It’s a brand new term and we are ready to go! This is Miss Gunning’s first full term with us and she is really looking forward to it. We have a busy few months ahead but we know what we need to do in order to achieve our goals.

We thoroughly enjoyed our WW2 topic, especially reading the novel ‘Goodnight Mister Tom.’ This term our topic is ‘Auld Ayr’ and we have kick started this by selecting the poem ‘Willie Wastle’ by Robert Burns. Some of us will be selected to recite this poem at the Burns Supper organised for schools in our cluster. Everyone in our class knows how important it is to recite the poem at home as part of our homework in order to learn it. We had fun in class today learning the first verse and we all managed to present it to the rest of the class without looking at our sheet.  Everyone thought that Oliver was brilliant at including expression and entertaining the class, he even gave Mr Hardy a preview of his rendition!

Miss Gunning has also put us forward for our ‘Award of Ambition’ and we now have our evidence booklets that we are working on completing and getting signed off.
We have been working on literature circles this week and, as a class, have read ‘Clockwork or All Wound Up’ by Philip Pullman. Most of us have really enjoyed the responsibility of working with others within a group and contributing to the learning of our peers.  The photos show us working together to develop our higher order thinking skills.