We had a great time at the Edinburgh Castle. We truly made the Deans community proud because everyone brought their responsible and respectful hats on.
This week, we have been working on procedural writing and we have been revising on Numeracy and Maths topics that we have covered over this session.
We also met our new teachers for next session which has been an exciting time for all of us!
Monday
Green gym first thing. Continued to make bird box.
One group working on place value in maths and estimating, another on long division and another reviewing the four functions.
In P.E. we practised our athletics skills, focussing on hurdles and relay races.
New spelling words out.
Finishing off lots of little art activities in the afternoon.
Tuesday
Marble jar full! Fun day. Morning spent doing educational (but fun) activities. What was really cool was that one small group elected to do challenging maths with support! We watched a movie in the afternoon.
Wednesday
The class spent their time with Mrs D looking at what resources we could buy for the garden .
The live link with Chinese students to continue topic work was excellent, teaching conversations and days and months.
For literacy we did a spelling.
Meet the teacher with Mr P in the afternoon.
Thursday
Literacy: writing about “How to make a sandwich”. We spent a lot of time on this.
Meet the teacher with Mr P in the afternoon.
Friday
Maths: times tables and decimals
Literacy: spelling as usual
Assembly
Friendship time
Numeracy
We practised converting percentages into fractions and decimals.
Literacy
We wrote thank-you letters to the people who came to our careers fayre last week.
Science
Bailey – I enjoyed creating my life cycle PowerPoint about an eagle. I even put a video clip on.
Outdoor Learning
Jaxson -I enjoyed this. We made sure the plants were growing well in their containers.
Reading Ambassadors
Emily – We got to read to the younger children!
New Teacher
Hope – I enjoyed visiting my new teacher!
Bella – I enjoyed visiting Mrs Moyes. We were given a lolly pop and had to write something nice about another person on it.
