The girls have been busy this months in all subject areas. It’s been wonderful seeing the girls participate in a range of fun activities.

In English the girls have been using tablets and photocopied material to research information about the Barn Swallow. They will soon produce very interesting Report genres. They have also been enjoying working and learning from their 4th Class Buddies. Each Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday the two classes work together doing Buddy Reading.

We’ve had a few interesting weeks learning about the past, present and future in History. As well as this, we have looked at what has changed and stayed the same. We looked at different images of Ferrybank and Waterford and went on a little trip around our school to see if we could find evidence of change and continuity.

The girls have had fun discovering what magnets do and are used for in Science. Some materials are magnetic and some are not. We also looked at how magnets attract and repel! They created a fun fishing game showing how magnets are attracted to metal objects. The fishing rod had a magnet and the fish had a paper clip. To add to this, they wrote a sum or tricky word on the back of the fish which the fisherwoman had to figure out! Check out the video!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YA-Gj3HA-zej4nHzePrVZyxnyy815jdq/view?usp=drive_link

Art has been very constructive this month. The girls started off with a shoe box, got some tips and inspiration and created a Jungle Box incorporating parts of George’s Marvellous Medicine ideas. The final product was fantastic and the team work was very impressive. Well done girls.

We have been learning about symmetry and fractions in Maths. The girls learned what halves and quarters were by cutting pizzas! Let’s just say the pizza didn’t last long after they learned about fractions!

“That time of year” is quickly approaching. I hope you are all looking forward to the festive season.

Best wishes,

Mrs Power