The learning activities that we really enjoyed in Primary 5/6 this week were:

• Many of us continue to enjoy our work on our personal choice projects this week. It is wonderful to see the children developing a wide variety of skills from woodworking to clay modelling and from music making to various art projects, which they have chosen to work on.
• We are still enjoying our poster competition for Show Racism the Red Card as we finish off our posters for them to be sent away and entered into the competition.
• Our class novel, “Kensuke’s Kingdom” by Michael Morpurgo, is still very enjoyable and exciting. Kensuke and Michael have developed a strong relationship but unfortunately Kensuke felt that Michael had betrayed him after one of the events in the story this week.
• We really enjoyed our learning about adding and subtracting decimals in Maths this week.
• We have really enjoyed continuing to write our fairy tales in our Writing lesson and there are some very imaginative ideas being developed
• We have also really enjoyed continuing to develop throwing and catching skills during our handball focus in PE and we are now starting to play competitive games
• We enjoyed activities in Science linked to British Science Week where we learned about different illusions. We also learned about viruses and antibodies.

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

• Some of us felt that our Maths work with decimals was tricky as we finished off this topic. The word problems were a little difficult to decode and find the important numbers and information.
• Some of us found the Writing task difficult as it can be tricky starting our own fairy tales from the beginning. Lots of support helped us to make a good start and develop our stories effectively.
• Some of us found our personal choice projects to be tricky We are working hard to develop skills of resilience, determination and independent learning through these projects.

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

• Look after everyone in our class
• Look after laptops, devices and other classroom resources
• Look after the resources that we are given to play with in the playground

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 and third targets. Well done!

Well done Primary 5/6 on a fantastic week filled with exciting and interesting tasks.