Alfie

“We started learning a little bit about Islam in R.M.E. We learnt some of the basics of Islam.” Zakir

“In Drama we were doing improvisation. Mrs Hutchison put different lines to start your scene. For example, dad is mad at you etc. You went up with a partner and you had to make up on the go. You didn’t know what the other person was going to say. It was really hard but really fun.” Charlotte

“In P.E we played a dodgeball game. If you got hit you had to go to the other side, to escape you had to catch a ball thrown from your side.” Olivia

“We were learning about climate change in the Arctic. We made leaflets showing the impact on animals, what is happening and some solutions we could try.” Zakir

“In Music we were doing maths using music notes. We were adding and subtracting the number of beats.” Ava

“In Literacy we practised our spelling words and created sentences that used our spelling words.” Ella

“In writing we were looking at persuasive writing. We read a piece of persuasive writing that said Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk was a criminal. Then we had a debate in class. Then we up-levelled some sentences about Jack by adding emotive language.” Isla

No photos again this week. Fingers crossed for next week.

“In R.M.E we learnt about Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah. Boys have a Bar Mitzvah when they turn 13. It means they are responsible for their own decisions and actions. For girls it’s a Bat Mitzvah at 12. People throw sweets as a blessing.” Zakir

“In Drama we were improvising. We started off by playing a game called “Yes, let’s.”  Someone calls out something and we have to do it. We also played freeze. Mrs Hutchison calls out something, we do it and then she shouts freeze. Then we played Gibberish. We started off with someone doing something in gibberish, someone had to translate what they were doing for the audience.” Charlotte

“In topic we carried on creating presentations. The presentations were about animals in the polar regions. There were penguins, polar bears, arctic foxes, lemmings, and walruses and more. At the end we showed our presentations to the class.” Olivia

“In writing this week we worked on our stories. We had to describe settings and characters. We used the characters that we made up. Some people wrote happy stories, sad stories, spy stories and creepy stories. Lots of different genres.” Isla

“In maths we did some real life word problems involving measure. We had to find the total length of 6 pencils, 15 rubbers and dividing the class into 8 pieces.” Ross G

“In French we played a French version of Simon says called Jacque a dit. We practised our classroom instructions using the game.” Kaitlyn

Unfortunately this week we don’t have any photos as we have a few technical difficulties!