Last week’s Big Question. Here are the last two group presenting information about the respiratory system and problems that can sometimes occur within this system.

A Whole New World – National Chopsticks Day. To celebrate National Chopsticks Day, we took part in the ‘Great Chopstick Invention Challenge’. The class were all given a set of chopsticks and had to invent something different with them or use them in a different way. The results were amazing and I was impressed with the level of creativity and problem solving on show.

This week’s Big Question – The Heart! This Wednesday, Sean Thuis came in for the afternoon to teach us all about the heart and the Circulatory system. We took part in a fun simulation to learn about how blood travels around the body and how much work the heart does to facilitate this. We then had a chance to see how different pieces of equipment are used to monitor and check the heart.  We all had a splendid afternoon and a big thank you to Sean for coming in to see us.

Writing and ICT. This week as part of our writing tasks, we have been using Canva to create posters about endangered animals from Peru (our writing stimulus for the week is ‘Paddington in Peru’). We went over the basics for using Canva and then the class were paired up, one ‘expert’ and one ‘soon-to-be-expert’ and given a Peruvian animal. Our ‘Canva experts’ were so good at supporting their peers and showed great leadership and collaboration skills. I was so impressed with how quickly everyone was able to use Canva and the results are amazing. They have all created excellent posters about different endangered animals from Peru. On top of this, they all achieved their writing targets so they have joined the ‘100 club’ again! Well done P6/7!