MrJennings

We continued with our extended biography writing yesterday in English after doing an exercise on how to describe the passage of time in different ways (to avoid repetition). In maths we tried some more difficult calculations, focusing on more addition and subtraction yesterday and long multiplication today. We also checked up on conversion of measurements (e.g from centimetres to millimetres etc.).

We have started our new Geography topic about mountain environments. To begin with, we did some atlas work finding and recording, on outline maps, the major mountain ranges in the world and the major upland regions of the United Kingdom. We also used the atlases to find the highest peak in each of these ranges and the continents and countries in which these ranges are to be found.

We finished making our strong shelters in technology today - it will be strength testing time next week - and we also drew our music topic to a close with a final session of composing and playing African-style rhythms to accompany African-style dances devised by the groups.