MrJennings

It has been a snowy week around school. We managed to stay open on Monday and Tuesday (when a number of schools in our area were forced to close) but the conditions on Thursday made it too dangerous to expect people to try to come and even our school did not open. On Monday and Tuesday we had lots of fun on the playground with the snow.

It was due to be our mid-year assessment week this week and, despite the weather and school closure, we have managed to complete some of our tests.

We did some more suspense story writing in English - creating the opening and build-up sections of a story and trying to vary the viewpoint, that is, telling different parts of the story from different characters' points of view. The focus of our maths work has been data handling and work on finding the mean, median, mode and range of sets of data. Our science work this week involved some practical work on evaporation in which we heated some salt water to recover the salt and to condense a little of the steam to get back some of the water.

We finished the week with our usual Friday English and maths sessions and some water colour painting.