MrJennings

We had an excellent harvest service on Wednesday and all the different year groups offered interesting, well presented contributions. We had a special history activity in the afternoon when a suitcase "from the past" was discovered. We tried to work as historians and archeologists to examine the case and each item in it to work out who owned the case. Everyone really participated well and enjoyed the challenge, moving from evidence through hypothesis to conclusion. Also this week, we have looked at photographs and first-hand accounts of the evacuation in World War 2 to discover what these can tell us about the events of evacuation day and how it felt for those affected.

In maths, we have had a series of lessons and activities about number sequences. This has mainly focused on writing the "rule" by which the sequence is extended. We have tried to do this in three ways - to describe the sequence, to write the operation by which the next number is found and also to write this as a formula.

We have continued thinking about figurative language in English, mostly in the context of poetry. Today we did some more work on personification - analysing poets' use of personification through simile and metaphor.

We finished the week with some design technology work for our topic on shelters.