MrJennings

We have used our history topic on the development of Nottingham as the focus for our explanation writing. We have been learning about the factors that influenced the growth of villages into towns in Saxon times and the significance of good communications in this. We found out that the presence of a good market was very influential in encouraging people to move into a settlement and that this, in turn, was dependent on travelling merchants visiting that particular market. Hence the importance of good road and river communications in those days.

In maths this week we have been doing a range of activities all connected with measurement. These have included naming angles and measuring angles with a protractor; calculating the area of rectangles; changing the units of measurement and rounding quantities.

We have had PE, including a football skills session, a French assessment and music (preparing for a ukulele concert) and finished the week with design technology. In this, we used the beams we made last week to create bridge platforms and some groups were able to start making the legs for their bridges. Next week will will test them for stability and strength.