This week, in DT we made homemade chips. We had to chop up the potatoes, trying to keep them to same size for even cooking. Then we added some olive oil and salt with the potatoes in a bowl and mixed before putting them in the ovens. In Geography, we asked, “What is it like to live near a volcano?” We learned that there are positives living near a volcano such as: volcanoes have positive effects on growing crops, providing electricity and can also bring in lots of money from tourism, which then means more jobs for the local communities. In Science, we learned about ways plants reproduce using different methods of seed dispersal. Some of the ways include: the wind, seeds getting stuck in animal fur, which the animals with then shake off elsewhere, explosive pods and sometimes when animals eat the seeds and poo them out. The investigation we started last week, using white roses to test the xylem of a plant worked successfully. The white roses begun turning red and blue as the xylem transported the coloured water up the stem to the flower. Yesterday we another workshop from the NHS Foundation trust all about emotions. We played a game where an emotion appeared on the board and the person at the front had to guess the emotion by everyone else's faces.

Our Flashback 4 questions this week were:

1)What is the job of the xylem and phloem in a plant?

2)What is a branching database?

3)Can you name 4 bones in the human skeleton?

4)Can you name a similarity and difference between Ancient Egyptians and Prehistoric Britons?

Next week, we completing some of our key pieces from our learning this half term and practising our glockenspiel composition in music.

Our spelling rule next week is “z‘’ sounding words: zip, fizz, busy, business, exercise, deposit, impose, positive, possession, loser, doze, surprise

Our PE days are Tuesday (indoor) and Friday (indoor)