MrJennings

This has been a test week at school. We have had our main English and maths tests this week (with test papers on reading, writing and spelling; maths - with and without a calculator - and mental maths). In addition, we have had time for a little more work on persuasive writing and some maths lessons about probability.

Our other main area of work this week has been on our Sikhism RE topic. We have watched some video programmes introducing some key ideas about the Sikh faith and researched some key facts. We have thought about the importance of the Mool Mantar to Sikhs and compared and reflected on different translations of this. We have also investigated the "5Ks". We did this by examining objects that represent these 5Ks, drawing them  and by classifying pieces of information about them.

We have completed our work on vector graphics in ICT and we finished the week with doing some pottery. We used air drying clay to produce thumb pots. We will paint these in a couple of weeks time with the designs we are creating in the style of Bodil Manz. (We also had time to create some clay tiles, investigating different ways of marking clay and joining one piece of clay to another.)

Next week is Book and Activity Week at school.