Our learning highlights in Primary 5/6 this week were:

• We enjoyed the beginning of our new class novel, “Kensuke’s Kingdom” by Michael Morpurgo. It was interesting to learn about the main character and his family and the adventure that they went on.
• We really enjoyed our new Maths topic this week as we learned about decimals. we thought a lot about place value and number lines to help with our understanding.
• We enjoyed our Writing lesson where we were writing a description of a setting which we will use in a creative story next week.
• We have really enjoyed our continuing focus on Gymnastics in PE this week and learning about joining together different ways of jumping, landing and rolling.

This week some of us thought that these were tricky tasks:

• Some of us felt that our new reading books were a little tricky but we were also really glad that we are making progress
• Some of us found the focus on decimals in Maths to be tricky, especially when we had to decide what the intervals between numbers were worth when using number lines
• A few of us found writing our description of a setting tricky, especially using similes and metaphors.

Our Lead Learners in Primary 5/6 this week were Jessica and Caleb. They were assisted by last week’s Lead Learners, Lily and Coby. The three targets that our Lead Learners set for the class were as follows:

• Be respectful to adults in the classroom when they are talking
• Try to keep the classroom clean and tidy
• Telling the truth makes us more responsible

The Lead Learners and their assistants spotted lots of children in the class meeting all three of the targets this week. The lead learners particularly spotted a lot of pupils being successful with the first target. Well done!

Well done Primary 5/6 on a fantastic week and lots of great hard work.