MrJennings

We have had a good first week of the school year.

In English, we have studied the characters and how someone's actions show their mood and personality the the story Dinner Ladies Don't Count by Bernard Ashley. We have done some fiction and some non-fiction writing arising out of the plot of this story and we have also begun a short unit of work based on the Philip Ridley story The Hooligan's Shampoo.

Our maths has focused on revising arithmetic methods, making sure that we have remembered these processes after the long holiday.

 In addition to fitting in a PE session, our main "topic" for the week has been based around the idea of survival on a desert island. We have thought about what we would need to stay alive and how we could ensure we had water, food and warmth by finding appropriate sources on the island. We finished the week by starting to create montages of images in a word document to reflect the range of our personal interests after learning how to overlay, re-size and rotate images in the wordprocessor.