Harris, Mekhi and Aritro designed a car park game. Each parking space has an amount on it. They roll the dice and land on a space then roll the dice again and land on another square.  Then they have to add or take away to find the total or the difference between the prices.

Sahitya and Jaida have designed a Snakes and Ladders game. They enjoyed working together. It was challenging because they had to include lots of information.

James, Caleb and Azaan made a game called Lava and Snakes. If you go in the lava you are dead. Also snakes can kill you. There is a King and a Queen of the land who live in a volcano. The snakes can throw bombs and there is an escape door.

Holly and Olivia designed a Halloween game called witches and brooms. If you land on a broom you go up the way and if you land on a witch you go down the way.

Emma and Soha have designed a Beat the Street game. 4 or 5 people can play it. You get a counter and roll the dice and where you land you write down how many points you have collected. The winner is the person with the most points.

Peter, Elise and Ailsa made a game called Animal Valley. You need to get to the finish. The squares have animals on them and if you land on them you need to act like the animal.

Chloe, Harry and Olivia designed a game called Underwater Snakes. It’s all about fish and snakes underwater. If you land on a fish nothing happens but if you land on a snake you go down. If you get to 73 you win.

We have started to learn about Tiling. We have lots of tiles in our houses on the floors and the walls.

Holly made a tiling which had no spaces. She knows that squares and right angled triangles make good tilings.

Harry and Peter used big triangles to make a tiling. They said it was really hard to make sure there were no spaces.

Olivia used parallelograms to make her tiling.

Jaida used green diamonds and squares to make her tiling.

Emma made a house with the tiles.

The Spheres Maths group have been learning about money.

They can recognise 1p, 2p, 5p 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 and £2 coins.

They have been counting money to find out the totals.

The boys have been working hard, using the magnetic letters to practise their words.

We had to sort out different materials- wood, metal, plastic and glass.

We have been thinking about what different things are made of.

Wood- window frames, matches, rolling pins, benches, paint brushes, doors.

Metal- tools, keys, scissors, screws, tins

Plastic- cups, knife handle, baskets, straws

Glass- door, windows, glasses

The class used water colours to create portraits. They mixed colours together and had to ensure that no two colours were together on the paper.

Lewis liked doing Art because you get to paint.

Holly liked adding the detail- the background and the inside to make it really colourful.

Aritro liked making a nice design like a man. Making it really colourful.

Olivia really likes Art, using different colours.

Soha liked making up different shades.

Emma liked this activity because we got to mix colours.

Harry liked how we had so many colours to make a beautiful picture.

Olivia likes painting because you can choose different to make it pretty.

Ailsa liked doing this because it was so much fun. All the colours were just magical especially the pink.

Peter says Art is good and I like it. He would like to paint animals.

Chloe liked it because painting was fun and when it was finished it was very pretty.

Sahitya liked doing Paul Klee because she loved mixing all the colours. It made such a difference using the brush lightly.

Elise liked painting because she really really likes Art.

Jaida liked doing Paul Klee because she likes the designs and using the bright colours.

On the first week of school we made a colourful bumble bee. We all got a part to colour then we put it all together like a big jigsaw.

Holly liked making the bumble bee because she likes colouring. Lewis liked putting the pieces all together. He did the bit beside Holly’s. Aritro likes how it fits all together. Soha likes how the bumble bee looks. It looks AMAZING!

We were learning about Zentangle Art during Creativity. Zentangle is a relaxing and fun way to create beautiful images.

Mekhi thought he was quite good at Zentangle. Azaan said it was good fun. Olivia liked doing it because it’s quite creative an di liked how you did the different patterns. Olivia also likes the design on the wall because it is all black and white. Jaida thinks that the black and white designs are very effective. She also thinks it looks good beside yhe colourful bumble bees.

When we made our bumble bees for the class charter we were thinking about all the things that we should try to do to be the best we can. We thought of being respectful, helpful, kind, sensible and responsible.

We linked our thoughts to Busby Primary’s Code of Conduct : Let Others Learn, Make Safe Choices, Kind and Caring, Polite and Good Manners and Try our Best.

We have been learning about Children’s Rights and know that we have the right to make decisions and give our opinions. Also that we have the right to an education, to rest and play and to get looked after properly.

Elise says that the bumble bees are pretty. Sahitya says that there are lots of nice words on the bees. Chloe says that the bees are nice and colourful and the words are very nice. Harris liked making his bumble bee.

We made a class charter which has lots of bees near a honey pot. We decorated the bees and wrote messages on the stripes like Be Responsible, Be Kind, Be Respectful, Be Thoughtful…..

Ailsa loved making a bumble bee because they are so colourful and cheerful. They bring joy to my eyes.

Olivia says it is important to be the best you can.

James says he always tries his best.