MrJennings

We have continued our learning about author's techniques in story writing this week. This has included thinking about ways in which writers build tension and suspense so we have discussed how "unanswered questions" may be built into the text and ways that information can be withheld from the reader as well as the use of "empty words", short sentences and the feelings of the characters.

Our work in maths has included using a range of number, decimal and fraction scales, calculating with fractions and percentages and converting units of measurement. One of the main areas of new learning has been multiplying with fractions, including multiplying mixed numbers.

We have started a new unit of learning in RE this week in which we will be finding out about Sikhism. We began by thinking about the groups and communities we belong to and how others might know that we belong to these. Then, while watching a BBC video about Sikhism, we made some notes about some basic facts connected to the religion including the meaning of some key terms and information such as the name of their place of worship and their holy book. After this we thought about the Ik Onkar, an important Sikh prayer, and discussed translations of this (considering which versions of different lines seemed most meaningful to us). Last, this week, we read a story about a Prince and a Guru and wrote about what we thought the Guru wanted the Prince to learn from his teaching.