Well done everyone on another fantastic week!

Our English work last week was centred around chapter ten in our class novel where the main character experiences a range of extreme emotions, both positive and negative. The children’s task was to re-write the chapter using alternative descriptive language. We began the week by planning out the re-write, looking firstly at the three key events in the chapter. Once we’d decided what those were, the children used a range of resources to plan what emotions they thought the main character would be feeling at each point, their challenge was to use a variety of vocabulary without repeating themselves and they made notes on the adjectives, verbs and adverbs that they wanted to use. The children then had an opportunity to write an initial draft, they used self-assessment to analyse their first attempt, making suggestions on how they could improve their writing. To finish the week’s work off, the children then used their own comments to work on their next steps and produced an edited and improved final draft of their own chapter. This week we will be looking at a character description for what is a quite formidable character who we’ve just been introduced to.

Our Maths work last week was focusing on adding fractions. We first looked at the process for adding fractions that had different denominators and this revolved around the children’s multiplication knowledge. They needed to see the connections between numbers so that they could use multiplication and division to convert the denominators, making the addition a much more simple task. Later in the week we moved onto adding three or more fractions together. To do this the children used the bar model as a resource for helping them to convert denominators. This week we’ll be adding mixed numbers before moving onto subtracting fractions.

Finally, I just want to thank all of the children for a wonderful trip to Arthog this weekend. You were all amazing at the activities, everyone really pushed themselves by stepping out of their comfort zone at times and you should be extremely proud of yourselves for doing that.

Let’s have a brilliant week in the run up to half-term.

Mr Sudlow.