Dear parents and families,

We have had yet another super week with lots of lovely sunshine!

Here are some of our class highlights from the week!

Ayden said that his favourite part of the week was going out to do the Daily Mile. It was lovely weather this week so we enjoyed running off some energy on the field! Miss Ventisei also loved racing P5A… she was (marginally!) beaten each time!

Weronika enjoyed learning about Article 15 as part of our Article of the Week. This article relates to freedom of association. We discussed what this means and arranged ourselves around the room to demonstrate our thoughts on the importance of children having plenty of opportunities to meet, spend time together and share ideas. Miss Ventisei was very impressed with the wonderful and insightful reflections offered.

Jacob said he enjoyed R.E. this week. As it is still the month of May we have continued to learn about Mary. This week, we finalised all of our discussions and learning from the month with a blether stations activity. We enjoyed working in pairs to find all of the different blether stations around the classroom.

Eilidh said she enjoyed writing this week. We finalised our exposition writing topic by choosing our favourite piece of writing from the month and typed a finalised edit with lots of uplevelled vocabulary and persuasive language. We did an excellent job!

Julia and Emili said they loved maths! We have been learning about data handling and how we might represent different types of data. We loved sharing some ideas about jobs that use data and charts on a daily basis (we discovered that even teachers use bar charts and tables!!) and created our own on an excel spreadsheet. To gather our data, we listened to a few chart songs and each chose our favourite- Harry Styles was the class winner! Emili said she loved continuing her learning within algebra. We have been solving tricky two-step problems to find ‘x’ and we have loved using games and our favourite ‘question spinning wheel’ on the iPads to help us! Some of us have even made up our own algebra question and answer sheets at home as voluntary additional homework! Well done P5A, I am so proud of you!

Leo said his favourite part of the week was science. We continued our research about the digestive system and we are now well on our way to finishing our information posters!

Lili and Farrah said that they enjoyed learning about the time in Spanish this week! We have been singing along to a very catchy song and rap to help us remember!

Vijval and Dawid enjoyed outdoor learning on Thursday. We worked really hard to prepare the soil and planted lots of wild flowers and plants in our school garden. We can’t wait to see our hard work come to life when the plants and seeds start to grow!

This week our Hot Chocolate winner was Jacob. He received lots and lots of class nominations as a pupil who was demonstrating lots of kindness and helpfulness throughout the week and Miss Ventisei noticed this too! Huge congratulations to Jacob and a big well done also to lots of other pupils who were nominated by their peers.

Thank you for another excellent week P5A, I am so proud of you. Have a lovely weekend (with hopefully more sunshine!).