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

• We very much enjoyed continuing with our Art activity this week where we were designing and creating posters to enter the creative competition that is being run by Show Racism the Red Card. We have been including some excellent anti-racist messages in our posters and drawing some wonderful illustrations to bring the messages to life.
• We have all enjoyed continuing our work on our personal choice projects this week. There has been great excitement in the class as we have been learning a wide variety of skills from woodworking to clay modelling and from music making to various art projects.
• We are still very much enjoying our class novel, “Kensuke’s Kingdom” by Michael Morpurgo. Last week there was a very exciting moment as the main character was stung by a jellyfish and then we started to learn a lot more about Kensuke and his life on the island.
• We really enjoyed our learning about adding and subtracting decimals in Maths this week.
• We enjoyed our Writing lesson where we were building on the imaginative story that we wrote last week by planning and writing our own fairy tale
• We have also really enjoyed continuing to develop our skills with throwing and catching during our handball focus in PE.

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 addition and subtraction of decimal numbers in Maths to be tricky but we made good progress with this as the week went on
• A few of us found writing our own fairy tale of a bit tricky, but we got lots of help in class including ideas for altering fairy tales from the hilarious Roald Dahl fairy tales in “Revolting Rhymes”
• Some of us found our choice projects to be tricky as we worked out how to work with clay or make electrical circuits, etc. However, these challenges were a great way of developing our learning and skills.

Our Lead Learners in Primary 5/6 this week were Megan and Chloe. They were assisted by last week’s Lead Learners, Sophie A and Logan. The three targets that our Lead Learners set for the class were as follows:

• Be kind to the teacher, other adults and each other in every lesson
• Be respectful to everyone in our class and everyone in school
• Try not to argue at our tables and be kind to each other

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 our second target. Well done!

Well done Primary 5/6 on an excellent week and working hard on all of your learning.