MrJennings

We have continued our work on non-fiction writing in English this week. Our focus has been writing paragraphs for non-chronological reports and the structure of individual paragraphs in particular. We have been working on writing good, clear opening sentences to communicate the main ideas of the paragraph and then adding following sentences to give details and examples, trying to make sure that we use a variety of sentence structures for these to help keep the reader's interest.

Our work on data handling in maths has concluded for the time being. Our work has covered bar charts, bar line charts and pictograms. As well as drawing these graphs, we have been interpreting information from graphs and tables (which proved quite a challenge sometimes) and we have been finding the mode of different sets of data.

Our Water and Rivers topic has progressed, partly through our English work (as we have been doing out report writing about different rivers across the world) and in science. We did a series of experiments to try to find out the different factors which affect the speed with which water evaporates. We found that our hand dryer in school was the best followed by a position on a radiator where the wet material was also fanned and we discussed explanations for our findings.

In addition to these major areas of work, we have had a couple of PE sessions, done some more with our tin whistles and started practising for our part in the school harvest service next week.