All aboard the 'friend'ship!

This week has been friendship week, and a good reminder of what we need to remember to do to be a good friend. We had a lot of time to reflect and discuss the issues that often come up between friends, and reminded ourselves of what qualities we have and need to remember to be a good friend.

We created our own 'Keys to Friendship' based on these ideas.

In English, we had the chance to create and design our own books for younger children. We thought about the issues we faced with making and keeping friends when we were little and based our stories around these. We created our own success criteria of what we needed to include to make our stories appealling to younger children, and our KS2 teachers were pleased that after years of nagging we found it really difficult to write without joining up our letters so as not to confuse our younger audience!

The highlight of the week was definitely when we got to go into Class 1 and 2 to test out our books on younger children. We had so much fun reading our stories to them!

In maths we are still focusing on fractions. We had a chance to practise simplifying fractions as well as converting mixed and improper. We still need some more work on this though, and will continue to look at this into next week.

On Thursday we had our class museum, and our parents had a chance to look at some of the learning we have done so far this term. We also waved Bon Voyage to our Viking ships as they sailed home with us, making room for other decorations we made need to put up in a few weeks time...

Friday was friendship day! We had a chance to work with children from other classes with the challenge to redesign our playtimes. We had some great ideas, and most importantly teachers and TAs were impressed with how responsible we were looking after our younger pupils in the school. Watch this space as to whether any of our ideas will be used in redesigning our outdoor areas...

For homework this week, we have overlooked our usual maths and spellings for something far friendlier! Find out next week how it went!

Mrs Crawley