P5 Welcome Back!

P5 were straight back to it this week and have all produced a good standard of work.

This week there was a whole school focus on Creative Industries.  As a class we completed a series of activities which would help develop our creative thinking skills and “thinking outside the box”.  We linked our writing to this theme and completed a piece of work entitled “What If There Was No (or only very little) Gravity!”, and the children all developed ideas of how we would need to change everyday life, routines and objects to cope with this.  There were some amazing ideas, for example,  filling our car tyres with cement instead of air, having to use food nets instead of cutlery and using magnetic shoes on metal pavements to walk around.  It was great fun sharing these ideas.

Over the course of this week in Maths we revised our understanding of rounding one decimal place numbers to the nearest whole number, and we used smile multiplication to assist our mental maths of multiplying multiples of 10 and 100 together.

We also spent some time discussing our main learning goals for this term,

•  In Literacy we are working on our skills in talking and listening, revising our VCOP knowledge and using Reading Routes to further develop our reading comprehension.
• In Maths we will be completing work on measure and volume as well as revising our knowledge and understanding of fractions, decimals and percentages alongside using the four maths processes in problem solving contexts.
• Our class topic will be “Food, Glorious Food” which will focus on healthy eating, food packaging/labeling and the digestive system in the human body.
• In RE we will be reflecting on “The Commandments of Life” as well as completing our “God’s Loving Plan” work.
• In PE, athletics will be our focus.

Good work P5, enjoy your weekend.

Mrs Currie