On Monday Year 6 had a chance to participate in a multi-school music festival at Copford Primary. We had great fun learning the songs and experiencing singing in canon with 100 other people.
Meanwhile Year 5s enjoyed solving a murder mystery by working through maths problems with Mrs Sibley. Poor Mrs Sibley has been ill for the rest of the week - we obviously worked her too hard!
Monday afternoon we came back together and looked at Tudor crimes and punishments. We enjoyed looking at sources of evidence and identifying stocks, racks and ducking stools.
Tuesday we introduced the classic narrative poem 'The Highwayman' in English. We have been working hard on our reading skills all week, discussing language, tense choices and especially working on inference to help us work out the relationships between characters.
After a relatively straightforward Tuesday, we moved on to more excitement on Wednesday, when we started the day by practising our chopstick movement! As well as helping us with eating Chinese food, this was also a great warm-up for our handwriting muscles.
By Wednesday afternoon, it was time to go out on another adventure! This time our maths team went to participate in the Young Mathematicians Award run by Nrich. We were given some tricky challenges and had to investigate them together, showing teamwork as well as logical thinking.
Meanwhile the rest of Year 6 started off our Science topic of electrical circuits by showing what they already know. Over the next few weeks we will build on this knowledge by finding out about circuit symbols and resistance.
On Thursday we continued our gymnastic skills by practising skipping games. There was a lot of timing and teamwork that went into this lesson!
By the afternoon Wendy, a local historian from the village, came in to tell the whole school about the role of the British Legion and explained where all the money we collect from selling poppies goes.
On Friday, Year 6 went to the Fordham War Memorial to represent the school in a service and two minute silence. We all enjoyed having a chance to be a flag-bearer!
In the afternoon it was time to make the last trip of the week, this time to the Lexden Squash Courts, where our squash team got to try out their racket skills from last half term on a real squash court.
And that was our week! What a lot of travelling our class has done! Let's try and stay a little more sedentary next week shall we?
Mrs Crawley
I had fun playing squash and liked doing the Highwayman in literacy. I'm looking forward to next week!
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