MrJennings

We have continued our thinking about suspense stories in English, concentrating on planning this type of story and story plots before starting to write our own suspense stories on Thursday. In maths, we have focused on probability work, making sure that we understand the difference between evens and equal probability as well as being able to explain probabilities clearly.

We have begun a new unit of work in science. This is the chemistry section of this year's science curriculum and, after revising what we already know about materials and their properties, we have started to consider issues about dissolving. Yesterday, we planned an experiment to investigate factors which may affect the speed at which salt dissolves and today we carried out the practical work. Some of us investigated the effect of changing the temperature of the water, others investigated changing the amount of salt or speed of stirring.

We did netball-type games in PE and had our usual Friday English and maths lessons this morning.