Author: Mrs Stephens

P5/4 have had a great first week back at school. We have begun our book study on ‘The Wilderness War’ by Julia Green, where Noah and his friends try to save ‘the wilderness’ from being used as land for housebuilding. So far we have learned about native trees, risk assessment, used our reciprocal reading strategies to help us answer questions on the book and held a debate. The motion for our debate involved housebuilding on our own ‘wilderness’ in Easter Longridge Wood. There was some great skills on show and some compelling arguments from both sides ending with a vote.

P5/4 have had a busy last week of term, we took part in the Santa Dash (thank you to the people who brought in sponsor money!), used our cycling skills to operate and power the pedal cinema, met Santa went to the Panto (oh yes we did!) and had a great party, Merry Christmas everyone!

P5/4 were working on their problem solving and critical thinking skills this week. We worked in random groups to try to solve a problem involving a Rubik’s cube. We found it tricky at first and we are working on showing our thinking and asking questions to help us solve problems!

P5/4 have been taking part in a block of lessons with Shanii from Sustrans. We have improved our scootering and cycling skills over the past few weeks and this week we went on a led walk all the way to Fauldhouse and back! We used rhythm keeping the beat with instruments while we walked and had a pitstop at the park before returning to Longridge.