Despite spending the first two full weeks of April away from school for the Spring holiday, we have made the most of the last two weeks of learning!

Firstly, we are extremely lucky to have been joined by Miss Moore, who is going to be teaching us alongside Miss O’Hara for a few weeks. We have all made her feel very welcome and are really enjoying learning from her.

This term, we are learning about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In particular, we have begun exploring some inequalities affecting certain groups of people within our local communities and within the wider world, such as limited or no access to clean drinking water. When celebrating World Water Day, we worked together to create a list of strategies to help us to avoid wasting water. At this time, we also spoke about other ways in which we can reduce our carbon footprint, such as using electric cars or walking or cycling short distances, rather than always driving.

We have developed many different skills within Literacy and English. For example, we have been practising writing imaginative pieces using the correct structure and including relevant details. We have also been developing our talking and listening skills by taking part in some very interesting debates. The subjects of our debates included the advantages and disadvantages of printed books vs e-books, and whether or not there should be increased funding for community libraries. Throughout this process, we learned about the importance of listening to, and respecting, other people’s opinions, even if they are different from our own.

We have also taken ownership of our own learning environment, by updating our Literacy and English wall display with different types of language of our choice. For example, we created a list of similes, synonyms, antonyms, adverbs and adjectives, which we are going to use to improve the (already fantastic) quality of our writing pieces. :

With Mrs Reid, we have been learning about the different food groups that should be included in a balanced diet. We have even been using food pyramids to calculate the ideal portion size of each type of food, and used our new learning to create healthy menus.

During Outdoor Learning with Ms O’Donnell, we used natural materials to build birds’ nests, as well as playing a game of ‘Fox and Hen’. We are so glad to be visiting Cadoc Wood again after being away for a while!

Thank you for taking the time to read our blog.

See you next month!

P5c 🙂