We have been given potatoes but will not be in school over the summer to look after them properly so we have created a class challenge.

Everyone has been given a potato to take home and plant. It can be planted in the main garden or even in a pot or bag.

1) Plant the potato about 5 inches under the soil and cover.

2) Water your potato regularly.

3) When the first leaves appear cover them with more soil. (This encourages more potatoes to grow.)

4) When you notice leaves appearing again cover them again with more soil. This will create a mound. Do this two or three times.

5) Continue to water during dry spells.

6) When the leaves start to die back the potatoes are ready to dig up. This should be around September time but it could be earlier.

**Take photos of the process as well as some photos of what you  make with your potatoes.**

**You have the variety – Red Duke of York/Sarpo Una/Casablanca**

Happy Potato Growing.

Mrs Brown and Mrs Smith

This week has been great. We have really enjoyed the great weather at breaks and lunchtimes.

We have continued to learn about fractions and are now all able to convert improper fractions to mixed numbers and back again.

We have been continuing to look at natural disasters and this week we had to research our own choice. We will use what we learn to write our final explanation piece of writing next week.

We completed our final live lesson on coding where we learned to create a “whack-a-mole” game using scratch. We really enjoyed this and have since altered this game as we learn more about coding.

We have worked hard on our paper mache volcanoes. (Some progress pictures are below.) We are looking forward to finishing these next week. Some of our art work this term will be displayed in the corridor. This is a work in progress just now but we can’t wait to see the finished display.

What has been your highlight of the week?

This week we really enjoyed taking part in World Book Day Activities. We tested out book knowledge in a number of quizzes and we were challenged to design the front cover of a secret book after hearing the story. We really enjoyed reading stories to P1 on Thursday. We practised reading aloud with expression and created puppets to help the P1s really understand the story. It was so much fun.

In art we looked at “The Great Wave” by Hokusai and created our own version using paints. We really enjoyed it and the results look fantastic.

P6/7 have had a super week this week. We have been finished off our work on tsunamis and produced some excellent pieces of writing to go alongside this. We have also finished our tsunami art work using a range of oil pastels to represent the ocean colours.

On Wednesday we teamed up with P1 and read them a story as part of World Book Day. We made characters for them to play with as we read and then we showed them how to animate a character they have drawn and bring it to life. Mrs Smith was very impressed with how enthusiastic and helpful we were when supporting the little ones.

On Thursday was it was World Book Day. We made some origami bookmarks and decorated them with our own theme. We then had a lovely assembly ran by Mrs Strathearn who told us a little about herself and then shared the 2022 World Book Day song. At the end of the assembly she set everyone a task to tell her something about each of us. We made a start on this on Friday. For the rest of World Book Day we took part in a corridor scavenger hunt looking for famous book characters around the school. The winning class will be announced next week and they will win a book of their choice for their class. We also created some gifs based on popular children’s books. Take a look and see if you can identify which books have been animated.

On Friday we made our Powerpoint pages for Mrs Strathearn and completed a comprehension passage about World Book Day.

John also took an excellent video of one of our stick insects eating their moult. They shed their skin so that they can grow bigger and then they eat it for the nutrients. It was a bit gross but interesting at the same time. Please see our Teams page for John’s video as unfortunately we are having upload difficulties.

What has been your highlight of the week?