We have now well and truly settled back into our school routine and we are enjoying being in the senior section of the school.
Our class in Harry Potter themed this year and in line with this as our model study novel we have been reading Harry Potter and the philosophers stone. We have been working together to fully understand this novel and developing our knowledge of the comprehension strategies. We have also been focusing on spelling strategies weekly and will continue to do so for the rest of the school year.
In writing we have successfully submitted our vice-captain applications to Mrs Harley where she picked a few of us to go through to the final round of speeches! From there, we have been linking our taught writing to our STEM lessons such as producing an information report on adaptation and biodiversity.
In Maths Mrs Anderson has been focusing on number and place value to make sure we fully understand the link between a digit and its place. We will be extending this knowledge to include decimals in the coming weeks. Miss Gallagher had been focusing on measuring the perimeter of 2D shapes as well as calculating the area of these shapes.
In RE we have been looking at other world religions in the form of Islam and have compared it to our own religion. We have also learned about Moses and will now be focusing on Mary as it is the month of the Holy Rosary.
For our IDL topic this term, we have focused in on Harry Potter and how the film and books were developed this is leading us on to a media study where we will look at how films are developed leading us on to creating our own short films later in the term.
We have lots to look forward to in the coming months!
