MrJennings

We have had a short week this week as the teachers had an INSET day on Friday - our traditional "Goose Fair" INSET day in case parents wanted to take their children to the fair.

We have continued our focus in writing in our English lessons. We have worked with a partner to write paragraphs entitled My Three Wishes and My Greatest Achievements of 2014, making sure that we used a clear, simple sentence to start the paragraph and then follow this with sentences which add details and examples trying to start these sentences in different ways. We then marked our own work against our success criteria and many of us were also able to write a concluding or "summing up" sentence to end the paragraph.

In our Geography work about water, we watched an excerpt from a video about the water industry and answered questions about how the water authorities obtain supplies of water. In science we have been learning about the water cycle and the processes involved in this.

In maths, after completing our work on graphs with some mathematical experiments in which the results were presented in bar or bar-line charts, we started thinking about measures and converting measures into different units (e.g. converting kilometres to metres, metres to centimetres, centimetres to millimetres and vice versa). We have also practised measuring accurately in millimetres.

Although we only had a four day week, we managed to fit in an art lesson, this time drawing our trees on to the graduated water-colour washes we produced last week.