MrJennings

In English, we have begun to think about formal and informal styles of writing. We have looked at two letters of complaint (about the same incident) written in contrasting styles and also compared formal and informal invitations to an event, noting the ways that the same information can be conveyed indifferent ways. We have also thought about the kinds of phrases that can be found in more impersonal texts and formal writing as well as considering sentences written in the passive form.

We tried the calculator paper of last year's maths SATs test on Wednesday before moving on to think about problems involving shape patterns yesterday. These also helped us revise some algebra work. Today in Friday maths we went through this paper. We also had our usual Friday English session today.

Learning more about microbes, and the fact that they are living things, has been the focus of our science work. We investigated the effects of different growing conditions on yeast and made some notes about this. We have also related our knowledge about these growing conditions to the ways we store food to stop it decaying quickly (e.g. putting it in the fridge, canning it, etc.)

In addition to this, we had PE on Thursday (doing some tennis activities) and did some ICT (recording some video on digital cameras) today. We finished off with some story time.

An OFSTED inspector is visiting our school on Monday.