MrJennings

The highlight of our week was a visit to Southwell Minster on Thursday for the "Time Travelling" event. This linked in with our RE work on pilgrimage and special places. Following our work on the Hajj and some talk about Christian pilgrimage and places which are special to us, we have a great day full of a variety of activities at Southwell. We worked in different groups (each with its own pilgrim guide) at different places inside the minster. We did drama, learned about the organ, communion and prayer, made bookmarks and prayer beads among other things. We followed up our visit by making a scrapbook about our visit and our reactions and feelings to it.

As well as this, we did a little more work on our poetry in English and, in maths, learned some more about percentages, converting percentages to fractions and decimals and calculating percentages of quantities. To finish off the week, we investigated stability of structures, using K'NEX to find out about the effect of adding more legs and the height of legs on the stability of a simple structure.