Mr Atkinson’s comment:
This week at assembly P5 were awarded Year Group of the Week for lining up quickly and quietly and as a result will receive some extra minutes at a playtime – well done everyone! I know parents and carers as well as the pupils are eager to see the STEM video that was recorded last week, this can be viewed here: https://x.com/EastRenCouncil/status/1765331934421348708?s=20
Literacy and English
This week we celebrated World Book Day by taking part in lots of great activities. We started the week with Mr Atkinson putting us into reading groups and to focus on learning more about a particular Roald Dahl novel. We also worked in pairs to draw and label a diagram of a new reading area. Some of us swapped with P4/5 pupils so that we could read and share our Midnight Fair stories that we had been creating in our imaginative writing lessons with Miss Campbell. Throughout the week the P5 Reading Buddies also spent some time reading books with their P2 buddies and we all visited the Eco-committee’s Book Swap which was very exciting! Later in the week we researched and learned about Roald Dahl and we created a massive timeline with all these facts, including the dates when his books were published. Once we were finished our Roald Dahl book we created a character wheel which required us to identify the main characters, summarise key information about them and draw a picture of them. We then combined our sections together and colour-coded them to create large circles. On Thursday we joined the online World Book Day: Footy & Booky Quiz 2024 with Ben Lyttleton, Kit Brown and some very special guests. We had a great time taking part in the quiz! At the end of the week some of us shared what we had done at the upper school assembly.
Numeracy and Maths
Some of the us have been learning how mirrors can be used to help with identifying symmetrical patterns and how to covert 12 and 24 hour times. We have also been answering questions involving kg and g and solving calculations by adding or subtracting 100s.
Health and Wellbeing
We started our new topic Substance Misuse by discussing the difference between medicine and substances that can be harmful to your body such as alcohol and smoking.
Expressive Art – Drama
Mr Atkinson shared with us the key techniques that we need to think about when performing our Alice in Wonderland drama scripts that we started to write a couple of weeks ago. Some of these skills included how we use our voice, body, movement, gesturing and facial expressions when we are delivering our lines.
Outdoor Learning
As part of our LEAF project we have started to learn about different types of habitats, what types of animals live in them and how they have adapted to survive. Afterwards, we went to woodland and were challenged to build our very own habitats that would support the wildlife in the area. When we gathering materials we had to make sure we were choosing materials that could be a food source or provide shelter and warmth.
