Friday 26th November

This week has been another full of learning opportunities and excitement for the children here at Shacklewell. Following on from their tweet last week by two famous authors, the early years were diving back into books, focusing on the 'The Colour Monster' written by Anna Llenas which is a story about feelings. They drew still-life flowers, inspired by Van Gogh, in order to add brightness to their friends' days. They also showed off the culinary skills whilst baking their own monster biscuits and decorating them.

In key stage one, for history, children explored and compared a range of different historical artefacts. They also retrieved information, using a range of sources on New York and began to create o non-chronological report including information regarding famous landmarks, types of cuisine and transport options.

In key stage two, our ambitious and courageous pupils created persuasive speeches and manifestos to explain why they should be the next Prime Minister. They've used their knowledge from their class text, 'The Accidental Prime Minister' written by Tom McLaughlin, to inspire them. Year 4 have been busy in maths interpreting data and answering questions using estimation in the process. They've also been developing their understanding of dialogue, using inverted commas to punctuate it, by writing and recording witness accounts of an event. Year 5 have been working collaboratively over the last few weeks in computing by creating a presentation based on the 'untold' stories of inspiring individuals. Year 6 have been exploring different enquiry questions to prove their knowledge of light and its characteristics. They used a range of equipment and created hypotheses in the process.