Dear parents and families,

We have had another excellent week!

A class highlight in particular was science. We have been learning about the human body and this week we focused on the skeletal system. After researching a little about the skeleton, we made our very own using pasta! We thought about the shape of each bone and labelled all of the skeleton parts.

Olivia said she enjoyed maths this week! We challenged ourselves to some trickier esti-mysteries and we did a fab job! Our focus for the week was time and multiplication. We have been using the grid method to solve multi-step multiplication word problems and we are really confident with this now! We have also been learning how to tell the time using an analogue clock and have enjoyed playing lots of fun games to consolidate our knowledge on this.

Throughout literacy we have been working on our explanation writing. We wrote a super explanation about the life cycle of a butterfly and also self and peer assessed these together. Well done everyone! Max said that he enjoyed our literacy lesson on Wednesday. We were identifying similes and metaphors and used the Katy Perry song ‘firework’ as an example text. We analysed the lyrics and then considered some of our own favourite songs. We reflected on the true artist’s meaning of the song and explored some similes and metaphors too.

Weronika and Eilidh said that they enjoyed outdoor learning this week. We ventured into the playground and studied a plant of our choice, thinking about its features, area that it has been grown in and opportunity for sunlight and water to grow. Some of us also took some fantastic close up photographs of nature. We also had a little check up on our vegetables that are growing- we think our carrots are coming along nicely! Eilidh, Emili, Weronika and Nikola decided to be fantastic responsible citizens and effective contributors by picking up some of the litter that we found in the playground, they have decided that we will be back out soon to clear the rest as a class! Well done girls.

Thursday was a very exciting day because 7 of us were lucky enough to go to the nursery to help with the weeding! The children who went loved their time playing with the younger pupils and did a fantastic job of clearing the weeds in the garden.

Congratulations to Vijval who was our Hot Chocolate winner today! He had an absolutely fantastic week- he displayed excellent listening, lots of focus and lots of helpfulness! Well done Vijval, we are very proud of you!

Thank you for another super week P5A, have a lovely long-weekend and see you all on Wednesday morning!

Please find attached our learning for term 4!

Miss Ventisei and P5A