Friday, March 09, 2012
5th to 9th March
The most significant event of the week was our visit to Southwell Minster on the Time Travelling experience.
This was an excellent day. We travelled by coach to Southwell and the day started with an assembly in the nave of the minster with almost 300 children from other schools. Following this, each of our groups took part in six different activities (three before and three after lunch) based on some of the signs and symbols of Christianity found in the church.
Before we went to Southwell, we thought more about the idea of pilgrimage by considering the idea of special places. We thought about places that feel special to us and about why they are special. We also followed up our visit on Thursday and Friday by making a scrap book reflecting on our visit.
This work has taken up a lot of our time this week, but we have also done a little more on our "myths and legends" focus. We watched the end of the "Odyssey" video and did a piece of comprehension work on a passage about the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece.
Our maths work has been about fractions, decimals and percentages this week. We have learned about mixed numbers and related these to improper fractions. Today we played a board game which helped us to link fractions to their decimal and percentage equivalents.
In addition, we tried to finish off our Wonderful World videos and saved the finished versions and had our weekly French and PE sessions.
This was an excellent day. We travelled by coach to Southwell and the day started with an assembly in the nave of the minster with almost 300 children from other schools. Following this, each of our groups took part in six different activities (three before and three after lunch) based on some of the signs and symbols of Christianity found in the church.
Before we went to Southwell, we thought more about the idea of pilgrimage by considering the idea of special places. We thought about places that feel special to us and about why they are special. We also followed up our visit on Thursday and Friday by making a scrap book reflecting on our visit.
This work has taken up a lot of our time this week, but we have also done a little more on our "myths and legends" focus. We watched the end of the "Odyssey" video and did a piece of comprehension work on a passage about the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece.
Our maths work has been about fractions, decimals and percentages this week. We have learned about mixed numbers and related these to improper fractions. Today we played a board game which helped us to link fractions to their decimal and percentage equivalents.
In addition, we tried to finish off our Wonderful World videos and saved the finished versions and had our weekly French and PE sessions.
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