MrJennings

We have continued our study of the Alfred Noyes The Highwayman. This week we have listened to the poem read by the author, discussed the illustrations of the poem drawn by Charles Keeping and watched another video interpretation of the poem. We wrote questions that we would ask different characters and used these in a hot seating exercise. We followed this up by writing monologues for one or other of the key characters in the poem. We also produced our own illustrations for specific stages of the the narravtive and made "WANTED" posters for the highwayman.

In maths we have continued our work on percentages and fractions, revising division and moving on to some work on place value of decimal numbers. We have done some science work on healthy balanced diet and did some practical investigations about the effects of exercise on breathing rate.

We have spent some time on our art topic about containers. Yesterday we made clay pots (which we will decorate once dry) using two different techniques - we made thumb pots and coil pots. This afternoon we reminded ourselves of the types of designs typical of Bodil Manz and created a series of related designs which we could use for the basis of the decorations we will apply to our pots.

School has now begun its Easter holidays. School reopens on Monday 12th April.