MrJennings

We have begun a new area of focus in English as we have turned again to story writing. For the next couple of weeks or so we will be thinking about suspense stories. We have read a couple of stories in which the authors have used suspense to draw the reader in and, today, we wrote a "build-up" paragraph to come near the start of a story to "build-up" the tension. In maths we have been thinking more about multiplication and division and have developed this towards work on square numbers, factors and prime numbers.

We have done some more work on our geography project, finding out about another important industry of many mountain regions - hill farming. We discussed the common layout of hill farms and have begun charting the main activities of a sheep farmer through the year, especially in connection with the use of low-land and high-land parts of the farm.

This afternoon we had a science practical afternoon. We worked in groups to plan and then carry out experiments designed to investigate factors which might affect how quickly salt dissolves in water.