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We had a good last week of term, completing our weaving and making the panels into Christmas cards which we photographed before taking them home. Most of us also had time to make other types of Christmas cards or decorations too. Some of us managed to make calendars as well. We made 3D floral arrangements from white card by forming petals, flower centres and leaves, glued these onto a card backing sheet and then added a 2014 calendar tab.

In English, we continued with our Mr. Men stories and, on Tuesday, we did a review test covering this half-terms areas of maths learning.
We had our party on Wednesday afternoon, which was a very good event, and this morning we had our school Carol Service in which Year 5 reprised our stable animal poem and years 3 and 4 also provided items. The choir also performed two pieces.

We have done a mixture of fiction and non-fiction work in English, continuing our extended story work and bringing our instruction writing unit of work to completion. The final task in this topic was to write instructions for making a weaving frame. To extend our learning further, our final focus was to consider the purpose of the opening and ending sections in more detail and ensure that these paragraphs had clear but different focusses.

Work on time (including the twenty-four hour clock) has been on of the main areas of maths work this week. We have checked understanding of the twelve hour clock, telling the time and writing it in words and digital format and converted am/pm to 24 hour clock. We have also learned more about perimeter - calculating perimeters of regular shapes and rectangles - including rectilinear shapes where the length of one or more of the sides has to be calculated.

This week has been our Christmas concert week. We gave three performances of our "Baboushka" play and they went very well.

Between performances we have made good progress with our weaving, building up the woven panels to create the pictures. Some of us have actually finished the panels and these have been removed from the frames and the warp threads knotted up. Next week we will make these into our Christmas cards.

We have also done some more work on our RE topic on religious symbolism in art, looking at the Christingle and relating to the elements which make up the Christingle to what they represent and the meaning of these to people of the faith (in this case, Christian) community.