MrJennings

In our first week after the Spring half-term holiday, we have continued our English unit of work on myths and legends. We have studied further episodes of the Odyssey, thinking about Odysseus' role as a "classical" hero by reflecting on the series of challenges he faces up to, the ways he confronts and overcomes these (often on his own, using his intelligence, cunning, strength and combat skills).

Our maths this week has been about shape and the properties of shape. Our main work has involved considering symmetry of quadrilaterals and other regular and irregular polygons. We have also learned to describe the relationship between the sides of a shape using the terms parallel and perpendicular.

On Wednesday we had a special art day. We did some Australian Aboriginal-style pictures as the traditional symbols incorporated are often used to represent a journey (and this links with our guiding theme for the term in which our work in other subjects includes the Odyssey, pilgrimage and bridge-building). We made pictures using paint and sticks and some of us tried producing the pictures using other media too.

We have also started a new RE topic about prayer and pilgrimage this week. The main activity of this topic will be our visit to Southwell Minster in a couple of weeks. We started by thinking about places that are special to us and talking about these and the feelings and memories that they bring to us. We then drew and wrote about them. We finished the week by beginning to learn the songs for our Time Travelling visit to the Minster.