This week our highlight was a special Taekwondo PE session! We had a nice instructor from a local club. We did a warm up first then learned some moves. In pairs, we had to put on a special arm pad, run up to our partner and kick it 1,2,3,4 then 5 times in a row! Some people even wore their own martial arts kit, for the session!

“I felt good learning some taekwondo!” Olivia W

“I really enjoyed doing something we don’t usually do and now I know another type of martial arts!” Ruaridh

Our highlight of the week were the two open afternoons! Lots of parents came in, as we designed rainforest dioramas. We used shoeboxes, tissue paper for the background, pipe cleaners to make things stand up also to represent vines and pictures of rainforest animals. We also labelled  the four layers of the rainforest, these are: emergent, canopy, understorey and forest floor. We will finish them today, have a look at our amazing work so far!

“I loved making the dioramas of the rainforest because there were lots of animals, vines and water to add!” Isla

“I loved it when we were making our dioramas. I like that mine has a little monkey swinging from a vine.” Ryan

This week,  in Maths, we learned more about tessellation. This involves creating patterns with 2d shapes which have no gaps.  There were 3 stations for this lesson, 1 was using an ipad to make a pattern or a picture using tessellation. Another station was using paint to print a tessellation and the last one, was laying out 2d shapes in pairs.

” I noticed that triangles, diamonds and hexagons tessellate with rhombus shapes.” Carson

“I liked the printing station because we got to use paint and shapes to make tessellation.” Harry

“I really enjoyed using the Ipads since we got to make a lot of tessellation and create our own pictures.” Ruaridh

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