MrJennings

In English we have done a little more of our work on Kensuke's Kingdom but our main writing activities this week have been connected to our geography studies about a local planning proposal. We are imagining that a supermarket chain are wishing to build a new supermarket on our school field. We did some field work, measuring the size of the field and distances to the site from (a) our school; (b) the nearest existing supermarket in the area and (c) the local old people's home. We have thought about the groups of people who would be affected and have possibly strong opinions about this proposal and started to draft a report showing these.

We have begun our new history topic about the Aztecs by identifying all the facts that we con about the life of the Aztecs from an artist's impression of village life in that civilization and then by learning about the origin of the civilisation.

Another area of work that we began this week was our technology project - Fairground Rides. We have looked at videos and photographs of rides to identify, discuss and write about the kinds of movement they employ and how they work.

In addition to these, we have done some maths, had our usual Tuesday French, PSHCE and PE session and had our final "tin whistle" lesson in music.