MrJennings

We have begun to get to grips with our new unit of work in English. Having done some more research, finding out "facts" about some major rivers of the world, we thought about the writing of good non-fiction paragraphs. We had already tried to do this for the River Volga and we learned how to improve this by using a wider variety of sentence structures. Then we worked with partners to write good paragraphs about another famous river.

Presenting information in graphs has been the focus of our maths work this week. We have used pictograms, bar charts and bar-line charts/graphs and have tried some complete investigations in which we selected a question to investigate, collected data using tallying, created one or more graphs and then recording the answer to the question(s).

We had another session with the ukulele and started to develop our own designs for a decorated pot having examined the style of the Danish ceramicist Bodil Manz. We also had our regular PE and Spanish lessons.

One highlight of the week was that we had a visit from an author, E Reilly, who gave a very entertaining presentation in assembly and helped us to think a little about writing stories.