MrJennings

Our main work in English this week has been to re-write an episode from Grandpa Chatterji. The focus has been to write the story of Grandpa's visit to the fair from the point of view of one of the characters, building on the learning we did when working on myths and legends in the spring term. Shape, including pentominoes and nets, has been the focus of our maths work.

One of the main activities of the week was our final unit in our studies of the Lake District. This concerned the way developments are made in the National Park by the planning authority. The main activity was a debate in which everyone in the class took on roles in a planning meeting simulation in which a group were hoteliers seeking planning permission to build a water-sports centre close to their hotel. Other groups represented local residents, local shopkeepers, local farmers, organisers of activity holidays for the young and organisers of holidays for retired people. All groups had the opportunity to make presentations to the meeting and to ask questions before an open discussion and a vote on the proposal.

We also had PE, including one session with our parallel Year 5 class on the "field", science, worked on researching information for PowerPoint presentations about the Gurdwara and did some more planning work for our DT automata project.