We use our phoneme knowledge and developing understanding of reading and writing rules to construct sentences using our phonics words.

We are learning our spelling sounds and digraphs by using them in sentences. We discuss what we need for a good sentence and then construct it using out openers, connectives and punctuation.

Dienes, or base ten blocks, are named after the mathematician Zoltán Pál Dienes. They are great resources for mathematical understanding, carrying out calculation and learning about place value and decomposition of numbers. Here some learners are using them to halve amounts and are building their ideas of fractions and progressing towards large multiplication and division calculations.

Our learners are preparing for their presentation on Friday. Dyslexic learners learn best, and are taught best, when they know their strengths and needs and teachers understand dyslexia.

Several of our dyslexic learners are working on the Understanding Dyslexic Thinking course delivered by Aberdeen City's Dyslexia Outreach Service and Abbotswell staff. They are learning about successful individuals with dyslexia, their own dyslexic strengths and challenges, and supports they can use.

Learners learn best when they are responsible for their own learning. Our reading groups know what levels they are on and discuss what they need to do to progress towards success. Here a group have made a reading contract which they have signed and comitted themselves to.