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

• We have enjoyed continuing to learn about decimals in Maths this week. In particular we were learning about how to round to the nearest whole number and to one decimal place.
• We enjoyed writing our imaginative story during our Writing lesson this week. We used the character and setting descriptions that we had written over the previous two weeks to help us get started with our stories.
• We have really enjoyed starting our new focus on Handball in PE this week. We have very much enjoyed developing our throwing and catching skills this week.
• A lot of us have enjoyed getting started on our personal choice projects this week. There has been great excitement in the class as we have started to make plans for what we are hoping to achieve through working on our chosen projects.
• Lots of the children enjoyed working on posters for the Show Racism the Red Card creative competition this week.
• We continuing to enjoy our new class novel, “Kensuke’s Kingdom” by Michael Morpurgo. There has been a lot of excitement in the story this week as Michael’s voyage around the world with his mum and dad came to a very sudden end.
• We were also very excited to take part in our World Book Day activities yesterday. A massive well done to all of the children for their fabulous wooden spoon book characters and for the amazing pictures that were taken of them reading in unusual places.

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

• Some of us felt that it was quite tricky to write our creative story in our Writing focus this week as it can be difficult to come up with ideas for a detailed story
• Some of us found the focus on rounding decimal numbers in Maths to be tricky
• A few of us found planning and getting started on our personal choice projects to be tricky, especially planning goals and tasks that we hope to achieve.
• Some of us found it tricky to come up with ideas for pour anti-racism poster for the competition run by Show Racism the Red Card.

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

• Work hard in every lesson
• Try to be kind to others who are different from you
• Be respectful to adults and children in class when speaking together

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 all of your brilliant efforts with the book character and reading photo activities for World Book Day. Massive congratulations to Jessica for winning the P5/6 wooden spoon competition for your incredible design of the character from the book “There’s a Yeti in the Playground!”