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. In English this week, we have begun writing a non-chronological report about the stages in the "life" of a river. Having watched a short video and read the relevant chapter of a book, we made notes about the sources of rivers. We then used these to write a paragraph about the sources of rivers together as a class. In maths, have continued our thinking about data handling and presenting data in graphs. We did some mathematical experiments and presented the results in bar charts, bar-line charts and pictograms. Then we discussed the advantages and disadvantages of these different representations. We have had two ICT lessons about databases. We thought about the use of databases and the kinds of places that would have databases including information about ourselves (including school, the doctors, the library) and talked about what information they might store, why it is useful to them and how they might use it. On the computer, we have learned how to use "sort" and "search" commands (including Boolean logic AND and OR operators) and then used these tools in a series of problem solving challenges which required us to identify likely "offenders" on the basic of partial clues about a person from eye-witnesses. We have also learned to enter data into a database and interrogate the database to identify likely errors which need to be corrected. Although we only had a four-day week, we managed to finish our art work, have PE, a science lesson about Earth in Space and start looking at our year group's harvest presentation with our parallel class.