Weekly Roundup

It has been a busy week in 5L!

In English, we focused on improving our comprehension strategies so that we are able to understand a piece of text better. This involved the class discussing and selecting the main ideas from ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ and only noting down the information we thought vital to the novel. We also had the opportunity to create a visualiser (please ask the students what this is as it can be used as a revision strategy for all subjects) and we summarised the ideas into paragraphs. The class would like to thank Miss Corcoran from the secondary English department for coming into the class and teaching us about inference. Inference is a difficult skill to develop but Miss Corcoran was thoroughly impressed with our answers.

Division was the focus in Maths with everyone consolidating their learning in a variety of ways. Miguel’s favourite Maths game this week was division ‘Snakes and Ladders’. He said “I learned more about division and how I could improve and challenge my learning. I also found out the times tables that I could work on at home”.

‘Organs of the Body’ is proving to be a popular topic in Science. The class completed their investigation about the ‘heart’ with everyone participating in various activities. Mariana enjoyed the Science lessons as she “thoroughly enjoys learning about this topic as it is very interesting” and Beatriz thought about “the organs as a puzzle” when her group had to put the science dummy’s organs back together.

Photographs from the week are available to view in the ‘Class Photographs’ page.