🏗️ Design Technology: Playground Architects

The classroom was transformed into a construction site this week as we completed our playground models! After weeks of measuring, cutting, and problem-solving, the children added the final touches to their swings, slides, and climbing frames. They focused on strengthening structures and adding realistic landscaping features like benches and trees. The pride they feel for their finished projects is well-deserved—they look fantastic!

🎾 Physical Education: Tennis Pros

We stepped up the intensity on the court this week. After mastering the basics of forehand and backhand strokes in co-operative rallies, we introduced a competitive edge. The children played "Challengers and Champions," where teamwork was key to scoring points and climbing the ranks.

✍️ English: The Thrill of the Hunt

In our writing sessions, we’ve been crafting suspenseful "hunted narratives" focused on the pursuit of wolves. The children have been honing their technical skills by using colons to link related clauses, applying "Show, Don't Tell" techniques to reveal deep, conflicting emotions and selecting specific verbs to create vivid imagery for the reader.

📏 Maths: Area and Volume

We wrapped up our measurement unit by diving into the world of 2D and 3D shapes. We explored the formulas for finding the area of triangles, rectangles, and parallelograms. We also moved into three dimensions, using physical cubes to understand the concept of volume before calculating the volume of various cuboids.

🌍 Geography: Push and Pull Factors

Working with their Kagan partners, the children explored the complex reasons why people move from one place to another. We categorized "push and pull" factors into three main groups:

1. Economic (jobs and money)

2. Social (family and safety)

3. Environmental (climate and land)

 

💻 Computing: Creative Coding

Our budding programmers took on the role of game developers this week! We dove into the world of text-based adventure games, learning how to read and deconstruct existing code. The children then worked meticulously to "remix" these games, personalizing them to fit their own imaginative themes. From high-stakes football matches to eerie haunted theatres, the students showed great resilience in identifying specific strings of code to edit, ensuring their narratives branched out exactly as they planned.