P7b have been continuing to work hard to extend their knowledge of place value using 9-digit numbers, and demonstrated their knowledge on Thursday in a topic assessment. Our scores were excellent and are a reflection of how hard we have been working over the past 3 weeks. In Big Maths we have been adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimals and practising both our 11 and 12 times tables. On Friday, we completed Beat That! week 7, with everyone’s scores showing significant improvements since the beginning of term. Next week we will be moving onto addition, using both written methods and calculators to do so.
In writing this week we created first drafts of our curricula vitae (we learnt this is the plural in latin, curriculum vitaes is grammatically incorrect). This formed part of our focus on developing Skills for Learning, Life and Work and is an important step towards gaining employment. We will be self-correcting and redrafting these next week using the Netbooks. After Christmas, we are looking forward to visits from various professionals to give us a taster as to what can be expected in different workplaces.
Another key part of Skills for Learning, Life and Work is the development of enterprising skills. This week we started work on our enterprise which involves us working collaboratively in groups of 5 to come up with a business plan before designing, resourcing, costing, ordering, manufacturing, marketing, advertising and eventually selling our products at this year’s Christmas Fair. We have split into our groups, created team names and logos, decided on a product and compiled a resource list so far. Next week we will be calculating costs and ordering resources.
Finally, we were delighted to find out that Springfield placed first at the cluster Sportshall Athletics Event on Wednesday. All of our practise paid off and we performed brilliantly on the day. We are hoping that our score of 56 points will be enough to progress to the regional final.
Have a fantastic weekend from P7b and Mr. L
