We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas break, and we thank you for all your very generous (and thoughtful) gifts – Mrs Anderson and I were extremely grateful. 

Although it's only been a three-day week, it's been very productive and both classes have really impressed us with their attitudes to learning (despite battling post-holiday tiredness). 

In English, we've been focusing on our sentence structure, use of parenthesis and creativity (which Sonny really enjoyed); whilst in Maths, we continue to build our fluency in adding and subtracting mixed number fractions. 

Year 5 spent time today developing their sketching and observational drawing skills – some found it challenging, but the progress was brilliant. We tried continuous line drawing, blind drawing and then used line and tone to draw a still-life. Core skills that will help them plan their sculptures for our upcoming school exhibition. 

Hockey was a favourite, too, which Harrison and Kitty enjoyed, and will be accompanied by Netball from next week. 

New spellings will be set on Monday. 

Enjoy a restful weekend.

Mrs Schmidt