Something very strange has been happening in our class this week. All of our pencils keep mysteriously disappearing. Mr Curtis heard some strange music coming from the school and when we went for a look, we found a message from an explorer. Hugo Harrington had found an entrance to some mysterious tunnels under the school. Mr Dacey found an old map in the back of his cupboard, but where did these tunnels lead and who or what lives down there? We hope to write a mystery story to try and solve these problems. We have loved looking at the evidence and thinking of solutions to these strange mysteries.
We had a problem this week, Great Aunt Gladys needed help picking out presents for her nieces and nephews. We had to help her by choosing gifts and adding up the totals using stacking. We used trial and error to make sure the total didn't go over Aunt Gladys' total. We also worked out the change we would have with the different combinations. Year 5 and 6 had the honour of taking part in a tag rugby festival at Cardiff Arms Park this week. Despite the heavy rain, the children did really well, playing 5 games each and winning more than we lost. It was year 5's first tournament but they quickly picked it up with TJ being star of the match! Year 6 did equally well and thoroughly enjoyed. They all acted as great ambassadors for the school and we got a trophy for all of our hard work. We have been looking at measuring using grams and milligrams. Yellow group were given a potato each and needed to balance the scales using different weights. We had great fun trying to solve the problems. We have been looking at writing adventure stories this week. We started off by looking at the features of an adventure story and what makes a story exciting. During Big Writing we wrote our exciting stories. A few weeks ago, students from University is Wales came in to test our children on PE skills. They were tested on their agility, balance, endurance and throwing skills. Out of 835 children tested throughout RCT, our very own CJ and EP came in the top 10% earning them a place on the More Able and Talented Little Champs club. Well done boys!! We have been looking at how sugar effects our bodies. We looked at what foods have sugar in them and which have the highest amount. We looked at the labels and measured out how much sugar each of them had. We were really surprised at how much some of them had, especially the coke! |
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January 2016
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