Mr Atkinson’s comment:
I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a great holiday and on behalf of myself and the class I would also like to thank Miss Campbell for everything that she has done as she finishes with us this week. This was the last week of homework due but I will continue to inform the pupils in class of their upcoming focus in their Writing lessons in case they would like to discuss this at home.
Literacy and English
For our final instructional writing lesson we created instructions for how to build the Victorian era toy, cup and ball, that we have made a couple of weeks ago. To make sure our instructions were clear we applied all our knowledge from this series of lessons by using adverbs, imperative verbs, time openers and we illustrated our steps.
Numeracy and Maths
With Miss Campbell, some of us surveyed another class, recorded the results using tally marks and then created bar charts using Google Sheets. We have also learned how to subtract involving exchanging and been completing our own timetables to help plan events.
Health and Wellbeing
This week we finished our Substance Misuse topics by discussing different types of medicine, what they are used for, how to safely take them and what happens if you misuse them. We also learned about what vaping is and made fact posters about it.
The stage has been up this week for some school shows so we took part in dance competitions in class instead – we all had a lot of fun!
Technology
For our final Micro:bit lesson of the term we tested ourselves against the devices! We coded the Micro:bits to play a game of rock, paper scissors and Mr Atkinson gave us some time to apply everything we have learned by programming anything that we wanted.
IDL – VictoriansÂ
We have been learning about what the differences are between primary and secondary sources. We discussed that they can be used for different purposes and that depending on who wrote or made the source their point of view may impact its usefulness. We then looked at Victorian advertisements from the time and assessed who their target audience was, what was their purpose and how did they persuade people. Some of us noticed the importance of including engaging wording and appealing pictures in adverts to grab the attention of readers!
Solo-Talks
We have started listening to some wonderful presentations on different types of Victorian era inventions and we can’t wait to hear the rest when we come back from the holidays!
