MrJennings

We have begun a new series of lessons in English this week, turning our attention to poetry. The focus has been on reading and writing concrete and shape poems. We have looked at and written cinquains and other shape poems on the themes of spring, summer and (linking with our geography and science work) water and rivers.

In maths, we spent some time following up ideas that the recent test suggested were less well remembered and have learned about factors, multiples and common multiples before moving on to begin thinking about the properties of 3D shapes. In these activities we have used Carroll diagrams and Venn diagrams to present and investigate numbers and shape properties.

We have finished our science work on Earth in Space and also had a science afternoon in which we investigated variables which affect the speed of evaporation. We used a pipette to place drops of water onto a paper towel and then timed how long it took for the wet area to evaporate either when left alone or placed on a radiator, under a hand-drier, fanned, waved in the air, held vertical, held in a hand or left in an air-tight container.

In addition, we have played the ukulele, had two sessions of PE outdoors in lovely weather and painted.

School has now broken up for its autumn half-term holiday.