This week, we have been enjoying lots of activities to support World Book Week. We joined a very interesting online author session with Holly Webb, who wrote A Girl’s Guide to Spying, hearing about her inspirations and writing process and having lots of chances to ask questions. We also enjoyed a British Library event called Global Food Stiries with Michel Rosen and friends. We experienced the magic of fantastic story telling and loved having the opportunity to follow instructed drawing activities with each of these. Some people used this session as their inspiration for their writing too. We loved dressing up as our favourite book characters and sharing our favourite stories.

In our writing, we focussed on word selection by creating a mini saga (100 words!) to enter into the Great Writers Nonsense stories competition. This really pushed our editing skills.

We explored multiplication word problems and checked we could identify and lay out the correct sum to solve each question. We continued to work on defensive play in rugby, considering how to cover the playing area to be most effective.

We also looked at significant events through the timeline of the Victorian period and sorted them into categories of Monarchy, Empire, Innovation and Social change.