This week we have been learning about ‘Famous Failures’. We found out about famous people who didn’t succeed in something but then persevered until it worked out. For example, Thomas Edison failed thousands of times before inventing the light bulb. If he hadn’t persevered we might not have electric lights! We learnt that everyone will make mistakes and fail at things before they get it right. That’s why we have to keep trying. We learnt about the Learning Pit which is part of most learning and when we find our learning tricky it is actually better for us. We drew our own Learning Pits. We also read The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes and found out that it is actually better to make some mistakes and know that making mistakes is a good part of learning.

In Literacy, we took notes all about red squirrels and then wrote an information text about them.

In Outdoor Learning, we split into 3 groups with all the P4s and P3s and did 3 different activities. We will swap round over the next 2 weeks. Some did bird spotting, listening to their calls. One group identified trees and measured their circumference to find out how old they are. The last group created ‘natural stories’!

In PE, we have been practising our throwing and catching skills by playing bench ball! We also had to learn how to defend and help our team mates by getting into space and calling for the ball.

In French, we learnt some classroom instructions like stand up, sit down, line up, hands up and hands down. We played ‘Simon Says’ which is called ‘Jaques a dit’ in French!

In Art, we drew beautiful baby foxes using a grid to help us get the proportions and size right. Then we coloured them with oil pastels and crayons. They look brilliant!

In Numeracy, we have been sequencing 3- and 4-digit numbers forwards and backwards in ones and tens!