Yesterday we had our first class mass at church with Father Frank. Well done to the children who read in church, they read so beautifully and clearly. The class behaved so well and so respectfully we were so pleased for them.

Our learning this week…

In English we have discussed how the role of the narrator is the ‘voice’ of the story and can show strong likes and dislikes about the characters. We have compared the characters and identified language that shows the narrator’s point of view of the characters.

In our Tales Retold workshop this week, the children worked on developing their favourite characters and then they got into role and hot seated. We were really impressed with how well the children maintained their character roles and answered questions from the character’s point of view.

In Maths the children have rounded numbers to 100,000 and have read and written Roman numerals using M, D, C, L, X, V and I and they have learnt to recognise and represent a year written in Roman numerals.

In geography the children have created an itinerary for a group of travellers travelling through North and South America with different interests. The children had to choose places across America that matched their interests and identify them on a map.

In computing the children have learnt about all the Mars Rovers that NASA has sent to Mars and they learnt that the more RAM (Random access memory) the robot has, the more instructions that it can have in a row. The children then played a game that stimulates programming a Mars Rover.

In PE the children have continued to develop their leadership skills by learning how to adapt their games for children with additional needs. The children learnt to play a game of Goal Ball that involves playing sat on the floor blindfolded, or in our case with eyes closed, and a ball with a bell so they are encouraged to listen for the ball.

In music the children listened to “Rockin’ All Over The World” by Status Quo and have compared it to “Livin’ on a prayer”. The children have identified the style indicators of Rock music and have accompanied the music by playing glockenspiels.

In art the children have continued to work on their enlarged sketches based on the work of Hundertwasser.