Considering this week was only 4 days we have yet again crammed in quite a bit of learning! Here is a round up of our learning this week.
Before we jet off into Outer Space, we spent most of this week focusing on World War One poetry. This will be rounded off next week when the year 6s go up to the War Memorial in the village to pay our respects on the 11th of November. We looked at the works of famous poets Wilfred Owen and John McCrae. We were able to analyse them both for poetic devises and draw out the imagery that the poems conveyed. We completed our poetry unit by writing our own poem/prayers on poppies to be placed on the school prayer tree in the hall. They look stunning and the writing is quite thought-provoking. Don't forget to have a look the next time you are in the hall!
In maths we have been revising finding percentages (%) of amounts. Miss Vidler taught us the 'bubble method' to show that if you can divide a number by 2 or 10, then you can find a variety of % such as 50%, 25%, 10%, 5% and 1%. Some of us were then able to combine these findings to discover others such as 15% and 60%.
We have been working hard on our RE topic this week. On Wednesday we discovered the life-changing events of Muhammed(pbuh) in the Islamic faith and Moses in the Jewish faith. Finally on Friday we watched how Buddha sought enlightenment in the Buddhist faith. Along with the baptism of Jesus, which we studied before the holiday, we have learnt a lot about the lives of these important men.
Of course we should also mention the Space Dome that we got to explore on Thursday! It really was a fun and exciting start to our topic and has already filled us with many questions - here's hoping we have enough time to answer them this term!
In PE we are now learning rugby/football on a Tuesday and astronaut training skills on a Friday. Could you all please remember to have a pair of 'indoor' trainers (or plimsolls) for Friday's PE lesson, as we really don't want to have to keep sweeping the mud off of the floor!
Let's see how much we can fit into next week!
Miss Vidler
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