A huge well done to everyone in P4/5 and P5 for the great singing at the Macmillan Coffee Morning, which raised a great amount of money for a brilliant cause.

I hope that everyone has a great week- relax and recharge!

Here we all are, enjoying the Challah bread. Today we were writing instructions and deciding on the most important information. What is necessary to be able to make the bread successfully and what is just other information.

Please remember that it is the Macmillan Coffee Morning tomorrow and P4/5 and P5 are due to sing at 9.45; so if you can, please come along to support a great cause.

Just a reminder that the photographer is coming into school tomorrow, so smart and smile, please!!

We learnt that during the Jewish festival of Rosh Hashanah, challah bread is eaten, so today we made our own challah bread. We took it in turns to add and mix the ingredients together, then during lunchtime, the dough was left to rise. After lunch we plaited the bread, so that it has the traditional shape.

While the bread was baking, we enjoyed apples dipped in honey, another symbol of Rosh Hashanah- the hope for a sweet year ahead.

Finally; we were able to taste the bread which everyone thought was delicious! We could have butter, honey or jam with it – so a lovely treat for the end of the day and a reminder of the important symbols of Rosh Hashanah.

In French we were learning the vocabulary for the seasons: Spring- le printemps, Summer- l’ été, Autumn- l’automne and winter – l’hiver. We were using the insert and symbol functions to type letters with the correct accents on them.

Please remember that the school photographer will be here on Thursday this week.

Having fun comparing the Viking symbols with our numbers! The Vikings rarely wrote numbers down, they wrote the words, but occasionally they used the first letter of the number word to stand for a number. We used the symbols to match to our number system and then wrote the symbols for a set of our numbers.

Today was the Engineering focus of STEM. Engineering is all about designing, solving problems, creating, using materials and building. There were two design briefs, to make a bridge that would hold objects and design a boat that would float.

We explored how we could make the materials stronger, and the shapes that would be strongest.

Today we were learning about technological achievements during the Viking and Victorian ages in comparison with technology today. We learnt that technology is the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes and the use of knowledge to invent new devices or tools.

We used advances in digital technology to discover about technology in the past. Using textbooks uses the technology of 1440, the invention of the printing press. Developments in technology are used all the time in our everyday lives!

Again, please see the P4 blog for some additional photos.

It is STEM week, so during the afternoons we are working with another class to focus on STEM learning. Today our focus was Science and there are so many branches to learn about. In P4 it was chemical reactions (see P4’s blog for photos) and in P4/5 we were learning that liquids have different densities and that some liquids are heavier than others. We demonstrated this by creating a Rainbow in a jar which shows the different layers clearly.

For anyone anting to try this at home, use food colouring for the water and surgical spirit layers.

In our Big Reading lesson we were revising our knowledge of nouns and adjectives. In our Trios we scanned to locate the ingredients used in George’s Marvellous Medicine and then decided which adjective would best describe them.

Today we started to learn about the Jewish celebration of Rosh Hashanah which means “the head of the year”. From Rosh Hashanah until Yom Kippur then days later, Jewish people hope that God will forgive them for their wrong deeds and they try to make things better ready for the sweet year ahead  – this is a reason why apples dipped in honey are eaten.

We used some of the important and symbolic words from Rosh Hashanah to create a word art in ICT. To find the program, look up word art word cloud on your internet browser.