MrJennings

The has been SATs week at school for our Year 6 pupils and, in Year 5, we have also begun our summer term tests in English. We have done a reading test, a spelling test and a short writing test. We have a few more tests to come next week. In our other English work this week, we have looked at writing persuasive letters. We used our learning from thinking about adverts and joined this with what we know about organising longer non-fiction texts.

Our maths has had two different foci. At the start of the week we did some measures work about capacity - estmating capacities and converting litres to millilitres. Then we moved on to drawing and interpreting line graphs, including graphs which "tell a story", for example the story of a journey.

We followed up last week's science planning by monitoring the seeds we had planted. We finished this off today by recording our final results which showed that all the seeds germinated except those which either had no water or those which had been kept in the fridge (i.e. with no warmth).

In history, we thought about the lives of boys and girls in ancient Athens and we have also take our technology project another step forward. This week we have been investigating simple cam mechanisms. We used a card wheel and a lollystick as a cam follower to make a mechanism which rises up and drops down with the cam.