Maths – Counting Challenges. We had a go at some counting challenges this week in maths to get our brains warmed up. Mastering flexible counting in upper primary helps children easily tackle addition and subtraction problems, while making multiplication, fractions, decimals and everyday problem-solving much easier.
World Leaders – Homework Projects. I have been so impressed with all the wonderful homework projects that have been shared this week. It was lovely to see the creativity of everyone and how different each project was. Thank you for supporting the pupils at home with their projects.
   
 
STEM – Land Yachts. On Wednesday, Eleanor came in to do a STEM workshop based on Lego land yachts with us. We first did the ‘1 minute duck challenge’ whereby we all managed to make completely different ducks from exactly the same Lego pieces. Then we were tasked with creating a land yacht in pairs. There were lots of different designs, that were modified and tested, before everyone took part in the final test. Maisie and Ragnar’s yacht managed to go the furthest in the final test. At the end of the lesson, Eleanor asked the class to think of all the skills they had used and I was blown away by all they identified – problem solving, resilience, communication, critical thinking, teamwork, adapting, creativity, intelligence, focusing, building, curiosity, attention to detail, sense making, and planning. Fantastic effort P5/7!
Big Question – Life Cycles. This week we’ve been learning about life cycles of animals, in particular the life cycles of the 5 vertebrate groups. Each group was given a different animal to find out about and create something to explain their life cycle to the rest of the class. Amazing creativity and teamwork again P5/7!
