This week we have had an amazing time with lots of opportunities to take our learning outside in the sunshine!
Literacy
- As part of our ‘Reading Detective Challenge’ this week we have been extending our visualising skills. We heard a story about a wee boy called Noah who went up into his Grandfather’s loft where he was shocked to find lots of musical surprises! We used our visualising skills to write a short passage from the point of view of Noah. We can’t wait to visualise other stories and write what we think. We understand that everyone’s visualisations might be different and can respect other people’s opinions.
Numeracy
- We have been revising addition and subtraction in class and went outside to create sums with the number logs. We were thinking of lots of different ways to make an answer using adding and subtracting. We were surprised by just how many ways you can use numbers!
- Some of us have been learning about solving tricky addition problems using partitioning and were happy we could use our skip counting to help us solve them!
Learning Across the Curriculum
- We have been science experts this week as we continued our learning about Electricity through the context of Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch. We have been learning about how fossil fuels are formed, how these are then burned to create electricity and also started learning about electrical circuits. We got the chance to build our own circuits and understand that there need to be connections for a circuit to work properly. We had a great time challenging ourselves to get a light-bulb to light up and then adding a switch to our circuit. We have also been looking at renewable energy and loved the experiment to find out which side of the school would be best to have solar panels on. We used thermometers to find out which side of the school had the strongest exposure to the sun and made sure our tests were fair.
We also had celebrating success this week – well done to all of the certificate winners:
Headteacher’s Award – Rory
Effort and Improvement – Alfie L
High Standard of Work – Sandra
Representing School Values – Ruby
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