English

In English this week, we have drafted, edited and published a piece of poetry, based on the witches prophesy in Macbeth. The children were using personification, metaphors, similes, alliteration, and lots of other fantastic poetry features. We then had a session where the children performed their poem to either a peer or the whole class, and were given feedback from their classmates. They all worked really hard on these and produced some excellent poems.

With Mrs J, the children looked again at semi-colons, colons and dashes. They all feel much more confident with when to use these, and it has been lovely to see some in their poems this week.

Maths

We have continued our work on fractions this week. We began the week by subtracting fractions with the same denominator, and denominators that are multiples of the same number. We then moved on to multiplying fractions by whole numbers (Year 5), and multiplying fractions by fractions (Year 6). Year 6 also completed some of the SAT sample papers this week. Once they have all been completed, I will send home copies of the papers so that parents can become familiar with the expectations for the end of Year 6.

Science

In Science, the children have drafted and published their own ‘Just so’ stories. These are fantastic and the children really enjoyed writing and illustrating these. Some are now on display in the classroom.

P.E

In P.E this week the children took part in their NSPCC ‘Big Buddy Workout’ challenge. The class voted for a dodgeball tournament, and they all really enjoyed playing in their teams on Thursday with Mrs J. They were all brilliant team-players and had a fantastic afternoon.