Weekly Review and Preview

Newspaper Article

This week we became news reporters and wrote an article all about Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay becoming the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Because we did such a good job, we decided to type them up to put onto display.

Art Winners

Three children from Y5Y won the art competition that was set last week. As their prize, they will be painting the mural by the stairs at the bottom of the Primary building so keep a look out! 

Well done Boeing, Taipei and Scarlett.

Placing Value on different approaches to maths

We used a change of scene and a different approach to learning place value and multiplying and dividing by powers of 10 this week. In small groups the children selected  5 digits and placed them in the appropriate value columns to 2 decimal places. We then multipled and divided the number by 10 and 100 and recorded the pattern systematically in our books and discussed what had happened to the numbers.

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Wai Kru Day

We have had a lovely day today!

Weekly Review and Preview

Emotional Intelligence

We have started to think about the different kinds of emotional intelligence and how we creatively show them.

Poetry that adds up!

In Literacy last week we wrote acrostic poems based on our 5 R's for Life-long learning. We used a website on the internet to write each poem. Following that we used our first draft to reflect on our poems and then improve them with a second version . 

In numeracy we focused on place value of 5 digit numbers and the written method for formal addition. We also investigated what happens when you add 2 ,4-digit palindromic numbers (numbers written the same backwards and forwards eg 3443 + 4554). We worked systematically and discussed how the pattern changed.

Our Life-long learning skills

We used a random name picker from the internet to divide the children into five groups: responsible; reflective; reasoning; resourceful and resilient. Each group then brainstormed what they thought their life-long learning skill was. What did it look like and how could it be shown for ex ample. The individual group members became the experts for their group. Next the children formed a new group consisting of an expert from each of the groups. Each expert was then given five minutes to teach the other group members about what they had discovered.